The Top 100 Restaurants Near Maison Premiere
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Rank 1. 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
- The Infatuation The Best Cocktail Bars in NYC
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Rank 2. 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 3. 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 4. Zaab Zaab
Isan Thai
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Bryan Chunton and Pei Shan Wei
- The New York Times 2026 · #38 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 5. L'industrie Pizzeria
New York-style Pizza
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #1 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 6. 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 7. Antica Pesa
Roman Italian
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Rank 8. Francie
Brasserie French
In a limestone-fronted South Williamsburg corner, exposed brick and widely spaced tables frame an open kitchen where the real theater unfolds. Conchiglie arrives glossy with clam sauce, bacon, and sesame breadcrumbs; roast duck is wheeled tableside whole before carving. This is brasserie cooking rendered with enough precision to justify the attention.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Chris Cipollone
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Rank 9. I Cavallini
Regional Italian
Chef Nick Curtola works in clean, unadorned lines at this neighborhood trattoria—braised beef tendons shaved thin with acidic onions, handmade pastas balanced with restraint, a tiramisu so light it seems to dissolve. The room invites lingering, and the cooking, rooted in regional tradition, knows the difference between simplicity and emptiness.
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Rank 10. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 11. Peter Luger Steak House
Steakhouse
Wood-paneled rooms fill with generations of regulars and newcomers ordering the Porterhouse, dry-aged and broiled until it sizzles, then finished with butter. Peter Luger trades in uncomplicated pleasures: bratwurst, creamed spinach, cheesecake with schlag—and the particular ease of a room where the servers know the rhythm. A steakhouse that feels less like a destination than a birthright.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vogue 2026 · The 25 Best Restaurants in Brooklyn, According to Vogue Staff
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A rum-focused cocktail bar in Williamsburg where daiquiris anchor a menu that pivots between spirit-forward drinks and seafood snacks like oysters with tepache mignonette. The operators, both seasoned in craft cocktail culture, have furnished the space with intention—everyday pricing, basement rum bar included—suggesting they built this for regulars, not tourists.
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Rank 13. Mesiba
Levantine Middle Eastern
Chef Eli Buliskeria's Levantine cooking honors a sprawling regional cuisine with precision—crispy whole striped bass, charred-onion kreplach, properly executed falafel—in a sleek, minimalist dining room that channels Tel Aviv. The lively ground-floor space at the Moxy hotel crackles with the kind of appetite and noise that makes eating here feel like an event, not an obligation.
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Rank 14. Sunday in Brooklyn
American
A second-floor dining room of palms and whitewash sits above the rustic bar, where on-site baking and unhurried lingers define the rhythm. The signature skillet pancake—fluffy, topped with hazelnut-maple praline—arrives with brown butter and syrup; crusty sourdough with creamy beer butter follows naturally into the day.
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Rank 15. La Superior
Mexico City-Style Mexican
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Rank 17. Joe's Pizza
NY-Style Pizza
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Rank 18. Fette Sau
Central Texas Barbecue
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Rank 19. Meadowsweet
Mediterranean
Meadowsweet sits in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge behind glass and whitewashed brick, where a steady crowd gathers for nimble, reasonably priced cooking. The kitchen moves from crispy baby artichokes to spiced duck with corn polenta with equal grace, served in a room that feels both urbane and welcoming.
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Rank 21. Kellogg's Diner
Retro American
- Eater 2026 · Where to Eat Brunch in New York City
- Eater The Best Breakfasts in New York
- The New York Times 2024 · Passion Fruit Tajín Icebox Pie · Here Are Our Top New York Dishes
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Rank 26. 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 27. 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 28. Shalom Japan
Jewish fusion Japanese
A narrow South Williamsburg kitchen steers between Japanese and Ashkenazi traditions with casual precision, marrying matzoh ball ramen and lox bowls studded with avocado and pickles. Wagyu pastrami on caraway shokupan and toro tartare over sake-kasu challah suggest a chef thinking in flavors rather than categories.
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Rank 29. Lamonte
European
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- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
- Vogue 2026 · The 25 Best Restaurants in Brooklyn, According to Vogue Staff
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Rank 32. Taqueria Ramirez
Mexican
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 33. Salsa Pizza Napoletana & Street Food
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 34. 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 35. K'Far
Israeli Middle Eastern
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Rank 36. 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 37. 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 38. Mable's Smokehouse
Central Texas-Style Barbecue
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Rank 40. Bamonte's
Red-Sauce Italian
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Rank 41. 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
- Roadbook The best restaurants in Greenpoint, New York
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Rank 43. Win Son Bakery
Taiwanese-American Bakery
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Rank 44. Rose Marie
Southern New American
Rose Marie trades Yellow Rose's structured Tex-Mex for a looser, rustically charmed contemporary American menu with Southern edges. Saltine-crusted fish and a bacon-laden patty melt justify lingering over cocktails in this Williamsburg sibling's freeform groove.
