The Top 100 Restaurants Near Taproot Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northeast · Brian Lewis
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Brian Lewis

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Michelle Greenfield

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Freshly pulled radishes arrive with browned butter before you've looked at a menu, which tells you everything about what Dan Barber is doing at this two-Michelin-starred tasting room on a working farm in the Hudson Valley. The procession that follows is theatrical and farm-obsessed, rooted in whatever the land is doing right now. Crisped linens, fine crystal, and a meal that could end with a tower of milk desserts, because the farm started as a dairy.

1. AAA Five Diamonds
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
3. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

A converted farmhouse in North Salem with sweeping views of actual countryside, which somehow makes the tasting menu feel earned rather than theatrical. This is a Michelin-starred modern French fine dining room with very few tables, run by a husband-and-wife team whose roots are in the south of France. The cooking is precise and quietly confident, and dessert gets its own moment to shine. Esquire named the Vesper martini among the finest in America, which is a strange fact about a farmhouse, and a good one.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Esquire Le Martini Vesper · The Best Martinis in America

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Part restaurant, part charcuterie counter, Augustine's Salumeria is a relaxed modern Italian spot in Mamaroneck where the menu leans hard on Westchester farms and local fishermen. The kitchen turns out Italian-leaning dishes alongside nightly specials that change the calculation every time. The room feels like a neighborhood place that happens to cook with serious intention, which is a comfortable combination.

1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

White clapboard, manicured gardens, and a valet line that reads the room before you even step inside. This is a fine dining destination in a Victorian inn north of the city, where Jean-Georges Vongerichten's kitchen sends out contemporary New American cooking with a country-weekend ease. The menu pulls from his greatest hits, reworked for the setting, which suits the crowd who drove out from Manhattan pretending they live like this.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

The name is Provençal for "dining room," which sets the tone pretty neatly for this modern French bistro tucked into the North Salem countryside. White walls, dark wood, royal blue chairs, and big windows full of trees give it the feel of somewhere you'd actually want to linger. The kitchen takes Provence-leaning classics and nudges them gently forward, finishing the baba au rhum tableside with a rum pour and Earl Grey whipped cream.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The open kitchen anchors the room at this contemporary Asian restaurant in Rye, where the chef treats Japanese cuisine as a jumping-off point rather than a blueprint. Nigiri, handrolls, and tempura share the menu with hot dishes and the kind of creative small bites that make the omakase worth considering. The lofty-ceilinged space draws a lively local crowd, and the bar fills up early. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Khachapuri, the boat-shaped bread stuffed with molten cheese and a raw egg yolk you stir together yourself, is reason enough to make the drive to this Georgian restaurant in Mount Kisco. The room is warm and unfussy, Edison bulbs over dark wood, and the menu reads like a gentle introduction to a cuisine most tables are encountering for the first time. Ground lamb kebabs wrapped in lavash show up at nearly every table.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Every table at this cozy Campanian trattoria in Westchester starts the same way: a wooden board arrives loaded with caponatina and house-made focaccia before you've ordered a thing. The chef runs a scratch kitchen rooted in southern Italy, with hearty portions and specials worth circling. Finish with the house limoncello and you'll understand why the regulars never really need a menu.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

The carved wooden panels and semi-private booths signal that this is not your average strip-mall Chinese restaurant, even if the exterior gives nothing away. A full-service Chinese dining room in Hartsdale drawing multigenerational families on weekend nights, it runs classics like garlic-pepper shrimp and slow-cooked Beijing duck with real kitchen discipline. The chef earned a James Beard semifinalist nod, and the Michelin Guide has taken notice too.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Eric Gao

Whitewashed brick printed with animal silhouettes, polished concrete floors, and an open kitchen loud enough to compete with the table next to you set the tone at this casual Southern restaurant in Pleasantville. The menu runs the expected classics, fried green tomatoes, cornbread, shrimp jambalaya, and a buttermilk chicken sandwich stacked with bacon and cheese. Come hungry and bring people; the place is built for a crowd.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Fine dining Indian in Elmsford, where the menu wanders through regional subcontinents with real intention. The bhel puri is a good opening move, balancing sweet, spicy, and tart the way a street snack should, and the lamb curry finds the same balance at a slower pace. Kulfi falooda does the dessert work, and the mango lassi is the kind of thing you order once and then every time after.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

