As a local New Yorker we met said, with such high rents if a restaurant doesn't have good food it can't draw people and it WON'T survive.  Well said.  Though we didn't run into a bunch of restaurants that were just phenomenal, most of them were pretty good.

As is our tradition we had to get "local" pizza, like we do where ever we go.  Of the places we got it, Famigila's (this one at Broadway and around 48th) was definitely the best.  Large slices loaded with yummy toppings and an order of garlic knots went well anytime!