The Best Restaurants in Staten Island, by the Record
The best restaurants in Staten Island, by the professional record: The New York Times, The Infatuation, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Shaw-Naé’s House comes out on top.
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Rank 1. Shaw-Naé’s House
Southern
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- The Infatuation #16 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- The New York Times #81 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 2. Lakruwana
Sri Lankan Indian
Murals, sculptures, and flags cover every surface floor to ceiling, so you've found the place before you've read the sign. Lakruwana is a Sri Lankan restaurant on Staten Island where street food drives the menu, the room runs loud and colorful, and the owner works every table like it's a reunion. The New York Times put it on their 100 Best Restaurants in New York City list, which tracks for a room this unignorable.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times #93 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 3. Enoteca Maria
Italian
The menu changes nightly because the cook changes nightly, a rotating cast of nonnas from around the world who each bring their own country's food to this tiny, always-packed Staten Island restaurant. One evening it's Paraguayan chicken soup with cornmeal dumplings; the next, a Japanese seaweed salad with yuzu. The phone rings constantly, the tables fill fast, and Joe Scaravella's little place near St. George Terminal runs entirely on grandmotherly authority.