The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near KJUN
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Rank 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. hakubai
Japanese
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Rank 5. 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 6. Ai Fiori
Italian
Fifth Avenue views and a marble bar set the stage for polished Italian cooking—Hiramasa crudo with sunflower cream, handmade pasta with braised rabbit. Service and linens match the formal room's marble and leather restraint.
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Rank 7. Sushi Sho
Omakase Sushi
Beneath the Public Library's shadow, Chef Keiji Nakazawa orchestrates omakase with rare precision—a progression of fish, shellfish, and fermented vegetables that moves like a composed piece, reverent yet willing to bend. The Hinoki counter anchors a room where kitchen and service operate in silent synchrony, each gesture considered. Here, mastery doesn't announce itself; it accumulates.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- Vogue 2026 · A Definitive Guide to the Best Omakase in New York City
- The New York Times 2026 · #11 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 8. Le Bernardin
Seafood
A Midtown room where diamond necklaces catch the light and Eric Ripert's kitchen moves with quiet confidence through pristine seafood—yellowfin tuna pounded thin over foie gras toast, salmon with horseradish emulsion—finished by a dark chocolate tart that tastes like technique perfected. French classicism with global reach, no tasting menu required.
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Rank 9. KJUN
Korean
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 11. Sushi Yasuda
Sushi
At Sushi Yasuda, honey-toned wood and bamboo offer the only warmth in a deliberately austere room where punctuality is non-negotiable. The itamae controls your meal from behind the counter, assembling classical nigiri—bluefin, uni, sayori with shiso—with deliberate care that lets each piece's robust flavor speak. The place ignores fashion and rewards those willing to submit to its rhythms.
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Rank 12. The Bar Room at the Modern
New American
The dining room floats within MoMA's architectural clarity, all clean lines and sculptural views. Here the kitchen constructs dishes of deliberate restraint—a seed cracker gilded with aged cheddar and butternut squash butter, turbot roasted on the bone in parmesan cream—each component audible in conversation. It is a place that understands that luxury, at its best, whispers.
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Rank 13. Jōji
Sushi
In a Grand Central corner, Jōji carves out stillness amid transit chaos with nigiri built on meticulously vinegared dual-rice bases and sashimi that pairs buri with green apple and yuzu. The seafood—sourced from Toyosu Market, often luxe—arrives without pretension, though the bill reflects the ingredients' rarefied status.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Vogue 2026 · A Definitive Guide to the Best Omakase in New York City
- Eater The Best Sushi Restaurants in Manhattan
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Rank 14. 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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- Eater 2026 · The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC
- Eater 2026 · The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants in Midtown
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Rank 16. Épicerie Boulud
French
- International Baking Industry Expo 2025 · Winner: Baguette · World Bread Awards USA · Jeremy Canut
- Eater The Best Croissants in NYC
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Rank 17. Aretsky's Patroon
New American
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Rank 18. 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 19. Keens Steakhouse
Steakhouse
Dark paneled rooms and bow-tied waiters define this 1905 steakhouse where the mutton chop and porterhouse arrive with the weight of old New York still clinging to them. The wedge salad alone—blue cheese funk meeting fresh crunch and lardons—suggests a kitchen that understands restraint and satisfaction in equal measure.
- World's 101 Best #68 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Winner · Timeless U.S. Award
- Eater 2026 · The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC
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Rank 20. Aquavit
Swedish, Scandinavian, Tasting
Emma Bengtsson orchestrates a lean, contemporary vision of Nordic cooking in a sleek dining room where every detail—from the slate platters to the torched North Sea cod with mussel foam—reads as deliberate. Duck breast and compressed leg meat arrive tableside with beet jus; dessert might pivot to green apple and fennel with smoked crème fraîche. Precision and restraint feel like the point.
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Emma Bengtsson
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Rank 21. 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 22. Café Carmellini
Italian
Andrew Carmellini's fine-dining return occupies the Fifth Avenue Hotel with sapphire velvet booths and an open kitchen turning out Mediterranean-leaning dishes. A crab mille-feuille of delicate wafers and sweet meat in Meyer lemon sauce, or scallops in coconut-turmeric broth, suggest a chef working in layers of restraint and indulgence at once.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- 50 Best 2025 · #39 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Esquire 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 23. 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 24. Grand Brasserie
French
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Rank 25. 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 26. COTE
Korean
Simon Kim's steakhouse fuses Korean beef reverence with American steakhouse grandeur, its dark, moody dining room anchored by a visible aging room downstairs. Meats arrive raw for inspection before tableside grilling, their umami deepened by kimchi and ssamjang in a ritual that feels both ceremonial and convivial.
