Yesterday we made the happy announcement that reservations are open for NYC's Winter Restaurant Week. Now, we're going to come through on our promise to let you in on our top picks.

Without further ado, our 5 top picks for New York Restaurant Week Winter 2012:

· Red Rooster, Harlem
3-course lunch for $24.07
If you can get yourself up to Harlem for a midday meal, then this is our highest recommendation. Not only is Red Rooster the current talk of the town, but it's actually worthy of the hype. It's soul food with a Swedish touch, on account of (Top Chef Masters winner) Chef Marcus Samuelsson's mixed African-Scandi background. We just hit up Red Rooster ourselves for their Sunday Gospel Brunch and ummm yeah. We'll be back real soon. Do not miss the Cornbread, Mac & Greens (omg) and Fried Yard Bird.]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-05T13:47:03-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2012/1/3/234143/6499
The Ratatouille L'Ecole burger during NYFW last year

Go and get 'em! Reservation booking has just opened up here for the semiannual NYC Restaurant Week, aka one of our favorite (and super highly recommended) city food events. This is the 20th anniversary of the event, and the eating takes place for longer this time around, lasting from January 16 - February 10 (weekdays only).

Get over to OpenTable quickly to snap up the best and newest tables, among them Boulud Sud and Maialino, lest you get stuck dining at some Theater District steakhouse that survives on tourists being loose with their money and not too particular about what's on their plate. ]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-04T13:42:27-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/27/135159/55

With a movie version currently in theaters, a Tony Award-winning play on Broadway, a novel on the best-sellers list and a past SNL parody, War Horse has completely invaded pop culture. But, it has also offered an opportunity to find travel inspiration in all of its various incarnations.

While War Horse (the movie) was filmed at several locations throughout the U.K., including Devon where it is set, none of the movie's locations is more picturesque than the village of Castle Combe in Chippenham. The small village was shut down last fall while Steven Spielberg filmed scenes for the movie outside the Cotswold homes that line its streets. ]]> cmb 2011-12-27T14:55:18-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/26/123534/789

Tickets to Saturday Night Live have always been hard to get. Yes, you can take your chances in the stand-by line at 30 Rock, but the best way to get tickets is via SNL's ticket lottery.

To enter the lottery for the upcoming season all you need to do is send an email with all of your contact information to snltickets@nbcuni.com by August 31 (the lottery is only open during the month of August). If you are selected, you'll receive two tickets to a random show date. You can only enter once and must be at least 16 years old.

SNL returns for it's 37th season this fall with Alec Baldwin hosting the season the season premiere, which will also mark his 16th appearance on the show.

[Photo: SNL] cmb 2011-08-26T13:13:17-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/18/22443/8152

So there's this thing. It happens twice a year in New York City, on the little island out in the harbor you need a special ferry to reach. It's amazing and it's only $7 to attend (advance, at door is $10). It's the Jazz Age Lawn Party, and it's coming up this weekend.

From 11am to 5pm on Governor's Island for both August 20 and 21, Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra will play tunes from the 1920s and 30s while the public—many in full 20-30s period outfits—dance, attend the pie baking contest, drink a few prohibition-era cocktails and socialize in the sun.

Here's a zillion pictures from the last one to get you in the Roaring '20s mood.

It's the sort of event that could only happen in New York City (okay, maybe London too), but you've got to get into the spirit. No wearing jeans and a T-shirt—the idea is to bring back the glamor and innocence of the Great Gatsby days, where men were men in suspenders and hats and women wore flapper-waist dresses and lace gloves. This is the sort of thing we'd kill to experience as a tourist to New York, as a local it's even more desirable. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-08-18T18:12:58-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/17/1151/12323

Our love for artifacts of retro travel isn't exactly a secret, and we recently scored a vintage American Airlines pamphlet advertising trips to the World's Fair of 1964 in New York City.

This is the famous World's Fair that gave us the now-dilapidated fantasy structures that dot Corona Park in Flushing, Queens, and which exalted the advances of space travel. It was a fair people traveled to by airplane, and a jaunt from the west coast to the east coast for the event could be a family's big trip. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-08-17T15:53:32-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/14/9236/68247

Just as promised, last night saw the three Cunard ships—Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth—take to NY Harbor all at the same time for a little "Royal Rendezvous" and a lot of fireworks. This is only the second time that all three Queens have been together in NYC at the same moment, and the last was only in 2008, as the Queen Elizabeth II (now retired) made her final departure from the Big Apple after hundreds and hundreds of historical sailings. Needless to say, it was a very cool occasion.

We managed to take in the scene from the Cunard party in the lounge at the tippy-top of the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, and still froze our bits and bobbles to death on the outdoor deck, catching these photographs. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-01-14T10:24:42-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/