The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Achilles Heel
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Rank 3. ILIS
Scandinavian
In a moody warehouse, Chef Mads Refslund cooks a sustainable Nordic menu that lets pristine ingredients speak for themselves, whether grilled mushroom or Spanish mackerel. The four- and seven-course tasting formats demand surrender to his philosophy of elegant restraint.
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- Esquire 2023 · #1 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Mads Refslund
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Rank 4. Oxomoco
Mexican
A lively Greenpoint room where casual surfaces hide serious ambition: tacos arrive loaded with chanterelle or the day's catch, but the kitchen roams Mexico's regions with equal conviction, from tropical hamachi agua chile to smoky tlayuda to brined and smoked chicken. Vibrant, balanced, never showy.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 5. Lingo
Japanese-influenced New American
In a Greenpoint corner, chawanmushi meets rock shrimp and sea grapes; bone marrow steak tartare gets dressed in black sesame cream. The beef pie—Hokkaido curry inside a golden pastry shell—is where Lingo's casual American template and Japanese sensibility stop negotiating and start singing together.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Emily Yuen
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 6. Bar Americano
Spanish/Northern Italian Wine Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- The Infatuation The Best Bars In Greenpoint
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Rank 7. Madre
Contemporary
In the vaulted lobby of a boutique hotel on Franklin Street, Madre serves contemporary cooking that moves between Mediterranean and Latin flavors with casual confidence. Jalapeño cornbread madeleines with whipped honey, octopus with romesco and nopales, and a dark chocolate pot de crème suggest a kitchen unafraid of specificity.
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Rank 8. Meju
Korean
Behind a fermented-foods shop in Long Island City, Chef Hooni Kim runs a counter where traditional Korean pantry staples—doenjang, gochujang, aged through his own decade-long practice—meet precise minimalism and Miyazaki beef. A final bowl of rice and kimchi, handmade ceramics throughout, and Kim's attentive presence transform an unassuming setting into something quietly unforgettable.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Hooni Kim
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Hooni Kim
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- US Coffee Championships 2025 · #1 · U.S. Latte Art Championship · Piyapat "Flook" Lapteerawut
- US Coffee Championships 2025 · #7 · U.S. Brewers Cup · John Chau Ly
- US Coffee Championships 2025 · #7 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Peace Sakulclanuwat
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Rank 10. Taqueria Ramirez
Mexican
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
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Rank 11. Frijoleros
Mexican
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Rank 12. Wenwen
Taiwanese Chinese
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the clean, airy dining room at this Greenpoint Taiwanese restaurant, where Chef Eric Sze applies precision to bold flavors: sacha hot honey popcorn chicken dusted with a sugar-spice powder, whole striped bass in black sugar and yuzu, a beef noodle soup built on sixteen hours of oxtail broth. The cooking is assured and unsentimental.
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Rank 13. Salsa Pizza Napoletana & Street Food
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 14. arthur
American
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Rank 16. Chez Ma Tante
Canadian French
Aidan O'Neal and Jake Leiber run a compact French-Canadian kitchen where pork preparations and offal terrine anchor a menu that refuses apology. Fennel sausage over beans and bacon, gnocchi with blue cheese, maple crème brûlée—the cooking is forceful, richly flavored, and worth the weekend crowds.
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Rank 17. Bagel Joint
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 18. Paulie Gee's
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 19. Di An Di
Vietnamese Noodles
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Rank 20. Brouwerij Lane
Beer Bar
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Rank 21. Antica Pesa
Roman Italian
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Rank 22. Lilia Ristorante
Italian
At Lilia, pasta commands attention, but the opening moves—fried dough with cacio e pepe spice, blowfish in Sicilian lemon, charred focaccia with green garlic butter—arrive with equal ambition. These early dishes establish the restaurant's gift for marrying rustic Italian foundations with precise, burnished technique.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Missy Robbins
- The New York Times 2026 · #36 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 23. Restaurant Yuu
Contemporary French
The kitchen emerges from darkness like a stage reveal, all whites and precision, as Chef Yuu Shimano orchestrates a tasting built on French discipline and Japanese refinement—smoked clam against celeriac, abalone risotto dusted with nori. Each plate moves between restraint and indulgence, anchored by the duck and foie pastry that tastes like a relic, punctuated by the mojito that tastes like now.