- World's 101 Best #21 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 27. Little Alley
Shanghai Chinese
Chef Yuchun Cheung's Shanghai cooking arrives unadorned at a narrow Murray Hill spot with dark wood and a front bar. Crispy eel offers impossible-to-resist sweetness and crunch; mapo tofu achieves a silken, custardy texture beneath its spice; stir-fried cauliflower snaps with numbing heat. Serious regional cooking that satisfies on appetizers alone.
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- 50 Best 2026 · #71 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Esquire 2023 · Cartagena · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 29. 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
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · United States' Best Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 30. The Grill
American
The dining room gleams with the burnished confidence of old money and new ambition. Crab cakes arrive topped with pan-fried potatoes; duck skin crackles under the knife, yielding to silky fat beneath. This is American comfort as theater—tableside ceremony, lemon chiffon cake—for those accustomed to getting what they want.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Steakhouses in New York City
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Rank 31. Utopia Bagels
NY-Style Bakery
- BagelUp #1 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 32. Elcielo
Colombian
Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos orchestrates a two-star tasting menu in the Virgin Hotel that channels tropical Colombia through dishes like shio koji duck with passion fruit sabayon. Floor-to-ceiling windows and theatrical touches—a bread tree, chocolate experience, coffee ceremony—transform the meal into something between fine dining and curated theater.
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Rank 33. 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 34. Cho Dang Gol
Homestyle Korean
In Koreatown's barbecue-heavy corridor, Cho Dang Gol pivots toward the rustic and comforting: silken tofu in bubbling stews, cod roe omelets, and a sautéed tofu trio that braids pork belly with sweet potato noodles and kimchi in a bright red pepper sauce. The wood tables are close and the room unadorned, built for eating, not posing.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation #8 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 35. Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
Contemporary
A grocery store conceals this intimate counter where Natmessnig and Prins orchestrate a rapid succession of refined small plates—delicate tarts, a scallop crowned with caviar in vin jaune, oysters in aguachile—from behind spotlit glass. The walnut bar leaves no room for kitchen theatrics to falter, only for precision to land.
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Rank 36. Tán
Mexican
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Brunch Venue
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Winner · North America's Best Brunch Venue
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · United States' Best Restaurant
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- VinePair 2025 · Drinks Professional of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Meaghan Dorman
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 38. Oceana
Modern Seafood
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Rank 39. Le Rock
Brasserie French
Dim Art Deco glamour at street level in Rockefeller Center, where the Frenchette team serves a brasserie menu of seafood platters, duck confit with lentils, and profiteroles glossed in buckwheat honey fudge with genuine French technique and tableside theatricality. The bar moves at a clip; the crowds haven't stopped.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Restaurateur · Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants in Midtown
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Rank 40. COQODAQ
Korean
A buzzy Korean fried chicken den where reservations vanish fast, rewarded with a theatrical bucket feast that unfolds through crisp rounds and finishes with frozen yogurt. The gluten-free bird stays clean and light despite its indulgent choreography, paired with an ambitious champagne list.
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality Management
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality
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Rank 43. The Lambs Club
Steakhouse
A limestone fireplace anchors black walls and scarlet booths in this Midtown steakhouse where power brokers gather before the theater district lights up. Dry-aged beef arrives with an arsenal of sauces, but the kitchen also excels at seared scallops in clam chowder broth and lamb saddle with chanterelles. Chrome and red leather conspire to make excess feel inevitable, even necessary.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square
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Rank 44. Per Se
Contemporary French
Thomas Keller's tasting menu unfolds with unhurried elegance in a soaring room overlooking Central Park, each course a precise study in seasonal restraint. The kitchen's confidence—evident in signatures like Oysters and Pearls—never overwhelms; service orchestrates the meal with quiet grace.
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Rank 45. Upland
California Mediterranean
Stephen Starr and Roman and Williams craft a bright, wood-floored brasserie where California cooking meets Mediterranean ingredients in understated elegance. Hand-cut beef tartare and roasted King salmon arrive with the precision of a chef who knows restraint.
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Rank 47. Le Jardinier
French
Chef Alain Verzeroli's dining room glows with olive velvet and trailing plants, a verdant setting that mirrors his vegetables-first approach to the plate. Grilled octopus arrives with green olives and romesco; salmon is coaxed with smoked chili and pak choi; the lemon tart carries a whisper of tarragon.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 49. Bazaar Meat by José Andrés
Steakhouse
Fire and theater collide at this steakhouse where the grill becomes performance and meat is both reverence and provocation. Dry-aged beef emerges from charcoal-fired ovens with smoke and precision, a menu that questions the cut as much as it honors it.
