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Although you've got to BYOB if you're dining at the Chef's Table, the restaurant's staff can help you pick out a bottle that'll compliment the evening's menu. Simply call in advance.
Note: The multicourse sake, beer, and wine pairing costs $85, but if you tell the friendly drinks staff that you’re driving home, they’ll pour sips for $45. Read more.
The menu is seasonally-driven, uses produce from a one-acre Long Island farm where they harvest over 100 varieties of organic produce. Plus you can eat here alone, at the full-service mahogany bar. Read more.
It’s a palace of simple pleasures, with lots of American whisky, 25 beers and three wines on tap, $5 beer and shot specials, and an affordable menu of griddled burgers, smoked meats, fried chicken. Read more.
