https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:06:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1467120 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:14:27 +0000 E 1467120@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Anna!</p> <p>Thank you for all of the suggestions JG; I suspect we share a lot of similar interests! I just started another thread, but in case you don't see it, I'll PM you too re: the meetup.</p> <p>CityGirlDC, thank you for the offer! I'm going to (finally) dive into my DC guidebooks today, so I'll PM you if any more questions arise! And I'll PM you meetup info. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1467040 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:23:19 +0000 citygirldc 1467040@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in the heart of DC.&nbsp; Let me know if you have any other questions. I can possibly meet up with up&nbsp;depending on the dates. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1466998 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:27:37 +0000 JG 1466998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In DC I love the Textile Museum, just reopened, in its new location on the GWU campus, and the Museum of African Art and the Freer and Sackler (Asian art). The National Building Museum and the Museum of Women in the Arts are my favorites, too. Finally, Mount Vernon estate has vegetable and flower gardens, farm land, woodlands, river access, a historic home, a museum, restaurant and food court, great gift shops.<br /> Will you send me info about the DC get-together? I'd love to join you! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1466659 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:58:36 +0000 annagybe 1466659@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They used to have an UES location I went to, but now only out in Coney Island. If you make the trip, seriously the best pizza I've ever had.<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.totonnosconeyisland.com/">http://www.totonnosconeyisland.com/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1466629 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:55:15 +0000 E 1466629@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you Chadya &amp; Elle! :D</p> <p>Jenny, I've PMed you with the details! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1466234 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:01:20 +0000 Jenny H 1466234@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If a DC meetup happens, I would love to participate! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1466151 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 03:06:22 +0000 Elle 1466151@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Happy Birthday!&nbsp; Your trip sounds wonderful</p> <p>For NYC, I also recommend the High Line.&nbsp; Also, from your hotel, it's an easy and pretty walk through the West Village (I love 11th street). There is a house that is only 9 feet wide at 75 1/2 Bedford Street.</p> <p>For cheap(er) food:&nbsp; Veselka (Ukraine diner) in the East Village, Brick Lane Curry (Indian) on 6th St in the East Village. Pastrami Queen (upper East Side), 2nd Ave Deli (on 31st or 33st on the East Side).</p> <p>If you are there on a weekday, go to Balthazar on Spring Street in Soho for breakfast.&nbsp; It's a charming French bistro with good food and great people watching. I wouldn't put it in the cheap category but it's fun and breakfast is manageable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465722 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:56:12 +0000 chadya 1465722@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One more thing if you like knitting the Lion Brand store is supposed to worth a trip, they dont actually sell a ton of yarn but they have cool projects and windows. I don't know where it is but if you google or if you are on Ravelry you can easily find out. Or LMK and I will.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465718 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:52:38 +0000 chadya 1465718@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>DC</p> <p>Spy Museum is worth it, also Hillwood which was&nbsp; Majorie Merriweather Post's house. Russian art and objects d'art. <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/</a><br />I would skip the Zoo and beware that all the Smithsonian museums get very crowded.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465713 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:49:19 +0000 chadya 1465713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Definitley do The Highline,&nbsp; I like Eataly <a href="http://www.eataly.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eataly.com/</a> very touristy but worth it, if you want to eat there try to do mid afternoon not at actual dinner time or at least get coffee. There is a Nutella Room if you like that stuff.<br />At Lincoln Center there is an exhibit about Frank Sinatra</p> <p>The Neue Galerie is worth a visit, in conjunction with the new movie The Woman in Gold.&nbsp; The restaurant there is one of my favorites, so Austrian. </p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465695 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:28:09 +0000 E 1465695@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Diana, Boston's on my list for future train trips! I'll PM you my dates: that would be great fun! So far all of my online friends seem to live in DC and none in NYC. LOL Thanks for all of the suggestions; I've jotted them down!</p> <p>Rabbit, too bad about the Renwick gallery, but the Baltimore museum looks really neat. Thanks! I'm hoping to visit the American Folk Art museum in NYC, so maybe that'll make up for the Renwick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465327 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:48:33 +0000 rabbit 1465327@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a fun trip! &nbsp; My sister lives in DC. &nbsp;Two of more art/craft oriented museums that I really enjoyed are the Renwick Gallery of American Art/Craft (Smithsonian) -- great contemporary craft work; and the museum of American Visionary Art in Baltimore (outsider art) which is weird and wonderful, and so is the building:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.avam.org/">http://www.avam.org/</a></p> <p>ETA: shoot, it looks like the Renwick is closed for renovation until November.