Strolling over the Brooklyn Bridge then enjoying lunch/dinner at The River Cafe
The River Café | Home is also a great way to enjoy NCY.
Totally endorse this comment. The other wonderful thing about NYC are the bar staff. And we had an amazing barman here for a number of reasons.
We walked across the bridge in late afternoon (which is agreat experience in itself), and originally just popped into the River Cafe to have a hot chocolate or similar on what was quite a "brisk" day in November.
Our barman explained that we could not have one as the last person to operate the machine had met a grisly and bloody end and that he was keen to avoid a similar fate....but advised that he made a mean coughtail. So we allowed him to tempt us, and that was one of our best decisions we made on that visit. He had an amazingly dry and wicked sense of humour, which had us cracking up, but which seemed to just go over the heads of the other patrons most of whom did not stay for long.
So we had our own private comedian floorshow, adding to what is one of the world's truly great views.
The added bonus was that he seemed to warm to us as we "got" his jokes and as we engaged in jokes and conversation. Our intended 30 minute break grew into about 3 hours. That first coughtail my wife bought, became a never ending one that he just kept topping up for free whenever he made another patron a coughtail, which was often!!!. I mainly drank beers...but only about one in three went on my tab. Needless to say we left a generous tip when we finally left bursting with smiles, full of good humour...and yes no doubt a bit wobbly in our gait!
We occupied the bar stools 3rd and 4th from the left. This had a great view not only across the river of NYC, but also looking to the left across the harbour to the Statue of Liberty, which when we were there had the sun setting exactly on her upthrust torch making for a wonderful view .
Watching all the lights come on in NYC as the night deepened was magical.
- no other liquor of any type offered - you can buy soft drink. Do not plan eating here - food sh*tful to abominable - but IMHO an experience in NY not to be missed.
