The Top 100 Restaurants Near Adel's Famous Halal Food
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Rank 1. 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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Michael Schulson's sprawling izakaya across from Rockefeller Center manages the difficult feat of serving 350 people without sacrificing the counter's immediacy. Sushi, robatayaki, wagyu, and broiled bass move with equal authority across the bi-level room, each done with the confidence of a place that has earned its size.
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Rank 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. Adel's Famous Halal Food
Middle Eastern
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Rank 7. 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 8. 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 9. 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 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality Management
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Rank 10. 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 11. 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 12. The Gallery
Japanese
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Rank 13. 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 2026 · #4 · 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 14. Thyme
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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 · Pastry Chef of the Year · Emiko Chisholm
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Rank 18. 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 19. Anixi
Vegan Mediterranean
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Rank 20. Oiji Mi
Korean
Brian Kim's modern Korean kitchen operates with uncommon restraint, letting the quality of striped jack hwe and tender lobster ramyun speak for themselves across five courses. The sleek dining room hums with attentive service; cocktails and wine arrive with equal intelligence. A place where technique and subtlety have displaced bombast.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Esquire 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Esquire 2023 · Martini Royale · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 21. Okonomi YUJI Ramen
Japanese
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Rank 23. Hill Country
Central Texas Barbecue
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Rank 24. 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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- The Infatuation The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- The Infatuation #15 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
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Rank 26. Via Carota
Italian
A West Village trattoria where rustic Italian cooking—charred vegetables, silken pasta, snow of Parmigiano—arrives with such seeming ease that you simply sit back and savor the meal. The wait stretches hours, the tables fill nightly, yet the food's unpretentious grace justifies the hunger.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- 50 Best 2025 · #18 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 27. 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 28. 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 29. Il Fiorista
Contemporary Italian
Alessandra and Mario De Benedetti's flower shop doubles as a dining room where nasturtium and hibiscus edge into both cocktails and plates—lotus root crisped with pine pollen, campanelle in white Bolognese, broiled salmon over fennel and cauliflower. The décor is vivid and springlike, but the cooking is what blooms.
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Rank 30. Semma
Indian
Vijay Kumar's south Indian cooking at Semma arrives without apology or accommodation: mulaikattiya thaniyam crackles with the intensity of childhood memory, gunpowder dosa achieves an almost austere perfection, and lamb curry unfolds in layers of warm spice. The heat here is architectural, never decorative, and the staff navigates you through unfamiliar terrain with genuine enthusiasm.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: New York State · Vijay Kumar
- The New York Times 2026 · #9 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 31. 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 32. hakubai
Japanese
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Rank 33. Penny
Seafood
Marble counters run the length of the space, stacked with Champagne and white wine on ice. The kitchen celebrates pristine seafood—razor clams with giardiniera, stuffed squid with harissa, Dover sole in bordelaise—each dish dressed with restraint and precision. Arrive early; most seats hold walk-ins.
- 50 Best 2025 · #40 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Food & Wine 2025 · The Top 15 US Restaurants
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 34. Family Meal at Blue Hill
New American
An intimate dining room where Dan Barber lets vegetables—sourced from his Stone Barns farm upstate—speak for themselves with minimal intervention. The single seasonal menu arrives family-style, grains and occasional proteins orbiting the produce, each plate marked by restraint and confidence in its raw material. Eating here feels like witnessing a cook who trusts what he grows enough to step back.
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Rank 35. Kanyakumari
Indian
A compact south Indian seafood kitchen with a bar-forward buzz, where bold regional cooking—fried chicken, tender beef short rib with curry leaves—delivers genuine depth. The fish curry and ghee rice show restraint and care alongside the kitchen's louder pleasures.
- Eater Sleeper Hit
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 36. BONDST
Japanese-Inspired
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Rank 37. Audace
Italian
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Rank 38. Mama's Too
Sicilian Pizza
- Time Out The Cacio e Pepe · The 18 best pizzas in the world right now
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #4 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 39. Café Chelsea
French
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Rank 40. LenLen
Thai
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Rank 41. Ulivo
Regional Italian
Emanuel Concas runs this trattoria like a masterclass in regional Italian cooking, where house-made pastas—cannelloni al forno layered with short rib ragú—sit beside wood-fired dishes that reveal his Sardinian heritage, notably bottarga shaved over pici and seadas, the cheese fritter finished with honey. A meal here reads as deliberate and rooted, each plate a statement rather than a flourish.
