LovelyNYC · An evening programme
Fourteen set menus timed for an 8pm curtain, from $35 to $155, with the walk to Times Square, the seating window and what each costs — all read off the restaurants' own pages.
Menus and prices checked on the restaurants’ own pages, October 15, 2026
How to time it. For an 8pm curtain, sit down by 5:45 or 6pm: three courses take about an hour and a half, and you want to be in your seat by 7:45. Tell the restaurant your curtain time when you book.
*Walking times are our estimates from each address to Broadway at 45th Street, the middle of the theater district. Prices are per person, before tax, tip and drinks.
Closest first.
No. 1
252 W 47th St · Theater District
Seating Daily, 3–11pm
Roast chicken, salmon or braised short rib between a soup or salad and dessert, three minutes from the theaters. The restaurant promises to serve you in time for your show.
Parties of 9 or fewer.
No. 2
340 W 46th St · Restaurant Row
Seating 3:30–7:30pm
A French menu on Restaurant Row with a choice at every course.
Supplements for filet mignon, duck and steak.
No. 3
355 W 46th St · Restaurant Row
Seating Dinner, Tue–Sun
A Caesar salad or antipasto, then unlimited tableside servings of the three pastas of the day. It's Becco's standing prix fixe rather than a pre-theater menu, and one of the lowest prices on this list.
Closed Mondays.
No. 4
41 W 42nd St · Bryant Park
Seating Mon–Thu, 4:45–5:45pm
The shortest way into a two-Michelin-star Alsatian dining room: three courses with a choice at each, timed for an 8pm curtain.
Wagyu striploin +$55; cheese cart instead of dessert +$18.
No. 5
630 Ninth Ave · Hell's Kitchen
Seating Daily from 4pm
A Ninth Avenue brasserie menu: bistro salad or soup, then bavette au poivre, skate meunière or mushroom ravioli, then crème brûlée, mousse or profiteroles.
Ask for the price when you book.
No. 6
145 W 53rd St · Midtown
Seating Sun–Fri, 4:30–6pm
Onion soup or pâté, then roast chicken, whitefish or prime steak frites, in a big Parisian-style brasserie.
Not offered Saturdays. Steak frites +$10.
No. 7
402 W 43rd St · Hell's Kitchen
Seating 4:30pm to close
Greek cooking — calamari, souvlaki, galaktoboureko — in the old Esca space on 43rd Street.
The whole table must order it.
No. 8
311 W 51st St · Hell's Kitchen
Seating Daily until 6:30pm
Escargots or pâté, then chicken cordon bleu, salmon or hanger steak, in a long-running French bistro.
Escargots +$3; hanger steak +$5. Not offered on holidays.
No. 9
414 W 42nd St · Theatre Row
Seating Dinner from 4pm
Moules, coq au vin or steak frites, with live piano from 5:30pm — handy for the theaters on West 42nd Street.
No. 10
125 W 55th St · Midtown
Seating 4:30–6pm
Greek seafood — fish soup or octopus, then dorado or salmon, then Greek yogurt or walnut pie. There's a post-theatre menu too.
Ask for the price when you book.
No. 11
150 W 57th St · Carnegie Hall
Seating 4:45–6:15pm
Borscht or blinchik, stroganoff or chicken à la Czar, then medovik — next door to Carnegie Hall.
Not available for parties of 8 or more.
No. 12
60 W 55th St · Midtown
Seating Nightly, 5–6:30pm
Alain Ducasse's bistro: escargots or velouté, beef bourguignon or salmon, chocolate mousse.
Pre-theatre menus near the other stages.
103 W 77th St · Upper West Side · for Lincoln Center
Seating Tue–Thu, 5:30pm seating
A Michelin-starred room's short menu, about a 12–15 minute walk from Lincoln Center — for the opera, the ballet or a concert rather than Broadway.
Wine pairings from $75.
20 Hudson Yards · Hudson Yards · for The Shed
Seating 4:30–6pm
The same three-course Greek menu as the Midtown room, a short walk from The Shed.
236 W 52nd St · Midtown West
Seating Tue–Thu 4–10pm, Fri 4–11pm, Sat 12–11pm, Sun 12–9pm
No set menu, but the restaurant asks you to give your curtain time when you book and again when you arrive, so it can pace the meal.
326 W 46th St · Restaurant Row
Seating Closed Mon; Tue 4:30–11:30pm; Wed–Sat from late morning or noon
By its own description, a pre- and post-theatre dining institution since 1965 — but with no set menu or on-time promise. Reservations open one week ahead.