Mileage Addict...

La Bonne Soupe serves pretty fast and is good and a good value. THey are on the East Side of Manhattan: 48 West 55th Street … New York, NY 10019 … Tel: (212) 586-7650 … Fax: (212) 765-6409

Here's their website: http://www.labonnesoupe.com/menus.php

Let me know if this works for you and I can make a reservation. (they don't have beer I don't think but have a decent house wine or two.)

There's also Heartland Brewery which has several locations around Manhattan. They have some decent house brews (and I know you sort of like teh beer MA: http://www.heartlandbrewery.com/

Keep me posted.

OMNI for Spiff: when do you fly into EWR and do you have a long layover? There' sgood Spanish/Portugese food just a train ride away in Newark.