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1 comments about Cheap Thrills New York: Great NYC Meals for Under $15 (Cheap Thrills series).

1. This is a restaurant guide for those of you looking for really good food with a wide variety of ethnic cuisine and without the ridiculously pompous nature of your typical five-star. If you go out to eat for the snooty service and to drop a bunch of money, don't buy this book. However, if your focus is on the quality and variety of the food you are eating, with fancy service as a secondary concern, this is the book for you. That is not to say the restaurants in this book lack decent service....Many have excellent service and swanky locals. Some may also have dismal decor and downright cranky staff (read hole-in-the-wall). But they all have great food in common. One of the great things about New York is experiencing the wide variety of flavors and cooking styles available in this melting pot. You won't find me in New York without this book close by.

4 comments about VivsGuide Manhattan: An Undercover Look at the City's Cheap Eats.

1. This book is an indispensible guide to daily eating in Manhattan. Every restaurant in the book that I have tried has been at least good, and some of the places that I have found have been truly excellent. Where this book truly shines is in picking out the real jewels among the thousands of small, nondescript restaurants in the city. Viv's Guide also includes very accurate pricing information, which is certainly a welcome change from the the seemingly random amounts given in Zagats.
   
   Additionally, Viv's Guide is pocket-size, meaning that you can carry it around with you at all times and be able to stun your friends with your intimate knowledge of NYC restaurants. Another handy feature is that people who purchase the book can access the book's full content online at the author's website.
   
   If you are a New Yorker who eats out frequently, particularly on any kind of budget, then I highly recommend this book.



2. I heard about this book through a posting on Chowhound.com and decided to give it a try. Must say, I'm intriguied. There are a lot of listings in this book that I haven't seen covered elsewhere. In my own neighborhood (UES), it pretty much hits the nail on the head. All my favorites are in here, even the ones I thought only I knew about! (Why, oh why, must they let the cat out of the bag about Pyramida... oh well. I guess it deserves the success...)



3. I like it. I did find one error (a dish they recommended was not on the restaurant's menu), but otherwise it's been very handy to have around. I find myself reaching for it instead of my zagats, and that says something.



4. There are a ton of eating guides about New York. And this one gets lost in the crowd. The descriptions of the restaurants are brief and vague. What I thought was going to be a guide to the affordable culinary gems, was merely a list of cheap restaurants with little effort spent on separating "cheap and good" from "just cheap".

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