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Rank 45. 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 47. 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 48. 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 49. 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 50. Border Town
Mexican
- The Infatuation The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- Eater 2026 · The Best New Restaurants in Brooklyn Right Now
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Rank 52. Le Crocodile
French
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Rank 53. 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 54. Ensenada
Seafood Mexican
- Bon Appétit 2023 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Luis Herrera
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Rank 55. Fortunato Brothers
Italian Bakery
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Rank 57. Ammazzacaffè
Italian
A spare, welcoming Italian trattoria where a handsome wood bar and garden patio set the stage for seasonal pastas and grilled fish. The ondine—shrimp in tomato sauce—and branzino with roasted grapes arrive with the precision of a kitchen that understands restraint.
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Rank 62. House
French/Japanese
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Rank 63. Ernesto’s
Basque Spanish
Ernesto's pairs sleek midcentury-modern design with Basque cooking that transforms humble ingredients—tripe, squid, jamón—into silken, communal pleasures. The wine list mines small organic Spanish producers with the devotion of an archaeologist, matching the restaurant's electric, perpetually crowded dining room.
- USA Today 2024 · Restaurants of the Year
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 64. Win Son
Taiwanese Chinese
A light-filled room of blonde wood and exposed brick channels bodega warmth through a modern lens, serving Taiwanese dishes with unfussy confidence. The briny clams in Shaoxing wine, the pillowy bao, the chewy zha jiang mian with lamb and Sichuan heat—each arrives without pretense, meant to be eaten.
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Rank 65. Frijoleros
Mexican
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Rank 66. Casa Ora
Venezuelan
Isbelis Diaz and her son cook Venezuelan food in a Williamsburg room lined with ceramics by a Caracas artisan, their tequenos crackling and their asado negro braised until it dissolves. The staff moves with genuine warmth, and a plate of sweet plantains with cheese and crema feels like a benediction.
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Rank 67. Tuome
Fusion
Chef Thomas Chen orchestrates an Asian-inflected menu where classical technique meets ingredient surprise—seared octopus crowned with pork XO sauce, lamb chops medium-rare beneath shishito chimichurri and onion soubise. The intimate room glows softly around a backlit bar; service moves with easy knowledge. A meal here feels like conversation between a skilled hand and your palate.
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Rank 68. Sunn’s
Korean
At Sunn's, Chef Sunny Lee elevates banchan from supporting cast to main event, producing six daily small plates that bend Korean tradition toward France and Italy in a kitchen barely larger than a closet. Crushed olives tangle with eggplant namul; hot mustard stands in for Dijon—stubbornly original gestures in a room that refuses to apologize for its ambitions.
- Food & Wine 2025 · Sunn’s Salad · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Sunny Lee
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 69. 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 70. arthur
American
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Rank 71. Lise & Vito
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 72. Russ & Daughters
Jewish
- BagelUp #4 · 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 73. 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
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
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The bartenders at this East Village cocktail bar build drinks around smoke and spice—charred pears, banana-infused vodka, saffron-touched cold brew—with small plates anchoring the experience. It's the kind of place where technique and ingredient play feels earned rather than performed.
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Rank 75. Ivan Ramen
Japanese Noodles
Ivan Orkin's Lower East Side counter serves ramen built on meticulous technique and playful New York inflections: pastrami buns stuffed with cured beef, tsukemen where thick noodles meet rich pork broth and sardine vinegar. The room hums with casual energy, the menu rewards curiosity, and every bowl reflects a chef who understands both tradition and where he is.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
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Rank 76. Corima
Mexican
Chef Fidel Caballero's cooking on Allen Street charts an uncompromising path through Mexican tradition, whether from the kitchen counter or the boisterous dining room. Sourdough tortillas made with Sonoran wheat and chicken fat arrive with recado negro butter—a detail that suggests the ambition threading through every plate.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #36 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Fidel Caballero
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Rank 77. Una Pizza Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizza
Anthony Mangieri tends his wood-burning oven with monastic focus, yielding pies whose charred, papery crusts justify the reservation scramble. Nothing else matters here—no appetizers, no elaborate toppings, just Neapolitan geometry and restraint.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #1 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater 2026 · The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 78. Fulgurances Laundromat
Experimental French
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Rank 79. Paulie Gee's
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 80. Di An Di
Vietnamese Noodles
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Rank 81. Ha's Snack Bar
Wine Bar
At Ha's, a sliver of a room on Broome Street where stools outnumber tables, the menu pivots nightly between French toast and Vietnamese gestures, untethered to anything but appetite. The eggs mayo—spiked with Maggi, studded with trout roe—suggests the kitchen knows something about restraint and flavor that most restaurants have forgotten.
