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  1. Rank 97. Haenyeo

    Korean

    A Korean restaurant in Park Slope where tteokbokki arrives topped with Oaxacan cheese and chorizo, which tells you everything about the kitchen's mood. The menu moves between savory vegetable pancakes, cod braised in sweet soy with daikon, and chilled soba noodles, then lands on beignets. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the room fills with the kind of regulars who already know what they're ordering before they sit down.


    Address
    239 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  2. Smoked beef brisket on rye with mustard is the calling card at this Montreal Jewish deli in Boerum Hill, where the portions operate on a scale that suggests the kitchen has never heard the word "restraint." Poutine comes finished several ways, the latkes and knishes are not an afterthought, and a sidewalk takeout window handles overflow when the counter and communal tables fill up, which they do.


  3. Rank 97. Peter Luger

    Steakhouse

    The cash-only policy has turned away more than a few first-timers who showed up unprepared, which is arguably part of the point. This old-school Brooklyn steakhouse runs on dry-aged Porterhouse, no-nonsense servers, and wood-paneled rooms full of people who've been coming for decades. The sides are simple, the schlag is non-negotiable, and the whole operation moves with the cheerful brusqueness of a place that has never once considered changing anything.



  4. Rank 97. Sawa

    Lebanese

    Lines form outside before the doors open, which tells you something about this Middle Eastern restaurant in Park Slope. The menu is a deep dive into mezze and grilled meats, with house-made pita arriving hot enough to make the hummus and labneh situation feel urgent. The name means "together" in Arabic, and the room earns it: the energy runs warm and loud, the way a good dinner should.


    Address
    75 5th Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  6. Carne asada griddled until caramelized and crisp under a snow of Chihuahua cheese is the move at this bright, modern Mexican restaurant in Prospect Heights. Light-flooded windows and a bar lined with stools give it a neighborhood feel, but the cooking leans inventive. The Michelin Guide picked it up with a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. Churros with acacia honey and chocolate atole sauce close things out on exactly the right note.

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    Address
    552 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  7. Rank 106. Bagel Hole

    NY-Style Bakery


  8. Rank 106. Bagel Joint

    Fusion Jewish Bagel Shop


  9. Rank 106. Bagel Pub

    NY-Style Bakery


    Address
    287 Ninth St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–3 PM

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  10. Negroni Jell-O cubes with Castelvetrano olives floating inside them is pretty much the thesis statement for this quirky Brooklyn restaurant. The menu is built for sharing and runs on a kind of gleeful nostalgia gone sideways, muffuletta dim sum sitting comfortably next to garlic knot monkey bread. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place this fun at this price.

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    Address
    272 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 5:30 PM–9 PM

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  11. Address
    126 Union St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–2:30 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  12. Rank 106. Chavela's

    Creative Mexican

    The guacamole comes loaded with smoked trout and morita chile salsa, which tells you everything about where Chavela's is headed. This Crown Heights Mexican restaurant earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand behind a wrought-iron door and into a room of vivid tiles and a wall of ceramic butterflies. The cooking leans creative without abandoning the mole that traditionalists came for, and the whole place runs warmer and louder than its Franklin Avenue address might suggest.

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    Address
    736 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  13. Brunch at this cozy Greenpoint restaurant draws a line of famished locals most weekends, and the pancakes have their own small mythology in the neighborhood. Inside, it's a French-Canadian operation with a clear affection for pork: pâtés, terrines, and charcuterie-forward plates dominate a menu that stays rich and unapologetic. Dinner is quieter and just as good. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.


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    92 Calyer St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  14. Rank 106. Daphne's

    Seasonal Italian

    Strands of tiny silver beads cover the front window, so Daphne's announces itself quietly before you're even through the door. Inside, it's a refined, contemporary Italian-American restaurant in Bed-Stuy with a menu short enough to read twice. House-made pasta, shareable plates, and a grilled pork chop that takes its time all earn a look. The kind of neighborhood spot that makes you wonder why you ever leave Brooklyn.


    Address
    299 Halsey St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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  15. Portion sizes here run generous enough that the name feels like a promise kept. Gordo's is a laid-back Bushwick cantina where the chef, a Mexico City native, turns familiar Mexican cooking into something that earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand. The room skews family-friendly, the menu covers tacos, chile relleno, and mole enchiladas, and nobody leaves hungry enough to be annoyed about anything.

