littlemizrabbit

Hello!
My friend and I are looking for breakfast recommendations near the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhatten. We will have an early flight in and plan to site see all day but Definately need some fuel before hand. We've googles a couple places but nothing's jumped out yet. Just looking for recommendations for places you found and loved.
I know near is vague, we don't mind walking 10-15 min for a place we are just looking to avoid a major subway ride just for breakfast. We will likely start our sight seeing w top of the rock or Central Park.
Thanks in advance!

IMDonehere

I am assuming you want something on the run. Look for what are generally called delis where you can get breakfast specials for a reasonable price ike the one at 463 Lexington Ave. There are two two food court Urbanspace Vanderbilt and the lower concourse at Grand Central Station.

IMDonehere

Please note it is spelled Manhattan.

doug_stallings

There are no good sit-down places in Grand Central for breakfast. Most of the actual breakfast options are not that exciting in my opinion. However, Shake Shack in the lower level food court in Grand Central does sell breakfast. But it's still fast food.

I'm wracking my brain for a good place that's between the Roosevelt and Rockefeller Center, and I can't think of one.

There are several places along and between 5th and 6th Avenues, including a Le Pain Quotidien at 50th if you are looking for something French (pastries, continental breakfast, but only boiled eggs), and it's kind of expensive but has great coffee.

There's also a big deli on the concourse level of Rock Center (also a Starbucks). There's also a Pret a Manger, which has good muffins and stuff like that.

THe National in the Benjamin Hotel serves breakfast, but I'm sure it's really expensive. (But it is a good restaurant.)

curiousgeo

I liked the food at Le Pain Quotidien and they have a number of branches around midtown. The Red Flame Coffee Shop or Comfort Diner might be an option. Cafe Zaiya near Grand Central for Japanese opens early and could be a place to try as well.

DebitNM

Get an egg over easy with bacon on a roll with a regular coffee at any deli; can't do better than that!

Fra_Diavolo

The Red Flame Diner http://www.theredflamediner.com/Welc...nc&from=Top133 is one of the more pleasant coffee shops. Don't expect gourmet fare, but it's good of its type.

Gwendolynn

If you start with Central Park you might want to try Sarabeth's at 40 Central Park South. (Between 5th and 6th… just west of the Plaza Hotel.) Sarabeth's is best for breakfast other meals so so.
http://sarabethsrestaurants.com/imag...March_2016.pdf

nytraveler

It would help to know if you want a big hot sit down meal or a regular NY breakfast - coffee and bagel/schmear or egg sandwich on the run.

IMDonehere

If you want one of the better bagels in NY take a stroll over to Ess-A-Bagel. It means eat a bagel in Yiddish.

https://www.seamless.com/menu/ess-a-...ew-york/294353

330east

What about the Brooklyn Diner-7th and 57th.

doug_stallings

The Brooklyn Diner is neither between the Roosevelt and Rockefeller Center, nor within easy walking distance of the hotel. It requires a long walk or a subway ride, something the OP didn't want.

There's a Brooklyn Diner much closer to the hotel on West 43rd, but I'd choose the Red Flame over that. It's wildly overpriced. For those prices, I'd rather eat something really good at the National.

There's a pretty good bagel shop (Zucker's) on Lexington a couple of blocks south of Grand Central, so reasonably close to the hotel but not in the direction you want to go.

littlemizrabbit

Great suggestions! Thank you! And thanks so much to those who provided links �� We aren't sure which we'd prefer, sit down or in the go, we just wanted options and ideas. I like to know what's around so that when we are there I know what we have depending on how we feel.
Thanks again!!

doug_stallings

If it matters, almost all delis in NYC in Midtown provide some kind of seating (sometimes upstairs). So you can have a "sit down" even if it's not in a full-service restaurant. And most will make you a normal breakfast plate of bacon and eggs. Some do French toast, pancakes, and waffles. That's about as complex as I'd get a typical deli. Avoid the temptation for eggs Benedict. Most delis can't make good Hollandaise or handle poached eggs.

Fra_Diavolo

"Most delis can't make good Hollandaise or handle poached eggs."

Would probably agree on the hollandaise, if I'd ever ordered it, but most coffee shops I've been to can do a decent poached egg. I often order them with corned beef hash.

littlemizrabbit

Oh yes I understand having to resist eggs Benedict. Ever since having it in Ireland I've never found anyone who can make it as good lol so I've stopped trying lol thanks Doug!