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Rank 50. Bagel Market
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 51. Grace Street
Korean
- Time Out #16 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- The Infatuation 9 Great Shaved Ice Spots In NYC
- The Infatuation The Best Asian Dessert Spots In NYC
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Rank 53. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 54. 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 · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 55. Izakaya Futago
Japanese
Lunch brings a crush of office workers chasing homemade soba in dashi, while dinner settles into a quieter rhythm of beer and sake with yakitori and spicy fried chicken. The soba totto gozen set and the various rice bowls—sea urchin, salmon roe, marinated tuna—justify the crowds either way.
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Rank 56. Caviar Russe
Contemporary French
A marble staircase ascends to this Madison Avenue perch where caviar—from modest Pacific Sturgeon to thousand-dollar Osetra tins—anchors a French-inflected menu of classical refinement. Agnolotti stuffed with chestnuts yields to truffle foam; Dover sole arrives delicately mousse-filled and dressed in curry cream. The experience traffics entirely in luxe.
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Rank 57. Lysée
Korean
- Food & Wine 2023 · Best New Chefs · Eunji Lee
- The New York Times 22 of the Best Bakeries Across the U.S. Right Now
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Eunji Lee
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 59. Daniel
French
Daniel Boulud's Upper East Side temple to French refinement has softened its formality with a welcoming red-carpet entrance and art-lined dining room. The kitchen's rigorously composed dishes and decades-loyal service staff remain uncompromising in their precision.
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- Wildsam The 50 Most Essential Bars in America
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Esquire 2024 · King Tusk · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 61. Little Ned
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 62. Le Veau d'Or
Classic French
Dark wood and red banquettes create a jewel-box intimacy where waiters glide between closely set tables as if conducting a ritual from 1937. Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr have restored this classic French bistro to its essentials—pâté en croûte, buttery poulet à l'estragon, warm chocolate gratin—with the confidence of men who know exactly what they're reviving.
- 50 Best 2025 · #10 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Restaurateur · Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr
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Rank 63. The Skylark
Rooftop Cocktail Bar
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Rank 64. Junoon
Indian
Pendant lights and white marble set a refined stage where contemporary Indian cooking meets restless ambition, each plate a small argument for why tradition needn't mean stillness. Tuna puchka arrives jeweled with caviar; the Assamese tile fish curry hums with cilantro and restraint.
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Rank 65. Hawksmoor
British
- Esquire 2023 · Ultimate Vodka Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 66. Stretch Pizza
NY-Style Pizza
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Rank 68. Koloman
Austrian/French
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Markus Glocker
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- Esquire 2022 · #21 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 69. Gallaghers
Steakhouse
A Midtown steakhouse since the late 1920s, Gallaghers grilss USDA Prime beef over hickory while its wood-paneled room hums with the rhythms of New York theatre-goers and regulars. Bone-in ribeyes arrive tender and charred; the dry-aged meat locker gleams behind glass like an artifact of steakhouse faith.
- World's 101 Best #87 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Steakhouses in New York City
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Rank 70. Hutong
Chinese
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Rank 71. Eli Zabar
Bakery
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Rank 72. Audace
Italian
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Rank 73. Café Boulud
Contemporary French
A corner room on the Upper East Side with Art Deco polish hosts classical French cooking refined through seasonal technique and global inflection. Black sea bass wrapped in potato, vegetables in delicate balance, a tarte Tatin that knows its purpose—Paumier's kitchen executes the fundamentals with quiet confidence.
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Rank 74. Tonchin
Tonkotsu Noodles
The tonkotsu broth here carries the weight of slow-cooked pork without the heaviness—clean, deeply flavored, and braced by house-made noodles with genuine spring. Gyoza arrive blistered and crackling; steamed buns hold juicy pork and chicken beneath bright vegetable crunch. A Tokyo chain that executes the fundamentals with precision.
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Rank 75. Shinji’s
Japanese
- VinePair 2024 · Bar Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #77 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 76. Jean‑Georges
French
Vongerichten's flagship overlooks Central Park with the confidence of a chef who has earned it. The egg toast with caviar arrives as prologue to a menu that pivots between French discipline and global improvisation—tomatillo with lemon verbena, black truffle with za'atar—each plate proposing a conversation between technique and audacity. This is cooking that knows what it is.
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Inside the Park South Hotel, Stone & Soil applies Japanese hospitality and zero-waste principles to cocktails, where a mezcal drink built on fermented pineapple—skin and all—tastes like restraint has never tasted so good.
