Recession bargains at New York’s best restaurants

Some of Manhattan’s best restaurants are fighting the recession with affordable prix fixe menus.

When I lived in New York, I perfected “the art of dining frugally in pricey ­restaurants,” said Susan Spano in the Los Angeles Times. With the recession causing havoc among Manhattan’s financial elite, dining meccas whose prices are usually sky-high “have fought back by offering affordable prix fixe menus and perks to keep their tables full.” Here are some of the delicious deals I found on a recent trip.

Daniel 60 E. 65th St., (212) 288-0033. “One of the top Michelin-starred spots for eating French here,” Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant “offers a $98 three-course early dinner menu (5:30–6:30 p.m.) that includes specially selected wines.”

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