AMERICAN WAY: Do you have a favorite dive? A restaurant where no one would ever expect to see Donald Trump?

TRUMP: I'm building a golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. It's the richest place on earth, where you have people with 25-acre mansions. And there's a pizza parlor there, Bedminster Pizza, about three minutes away from the entrance of my club, with the best pizza I've ever had. It's so Italian that the guys there hardly speak English.

AMERICAN WAY: What is the most New York thing you eat?

TRUMP: Um [he seems momentarily stumped], New York strip steaks. We have the best steakhouses here, but I go to Peter Luger, in Brooklyn, for steak. I don't know if heaven can be better than Peter Luger, which also has the best home fries and great shrimp cocktails.

AMERICAN WAY: One of the reigning New York debates is about the quickest way to the airport. What's your preferred mode of transport?

TRUMP: Car.

AMERICAN WAY: No helicopter?

TRUMP: No. It costs you $5,000 an hour for a helicopter, plus landing fees. That turns it into an $8,000 trip, and then you need to have a special car waiting for you at the airport. After all that, in the end, you wind up saving three minutes.

AMERICAN WAY: Let's say I'm a guy you want to do business with. Where do you put me up?

TRUMP: Well, the New York Post rated Trump International Hotel & Tower number one in Manhattan. Other than that, though, I'd send you to the Waldorf, which is, let's face it, the Waldorf.

AMERICAN WAY: Other than where we are sitting right now, what's the best view in town?