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Rank 78. Atoboy
Korean
Chef Junghyun Park's Gramercy dining room is spare and bright, with an open kitchen where Korean cooking gets a creative push without losing its spine. Red shrimp in kimchi beurre blanc, fried chicken brined in pineapple and finished with ginger-peanut butter—the menu reads as both adventurous and fundamentally welcoming. It is a place that loves what it cooks.
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Rank 79. Bagels & Schmear
NY-Style Bakery
- Eater The Best Bagels in New York City
- BagelUp #24 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
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Rank 82. The Gallery
Japanese
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- The Infatuation The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- The Infatuation #15 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
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Rank 84. Beyond Sushi
Vegan Sushi
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Rank 86. Liberty Bagels
NY-Style Bakery
- BagelUp #8 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The Infatuation #2 · The 19 Best Bagels In NYC, Ranked
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 87. Best Bagel & Coffee
NY-Style Bakery
- BagelUp #29 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The Infatuation #11 · The 19 Best Bagels In NYC, Ranked
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 88. The View
American
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
- The New York Times 2025 · Chocolate Cake · Our New York Restaurant Critic Names Her Favorite Dishes This Year
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants in Midtown
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Rank 89. Lola's
Asian, Southern
Suzanne Cupps coaxes vegetables into unexpected eloquence across a menu that moves from naan to gumbo without apology or design—the confident cooking of someone equally at home in three culinary worlds. Her plates feel less like fusion than like the natural inheritance of a chef raised between the Philippines, Pennsylvania, and the American South.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Suzanne Cupps
- The New York Times 2026 · #71 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- The New York Times 2024 · New York’s 14 Best New Restaurants
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Rank 90. Four Twenty Five
Contemporary
Benno and Vongerichten's Park Avenue dining room floods with daylight and restraint, a glamorous stage for cooking that roams Italy, France, and Asia without apology. A foie gras arrives with blood orange and warm spiced madeleines; even asparagus reads as a statement, while the chocolate tart at meal's end—layered with black cardamom and tonka—justifies its prominence.
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 91. YingTao
Chinese
In a modest Hell's Kitchen corner, Chef Emily Yuen executes Chinese cuisine with both precision and playfulness. Wontons swim in broth, black cod rests on silken tofu with mala heat, and playful riffs on fried chicken offset delicate finales like coconut nian gao. The curved counter frames an open kitchen where ambition and restraint move in careful balance.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 92. Odo
Kaiseki Japanese
Behind a cocktail bar lies a hushed counter where Chef Hiroki Odo conducts kaiseki with precision and invention—a broth of tilefish brightened with yuzu, house-made soba studded with salmon roe. The service dissolves into the background, leaving only the clarity of carefully sourced ingredients and the subtle force of tradition meeting personal vision.
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Rank 93. Masa
Sushi
The roar of Columbus Circle dissolves into silence at a hinoki counter where Masa Takayama orchestrates omakase with balletic precision. Truffles and caviar accent each piece—foie gras nigiri, abalone so tender it dissolves—gestures that walk the edge between refinement and indulgence. It's an experience that feels less like dinner than ceremony.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 94. Veerays
Indian
A 1920s speakeasy clad in burgundy velvet and dark wood houses a menu of contemporary Indian cooking, where cocktails named for bootleggers sit alongside rogan josh—braised lamb shanks glossed with Kashmiri heat—and silken daal makhani. The kitsch is deliberate, the food genuine.
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Rank 95. HWARO
Korean
An unmarked counter on the second floor of a Midtown steakhouse, where Chef Sungchul Shim orchestrates a twenty-two-seat fusion of Korean flavor and French precision across a composed, unhurried evening. The brown butter miso opens into wild amberjack, abalone, and white soy custard with caviar, each plate a small study in restraint and technique.
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Rank 96. JUA
Modern Korean
Chef Hoyoung Kim orchestrates a modern Korean tasting menu in a sleek, high-ceilinged room near the Flatiron, where raw fluke from Jeju arrives in chilled spicy broth, branzino emerges with shattered skin, and wood-fired lamb speaks to exacting technique. Each course moves with purpose toward a glazed Korean donut and silky ice cream, the whole experience calibrated and unrushed.
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Rank 97. Midnight Blue
Japanese-ish
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Takuma Watanabe
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Takuma Watanabe
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Rank 99. Szechuan Gourmet
Sichuan Chinese
A Midtown institution that survived fire and emerged sharper, Szechuan Gourmet delivers the numbing heat of Sichuan peppercorns and chili oil with undiminished precision. Scallion pancakes arrive crispy, fish braises in silken bean curd, and the remodeled dining room finally matches the kitchen's ambitions.
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- Eater 2026 · The Best Steakhouses in New York City
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square