The Top 100 Restaurants Near Pasta Shop
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Rank 1. Pasta Shop
Italian
- USA Today 2026 · Restaurants of the Year
- NJ.com 2025 · #17 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
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Rank 2. Il Capriccio Ristorante
Italian
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Rank 3. Shan Shan Noodles
Hand-Pulled Noodles
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Rank 5. Restaurant Serenade
French
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Rank 6. Lu Nello
Italian
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Rank 7. Sapodilla Restaurant
Bahamian Caribbean
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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best New Hotel Restaurant
- NJ.com 2025 · #10 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Caribbean's Best Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Bahamas' Best Restaurant
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Rank 12. Costa at Rosewood
Mexican-Influenced
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Rank 13. Cheng Du 23
Szechuan Chinese
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Rank 14. Al-Basha
Palestinian Middle Eastern
- USA Today 2024 · Restaurants of the Year
- NJ.com 2025 · #4 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
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Rank 16. Beyond Pita
Middle Eastern
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Rank 18. The Star Tavern
Italian-American Pizza
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Rank 20. pastaRAMEN
Italian Noodles
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Rank 21. Bivio Pizza Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 23. Tops Diner
Global-American
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Rank 26. Crabbae
Cajun & Creole
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Rank 28. Afro Taco
Fusion
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Rank 29. Fornos of Spain
Spanish Steakhouse
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Rank 30. Varka Estiatorio
Mediterranean Seafood
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Rank 32. Valenca Restaurant
Portuguese Steakhouse
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Rank 33. Korai Kitchen
Bangladeshi Indian
- The New York Times 2025 · Lau Chingri · The Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Nur-E Gulshan Rahman
- NJ.com 2025 · #1 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
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- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #12 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- NJ.com 2025 · #5 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Dan Richer
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Rank 37. 15 Fox Place
Italian
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Rank 38. Peck Peck Korean Fried Chicken
Fried Chicken Korean
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Rank 39. 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 40. Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi
Pan-African
At Lincoln Center, Tatiana commands a room of dark wood and deliberate glamour where the pre-theater crowd mingles with the curious; Chef Kwame Onwuachi's West African-inflected menu—egusi dumplings, a towering pot of braised oxtail—reads like an edible autobiography, grounded and generous.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
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Rank 41. 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 42. 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 44. Essential By Christophe
Contemporary French
Heavy iron doors open onto a sleek townhouse dining room where chef Christophe Bellanca marries French technique with Asian inflection—white asparagus with bergamot crème and herb vinaigrette, blue prawns with genmaicha tuille, black sea bass gilded in turmeric. The space hums with quiet confidence.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Christophe Bellanca
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Rank 45. BONDST
Japanese-Inspired
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Rank 46. 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 47. 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 49. Frenchette
French
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Restaurateur · Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 50. La Devozione
Pasta Italian
Inside Chelsea Market, a century-old Italian pasta maker has opened a counter restaurant where thirty diners at a time face an avalanche of shapes and sizes—manicotti packed with sole and brown butter, penne tangled with rabbit, each plate arriving without restraint or pretense. It's a tasting menu built on the premise that pasta, made well and served generously, needs no apology.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #16 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 51. 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 52. Marea
Seafood Italian
Central Park South's power crowd gathers in an airy rosewood dining room where the scene matches the ambition. Marea's seafood-focused Italian menu builds from raw fish—branzino scattered with pistachio and crispy garlic—through handmade pastas and delicate desserts that justify the elegance around you.
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Rank 53. 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 54. 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 55. 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 57. 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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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 59. Cove
Contemporary
Flynn McGarry's Hudson Square dining room rises with soaring wood ceilings and an open kitchen in constant flux. Seasonal cooking drawn from the team's Long Island farm—grilled black cod with mushroom rice, pumpkin schnitzel, huckleberry semifreddo—strikes a balance between playful invention and genuine restraint, flavors always in service to the plate rather than the other way around.
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Rank 60. 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 Steakhouses in New York City
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Rank 61. 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 62. 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 63. Bamboo Grill
Filipino
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Rank 64. El Ranchero Taqueria
Mexican
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Rank 65. 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 66. Le Chêne
French
In a cramped West Village room where every plate draws eyes, the Duchênes execute classical French cooking with precision and weight—their pithivier a study in bronze-skinned architecture, their sauces (vin jaune, foie gras terrines) built on substance rather than whimsy. A curved bar absorbs walk-ins while a serious, deep wine list rewards those who linger.