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  16. Address
    1065 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–3 PM

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  17. Rank 106. Kellogg's Diner

    Retro American


    Address
    518 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11:59 PM

    Friday Midnight–11:59 PM

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  18. Address
    367 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–5 PM

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  19. Rank 106. La Vara

    Spanish

    The slow-roasted suckling pig leg that anchors the menu tells you this isn't your standard tapas crawl. La Vara is a cozy Spanish restaurant in Cobble Hill where the kitchen takes cocina casera, home cooking, as both its premise and its ambition. Alex Raij's food has a playful, quietly inventive quality; the room draws the kind of neighborhood regulars who eventually stop looking at the menu and just tell the server to do whatever.


    Address
    268 Clinton St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  20. Address
    892 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7:30 AM

    Friday 7:30 AM–2 PM

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  21. Rooms here are styled after the classic North Brooklyn apartment, which sounds like damning with faint praise until you see the hardwood floors, the kitchenettes, and the art books chosen with actual care. This boutique hotel in Williamsburg keeps an in-house gallery for good measure, since framed prints apparently weren't enough. Union Pool is steps away, so you'll know by midnight whether that's a selling point or a warning.

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  22. A sun-drenched sliver of a New American restaurant in Park Slope, Runner Up earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand by doing exactly what it sounds like it shouldn't: taking vegetables seriously without making you feel lectured. The menu swings between playful and precise, with produce driving dishes that also happen to involve trout rillette or daikon standing in for tortellini. Bread and desserts come courtesy of the sibling spot next door, which is either cheating or genius.

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    Address
    499 11th St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–8 PM

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  23. Matzoh ball ramen is the menu's thesis statement, and it holds up. This creative South Williamsburg restaurant earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand by stitching Ashkenazi Jewish and Japanese cooking together without the seams showing, toro tartare landing on sake kasu challah, Wagyu pastrami pressed into milk bread. The room is small and the vibe is neighborhood-casual, which makes it easier to order the chocolate challah bread pudding without feeling self-conscious about it.


    Address
    301 S. 4th St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  24. Rank 106. Sobre Masa

    Mexican

    Heirloom corn gets the full treatment here: nixtamalized, milled, and pressed into house-made tortillas that anchor everything on the menu. This Bushwick taqueria and tortilla shop earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand for a tight menu that runs from carnitas to chicken liver tostadas with candied kumquats, which tells you exactly what kind of ambition is hiding behind the counter. The salsas alone could cause a scene.

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    Address
    52 Harrison Pl., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 6 PM–11 PM

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  25. Rank 106. Speedy Romeo

    Wood-Fired Pizzeria

    A wood-fired pizza shop in a converted auto garage in Clinton Hill, with kitschy décor that somehow pulls it off. The team spent years in the Jean-Georges universe, and that background shows up in combinations you wouldn't expect a pizza joint to attempt, like the St. Louis, which lays Midwestern Provel cheese over pickled peppers and meat on a proper crust. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, and the room fills up fast on weeknights.

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    Address
    376 Classon Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  28. A menu item called "What the Hell" fried rice comes with twelve chili symbols and delivers on that promise, but this Thai restaurant in Cobble Hill is running a more interesting game than heat. The chef takes familiar flavors and bends them, with a soupless khao soi and a light-bodied green curry paired with grilled chicken and purple rice berry doing the quiet convincing. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of neighborhood spot that's easy to walk past once.

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    Address
    529 Henry St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  29. Rank 106. Uzuki

    Japanese Noodle Shop

    The chef makes the ceramic bowls himself, which tells you a lot about the pace of a meal here. This Greenpoint soba shop occupies a warehouse with factory windows and skylights, and the hand-cut buckwheat noodles, served cold or hot with dashi, are the point. Pricing runs steep for a noodle lunch, but the room is genuinely industrial and the gluten-free menu surprisingly complete. Soba-making classes also run here, if you'd like homework.


    Address
    95 Guernsey St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 11:45 AM–9:30 PM

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  30. Rank 106. Wheated

    Pizzeria

    The New Haven-style pies here are cooked to a serious crunch, with dough pressed thinner than the Connecticut purists would sanction and a tangy, oregano-heavy tomato sauce that makes a decent argument for staying in Brooklyn. Wheated is a Ditmas Park pizzeria with a full bar that also does bagels, so the menu has range. The New York Times put it on their best pizza in New York list, which is the kind of thing that fills a neighborhood spot fast.


  31. Rank 106. Win Son

    Modern Taiwanese

    The facade is done up like a corner bodega, but step inside and it's all blonde wood, exposed brick, and a little bar where solo diners settle in without apology. Win Son is a bright, casual Taiwanese spot in Williamsburg that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the menu takes Taiwan's culinary landscape somewhere fresher than the usual shorthand suggests. Scallion pancakes show up alongside so many dishes that ordering them as a starter is quietly redundant.

