The Best Places in Manhattan
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- Time Out Time Out: The 35 best hotels in New York City
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A Romanesque Revival building that spent its postwar years full of artists' lofts is now a boutique hotel that essentially defined what a SoHo loft hotel looks like. Christian Liaigre's renovation gave the rooms their spare, low-slung calm, and that aesthetic has aged better than most of its imitators. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Style-world regulars still treat it as a default, which is either a recommendation or a warning, depending on your feelings about that crowd.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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A glass-encased walkway with water cascading around you is the first thing that happens, which sets the tone for a hotel that seems determined to pretend Times Square isn't happening outside. The seventh-floor lobby is all-white and calm, a minor act of defiance against the chaos below. It's still a W in the middle of the tourist vortex, but the interior makes a reasonable case for ignoring that entirely.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 105. Bemelmans Bar
Prohibition-Style Cocktail Bar
The wall murals were painted by Ludwig Bemelmans, the man behind Madeline, and he never paid rent, trading the art for a year's lodging instead. This Carlyle hotel cocktail bar has been a stronghold of old-money Manhattan for decades, all leather banquettes and low piano notes, the martinis notoriously strong. The crowd runs toward people who have a lot to lose and dress accordingly.
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- Esquire Esquire: Eartha · The Best Martinis in America
- Time Out Time Out: #5 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Esquire Eartha · The Best Martinis in America
- Time Out #5 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 105. Dean's
British
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2026 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- Eater Eater: The Best Restaurants in Soho
- The New York Times 2026 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- The Infatuation The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- Eater The Best Restaurants in Soho
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Keys
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A rooftop pool in the Meatpacking District has a way of announcing itself, and this boutique hotel has been making that announcement since the neighborhood was still figuring out what it wanted to be. The surroundings have since settled into high-end retail and the Whitney, and the hotel has kept pace with a refreshed interior and a contemporary art collection that gives the common areas something worth slowing down for.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 105. Smithereens
New England Seafood
A subterranean New England seafood joint in the East Village where the menu runs heavily toward the ocean and the wine list follows suit, mostly whites chosen to keep pace with it. The New York Times named it among the city's best new restaurants, and the sommelier took a Next Wave Award. The celery root float has become something of a minor cult object, which tells you something about the kitchen's sense of humor.
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- VinePair VinePair: Sommelier of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Nikita Malhotra
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #7 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2025 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- VinePair Sommelier of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Nikita Malhotra
- The Infatuation #7 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2025 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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A bright blue facade on a block of red brick Tribeca warehouses is one way to introduce yourself. This Firmdale hotel, part of designer Kit Kemp's signature London-meets-New York family of properties, leans into the collision of country-house comfort and city energy, lots of bold color, and a cozy-glamorous atmosphere that somehow holds together without tipping into theme park. The Michelin Guide awarded it two Keys.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Keys
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Rank 111. Kabawa
Caribbean
Paul Carmichael grew up in Barbados, and Kabawa is his argument that Caribbean cooking belongs in any room it wants. A prix-fixe fine dining restaurant on Extra Place, it seats you at a horseshoe counter in a dark green room with mosaic tilework and a playlist sourced partly from Carmichael's cousin back home. The New York Times named it the top restaurant in New York City, and the cocktail bar next door is his too, for nights when the goat patty feels like the right move.
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- The 50 The 50: #14 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Esquire Esquire: Chef of the Year · Paul Carmichael
- Punch Punch: Best New Bars
- The 50 #14 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Esquire Chef of the Year · Paul Carmichael
- Punch Best New Bars
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- Esquire The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 113. Bartolo
Spanish
Low ceilings with thick wood beams, amber light, and banquettes that make every table feel like a booth in the back of someone's private club. Bartolo is a Spanish restaurant in the West Village, the kind where you order oxtail braised in red wine and suckling pig and let the table fill up. The martini list has its own following, and the servers are sharp enough to keep a long night moving without making it feel rushed.
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- Esquire Esquire: Martini de Bartolo · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2025 · 1 star, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Esquire Martini de Bartolo · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2025 · 1 star, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 113. Dante
Italian Cocktail Bar
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- Esquire Esquire: Dante Mini Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
- Esquire Dante Mini Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 113. LenLen
Thai
A Flatiron bar tricked out like a 1970s Bangkok shophouse, with vintage televisions and family photos on the walls and Thai cocktails on the menu. The jasmine martini landed on Esquire's list of the best martinis in America, which gives you a sense of how seriously the drinks program is taken. The kitchen keeps pace with late-night Thai food that pairs naturally with the cocktails. Open late, which the neighborhood needed.
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- Esquire Esquire: Jasmine Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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South-facing rooms in this 20-story Midtown hotel stare straight at the Empire State Building, which is the kind of view that makes unpacking feel ceremonial. The rooms themselves are quietly comfortable rather than flashy, and the rooftop lounge with live entertainment gives the place more personality than the address on West 37th might suggest. A street-level cafe handles coffees and cocktails for anyone not ready to brave the Garment District yet.
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Rank 113. PDT
Cocktail Bar
You get in by picking up the phone inside a wooden booth at a hot dog joint on St. Marks. If whoever's watching the camera approves, the door buzzes open. PDT is a cocktail bar that takes the speakeasy conceit completely seriously, which is either charming or exhausting depending on your mood, and the line outside suggests most people land on charming. The drinks are the kind of careful, considered pours that made the whole city start doing this.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The clock tower that once held the city's tallest point now holds Ian Schrager's boutique hotel in the Flatiron District, a collaboration with Marriott that somehow kept its cool. Rooms sit above Madison Square Park, which means the 360-degree views range from good to unreasonable depending on the floor. Chelsea, NoMad, and Greenwich Village are all within easy reach, though the hotel itself gives you decent reasons to stay put.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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A 21-story boutique hotel on Cooper Square where no two rooms share the same layout, so a skyline view is a conversation you have at booking, not a guarantee. The interiors lean into East Village energy, all Bluetooth speakers, stocked minibars, and oversized towels, but the social spaces and rotating cultural programming are the real draw for guests who treat the lobby as part of the itinerary.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 113. Undercote
Korean Cocktail Bar
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Simon Kim - Gracious Hospitality
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 173. Caviar Kaspia At The Mark
Russian French
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Rank 173. Eel Bar
Basque
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- Esquire Esquire: Wet Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2024 · Potato Salad With Trout Roe · Hungry for the Best? Here Are Our Top New York Dishes of 2024.
- Eater Eater: The Best Lower East Side Restaurants
- Esquire Wet Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2024 · Potato Salad With Trout Roe · Hungry for the Best? Here Are Our Top New York Dishes of 2024.
- Eater The Best Lower East Side Restaurants
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