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465187 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:06:43 +0000 Diana 1465187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I wish you were coming to Boston!&nbsp; (Actually, let me know when you will be in NYC.&nbsp; It's not actually that hard for me to get down there and I haven't been in a while ... although I don't know how many free weekends I have in April.)&nbsp; </p> <p>I am by no means an expert at NYC, but I just wanted to put in another plug for the High Line.&nbsp; Because I got engaged there.&nbsp; :)</p> <p>Also, I am not a morning person AT ALL but one of my favorite things to do in the Village/SoHo is walk around early in the morning.&nbsp; Those neighborhoods are lovely and quiet and serene on a sunny morning, and it's really nice to enjoy a coffee/pastry at a quiet cafe.&nbsp; (I used to love Dominique Ansel in SoHo but that was pre-Cronut madness.&nbsp; I haven't been there since, but I imagine it's a madhouse from dawn till dusk (or at least until the Cronuts run out) now.&nbsp; </p> <p>Also in SoHo is Purl SoHo, which is a super cute knitting/sewing shop.&nbsp; It's tiny, and the prices are on the high side, but worth dropping in just to see all the beautiful yarn. =) School Products (in the garment district) is another yarn store I like to go to NYC; they carry the owner's yarn line as well as a bunch of coned luxury yarns (remainders from commercial enterprises) for good prices.&nbsp; </p> <p>A lot of NYC museums have free days/afternoons.&nbsp; I know MOMA is free on Friday evenings (after 4 or 5, I think) - I used to take an early train/bus into the city when J. was living in NJ and go to MOMA when I got there while I waited for him to get off work.&nbsp; The Frick Collection is free on Sunday from 11-1, as well.&nbsp; </p> <p>ETA: There's a Kinokuniya (Japanese bookstore) near Times Square in Midtown, which is a fabulous place to find Japanese knitting books (and sewing too, I'm sure) and stationery/pens/etc.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1465147 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:06:10 +0000 E 1465147@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh thanks for all of the suggestions Aubergine! Those restaurants sound great; Ethiopian was on my list of ‘definites’ already, and now I have a rec. For some reason I thought you lived in Boston, but I’m delighted you might be able to meet up too! I didn’t realise how many DC area Fabbers we had; I’ll PM you my dates/info.<div><br /></div><div>Dee, I’ll PM you too! I forgot you weren’t in Canada anymore. I’ll put on my best ‘crowds are fun’ face for the cherry blossoms &amp; try to go on a week day too. Thanks for all of the other suggestions!</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks again Deb!</div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464962 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:12:30 +0000 deb 1464962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I love Eatonville, on 14th NW. It is a few blocks from my sons place. It is always my first stop. Busboys and Poets, across the street is fun, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464953 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:51:43 +0000 Dee 1464953@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another vote for a DC meetup! Or even a Baltimore one, if needs be. </p> <p>Janet and Aubergine have given you some great museum suggestions. The Newseum is amazing and I'll add that National Portrait Gallery is much more interesting than expected. If you are going to the Mall to see the cherry blossoms at peak season, be prepared for it to be absolutely crazy but slightly less so on weekdays.</p> <p>The Atlas district on H street NE has a wide variety of ethnic food and small cafes at a variety of prices and is walkable from Union Station. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464945 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:13:11 +0000 Anonymous 1464945@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(Popping my head out&nbsp;from long-term lurkerdom)</p> <p>Happy birthday, Eva!</p> <p>For DC coffee shops,&nbsp;I always like&nbsp;Tryst in Adams Morgan. Fun atmosphere, good place to park yourself for a while,&nbsp;and it has more of a full-service menu than most coffee shops. You might also like Teaism (has a few branches downtown), which is (obviously) more tea-focused and has good desserts. Kramerbooks in Dupont Circle is an independent bookstore with its own cafe and also has really good desserts. I know there've been a bunch of new places that have opened in the last few years too which I'm less familiar with.</p> <p>In terms of ethnic food, Ethiopian is really big in DC and is delicious. I like Etete near U St. I think Dukem is good too, and there are a bunch of others whose names I'm forgetting now. Will try to think of more options, but I'm a little rusty on more budget-y places in DC proper, since I live just outside the city and most of the bargain places I tend to go to are in my neighborhood.</p> <p>Not really a hole in the wall, but cheap and good, is Beefsteak near GWU, which just opened. It's run by a chef who has a bunch of higher-end restaurants here, and basically does vegetable-and-grain bowls with local, seasonal veggies. Other random food&nbsp;options I'll throw out are Pizzeria Paradiso and Two Amys, which both have amazing pizza.</p> <p>I second the Newseum and Arboretum recommendations and also really like the American History Museum. And I love Eastern Market, which I really need to go to more often! Another good market is Union Market, which is pretty new, with vendors that are kind of more hipster/artisanal.</p> <p>I'm going to be out of town for one of the weekends in April, but would love to join in on a DC meetup with you if it works out! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464923 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:28:28 +0000 E 1464923@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m PMed you Tanya. :)<div><br /></div><div>Ohhh, I love markets Carter! Thanks for the tip; I’ll definitely add it to my itinerary.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you Daria; I’m really enjoying my late 20s &amp; am excited to turn 30 too, so birthdays are fun. I’d marked down the High Line already, but the other two are new to me &amp; both sound great!