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Rank 42. 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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Basque fire and Manhattan pace collide in this High Line steakhouse, where an imported Spanish oven and charcoal grill handle American beef and Iberian pork with disciplined precision. The 60-day aged Txuleton and confident sommelier-guided wine list reflect a kitchen that trusts its ingredients to speak plainly.
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Rank 44. Markette
European-influenced Caribbean
Mirrored walls and recessed lighting frame Chef India Doris's tightly edited menu at this Chelsea spot, where Caribbean and European sensibilities meet in salt cod fritters with habanero bite and braised oxtail topped with cheddar polenta—comfort elevated without pretense. A cocktail bar hums alongside.
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Rank 45. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 46. abcV
Vegetarian
Nestled within ABC Carpet & Home, this vegetarian restaurant pairs minimalist design—mismatched chandeliers, bright pops of color—with menus that blur the line between nourishment and refinement. An egg and cheese dosa arrives beside bergamot-scented spaghetti with rainbow chard, dishes that prove vegetables need no apology.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times 2026 · #48 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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- Food & Wine 2023 · S&P Burger · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- Eater The Best Breakfasts in New York
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Rank 48. Casa Mono
Spanish
At Casa Mono, a small room on Irving Place, the kitchen breaks down whole animals and sends out tapas in a considered rhythm—scrambled eggs with uni, silky confit goat—that prioritizes the diner's experience over operational efficiency. The cooking reaches beyond its nominal Costa Brava roots with a refinement that suggests someone genuinely understands what good food is supposed to do.
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Rank 50. Ci Siamo
Wood-fired Italian
A busy, efficient Italian kitchen tucked into Manhattan West glows with the confidence of Union Square Hospitality Group—handsome bar, open fire, large windows—and chef Hillary Sterling's caramelized onion torta alone justifies the trip. Generously rich pastas and a closing lemon torta with mascarpone suggest a restaurant built for sharing and return visits.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Hillary Sterling
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Hillary Sterling
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Hillary Sterling
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Rank 51. Don Angie
Creative Italian
Moody banquettes and brass accents frame a room where Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli orchestrate playful collisions: spicy pepperoni fried rice meets grilled calamari, paprika pasta wraps smoked mussels, mezcal braised chicken sits atop 'nduja. The cooking moves fluidly between Italian foundations and Asian detours, never settling into a single accent, which is precisely the point.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli
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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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A Chelsea bar where Spanish and Portuguese sensibilities meet in a glass: conservas and cocktails designed around unexpected ingredients like lemongrass liqueur and cava. The Seirēn Song Spritz arrives with tinned fish and tapas, a model of casual sophistication that doesn't announce itself.
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Rank 54. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 55. Osteria 57
Seafood Italian
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Rank 56. Hav & Mar
Ethiopian
At a spare corner on Eleventh Avenue, Chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Fariyal Abdullahi honor Ethiopian and Swedish ancestry through restrained plating and cross-cultural ingredient work. The Swediopian—berbere-cured salmon layered with apple, mustard seed caviar, and injera chips—distills their approach into a single, assured dish.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Fariyal Abdullahi
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Fariyal Abdullahi
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Fariyal Abdullahi
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Rank 57. Txikito
Basque Spanish
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- The New York Times 2026 · #64 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 58. Shukette
Middle Eastern
At Shukette, the dips and breads arrive in a shock of color—bubbled frena, balloon-puffed pita, a table groaning with vegetables and fiery sauces—and you're sated before the mains appear. It is a place where everything tastes slicked, garlicked, alive.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Ayesha Nurdjaja
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Ayesha Nurdjaja
- The New York Times 2026 · #69 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 60. Claud
French-inflected New American
A few steps below street level, Claud glows with whitewashed brick and dark tile, its open kitchen framing an ingredient-focused menu of shared plates. Red shrimp sizzle in garlic oil, pork chops arrive with smoked onion jus, and a six-layer Devil's food cake demands a second spoon.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Joshua Pinsky
- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 61. Crane Club Restaurant
Steakhouse
The soaring scarlet curtains and banquette-lined room announce ambition before you sit. Chef Melissa Rodriguez's steaks emerge charred from a custom grill; the squash tortellini and vegetable sides compete for attention. Desserts—banana farro cake with guava jam, apple croissant crumble with malted oat gelato—elevate what steakhouse sweets typically achieve.