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Rank 24. Fulgurances Laundromat
Experimental French
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Rank 25. Uzuki
Noodles
Chef Shuichi Kotani's soba shop occupies a raw Greenpoint warehouse, where hand-cut noodles arrive in ceramic vessels he has thrown himself. The buckwheat preparations are spare and exacting, though prices run high for what amounts to disciplined simplicity.
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Rank 27. Atomix
Elevated Korean
Chef Junghyun Park's tasting menu unfolds in a subterranean counter as a series of meditations, each plate accompanied by written reflection on beauty and anticipation. Korean traditions meet refined technique in dishes like black banana with monkfish liver, in a room as warm as its servers.
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Rank 28. Border Town
Mexican
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Rank 29. Eleven Madison Park
Contemporary
Eleven Madison Park is a temple of control where everything—the suits, the glassware, the vegan roll with its gossamer crust—bears the obsessive stamp of Daniel Humm's vision. A tonburi quenelle mimics caviar; a radish tostada gleams with pumpkin seed butter. The kitchen's plant-based luxury is audacious and complete, though animal proteins remain available for those who ask.
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Rank 30. Glasserie
Mediterranean
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Rank 32. Hupo
Sichuan Chinese
Wok heat drifts through this understated Long Island City room where Sichuan cooking favors aroma and balance over spectacle. House-made tofu and ma-la wontons arrive with clarity and restraint, pitched for everyday appetite rather than thrill-seeking.
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- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
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Rank 37. Taqueria El Chato
Mexican
A narrow storefront with a few stools and a counter, where handmade tortillas cradle tender al pastor, chorizo, and melted cheese beneath salsa verde and raw onion. The vampiro—a fried tortilla shell loaded with cheese and toppings—justifies the cramped quarters and absence of pretense.
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Rank 38. Pierozek
Polish Eastern European
In a Greenpoint storefront adorned with hand-painted Polish pottery, Alexandra Siwiec and Radek Kucharski turn out delicate pierogi—jalapeño and potato, raspberry and cheese—alongside borscht, golabki, and kielbasa that tastes as though it knows its own purpose. The casual room feels less like a restaurant than a kitchen that happens to sell what it makes, which is precisely the point.
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Rank 41. Bagel Point
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 43. Bar Madonna
Italian-American
- 50 Best 2026 · #36 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 45. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 46. Casa Enrique
Mexican
Cosme Aguilar's Long Island City kitchen works from a stable repertoire of family recipes, but the restaurant truly announces itself through ambitious plates: branzino cooked "al pastor," braised lamb shank in a spiced broth, mole in every incarnation. The crowds gathering outside understand what the kitchen knows—that restraint and mastery of a few things matter more than constant reinvention.
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Rank 49. Apollo Bagels
California-Style
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Rank 51. Kru
Thai
A sleek dining room of exposed brick and polished concrete frames the contemporary take on Thai cooking by husband-and-wife chefs Ohm Suansilphong and Kiki Supap. Braised beef shank arrives in a broth balanced between sour and spice, while red curry branzino steams atop egg and cabbage on a banana leaf. The lesson here is tradition made urgent.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Esquire 2022 · #37 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 53. Smithereens
New England Seafood
Down a flight of stairs in the East Village, Smithereens channels a New England seafood shack with a downtown edge. Chef Nick Tamburo works the grill—amberjack belly over binchotan, mackerel sharpened with seaweed and ginger—while sommelier Nikita Malhotra's mostly white list mirrors the cooking's brightness. The celery root float alone justifies the descent.
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- VinePair 2025 · Sommelier of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Nikita Malhotra
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Rank 55. Borgo
Italian
In a dining room that feels both composed and unafraid, Borgo honors the Brooklyn ethos its chef helped invent—communal tables, daily-shifting menus, vegetables still wearing soil. The cooking speaks of patience and appetite for the gamy, the bitter, the flavors that require time to understand.
- Esquire 2025 · Wine Director of the Year · Lee Campbell
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Lee Campbell
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 56. The Four Horsemen
Natural Wine Bar
The wine list moves with obsessive focus through natural varietals at this perpetually mobbed Williamsburg bar, where Nick Curtola's seasonal cooking—veal sweetbread skewers, crisp chickpea crepe studded with squash blossoms and lardon, fried skate wing—never overreaches. There is intelligence in the room, and in the glaze.