</div><div><br /></div><div>Deb, I’ll actually be staying Baltimore (that’s where my family is) &amp; taking the train into DC. That museum looks fascinating &amp; who can resist such a pun for a name? ;)</div><div><br /></div><div>Janet, Tanya &amp; I have talked about meet up possibilities, so I’ll PM you that info! As I just told Deb, I’m actually staying in Baltimore, as that’s where my family is, so Baltimore info is welcome too. I’ll be getting around via public transport though when I’m exploring on my own, hence why I’d focused more on DC; I assumed it was more solo traveller friendly. I purposely wanted to visit in April for the cherry blossoms, so I’m definitely interested in botanical gardens! And as a confirmed tree hugger, the arboretum sounds irresistible. Thanks. :)</div><div><br /></div><div>Traci, ohhh that’s a great idea! I didn’t realise there were apps: I’ll look into that. Thanks!</div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464916 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:17:29 +0000 Traci 1464916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My biggest tip for eating on the cheap in NYC is food trucks. &nbsp;There's an app to help you find good ones. &nbsp;My family still talks about our meal from Uncle Gussie's foodtruck while we were in NYC. &nbsp;We also had a great truck for breakfast right down from our hotel. &nbsp;It was simple and good.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464908 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:56:15 +0000 Janet 1464908@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, if you do want to have a DC meetup, let us know!&nbsp;</p> <p>My knowledge is a bit more Annapolis- and Baltimore-centric (let me know if you might want to explore either one, all within a half-hour's drive of DC), but I'm sure other ladies can give you some good DC restaurant advice. There are a lot of great ethnic restaurants in DC, but my knowledge may be out of date.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you at all enjoy botanical gardens, check out the beautiful one (the US National Botanic Garden)&nbsp;on the Mall, and the National Arboretum is worth a visit too -- there's a lovely bonsai collection and koi pond near the visitor center, and hundreds of acres of gardens to explore. Great for an afternoon of walking or biking.&nbsp;</p> <p>I hear really good things about the Spy Museum too.&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464897 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:40:37 +0000 deb 1464897@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What part of DC will you be staying in? My son moved there 4 years ago. I spend 10 days there every year and have gotten to know the city fairly well.&nbsp;I think,&nbsp;for me, the first place I would see is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum" rel="nofollow">Newseum</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464877 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:32:15 +0000 Daria 1464877@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Happy birthday! :)<br />In NYC, I can think of the following in the area of your hotel:<br />the High Line:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thehighline.org/">http://www.thehighline.org/</a><br />Blue Bottle Coffee (Chelsea location):<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bluebottlecoffee.com/cafes/chelsea">https://bluebottlecoffee.com/cafes/chelsea</a><br />Rubin's museum of Himalayan art is very close too and is quite special:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://rubinmuseum.org/">http://rubinmuseum.org/</a></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464827 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:12:21 +0000 carter 1464827@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a wonderful trip! It's been 100 years since I lived in DC, and I was on a serious budget the first few years. I lived one block over from the Eastern Market, so that was my uber-cheap spot for breakfast and dinner to go. It's an easy walk from the Metro and just a darned fun way to putter around for a bit.</p> <p><a href="http://www.easternmarket-dc.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.easternmarket-dc.org/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464776 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:24:06 +0000 Tanya 1464776@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, you are coming to DC!&nbsp; We absolutely have to meet, I would love to!&nbsp; I am off to send you a message with my contact info etc. How lovely! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/manhattan-dc-tips#post-1464774 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:21:56 +0000 E 1464774@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hah! Clearly I have a lot on my plate for April; I'm tapping into the hive mind again for travel ideas. I turn 29 in less than two weeks (!), and to celebrate I'll be going on a train trip&nbsp;to DC to visit with friends/family for about a week (I haven't seen DC since I was around 9 years old)&nbsp;and then up to NYC for the very first time. I've got 5 nights, in a little, cheap-for-Manhattan <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thejanenyc.com/">boutique hotel</a>, so I plan to focus most of my sightseeing/eating in that borough to get the most of my hotel bill (usually I'm a hostel, backpacking&nbsp;girl). I figure I live a train ride away, and can always visit again &amp; stay in a different borough for more exploring!</p> <p>For both DC &amp; NYC, I've got my lists settled of the major sights I'd like to see. But I also love eating, especially at budget, hole-in-the-wall types of places. I'm an adventurous eater who enjoys trying out new cuisines. I also love spending a few hours in a cafe, people watching, on a trip.&nbsp;So I thought I'd ask if anyone has any such suggestions for such things in either Manhattan or DC. I'll be getting around via public transport in each, and am happy to go a few metro/bus stops away from the highly touristed sections to get a better &amp; cheaper meal.</p> <p>Of course, if anyone has any off-the-radar activity suggestions, like&nbsp;little vintage or indie book&nbsp;shops/quirky museums/beautiful photography places/parks, I'm more than open to all of that too. And if anyone would like to do a Manhattan meetup (I'm not sure we have any NYC regular posters?) &amp; give me a local tour, or wants to browse the Chelsea flea market on Sunday,&nbsp;that would be super fun too! I'll treat you to lunch to say thank you. </p>