My favorite restaurants.

let's talk restaurants we all love restaurants and the most common question I get is Ellie what's your favorite restaurant or where should I go tonight for a nice restaurant so I'm going to break it down talk about a couple of my favorite restaurants and how they differ one to another where you can go if you want to have a meal for yourself on a date if you want to have a business meeting or if you want to go out with your family I will help you choose that restaurant um I'm going to jump right into it my favorite restaurant my number one favorite restaurant um I know you're curious to know what that is and the answer is Wall Street Grill a great restaurant in New York City Manhattan um and I love them for a couple of reasons so first of all the service is amazing over there um I happen to personally know the the the manager over there his name is fatty if he still works there I hope so uh it's been a while since I've been there but the entire staff everybody over there are nice people and I love them so I had a great time over there when I went whenever I went I went I had dates over there I had I went there with family friends and whenever we went there we had an amazing time now the reason why it's the number one restaurant and also the number one restaurant that I recommend to others is because their food is very down toe food so including things that are on the menu like chicken soup or chicken nuggets um understandable appetizers when I say that I mean that when you read it what you read is what you get um very very delicious appetizers very delicious main courses nice desserts you know um also what I love about the restaurant is is that it has it it it they have you can either sit indoors you can sit Outdoors you can sit um where there is music playing DJ they have DJ nights over there so when you call the restaurant you can ask them if you want a quiet seat if you want the noisy seat if you want the outdoor seat with a view of the Manhattan skyline so it's it's overall a very interesting and different restaurant um that that sort of has the ability to to make everyone happy so I think that that's really why it's my favorite restaurant and like I said it's good for a date it's good if you it's good if you want to go alone with friends with family it really suits all of your needs um the second restaurant I want to talk about is another one personally of my favorite and uh it's called Ral tlv I actually went there um with friends I went there um for a meeting I went there with a a big family a group a family um and whenever we went there we were super happy um I want to make a break and talk about prices because that's usually a question that most people ask is what's the price range and we we have to understand that restaurants if you're going out with two people is always going to cost you between $250 and $500 okay and this is if you take pretty minimum like if you take just two appetizers and one main course and one dessert and a drink a cocktail and the reason is because it's not that the restaurants are expensive it's that it costs a lot of money to have rent and to have employees and even the cost of food for the restaurant itself went up so when you go to a restaurant if money is the issue for you or you're not want if you don't want to spend money just don't go to go and to complain um doesn't make sense if you want a cheap dinner the cheapest option is to buy something in your local butcher and cook the steak on your own which that also is not cheap or even if you want to buy and takeout which is also not cheap I think everything is like double the price from a year ago or two years ago so it's important to keep that in mind but when you when you go to a restaurant the restaurant will be what what many see as expensive because even if it's somebody that that feels like they do live a comfortable life they're going to find themselves spending now for two people a meal or for a date $500 so but understand that that is the actual cost how much they have to charge you so so um so that's that's important to keep in mind when it comes to to pricing most restaurants especially if they're are high-end restaurants will be in that exact same price range a little bit more a little bit less depending on what you order and how many people you go so keep in mind that when it comes to price range so Rachel T tlv is a great Rell Tel Aviv it stands for um Israeli owners I happen to know the owner and the chef his name is tal um great restaurant um the food is towards Israeli but also they have a great uh chicken soup um great uh liver that I really love chop liver uh they had the Moroccan cigars delicious cigars um desserts over there were just beautiful and different than anything that any other uh restaurant makes they had a dessert called breakfast and bed that basically looked like a breakfast plate and they had a lemon dessert many different things that with a taste of lemon so really this restaurant is is a classical favorite I you know when when a a person calls me that they are a real foodie and they want to have something different and unique and and something uplifting where they just love the food um I send them to to to this restaurant because the food is just really good you know and it has an extra spice to it so I think it's a great great choice um coming in at number three and really two and three to me are at the same level it's not it's just in the in the way of ranking just because I had to put one in front of the other and just because I've been to rutal more often um number three solid um Reserve cut now this restaurant is a classic and I understand I think that some people are disappointed with the restaurant and I also understand why because it it works together with the expectations that people have so and expectations in general in life when we expect stuff we might see disappointment that's how life works so you go to this restaurant and you're expecting the entire world and you know that it's the number one restaurant out there according to the ambience of the restaurant and the location of the restaurant because it's in it's in uh it's in uh Wall Street so a lot of people then come with the uh you know saying