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha
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Rank 82. Dhamaka
Indian
A rousing Indian restaurant tucked into Essex Market that embraces heat, offal, and rustic preparation without apology—goat belly smoked in cedar, mutton stewed in clay with charred garlic and chili oil, crab butter-fried and spooned over rice. Small tables demand you share, which is precisely the point.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times 2026 · #66 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- Eater The Best Lower East Side Restaurants
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Rank 83. Sami & Susu
Mediterranean Wine Bar
A sliver of a room on Orchard Street where a kitchen without a proper gas stove produces seasonal Middle Eastern cooking of remarkable clarity. Half-roasted harissa over tzatziki and lamb ragu with house-made spätzle demonstrate an elegant restraint, while the natural wine list and irreverent staff encourage the kind of uninhibited eating that feels increasingly rare.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 84. Russ & Daughters
American
The counter gleams beneath white-jacketed servers at this Lower East Side institution, where appetizing traditions meet contemporary technique. Scottish smoked salmon arrives with everything-bagel chips; babka French toast balances chocolate and fruit with textural precision. A place that honors its heritage while refusing nostalgia.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- BagelUp #4 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- Eater 2026 · The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC
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Rank 85. Scarr’s Pizza
NY-Style Pizza
A narrow storefront on Orchard Street where flour ground in the basement becomes dough for both round and square pies sold by the slice. Scarr's elevated the slice shop—not through pretension, but through the kind of ingredient discipline that makes a line of people worthwhile.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #13 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Scarr Pimentel
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 86. 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 87. Kisa
Korean
At this deliberately unglamorous Korean diner styled after a Seoul cabby's canteen, the set meals arrive in a precarious stack of small bowls and plates, each main course bluntly satisfying in its restraint. The menu offers little choice, but the giddy abundance—and occasional mediocrity—of the banchan feels like part of the point.
- Eater 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Eater Best New Restaurant
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Rank 89. Wu's Wonton King
Cantonese Chinese
Wu's operates as a modern version of the traditional Cantonese coffee shop, its wonton soup and congee anchoring a menu that expands into stir-fries and whole fish with equal confidence. The Essex and East Broadway corner has become a gathering spot for group celebrations, where the BYOB policy and generous portions make it feel like an extension of someone's living room.
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
- Eater The Best Lower East Side Restaurants
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- Eater The Best Breakfasts in New York
- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
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Rank 92. 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
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 93. Russ & Daughters
Jewish
- BagelUp #4 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- Time Out The 18 best bagels in NYC
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 94. YongChuan
Ningbo/Szechuan
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Rank 95. Avant Garden
Vegetarian
A treehouse-like dining room on the second floor of an East Village walk-up, where the chef pursues vegan cooking with genuine craft. Crispy sushi rice topped with carrot and avocado, artichoke toast studded with truffled potato chips—each plate arrives composed and confident. The menu occasionally overreaches for global reference points, but the cooking itself earns its own voice.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ravi DeRossi - Overthrow Hospitality
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 96. Cervo's
Iberian Seafood
A mosaic-tiled galley on Canal Street where Spanish and Portuguese seafood traditions collide at high volume. The kitchen doesn't shy from flavor: a pea shoot salad spiked with hazelnuts and cracked pepper, seabream with crisp skin and sweet peppers. Everyone sits close, nobody minds.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation #24 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 98. 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 99. Katz's Delicatessen
Eastern European
A sprawling, unruly institution where the chaos is half the charm: order a ticket at the door, claim your pastrami sandwich and matzo ball soup at the counter, and navigate the crowded tables alongside tourists, locals, and the occasional film crew. Nothing has been updated since the mid-century, and nothing needs to be—the food tastes like the idea of New York itself.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation Pastrami Sandwich · 25 Iconic Dishes That Define New York
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Rank 100. 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