Certain restaurants– most street-facing Chinatown eateries, and the pantry-sized West Village boites, for example–never let you forget that, despite the cuisine, you are still in New York. Salud, with its ample dark wood seats, whitewashed walls, rattan accents and slowly turning fans overhead, plops you right in the middle of Havana or Buenos Aires for an hour or two– so much so that you’re surprised to find yourself, after a satisfying meal, back on the sidewalks of New York. A mostly tapas joint just off the main drag of downtown’s rapidly changing South Street Seaport area, Salud brings its transportative magic to a part of Manhattan that suffers still, after Fulton Fish Market left for Hunts Point in the Bronx less than six months ago. As the smell from the old stalls slowly fades away, it is replaced by new, much more pleasing aromas coming from the new wave of restaurants and cafés moving into the neigborhood. And of course, some of the most appealing smells come from this very tapas joint.
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On my way over to try Quartino for a third time for lunch I stumbled across Salud. I've walked by it once before but didn't really pay any attention to it. But there was a blackboard outside advertising a prix fixe lunch for $15, that included two dishes (not courses) and a beverage. A beverage included! I've yet to hear of such a thing
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The arrival of any new restaurant in the Seaport district is newsworthy, because there are so few of them, and what’s there is in general so bland. Pier 17 itself is the haunt of tourists and weekend revelers, although Sequoia at the end of the pier is worth a visit for satisfactory seafood and some of the best views in Manhattan
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