An expertly curated, always-updated guide to New York’s best restaurants and bars.
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Blue Hill at Stone Barns
Fine Dining, Farm-to-Table
Westchester|$$$$
Dan Barber’s awe-inspiring farm-to-table destination is more than worth the trip to Tarrytown.
Le Bernardin
French, Seafood, Fine Dining
Theater District|$$$$
This great midtown seafood palace remains, after all these years, a uniquely New York (okay, Manhattan) institution.
Eleven Madison Park
Fine Dining
Flatiron District|$$$$
A world-renowned tasting-menu destination that lives up to the hype.
Gramercy Tavern
Gramercy|$$$$
Danny Meyer and chef Michael Anthony run a restaurant where over-the-top kindness and high-caliber seasonal cooking are the norm.
I Sodi
Italian
West Village|$$$
Rita Sodi’s comfortable, timeless, resolutely untrendy paean to the foods and flavors of her Tuscan childhood.
Blue Hill
Greenwich Village|$$$$
Chef Dan Barber’s two-decade-old farm-to-table trailblazer is still among the city’s most impressive restaurants.
Buvette
Bistro, French
West Village|$$
Jody Williams’s extra-charming, French-inspired gastrothèque is a West Village refuge where you’ll want to squeeze in and snack and sip the day away.
Chez Ma Tante
French
Greenpoint|$$
A nearly perfect neighborhood restaurant with alums of Café Altro Paradiso and M. Wells in the kitchen, and destination pancakes at brunch.
Olmsted
American, Farm-to-Table
Prospect Heights|$$
An impressive level of skill, detail, and imagination set Olmsted apart from the typical neighborhood joint.
Superiority Burger
Burgers, Fast Food, Vegetarian/Vegan
East Village|$
Ex–Del Posto pastry chef Brooks Headley makes vegetarian and vegan fast food even carnivores love.
Ugly Baby
Thai
Carroll Gardens|$$
Brooklyn’s — if not New York’s — best Thai restaurant.
Carbone
If it’s red-sauce spectacle you want, Major Food Group’s homage to their much-maligned ancestral cuisine is the place to find it.
Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare
French, Japanese
Hell’s Kitchen|$$$$
Gastronauts are flocking to César Ramirez’s latest tasting room, located in Manhattan, this time, in the back of a Hell’s Kitchen grocery.
Dead Rabbit
Cocktail Bar
Financial District|$$
Dead Rabbit is a revival of a grocery and grog we misplaced sometime in the last century.
Decoy
Chinese
West Village|$$$$
A shrine to Peking duck with large-format dinners served with all the fixings: homemade pancakes, sauces, and “duck-consommé shots.”
Hao Noodle and Tea
This great West Village restaurant is a window into China’s brave new world of pan-regional cooking.
King
Bistro, Italian, Mediterranean
SoHo|$$$
An intimate bistro with a daily-changing menu that’s heavily influenced by the south of France and Northern Italy.
Té Company
Cafe
A serene tearoom that offers an oolong education along with Taiwanese-inspired small plates from a Per Se alum.
Atomix
Korean, Fine Dining
Midtown|$$$$
A discreet Nomad tasting room serving some of the finest high-end Korean-accented food in town.
Bar Goto
Sake/Soju, Cocktail Bar
Lower East Side|$$
Cocktails are the focus at Kenta Goto’s upscale izakaya, but don’t miss the outstanding Japanese comfort food.
Bar Pisellino
Via Carota’s sister bar looks like it might have been airlifted intact from some back alley of Rome or Venice.
Clover Club
Cocktail Bar, Restaurant and Bar
Smith Street’s premiere cocktail bar also happens to be one of the best drink destinations in the entire city.
Death & Co.
East Village|$$$
Death isn’t a partner at this speakeasy-esque gem, but the creative twists on pre-Prohibition cocktails sure are killer.
Di Fara Pizza
Pizza
Midwood|$$
The holy grail of classic New York–style pizza, passionately run by Domenico De Marco for over 50 years.
Ivan Ramen
Ramen, Japanese
Ivan Orkin and his chefs indulge in all sorts of non-ramen fusion experiments at this fun, sunny noodle joint.
J.G. Melon
Burgers, American, Bar Food
Upper East Side|$$
Preppies swear allegiance to the hamburgers at this Upper East Side institution.
Katz’s Delicatessen
Deli, Sandwiches
NYC’s oldest delicatessen (established 1888) and also its best.
Marea
Italian, Seafood, Fine Dining
Chef Michael White’s glittering seafood establishment on Central Park South remains one of the city’s best places to eat fish.
Pearl Oyster Bar
Seafood
Come for the famous lobster roll, and make sure to order oysters and a hot-fudge sundae while you’re there.
Shopsin’s
Diner, American
The Essex Street Market home of “slutty cakes” and “blisters on my sisters,” and a bona fide local institution.
Sunny’s
Dive Bar
Red Hook|$
A place for people “who care about each other so much they don’t mind the trip.”
Tanoreen
Middle Eastern
Bay Ridge|$$$
A Bay Ridge destination for masterful meze and more.
Via Carota
This collaboration between Buvette’s Jody Williams and I Sodi’s Rita Sodi is a neighborhood gem.
Aska
Fine Dining, Scandinavian
Williamsburg|$$$$
Chef Fredrik Berselius’s acclaimed tasting room.
Cosme
Mexican
Enrique Olvera (the man behind Mexico City’s Pujol) has tailored his menu at Cosme to New Yorkers’ current obsession with the clean, the comforting, and the non-ornamental.
Ear Inn
Neighborhood Bar
SoHo|$$
The first and last word in landmark Manhattan neighborhood bars.
Le Coucou
Soho|$$$
Acclaimed chef Daniel Rose brings his brand of elevated Parisian bistro cooking to New York for the first time.
Momofuku Ko
East Village|$$$$
The Momofuku tasting flagship on the Bowery sets a standard for the postmodern, big-money omakase experience.
Pouring Ribbons
The 88-seat bar serves exactingly simple cocktails. Plus, a controlled door means you’ll always get a seat.
The NoMad Bar
Burgers, Bar Food, Gastropub
Nomad|$$$
Daniel Humm’s take on a pub features world-class cocktails and top-flight bar food.
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