Day 2 Midtown andTimes Square

Orchids at Le Bernadin

Today we do the obligatory Midtown/Times Square walk. After coffee and a baguette, we walked Madison Ave. from 91st St. down to 59th (considered uptown). It's a terrific street to walk with all the little shops, cafes, and art galleries. We even stopped a bit to watch them making a movie - no idea which one. Once we got to 59th (midtown) everything changes as it becomes a mass of humanity and concrete. We spent the next few hour touring the midtown area down to 40th expecting things to be a little different than 35 years ago. It always was my least favorite part of town and I guess it always will be even though it is still interesting. The Times Square is exactly the same except for updated billboards .We even walked the Diamond District (47th between 5th and 6th). Purportedly 90 percent of all the diamonds that come into this country go through this one street of 2600 diamond merchants. Sylvia didn't see anything she wanted ...yeah right.

Since we had tickets to go see the Jersey Boys, we decided to have a late lunch and we made a 2:30 reservation for Le Bernardin restaurant (http://www.le-bernardin.com/).  Le Bernardin is one of the top twenty restaurants in the world, and according to Fodors the top one or two in New York. We opted for the Chef's Tasting Menu with wine parings of course. We spent the next two and a half hours enjoying the eight course menu  and a different wine with each course. Le Bernardin is a beautiful restaurant with great service, overall a very pleasant experience.

After lunch we walked about some more before seeing Jersey Boys. It's a great show that brought back many memories - lots of tears and laughing. After walking more than 14 miles today (according to the pedometer) we took a cab back to the apartment, climbed the 34 steps and crashed.