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    Address
    159 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–11 PM

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  32. Ali's is a counter-service roti shop on Fulton where the menu runs from conch to liver to curry goat, all folded into dhalpuri, the soft split-pea flatbread that does the heavy lifting. It closed for a renovation with almost no warning, which rattled the regulars, and it came back with picture windows full of pepper sauce and bush tea. Halal, cash only, so stop at the ATM before you start deliberating over kingfish.


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  34. The pressed-tin ceiling and apothecary cases are original to the old drugstore this soda fountain has been around forever inside. It's the kind of Carroll Gardens spot that puts potato chips on a sundae and makes it feel obvious in retrospect. Ice cream floats run on housemade soda, and the sundaes come loaded with toppings, most made in-house. Order at the counter and find a stool; nobody here is in a hurry.


    Address
    513 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 2 PM–10 PM

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  35. A converted 19th-century textile warehouse in Greenpoint, the Henry Norman is a boutique hotel where the loft-style rooms lean into the bones of the building: hardwood floors, exposed brick, and, depending on your room, a terrace or rooftop. The retro vibe extends to a vintage taxi kept on call as in-house car service, which is either charming or a lot, depending on your mood. Williamsburg is a short walk south when you need a meal.

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  36. Rank 134. Kru

    Thai

    Exposed brick and poured cement set a sleek, airy backdrop for traditional Thai cooking that has been quietly reworked for the contemporary table. The restaurant in Williamsburg came out swinging as a James Beard Best New Restaurant Semifinalist, and the menu earns the attention, moving through braises, curries, and fermented heat with real conviction. Dress sharp, expect to spend.


    Address
    190 N. 14th St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  37. Address
    310 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  38. Rank 134. Malai Ice Cream

    South Asian Dessert


    Address
    268 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday Noon–11 PM

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  42. Rank 145. Ayat

    Middle Eastern


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  45. Rank 145. Laser Wolf

    Middle Eastern

    The rooftop of the Hoxton Hotel in Williamsburg, with the Manhattan skyline doing its thing at sunset, is a solid place to eat skewers. This is Michael Solomonov's skewer house, and the format is pleasantly fixed: a spread of salatim to start, then meat and vegetable skewers over the coals, then soft-serve. Reservations are famously hard to land, which tells you something about how the room fills on a Tuesday.


    Address
    The Hoxton, Williamsburg, 97 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11:30 PM

    Friday 3 PM–11:30 PM

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  46. Rank 145. Misi

    Italian


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  49. Address
    1084 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday Noon–4:30 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  50. Rank 150. F&F Pizzeria

    Pizzeria

    The slices here are slender, which is a statement in a borough where bigger is considered better. F&F is a slice shop in Carroll Gardens running a quiet argument for restraint: a careful sauce-to-cheese ratio, toppings used sparingly and only when they add something. The New York Times put it on their short list of the city's best pizza places, and Grub Street agreed. Come hungry but not starving, because the line moves at its own pace.


  51. Rank 150. Insa

    Korean Barbecue


    Address
    328 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  52. Rank 156. Barano

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

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  53. A backyard in Park Slope and a margherita built on proper ingredients make Brooklyn DOP an easy neighborhood slice shop to fall into. The dough is treated with care, the format stays classic New York, and the beverage list is calibrated accordingly. The orange olive oil cake quietly outperforms every other decision you'll make that afternoon. It landed at number six on the 50 Top Pizza Slice USA list, which checks out.


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  55. Rank 156. Elia

    Greek

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  56. Rank 156. House

    Japanese


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  60. Rank 156. Pizza Secret

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

    A Neapolitan pizzeria a short walk from Barclays Center, Pizza Secret lands at number 15 on 50 Top Pizza USA, which is not the kind of thing a slice shop does quietly. The dough is well-leavened and light, the kind that doesn't sit heavy, and the fried appetizers are worth ordering before the pie arrives. The room is renovated and family-friendly without feeling like a chain, and the service knows when to disappear.


  61. The open kitchen pulls focus the moment you walk into this Carroll Gardens bistro, with its exposed brick, dark blue walls, and brown leather booths. The menu runs contemporary New American with European and South American threads woven through, so expect clean technique alongside the occasional curveball. It reads equally as a date spot or a low-key dinner with friends, which is either versatile or noncommittal, depending on your mood.

