I like Romeo and Juliet on 42nd and 11th. It's right next to the Peter Norton Space -- where Signature did their shows before moving to the new complex, and more recently the home of the late Pearl Theatre Company. Good coffee, lots of space to sit, and usually not too crowded.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body