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 62. Ribalta
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 63. Wooga
BBQ Korean
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Rank 64. Mark's Off Madison
Old-School Bakery
- BagelUp #15 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- Esquire 2021 · #35 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 65. Bánh Anh Em
Vietnamese
People queue before this Third Avenue spot opens, drawn by Vietnamese cooking that repays the wait. The baguettes for bánh mì arrive warm and flaky; the pho layers brisket, tendon, tripe and steak over housemade noodles. Bánh cuốn and bánh xèo follow—dishes that taste like they've been perfected across decades, not invented last season.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation #20 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 66. Bartolo
Spanish
A West Village room of low beams and amber light draws you into its sense of intimate theater. Bartolo builds its kitchen around generous Spanish cooking meant for the table: grilled Iberian pork, braised oxtail, cristal bread with anchovies, ajo blanco touched with honeydew sorbet. The operation moves with the precision of a room that understands how to sustain a mood.
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Rank 67. Beyond Sushi
Vegan Sushi
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Rank 68. Massara
Southern Italian
The Flatiron outpost of Chef Stefano Secchi channels Campania through shared plates and house-made pasta, the true centerpiece here. Cold noodles arrive dressed in tomato purée and crowned with raw shrimp and uni; delicate raviolini cradle burrata imported from the region itself. Cooking this precise and playful suggests a kitchen confident in the pleasures of restraint.
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Rank 69. Shmoné
Neo-Levantine Mediterranean
A narrow Greenwich Village room where diners crowd the counter to watch Chef Eyal Shani work through seasonal Levantine cooking. Towering salads, hot Jerusalem bagels finished with olive oil, and bone-in beef short ribs with an almost austere tenderness define a menu built on vegetables and shareability rather than flourish.
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Rank 70. Russ & Daughters
Jewish
- BagelUp #4 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- Eater The Best Breakfasts in New York
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 71. Kappo Sono
Kaiseki Japanese
Chef Chikara Sono works a few feet from your seat, presenting each course as it emerges, asking nothing but your presence and appetite. The restraint of kaiseki—seasonal precision, ingredient clarity, flavors that murmur rather than announce—becomes almost conversational at this sixth-floor counter.
- The New York Times 2026 · #24 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- The New York Times 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in New York
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Rank 72. 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 73. Che Li
Shanghainese Chinese
The narrow dining room at Che Li glows with red lanterns and imperial detail, perpetually crowded with diners working through a Shanghainese menu of chicken in Shaoxing wine and stir-fried rice cakes. The house fish stew—a Sichuan-inflected departure—arrives as a bracing, peppercorn-laden argument for asking your server what's worth eating.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
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Rank 74. Pastis
French
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Rank 75. HanGawi
vegetarian Korean
Beyond a modest storefront on 32nd Street, a shoes-off sanctuary of low tables and meditative quiet. The vegetarian ssam bap arrives as a long platter—sesame leaves, avocado, bean sprouts, pickled vegetables, three rice options—each wrap a textured conversation between you and the food. HanGawi operates less as restaurant than as deliberate pause.
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Rank 76. Portale
Contemporary Italian
A former carriage house on a hidden Chelsea walkway holds Alfred Portale's refined Italian dining room, where whitewashed brick and wood floors frame contemporary Mediterranean cooking. The agnolotti—ricotta pockets swimming in lamb ragù—and the precisely arranged salmon with roasted vegetables and olive vinaigrette show a kitchen that treats restraint as ambition.
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Rank 77. Bangkok Supper Club
Contemporary Thai
Chef Max Wittawat's contemporary Thai kitchen draws from family recipes with exacting technique, turning simple ingredients into dramatic contrasts—the fiery scallop ceviche with watermelon chili granita, deep-fried pork cheeks over garlic rice—while the cocktail program receives equal care. A chic room for a refined evening built on impeccable execution.
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 78. L’industrie Pizzeria
NY-Style Pizza
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #1 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 79. La Dong
Vietnamese
A Colonial-inflected dining room of wooden arches and lotus lamps sets the stage for Vietnamese cooking that moves beyond the usual suspects. The turmeric crepe arrives clever and plump with shrimp; the pho, enriched with Miyazaki wagyu and poured tableside, justifies the pilgrimage to Union Square.