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    Address
    481 Court St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  62. The penny-tiled floor and wood bar hit you before you even look at the menu, and the garden out back feels like someone transplanted a corner of Umbria to Williamsburg. This is a proper Italian restaurant, the sit-down-and-stay kind, with a seasonal menu that leans into shared plates and house-made pasta. The crowd tends to linger, which tells you something about the pacing. Wildflowers on the tables, olive walls, no fuss.

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  63. Roman trattoria cooking in a room that manages to feel elegant without making you feel underdressed. Antica Pesa is the Brooklyn outpost of a Rome institution, and it takes the classics seriously enough to go well past the obvious ones. The wine list is long, the hospitality is warm in that old-country way, and a spot on the 50 Top Italy list for the world's best Italian restaurants suggests the room is doing something right across the river.


  64. The plates here are handmade by a Venezuelan artisan, which tells you something about how seriously this Brooklyn restaurant takes the full picture. Chef Isbelis Diaz and her son run a warm, colorful room built around Venezuelan cooking, the kind where the staff steers you through the menu like they mean it. The short rib braised for two days in burnt sugarcane is the dish people talk about on the way home.

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    Address
    148 Meserole St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 5:30 PM–Midnight

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  65. Rank 165. Enso

    Sushi

    A sleek omakase counter in Williamsburg where the chef runs an edomae-style sushi progression that moves from composed small bites through a focused nigiri course. The fish comes from specific Japanese sources, cured and aged with enough care that the sourcing actually shows on the palate. À la carte is available at the bar and garden if you're not committing to the full ride, which is at least a refreshingly honest policy.

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  66. The copper bar wrapped in cherry wood is what catches you first, then the wall of bottles behind it. Entre Nous is a French wine bar in Clinton Hill doing apéro culture without the affectation: natural wine, small plates cooked with more care than the relaxed room suggests, and an atmosphere that works equally well for one glass alone or a long night with friends.

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    39 Clifton Pl., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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  67. Rank 165. Fausto

    Italian

    An open hearth warms the dimly lit room at this upscale Italian restaurant on Flatbush, where the sommelier-restaurateur's wine instincts shape the whole experience as much as the kitchen does. The pasta earns its reputation, and the menu leans into Southern Italian regional cooking without making a fuss about it. Bring a date or a small group; the room was built for exactly that kind of unhurried evening.

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    Address
    348 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  68. Rattan furniture and a quietly tropical room a short walk from Fort Greene Park set the mood at this neighborhood Thai restaurant. The menu pulls from both northern and southern Thailand, which keeps things more interesting than the usual single-region rundown. The chive pancakes arrive crispy and golden, the fried rice gets a chili-lime jolt, and the 24-hour braised short ribs have a caramelized crust that does most of the convincing.

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    Address
    330 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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  69. Rank 165. Hungry Thirsty

    Southern Thai

    The yellow facade on Smith Street belongs to a Southern Thai restaurant that already has people lining up, much as its predecessor in the same space once did. Inside, orange walls and a blue-and-green bar signal that subtlety was never the plan. The kitchen leans into spice and bold regional flavors, with curries, stir-fries, and a fried branzino in fish sauce that tends to stop conversation at the table.

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    Address
    407 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  70. Rank 165. Madre

    Mediterranean

    The carved doors belong to the hotel next door; Madre has its own entrance, and its own agenda. This multi-level Mediterranean restaurant sits at the base of the Franklin Guest House, dressed in industrial bones but cooking with considerably more ambition. The menu drifts between the Mediterranean and Latin America without making a fuss about it, which is a style of self-confidence that suits the room.

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    Franklin Guesthouse, 214 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–11 PM

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  71. Rank 165. Mango Bay

    Caribbean

    Floral wallpaper meets leather booths inside this Fort Greene brownstone, which sets the tone for the cooking: Afro-Caribbean tradition with a city sensibility. It's a sit-down dinner spot, fun but not casual, the kind of room that makes you want to linger over braised oxtail with a group of friends. The Michelin Guide has had its eye on it, and the crowd that fills the booths on a weekend night suggests they're not the only ones paying attention.

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    271 Adelphi St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  72. Rank 165. Meadowsweet

    Mediterranean

    Glass facade, mosaic-tiled floors, and a view of the Williamsburg Bridge's ironwork overhead: Meadowsweet is a Mediterranean restaurant in Williamsburg that looks like it was designed by someone who actually thinks about rooms. The menu runs from vegetables to pasta to duck, cooked with the kind of care that keeps locals filling the place on a Tuesday. Friendly service and prices that won't require a moment of quiet reflection on the walk home.

