Love VYNL. I usually end up there before or after a show if I'm not feeling adventurous. Having it, however briefly, on the Upper East Side as well was one of the only things that made living there tolerable.
When I'm in the mood for a really nice meal, I treat myself to La Masseria on 48th, steps away from The Kerr. Some of the best, most authentic Italian food I've ever eaten. It's not cheap, but it's worth a visit.
"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