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Rank 80. 4 Charles Prime Rib
Steakhouse
A Chicago steakhouse improbably tucked into a Village townhouse, where the prime rib arrives three ways and the sides—creamed spinach, roasted garlic, buttered potatoes—arrive as they should. The staff trades in genuine warmth, and the wine list extends beyond meat; dessert is dark chocolate pie in an Oreo crust. Sodikoff's restraint is the point.
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Rank 81. 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 82. Le B.
French
Angie Mar's Greenwich Village salon wraps diners in sapphire velvet and white linen for a French kitchen inflected with her Chinese sensibility. Terrines glistening with pistachio and kumquat, foie gras, seafood Wellington dressed in Sauternes cream—the sauces are rich and considered, the whole affair pitched toward occasion and intimacy.
- Esquire 2023 · Bemelman at the Ritz · The Best Martinis in America
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Angie Mar
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 83. Kyma
Greek
Kyma transports you to the Ionian Sea through whitewashed walls and candlelight, where a parade of warm spreads—feta, hummus, taramasalata—arrives before the meal proper begins. Calamari stuffed with four cheeses, whole lavraki, and halloumi fries dusted gold suggest a kitchen devoted to elemental Mediterranean cooking, each plate arriving with unhurried confidence.
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Rank 84. 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 85. 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
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The Eighty Six occupies a former speakeasy on Bedford Street, where heritage and precision converge around beef sourced from small producers and heritage breeds rarely found in America. Dry-aged in a salt-lined room below the bar, each steak is cooked by method—broiler, plancha, or binchōtan—chosen to honor the animal's character rather than convenience.
- World's 101 Best #12 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Eater 2026 · The Best Steakhouses in New York City
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Rank 88. 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 89. Seoul Salon
Korean
A Koreatown warehouse done up like an adult playground—gunmetal grey, neon-lit—where Korean rice cakes meet stracciatella and shrimp arrive battered and golden alongside cheese. The mala pork belly is bewilderingly delicious, while the bar works peanut butter and passionfruit into something worth ordering twice. Playful without being precious.
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Rank 90. 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
- The Infatuation 2025 · #7 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
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Rank 91. NORMA Gastronomia Siciliana
Sicilian Italian
The arancini here—golden-crusted spheres of ragù, mozzarella, and chicken-stock rice—arrive in tomato sauce as a corrective to every flattened version you've eaten elsewhere. Rustic crackle-glazed platters line the walls, the menu unfolds with Sicilian authenticity, and a small retail section tempts you toward specialty ingredients on your way out.
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Rank 92. Novitá
Italian
A golden room with low ceilings holds the comfortable rhythm of a neighborhood institution. Novitá trades novelty for clarity—warm calamari with lemony avocado, tagliolini Bolognese—and the kitchen's unhurried confidence mirrors the Italian warmth of service. It is the kind of place where the coziness feels earned.
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Rank 93. Loring Place
Californian New American
At Loring Place, Dan Kluger applies his restless intelligence to California-inflected cooking that pivots on vegetables—wood-grilled broccoli arrives with orange and pistachios, pizzas emerge from the wood oven built from house-milled flour. The dining room, all mid-century geometry and bold stripes, feels like a deliberate rejection of downtown's usual theatrical clutter.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Dan Kluger
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 94. Dons Bogam
Korean
At Dons Bogam, table-side grills and attentive service create the illusion of indulgence without the smoke. Pork belly glazed in red wine arrives supremely tender; the beef platter pairs thinly sliced galbi with meaty king trumpet mushrooms. A vented room and cheerful bar make this Koreatown spot feel less like a casual barbecue joint and more like a deliberate occasion.
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Rank 95. El Quijote
Spanish
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Rank 96. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 97. Hyun
Korean
Hyun approaches Korean barbecue as an exercise in restraint and luxury, its dark-wood rooms hushed and devoted entirely to tableside-grilled Japanese A5 Wagyu butchered in-house. The twelve-piece tasting moves from beef to bulgogi, each slice balanced by house-made kimchi and crispy scallion, a study in unctuous pleasure tempered by vinegar and char.
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Chinese Fusion Korean
At New York's oldest Korean barbecue house, Chef Segeun Song steers toward Korean-Chinese fusion: beef tangsuyuk, cumin pork ribs, and dumplings that justify their workshop status—particularly the pork and Thai chili soup dumplings crowned with caviar. The Jangs have kept the place alive through decades by refusing to stand still.