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    149 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  73. Rank 165. Mesiba

    Levantine

    The name means "party" in Hebrew, and the Levantine restaurant at the base of the Moxy Williamsburg takes that seriously, with a sleek, buzzy room that nods to Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architecture. The menu moves from baba ganoush and falafel through whole striped bass and dumplings filled with charred onion ricotta, the kind of spread that makes ordering light feel like a personal failure. The Basque cheesecake has become the unofficial closing argument.

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  74. Rank 165. Ops

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

    Sourdough Neapolitan pizza in a cozy Bushwick spot where the lighting is dim enough to feel intentional and the wine list is longer than the beer list, which tells you something about the room. The crust is light and genuinely digestible, as opposed to the kind that sits with you on the subway home. Ranked in the 50 Top Pizza USA, if that's the sort thing you track. The veranda is lovely until it isn't.


  75. Rank 165. Risbo

    Parisian French

    The open-air rotisserie spinning in the front window is the tell: this is an all-day cafe built around Parisian-style spit-roasting, which in Flatbush means roasted chicken marinated for three days alongside bowls, platters, and seasonal grains. The whitewashed walls, cement floors, and a garden patio give it that particular Brooklyn-industrial ease. A good stop before or after Prospect Park, which is right there.

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    Address
    701 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  76. The name nods to the two stones used to grind grain, and the flour-sack-shaped concrete blocks lining the walls suggest nobody here is being subtle about the theme. This Brooklyn bakery-restaurant splits its menu between sandwiches and salads, with the bread doing most of the talking. A Per Se alum runs the bakery side, which shows. Save room for dessert, then buy something extra for the walk home.

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    Address
    285 Third Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–10 PM

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  77. Squeezed into a narrow Clinton Street storefront, Saint Julivert is a coastal wine bar where seafood does most of the talking and the small-producer wine list does the listening. The kitchen runs on a coastal imagination that drifts from tempura squash to Ibérico pork without losing the thread. Cobble Hill regulars who know to book early fill the room most nights. The Michelin Guide has it on their list.


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    264 Clinton St., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  78. The signature pancake, a single skillet-sized round finished with hazelnut-maple praline and brown butter, is reason enough to plan a Saturday night around getting here Sunday morning. This all-day Williamsburg spot runs two floors with very different personalities: a rustic bar downstairs and a palm-dotted, whitewashed dining room above. Everything is baked in-house, and the sourdough with beer butter makes a strong case for arriving hungry before brunch even starts.

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    Address
    348 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 8 AM–9:30 AM, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  79. Rank 165. Tong

    Thai

    The first question your server asks is how you feel about heat, and you should answer carefully. This sleek Bushwick Thai restaurant occupies a concrete-and-metal warehouse space dressed up with gold accents, where the menu of small sharing plates builds around chilies that show up in every corner. The khao soi has its regulars, and the crispy rice with fermented pork sausage is the kind of thing people order twice.

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  80. Rank 165. Vato

    Mexican

    The flour tortillas are made in-house, and watching them come together at the counter is half the reason to show up early. This is a daytime tortilleria and counter-order burrito spot in Park Slope, from the team behind Corima. The tortillas are precise and pliable in a way that makes the whole thing feel different. Cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting and sea salt finish the job if you're still hungry, which you probably aren't.

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  81. Rank 185. Falansai

    Mexican

    The chef at this Brooklyn Vietnamese spot trained at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and it shows, though not in a pretentious farm-to-table way. Falansai is a tasting-menu restaurant where seasonal thinking meets recipes passed down from Saigon, the two pulling in different directions in ways that tend to be interesting. The New York Times gave it two stars and a Critic's Pick in 2026.



  82. Address
    448 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 8 AM–6 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram

  83. Address
    477 Gates Ave, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  84. Rank 188. Bar Susanne

    Oyster Bar


    Address
    6 River Street, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  85. Rank 188. Barker

    American



  86. Address
    316 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 8 AM–4 PM, 5:30 PM–9 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram

  87. Rank 188. Ensenada

    Seafood Mexican




  88. Rank 188. Gigi’s

    French


    Address
    138 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram



  89. Address
    254 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 AM

    Friday 5 PM–3 AM

    Reserve
    Resy
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  90. Rank 188. Nin Hao

    Fujian


  91. Rank 188. Pangat

    Maharashtrian


    Address
    369 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY · Brooklyn
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
    Online
    Website

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