I had read that this place could be rude and unwelcoming. Glad I ignored other people’s bad experiences. The menu was bit daunting, it's got so many things to choose from. We just made something up and hoped they did it. They did, almost. You can’t knock somewhere that has a cupboard full of sauces and pickles to splash on your “fluffernutter sandwiches”.

54 Carmine Street, off Bleaker Street
www.shopsins.com/

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Going bowling, how American can you get? Take the lift to the 4th floor and you could be anywhere in the US, well anywhere where they dim the lights on the lanes and have fluorescent pins.

110 University Place @ East 13th
www.bowlmor.com/

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I liked it. It’s just a dark bar with a pool table and a half decent jukebox. Nothing more, nothing less. The private booths are showing their age but a lick of paint and a spruce up wouldn’t do it any favours.

79 East 7th between Avenue A and 1st Avenue

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First opened in 1887 and now due to reopen on its 120 year anniversary after many years of restoration. The outside is complete but to bring the interior back to glory they may have a long way to go. That said it’s a great opportunity to see restoration in progress and get to chat to the helpful and informative couple who are on hand to show you around. You’ll find it in the middle of Chinatown and is a reminder of a previous wave of immigrants who expectantly set up home, business and faith in the Lower East Side.

www.eldridgestreet.org/

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When you go to Sagrada Familia, don’t jump back on the Metro but persevere up Avinguda de Gaudi. You’ll eventually come across this still part-working hospital that you are free to stroll around and ogle. Unesco protected, this lesser known of the Modernista works is a visionary place created by Domenech i Nontaner for Barcelona’s medial needs at the turn of the 20th-century. It would have been worth getting ill just to have been able to stay there.

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It’s not called Tancat, it’s not called anything. It’s just a shutter door on the corner of Calle Carmen and Calle Sant Llatzer. Knock it, wait, smile and walk in. Inside it can be empty, full, serious, boisterous. Always a bit dishevelled but cheap and open very late. Barcelona has a number of these “nod-nod, wink-wink” bars. Just keep your eyes peeled.

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Carry on past MACBA into deepest, but not necessarily darkest, Ravel and you’ll come across Calle de Joaquin Costa and surrounding streets. Low rent bars/galleries/shops, old Barcelona and new Moroccan immigrants go about their daily businesses. Wander around and you’ll find some thing that that will get the better of your curiosity, you can even go to Benidorm.

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Self contained apartments just off Bleeker Street. Soho, Greenwhich Village, East Village and LES all walkable. For the same price as the cheaper hotels we stayed in the Carriage House and got all the benefits of home from home comfort, with as much space as we needed and more bagels/bialys than we could eat. Used it on our first stay in NY and it helped us almost convince ourselves that we were living in the city.

www.sohobandb.com

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State run picture house that always has a decent repertory season. Cost about a quid to get in and you may even learn some Catalan from the subtitles

33 Avda de Sarria, Metro Hospital Clinic
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If you are going to go, why not make it as difficult as possible. Get off the Metro at Lesseps, walk up the escalators that never work on Baixada de Gloria and once inside follow the paths to discover. Oh and take a picnic. Use the parc as a parc and not a jumble of gob smacking buildings and unique landscaping to gawp at. Relax, enjoy the view and watch the rest of visitors pass in and out.

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