- 50 Best 2025 · #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 57. House
French/Japanese
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Rank 58. Mable's Smokehouse
Central Texas-Style Barbecue
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Rank 59. K'Far
Israeli Middle Eastern
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Rank 60. Laser Wolf
Middle Eastern
A rooftop skewer house where Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook have engineered something genuinely convivial: salatim arrive first—babaghanoush, harissa beans, pickled vegetables—followed by lamb kofta and grilled vegetables that justify the kitchen's open-flame fervor. The room pulses with string lights and music, reservation-worthy precisely because it refuses to feel exclusive.
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Rank 61. Tal Bagels
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 62. Eavesdrop
Japanese
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Rank 63. R40
Argentinian
Smoke from a roaring grill perfumes this Argentine parilla, where shared plates of grilled meats and housemade pastas fill a dining room of exposed brick and dangling vines. Skirt steak with chimichurri and hearty empanadas justify the serious appetite required here.
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Rank 64. Schmuck
European/Middle Eastern
- 50 Best 2026 · Three Cents Best New Opening Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2025 · #59 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #4 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Time Out #15 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
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Rank 67. Martiny’s
Japanese Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2025 · #75 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #23 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Takuma Watanabe
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Rank 68. Gramercy Tavern
Contemporary New American
A mahogany-lined institution where the bar seats are fought over at lunch and the dining room glows at night. The seasonal American cooking—pappardelle, impeccable proteins—speaks plainly but with confidence, matched to wood-paneled surroundings and service that knows when to hover and when to recede. A place equally at home with a first date or a closed business deal.
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Rank 69. Le Crocodile
French
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Rank 70. La Tête d'Or by Daniel
French Steakhouse
A glamorous Flatiron temple where French technique meets steakhouse tradition under Daniel Boulud's direction. Leather-lined bar, soaring ceilings, and tableside Caesar salads precede dry-aged beef and roving trolleys of prime rib—the kind of room where the architecture itself suggests money changing hands.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World's 101 Best #34 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 71. The Hidden Pearl
Japanese-Inspired
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Rank 72. Maison Premiere
New Orleans-Style Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #40 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Time Out #7 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
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What began as a roving truck in 2008 has calcified into something more durable: a brand whose creamy, plainly made scoops now occupy freezer cases across the city and beyond. The vegan iterations are genuine alternatives rather than afterthoughts, and the seasonal flavors—a Kraft mac-and-cheese confection among them—suggest a kitchen unafraid of whimsy.
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Rank 77. Lise & Vito
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 78. Superiority Burger
Vegetarian
A vintage diner wedged into the East Village serves vegetarian cooking that doesn't apologize for what it isn't. Brooks Headley's menu—quinoa-and-chickpea burgers, beans with escarole and provolone—prizes bold seasoning and textural contrast over imitation, while desserts drawn from his pastry training elevate the experience beyond counter food.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outsdanding Restaurant
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 79. Aska
Scandinavian, Tasting
In a dark South Williamsburg room, Fredrik Berselius executes Nordic cooking with precision and intimacy—dry-aged quail with morels and truffle jus, langoustine with gooseberry, hake crowned in beluga and beer cream. The kitchen presents each course, the chef himself circulating, all of it built on local, seasonal sourcing that feels deliberate rather than decorative.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #24 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- The New York Times 2026 · #16 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 80. Clemente Bar
Vegan
- 50 Best 2025 · Best New Opening Award
- 50 Best 2026 · #15 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · Martini of the Year: Clemente Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 82. Gabriel Kreuther
Alsatian French
Chef Gabriel Kreuther's cavernous showroom near Bryant Park serves Alsatian cooking with French precision and global reach, from warm kugelhopf to smoked sturgeon tart. Cream banquettes, a roving cheese trolley and an armada of servers evoke old-world fine dining.
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Rank 84. Enso Omakase
Omakase Sushi
In a sleek Williamsburg room, Chef Nick Wang's omakase unfolds with discipline and restraint. Cured mackerel from Chiba arrives perfectly seasoned; Hokkaido uni melts on the tongue with barely a whisper of salt. This is edomae sushi executed without flourish or apology.
