I landed in New York City on a Monday in JFK, and headed to Manhattan to meet Ben at his place that is right beside the Empire State Building first pic below is his view).
From his place we went a bit south to a restaurant called Society Cafe: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/the-social-cafe/
After, we walked back to his place, but passing Madison Square Park.
The next day I checked into my hotel, called The Avalon. Then I headed over to Hudson Yard, where I spent a lot of time at the Vessel (but before reaching the Vessel, I checked out the Old Penn station building, which is now a post office, and passed by Madison Square Gardens).
Then I grabbed lunch at Wild Ink over at the shops at Hudson Yard, and also did some shopping: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/wild-ink/
Plus had a snack at Shake Shack and a mocha at Blue Bottle: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/shake-shack-hudson-yard/
http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/blue-bottle-hudson-yard/
After Hudson yard, I grabbed dinner at Momofuku Noodle bar: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/momofuku-noodle-bar/
Next day, I started the day late (mainly since I was in the ga area the previous night, where it was surprisingly happening on a Tuesday), and did AYCE at a Japanese / Korean restaurant: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/ichi-umi/
From there, I checked out the MOMA for and hour (they give you a discounted ticket if you go at that time).
After the MOMA, I met up with some friends at the meat packing district area, where we grabbed dinner at a place called Hudson Clearwater: http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/12/04/hudson-clearwater/
From there we barhopped. We started at a place called Employees only at the meat packing district, then went to an arcade bar called ____ at lower east village (we actually spent quite a bit of time at this bar because of the beer pong arcade game. The drinks there though were not good).
We ended off the night near my hotel in K town, where we found a korean club (one floor up from the karaoke bar), where they had too 40 edm music, with a lot of ppl (girl to guy ratio was 3:2, and it was mostly Koreans).