Double-height ceilings and exposed wooden beams give this rustic-chic Italian café in Scarsdale a barn-that-got-good-taste feeling. The two long, narrow rooms fill up fast, and the bar anchors the whole thing without trying too hard. The kitchen leans into comfort, the kind of Italian café where the broth in the tortellini en brodo tastes like someone's been at it since morning. Good for a leisurely lunch or an easy dinner when the city feels far away.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Dale Talde's Hong Kong-style restaurant sits inside a carriage house on a sprawling Hudson Valley estate, where the dining rooms look like someone inherited very good furniture and actually kept it. The menu runs kung pao wings alongside bao stuffed with crispy shrimp and daikon, the kind of cooking that's both nostalgic and quietly restless. Dressy-casual crowd, unhurried pace, and a setting that makes Tarrytown feel like a reasonable destination.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Dale Talde

Mustard-yellow walls and hand-blown glass fixtures give this Indian bistro on Irvington's Main Street the feel of a neighborhood living room that happens to serve serious food. The menu leans into bold spice and local, organic produce, and the housemade mango chutney has its own quiet reputation. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks: the room stays lively, the cooking is confident, and the tile-fronted bar fits one more than you'd expect.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Grilled dates stuffed with goat cheese and prosciutto sit on the menu alongside burgers and charcuterie, which tells you most of what you need to know about this Tarrytown gastropub. It doubles as a gourmet market, so the front is stocked with food from around the world and the back opens into exposed brick and antique odds and ends. The kitchen roams the Mediterranean, landing on hearty seafood and steaks.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Midnight-blue leather banquettes and exposed brick set the tone at this New Rochelle Italian restaurant, where the long bar fills early with regulars who seem to know everyone. The kitchen splits its attention between old-school classics and something a little more current, and Mom's meatballs in marinara with a scoop of ricotta make a convincing case for the old school. Chatty and unpretentious, the kind of place that makes New York's suburbs feel worth the commute.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Bright unframed paintings and shelves of canning jars set the tone at this cozy Italian restaurant in Ardsley, where the room feels warmer than its simple storefront suggests. The menu speaks Italian but thinks American, leaning on seasonal produce and well-made pasta. The pastry chef co-owns the place, which means dessert gets the attention it deserves rather than the afterthought it usually is.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Duck liver cannoli, shatteringly crisp and filled with mousse, is not the kind of thing you expect from a neighborhood gastropub in a Hudson Valley commuter town. The Cookery holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it on Italian-leaning comfort food that takes the long way around: house-made pasta, rotating daily specials, and market vegetables that make a grilled green feel like an argument. Young couples and regulars fill every seat most nights, which tells you what you need to know.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. New England Brewery of the Year · Yankee Food Awards

1. James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Anthony Gonçalves

An 18th-century building a block from the Hudson, fitted out with brass chandeliers and mahogany panels, is an unlikely setting for a modern Greek taverna, but Michael Psilakis makes it work. The menu runs family-style, starting with meze and moving through roasted meats and grilled sausage with orange peel. Call ahead if you want the whole roast animal; that one takes planning.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The custom woodwork lining Dubrovnik's dining room was built next door, in the owner's cabinetry shop, and it shows. This Mediterranean wine bar on a commercial stretch of New Rochelle draws a loyal crowd for dishes off the wood-burning oven and grill, and on certain nights, live Croatian music fills the room. The Michelin Guide has taken notice. Bring someone who enjoys lingering.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. US Coffee Championships #10 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Marc Chiusano

1. New England Best New Italian · Yankee Food Awards
2. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Wine Enthusiast Top 50 New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants
2. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Shilimat Tessema

1. The New York Times #72 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Eric Gao

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

House-made blue and yellow corn tortillas arrive before you've even thought about ordering, which tells you something about how this Oaxacan restaurant in Riverdale operates. The room is modern and low-lit, with clay masks and pottery that nod to the region without tipping into theme park territory. Mezcal gets serious attention at the bar, and the dark mole negro on the enmoladas de pato is the kind of sauce that takes days to make.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Grub Street The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)

A converted abbey perched above the Hudson, the kind of setting that makes you feel the nuns are judging your wine order. Apropos is fine dining with a traditional American lean, accessible by train from Grand Central for those willing to make the pilgrimage. The kitchen pulls from local farms and leans into classic technique, rich braises, proper sauces, and a wine cellar that suggests someone here takes this seriously.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The brick oven is the anchor here, turning out thin-crusted pizzas with just enough char on a Morris Park block that mostly ignores trends. Patricia's is a sit-down Italian restaurant with high ceilings, exposed brick, and a semi-open kitchen that makes the room feel lively without being loud. The wine list leans into obscure Italian varietals, and the cocktails are worth a look before you settle in for something from the sea.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. NJ.com #33 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked

1. Eater The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC
2. Grub Street The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)

Glass cases of embroidered regional dress line the walls of this Albanian restaurant on Arthur Avenue, next to the old retail market, where the food runs to burek and cabbage rolls stuffed with ground veal. The Bronx's Albanian community has been quietly growing for decades, and this is where it eats. The menu is the comforting, filling kind, and the brumat sampler is a reasonable place to start if you've never eaten Albanian before.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. The New York Times #96 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

