John's Shanghai

Located in the heart of the Theatre District on West 46th between 6th and Broadway is this old school Chinese restaurant. John's is a homey spot with a wall of teapots and Chinese sculptures in it's two-story restaurant. The restaurant offers classic Shanghai Style fare as well as housemade dumplings. The weekday lunch specials (until 4pm) include soup or egg roll or soda. They start at $6.75 for roasted meats and go up to $9.95 for the multi-meat/ fish combos. The seating is comfortable and the service fast and the food is pretty standard.

El Museo Del Jamon

Located in several outposts all over Madrid, this is one of my favorite spots in all of Spain. The museum of ham as it translates into English celebrates serrano and Iberian hams displayed all over this cafe and restaurant with hoofs in. El museo offers breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as ham and cheeses to go. The location near Puerta Del Sol is where we started our day's and they offer several breakfast specials of ham(serrano) with or without cheese(manchego) as well as the famous zumo de naranja(house squeezed juice) and cafe or hot chocolate for abut $5 U.S. Standing at the counter with tourists and Madrilenos is unbeatable Spanish experience.