Dinner and a show 🎭

Where to eat before and after the theater.

Please never stop sending me these crazy ass texts.

I can't remember the last Broadway show I saw. It might have been The Book of Mormon, which my friend and I spontaneously bought cheap tickets to just before that night’s show started and split a giant slice of chocolate swirl cheesecake at Junior’s immediately afterwards. Maybe it was the time I saw To Kill A Mockingbird with a very cute California boy I had just started seeing. In retrospect that was a strange fourth date, but we were too into each other to care. We were starving once it ended, so I brought him to my beloved Westway Diner to eat a turkey club and a salty, steaming mountain of fries. To me, the diner — Galaxy around there works too — is the easiest and most satiating post-show meal in town, but apparently some of you need something fancier. The rest of you want to eat beforehand, which I do not condone, but of course have answers for.

Where to eat before a show

Most people are too afraid to admit this, but there are plenty of fabulous restaurants in Hell’s Kitchen. I particularly love the 15-course sushi menu at Omakase by korami. The chefs are really fun and dinner is priced at $89 before sake, which is pretty reasonable for the amount and quality of fish they’re serving here. It’s never very difficult to reserve seats either. I’ve seen day-of reservations available and have gotten off the Resy waitlist after just a day or two. The seatings here last an hour, which makes it easy to ensure you won’t be late for your show and is still longer than most omakases in the city. There’s nothing not to like about this place.

Torching fat, buttery slices of salmon.

That should keep you full through your show, but thick and chewy noodles swimming in giant bowls of creamy miso broth with salty pork and sweet corn kernels will fill you up for the rest of the evening.