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Rank 85. HAGS
Contemporary
Chef Telly Justice's tiny East Village tasting room sources produce from queer farmers and publishes its recipes freely, rotating seasonal vegetables through nimble vegan and omnivore menus. Chewy corn ice cream with currant jam typifies the kitchen's unselfconscious inventiveness.
- Food & Wine 2025 · Telly Justice · Best New Chefs
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Telly Justice
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Telly Justice
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The Cozy Royale team's Greenpoint bar trades polish for the ease of a neighborhood living room, where beer-shot pairings and martinis coexist without pretense. Steamed hot dogs and ham sliders arrive as unpretentious anchors to drinking that feels less like a night out and more like a standing appointment.
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Rank 87. Shota Omakase
Omakase Sushi
Chef Cheng Lin guides diners through impeccably sourced nigiri and seared fish with the ease of a friend, refreshing rice between each piece. His transparency about Japanese sourcing and technique elevates what could be rote into something genuinely intentional.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Cheng Lin
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 88. Cosme
Modern Mexican
Cosme's moody dining room and polished bar serve seasonally inventive Mexican cooking, from uni tostadas with bone marrow to duck carnitas. The corn husk meringue alone justifies the price.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · United States' Best Restaurant
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Rank 89. Eddie's Sweet Shop
Dessert
A narrow Queens storefront that looks more apothecary than parlor, Eddie's has scooped the same eighteen flavors since 1925 without apology or innovation. The vanilla fudge and maple walnut arrive in cones or atop sundaes built with the austere confidence of someone who knows exactly what a cherry on top should mean.
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- 50 Best 2026 · #3 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
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Rank 91. Le Pavillon
French
A soaring glass dining room in a gleaming new tower, all warm light and architectural confidence, where the bar itself becomes theater under a blown-glass chandelier. Boulud and Nacev's carte pivots on seafood and vegetables rendered with global inflection—spaghetti alla chitarra gilded with caviar, cauliflower sharpened by Aleppo pepper and local beans.
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Rank 92. Hotel Delmano
New Orleans-Inspired Cocktail Bar
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Rank 93. Carnitas Ramirez
Mexican
At Carnitas Ramirez, a taqueria on East Third Street, you sit on buckets and confront the entire pig—snout to tail—in tacos that demand you reckon with what you're eating. Tongue, brain, skin, cartilage: each texture arrives in fried tortillas, a lesson in anatomy that never lets you forget the animal's former life.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- Eater Best Counter-Service Spot
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Rank 94. Bonnie's
Cantonese Chinese
A nondescript corner spot in Williamsburg channels retro Hong Kong diner aesthetics while Chef Calvin Eng interprets Cantonese regional cuisine with modern precision. Crispy yeung yu sang choi bao stuffed with shrimp and mustard greens, salt-and-pepper shrimp lacquered with melted onions, and cheung fun dressed in X.O. sauce reveal a kitchen unafraid of both tradition and invention.
- Esquire 2023 · MSG Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Calvin Eng
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Calvin Eng
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Rank 95. Bar Miller
Sushi
A cramped counter splashed with bold color and custom ceramics, Bar Miller channels relaxed informality into nontraditional omakase built on sustainable North American fish and New York-grown rice. The chefs treat trim and offcuts as material—pressed into house-made tostadas—with the same inventiveness they bring to Montauk fluke and Maine uni, a philosophy the wine and sake list mirrors entirely.
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Rank 96. Rezdôra
Emilia-Romagna Italian
A Flatiron dining room devoted to the pasta traditions of Emilia-Romagna, where handmade anolini and gramigna arrive in their plainest, most persuasive forms. The cooking here trusts simplicity—fried gnocco with cured pork, ragù finished with Parmigiano—and asks nothing more of you than appetite and respect for the region's canon.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Stefano Secchi
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Rank 97. Tempura Matsui
Tempura Japanese
A counter-only tempura specialist where the chef's restrained batter and mixed-oil technique elevate humble ingredients into delicate, seasonal revelations. The progression from shrimp legs through tender squid and scallop to mellow tencha broth unfolds with the precision of ritual.
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Rank 98. Apollo Bagels
California-Style
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Rank 99. Superbueno
Mexican-American
- 50 Best 2025 · #12 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #9 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- VinePair 2023 · Bar Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
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