Eating Out: The Roast of the Town
0 Comments Published by WBLL on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 6:59 AM.
You can score greasy fast food at 3:00 am anywhere in New York—but if you can help it, why not get a real meal. I dined at French Roast Thursday night after enduring a beautiful, yet long production of Aida, at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. After four hours of opera, anyone could get the ‘munchies’, and no well-dressed opera buff, wants to end their evening standing in the cold, eating random meat, from a questionable truck.
French Roast on the Upper West Side –located at 85th street and Broadway—is the perfect dining solution for a midnight snack. Their warm, inviting interior bespeaks of a French – American Bistro, that you would never find in France, but is very whimsical after a couple of night caps. For the late night diner, they have a ‘grave’ menu, an abbreviated version of their dinner menu. Which basically means you can have ‘steak frite’, rather than a ‘rack of lamb’, but it’s still a well prepared substitution to junk food. Besides, their light meals, sandwiches and salads are better to keep off the pounds—and their alcoholic hot chocolate and sweet desserts are an incentive to drag someone else with you.
French Roast has two locations: one the upper west side and the other in west village-- both are opened 24 hours. So no matter where you are up late and hungry in Manhattan, you can always find a ‘croque monsieur’ with your name on it. French Roast Uptown 85th & Broadway 212.799.1533
French Roast Downtown 11th Street & Sixth Avenue 212.533.2233
Website: www.frenchroastny.com/
Labels: Eating Out, New York
