The Restaurant at YOTEL New York Times Square

"It gets especially busy during the people-watching free-for-all of the complimentary muffin breakfasts (bananas, a buck each) and evening happy hours, when the gigantic outdoor patio (the largest of any hotel in Manhattan) thumps to techno music and fills with guests noshing on inventive, if uneven, Latin-Asian tapas from the on-site restaurant Dohyo"

"The Green Fig is a bright, airy restaurant serving Mediterranean fare for breakfast, brunch and dinner"

"This Midtown West outpost is certainly hip, featuring an enormous rooftop terrace, a sleek restaurant and bar, and funky, outer space design"

"And like some more upscale airports today, the on-site restaurant is helmed by a celebrity chef (Richard Sandoval of Pampano, see p"

"Or you can sample the pan-Asian bites at the fourth-floor restaurant, Dohyo, named for and styled like a Japanese wrestling ring"

"The hotel restaurant, Dohyo, serves up Latin-Asian fusion and a sumo theme, with colorful murals and low communal tables that rise out of the floor using a special hydraulics system"

"And the 23-story hotel has a whole floor of common space for relaxing and playing, with a restaurant, lounge, and what the company bills as "the largest outside terrace space of any hotel in New York"