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Rank 67. 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 69. 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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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 71. Kiko
Mexican
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Punch 2025 · Nashi Highball · Our Favorite Cocktails
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Rank 72. 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 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Hillary Sterling
- James Beard Awards 2023 · 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 73. Le Coucou
French
A jewel-box dining room where Chef Daniel Rose interprets French classics with theatrical flair: pike mousse quenelles swim in lobster sauce, lamb arrives blushing pink with braised neck and spring carrots, and Chartreuse-spiked crème brûlée proves desserts need not whisper. The open kitchen glows at the center; the crowd, impeccably turned out, provides its own entertainment.
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Rank 74. 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 75. Scalini Fedeli
French/Italian
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Rank 76. 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 77. Chalong
Southern Thai
A narrow Hell's Kitchen counter lined with dark wood and rattan fixtures draws the pre-show crowd for Southern Thai shared plates. The kitchen moves confidently through curries and noodles, but the real argument is between the coconut-crusted shrimp and the garlic-braised ribs—both best followed by mango sticky rice with coconut ice cream, a dessert that justifies skipping the appetizers.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Nate Limwong
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square
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Rank 78. 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 79. The Leopard at des Artistes
Traditional Italian
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Rank 80. 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 81. Pastis
French
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Rank 82. Osteria 57
Seafood Italian
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Rank 83. 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 84. Don Antonio
Neapolitan Pizza
A wood-fired outpost of a Neapolitan institution, Don Antonio channels four generations of pizza-making into dishes like the Montanara Starita—fried dough topped with house tomato sauce, smoked mozzarella, and basil—and frittatine, where fried spaghetti scraps meet ham and Buffalo mozzarella. The kitchen's lineage shows in every char and fold.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #7 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The Best Restaurants Around Times Square
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Rank 85. 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 86. Oceana
Modern Seafood
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Rank 87. The Gallery
Japanese
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Rank 89. Anixi
Vegan Mediterranean
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Rank 91. American Cut
Modern American Steakhouse
In a Tribeca dining room lit like a film noir, American Cut stages the steakhouse as contemporary theater without sacrificing the seriousness of meat—dry-aged beef and Japanese Wagyu cooked over high heat with enough discipline to deliver crust and clarity. The kitchen's conviction about its craft sustains the glamour, though the service sometimes falters beneath the ambition.
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Rank 92. Jeju Noodle Bar
Korean Noodles
At the counter of this Greenwich Street noodle bar, you watch the kitchen execute a brief menu of boldly flavored dishes—spicy plum-dressed cucumber kimchi, gochu ramyun perfumed with pork bone broth—at prices that feel like discovery. The toro ssam bap, with its fatty fish and tobiko nestled against scrambled egg, arrives as a small argument for restraint and clarity in cooking.
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Rank 93. Nobu Downtown
Peruvian Japanese
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Rank 94. 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 95. Tamarind
Indian
The marble bar catches light like a jewel in this Tribeca dining room, where soaring ceilings and classical proportions announce themselves without apology. Tandoori prawns arrive with char and smoke, while chana pindi and malai naan demonstrate how refinement needn't abandon warmth. A restaurant that treats Indian cooking as occasion worthy of grandeur.
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Rank 97. L’abeille
French
A velvet-lined corner in TriBeCa where Chef Mitsunobu Nagae reconciles French technique with Japanese restraint—Dover sole in seaweed butter, langoustine with orange blossom foam, each plate composed with austere elegance. The marble bar and Christofle silver catch the light while servers in fitted suits move with balletic precision through the intimate room.
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Rank 98. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 99. 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 100. Mari
Korean
Chef Sungchul Shim takes the handroll counter and reimagines it as tasting menu theater, where Scottish salmon, cured mackerel, and mushrooms nestle into rice and seaweed with Korean inflection. The kitchen is exposed on all sides, chefs moving with visible precision from one roll to the next. It's a narrow, high-wire act that pays off.