that they are disappointed with with the restaurant but in reality the Ambiance is number one so the entire experience especially if somebody's going on a date is just beautiful coming into a building you take two elevators up um at the reception desk you'll always have two or three people waiting there to to to seat you um they have many different parts of the restaurants including a party room and a and a and a meeting room I remember going there once asking them to give me a nice quiet corner and they literally gave me the most quiet table on the restaurant so I really appreciated that I mean I didn't tell them who I was I just told them I'm coming on a date um so I I appreciated that the the food over there and the service is also top top class meaning professional waiters waiting to see if you need anything or how they can help um the food is is very consistent very nicely plated very I wouldn't say old-fashioned but not extremely modern just plain nice and beautiful um pricing obviously I think it's pretty average maybe a little bit above average but I think it's pretty average um I remember I was there and I paid uh $600 but I literally ordered a lot of food so Reserve cut is a classic whether you have anniversary or you have an occasion or if you have a business meeting I've been to the restaurant with a company that made a uh it was city builders made a uh uh gathering for their company a project uh that they completed and they called all the people involved and they also had a very very good time good service you know everything came out like a meal and they had a great time at that restaurant so this is definitely a restaurant that I recommend to people um to go and check out coming in at number four and I'm going to put this together in a segment and I actually know the people involved in the restaurant the owners and the you know people that work actively in the restaurant these two restaurants are great great great great and I'll also say why I'm putting them into one number um these two restaurants are the Loft and glat laart the only two restaurants in B Park as far as I know uh Brooklyn B Park and the reason I'm putting these two together is because it's hard to choose one over the other okay that's one reason why I put them together and the second reason is because these two restaurants have mastered what our community loves and that's what they have from the service to the Ambiance to the to the to the plating to to the actual food of course meaning that they know that that we love chicken nuggets and they love that we love that and they know that we love potato nishes and they know that we love liver and what type of steak we love so whenever you go there you will be happy and and and the same goes for their drinks they know what we love they're not going to they don't over fancy it and they don't under fancy it they understand exactly what it is that our community loves and that's exactly what they give you so that's what I love about about these two restaurants great service great food um even the uh uh uh the vibe in those restaurants are are great because you you'll always have community over there and you can find someone that you meet um so as for dating I would say maybe it's not such an ideal place because there is a lot of familiar people over there but as for having a good time or going out with family or making a Simka these two restaurants are TR great Again The Loft and glat lart coming in at number five another restaurant that I really love and I've been there a few times I've been there alone I've been there with a group of friends mocha red and mocha red is an amazing restaurant because I think it's from the restaurants that we've spoken so far we've spoken about classy restaurants this one is really really really a wild restaurant around meaning that it's it's very different you come into the restaurant there's art on the wall there is um music I think they have on Tuesdays and and and M of shabas they have DJ um it's also interesting to note that mocha red is the same owner as mocha burger and now they open the new Branch mocha Burger Lux and they all run on the same family mocha Burger is a good location to know because they are actually one restaurant that will serve you at your table but they are really affordable you can go there and have a dinner for two for even $100 $150 you can have a really nice dinner with really nice service and really good food um mocha red is the fancier version of it and mocha Burger locks is also a pretty fancy version uh type of restaurant but Mocha red has very different plating their cocktails come like very interesting cups um I'm not exactly sure the theme over there I just know that it's very it's a very interesting restaurant summer their restaurant is open to the street and um if not they have a cozy uh uh area in the back of the restaurant they have a nice bar in the center of the restaurant so it's really a restaurant where many people that called me they wanted something different they wanted something um fun exciting I sent them to mocha Burger because I know that over there they they get an experience of different you know and and and and um they would come to your table and do like a whole fire presentation so it's a very fun and exciting restaurant um and I think that people have have a great time over there from what I've known I've sent there a couple of people and they had a good time so overall when it comes to going to a restaurant people ask me which restaurant should I go to I always ask them what is it that you like like do you like quiet do you like noisy do you like do you want to what do you want do you want a romantic dinner or do you want a an exciting fun outgoing dinner and and just have a good time or do you know are you going with friends or are you go what type of food do you like so so that's very important to identify and uh once you identify what you really like then you know to which restaurant to go so this was uh part one make sure to check out part two I will I would love to make a part two to this video and talk about another five restaurants that I would recommend and and that you can go and enjoy for yourself and uh till next time have a good one