This handsome Mediterranean restaurant serves one of the city's top brick chickens, and the seafood, pasta dishes, and charcuterie are just as good. Read more.
A meal here might include Southern-style white shrimp, rich pork rillettes, crispy squid with green onions, bright scallop ceviche, and spicy chopped tuna on toast. Read more.
Here find one of the city’s best vegetarian menus, with the dosas, idlis, and utapams of Southern India as its bedrock. [Robert Sietsema] Read more.
An omakase will set you back around $80—a bargain for New York City. Guests can also supplement their omakase meals with a small selection of a la carte sushi. Tanoshi has three seatings per night. Read more.
Head to this excellent yakitori for masterfully grilled chicken parts and Japanese small plates. You can order a la carte, but Ryan Sutton recommends the omakase. Read more.
If it’s available, make sure to order the kimchi and rice “lunchbox.” Kang Ho is a great place for large groups and birthday parties. Read more.
Cosme is the chic Flatiron District restaurant from Enrique Olvera, one of Mexico's most famous chefs. Standouts include uni tostada, burrata with salsa verde, and the show-stopping carnitas for two. Read more.
The theme at this restaurant under the High Line is, roughly: spring break on the Amalfi coast in 1989. Santina offers terrific grilled fish dishes, as well as some very good vegetable-based pastas. Read more.
The clubby Italian restaurant that's for everyone. The dining room looks like something out of an old Martin Scorsese film and the red sauce fare is cooked with care. Make sure to get the bolognese. Read more.
At Uncle Boons, they serve tweaked versions of traditional dishes from all over Thailand. Eater critic Ryan Sutton loves the rotisserie chicken, frog legs, curry snails, crab rice, and short ribs. Read more.
Head to this all-day cafe from the team behind century-old appetizing shop Russ & Daughters for smoked fish platters, caviar, blintzes, borscht, scrambled eggs with lox, and latkes with salmon roe. Read more.