1. Eater The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC
2. The New York Times #87 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

Strip-mall Sichuan in Whitestone, Queens, with a Michelin Bib Gourmand tucked behind a menu that also lists crab Rangoon for the uninitiated. The kitchen's real business is the numbing, chilli-forward cooking of Sichuan province: spicy mung bean jelly noodles, crispy eggplant with a glass-like crust, and smoked pork shaved thin enough to read through. The tears-in-eyes jelly salad delivers on the peanuts and chillies if not the weeping. Cash in your General Tso's loyalty points here.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. The New York Times #55 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

Red-checkered tablecloths and crimson walls set the tone at this old-school Bronx trattoria just off Arthur Avenue, where the name translates to "between us" and the room feels like it was designed to keep the secret. The chef runs the floor with the energy of someone who takes your dinner personally, and the night's menu lives on a blackboard. Cash-and-chianti regulars fill it early, so book ahead.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. The New York Times #42 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

A Korean barbecue spot in Flushing's Murray Hill where the tabletop grills run hot and the room stays packed. The décor skips every trend in favor of the food, which is the right call. Banchan arrives before you've settled in, including house kimchi that's been aged long enough to mean it. The beef short ribs marinated in soy-based sauce are the move, wrapped in romaine at the table. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. The Infatuation The Casa · 25 Iconic Dishes That Define New York

1. The Infatuation #23 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
2. Time Out The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
3. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City

A Taiwanese home-cooking spot in Bayside so far from the subway that getting there is its own commitment. The chef, owner, and entire staff is one woman, Mei Lee, so ring the counter bell and wait. She'd rather you didn't spread the word. The New York Times put it at number ten on their 100 Best Restaurants list, so that ship has sailed. Beef noodle soup, lion's head meatballs, and broth poured to the rim say everything the bare room doesn't.

1. The New York Times #10 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

You have to find it first, which is half the fun: Alley 41 is tucked off Flushing's Main Street, and the room inside, all concrete and curved wood, reads more like a design hotel than a Sichuan restaurant. The electronic menu is long but the photos are accurate, so trust them. Mapo tofu and roasted-chili braised beef arrive fast and genuinely fiery. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the heat alone earns the detour.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Roast Peking duck arrives on a silver tray with thin pancakes, which sets the tone for what Jiang Nan is doing: upscale Chinese dining that roams the whole country rather than planting a flag in one region. The room leans Imperial, all lacquer and stone and greenery, and it reads as date-night or business lunch depending on who you came with. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place this polished on Bowery.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · America's Classics: New York State
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality
3. Eater The Best Classic Restaurants in NYC

The carts find you before you find your seat, which is how it works at this Flushing dim sum hall. Oversized round tables, ornate chandeliers, bamboo plants, and enough shumai to reconsider your weekend plans. No menu required; most regulars never open one. Weekends get loud and frenetic in a very satisfying way, so an early arrival is less a suggestion than a survival strategy. The Michelin Guide has it listed among their selected restaurants.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Grub Street The 43 Best Restaurants in New York

A sunny corner restaurant at the base of a grand Bronx building, Seis Vecinos pulls from El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico without trying to smooth everything into a unified thesis. Papusas, baleadas, and enchiladas share the menu without apology. The guacamole arrives in a molcajete and gets finished at the table, which is exactly the right way to start. The staff is warm and the room follows suit.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. The Infatuation The Best Asian Dessert Spots In NYC

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Connecticut Magazine Top New Restaurants

1. Grub Street The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)

1. The New York Times #97 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

1. Grub Street The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)

1. The New York Times #45 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

Melba Wilson, a born-and-bred Harlemite, named this Southern comfort restaurant after herself, which sets the tone immediately. Fried chicken with eggnog waffles is the move, and a fruit cobbler that has no business being that good closes things out. The room feels like a gathering spot rather than a destination, warm and unhurried in a way that explains the James Beard nominations for Outstanding Hospitality two years running.

1. James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality

1. The New York Times #38 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City

1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
2. The Infatuation Mole Poblano · 25 Iconic Dishes That Define New York

1. NJ.com #58 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked

The dining room looks like it was decorated by a child who just discovered neon, which turns out to be exactly right for Isan-style Thai cooking this loud and alive. This Elmhurst restaurant earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for fiery northeastern Thai food built for sharing, heavy on dried shrimp, electric fish sauce, and whole fried fish. Showing up alone is technically possible but spiritually inadvisable. A New York Times top-100 pick.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
2. The New York Times The Restaurant List
3. The New York Times #38 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City