Best Restaurants in Manhattan, New York: 26 Picks for 2026

Restaurants in Manhattan, New York — sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals.

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26 restaurantsAvg rating 9.0Updated July 2026

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Seafood•Manhattan•$$$$

Bar Susanne

Bar Susanne is a sensible seafood call in Manhattan in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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Restaurant•Manhattan•$$$$

arthur

Arthur operates out of Manhattan rather than the Prospect Heights address referenced in earlier write-ups — worth confirming the location before you book, as the restaurant appears to have shifted context from its Brooklyn iteration.

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Mediterranean•Manhattan•moderate

Motek Flatiron

Motek occupies a particular niche in the Midtown brunch landscape that the neighbourhood rarely manages well: a full Israeli breakfast format with enough range to accommodate a table of people who do not agree on what morning eating shou…

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9.4

Based on 1962 reviews

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Restaurant•Manhattan•$$$$

Sempre Oggi

Sempre Oggi occupies a particular and underserved lane on the Upper West Side: a 150-seat Michelin-listed modern Italian that treats the neighborhood as worthy of serious cooking rather than comfortable coasting.

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Wine Bar•Manhattan•$$$$

Lei

Lei suits a night out in Manhattan when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Dean's

Dean's positions itself as a natural wine bar that takes the format seriously — and by most accounts, it succeeds on that distinction.

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French•Manhattan•splurge

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Daniel

Restaurant Daniel occupies a particular position in the New York fine dining landscape that very few addresses can claim: a three-Michelin-star room on East 65th Street where the prestige of the address and the rigour of the kitchen are…

Fine diningspecial occasionrefined

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9.2

Based on 2528 reviews

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Mediterranean•Manhattan•$$

Miss Ada

Miss Ada occupies a particular niche in Brooklyn's brunch landscape that is worth understanding before you book: it is a Middle Eastern–focused Mediterranean restaurant operating in Fort Greene, a neighbourhood that consistently underper…

date night

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9.2

Based on 1733 reviews

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American•Manhattan•$$

Greywind

Dan Kluger's Greywind sits inside Hudson Yards, a neighbourhood whose restaurant landscape has historically skewed toward the safely ambitious — large-budget rooms calibrated to a captive audience of office workers and tourists rather th…

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Japanese•Manhattan•$$$$

Blue Ribbon Sushi & Steak

Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar and Grill in Manhattan occupies a specific and useful niche in New York's special-occasion landscape: a hybrid Japanese-American room that takes both its raw fish and its beef seriously enough that neither side of t…

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American•Manhattan•$$

P.J. Clarke's Third Avenue

P.J. Clarke's Third Avenue suits a night out in Manhattan when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

pubcocktaildate night

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9.0

Based on 3550 reviews

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Bakery•Manhattan•$$

Win Son Bakery

Win Son Bakery arrived not as a concept engineered for weekend brunch culture, but as a natural extension of the serious Taiwanese cooking already established at Win Son, the full-service restaurant it shares a corner with in East Willia…

brunchcocktail

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9.0

Based on 1527 reviews

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Italian•Manhattan•$$

BOTTINO | modern italian dining

Bottino has operated on West 24th Street for more than two decades, which in Chelsea's gallery-adjacent dining scene amounts to a minor institutional fact.

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French•Manhattan•$$$$

Bridges

Bridges arrived in Chinatown without the usual fanfare of a soft-open press cycle, and by most accounts it didn't need one.

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Restaurant•Manhattan•$$$$

DOLORES

Dolores occupies a position in Greenpoint's increasingly serious dining landscape that is worth understanding before you go.

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American•Manhattan•$$$$

Confidant

Confidant positions itself as an American restaurant in Manhattan built around the logic of extended evenings rather than efficient dining.

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La Goulue New York

La Goulue has occupied its Upper East Side post long enough that it functions less as a discovery than as a known quantity — and on the evidence of its reputation, that consistency is the point.

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Restaurant•Manhattan•$$$$

Oyatte

Oyatte is a sensible restaurant call in Manhattan in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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Café China

Café China has built a reputation as one of Midtown Manhattan's more serious Sichuan operations — a room that, by most consistent accounts, does not soften the cuisine to meet the expectations of a neighbourhood better known for business…

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8.6

Based on 3107 reviews

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Italian•Manhattan•$$$$

Carbone New York

Carbone opened in the West Village in 2013 and has reportedly run at full capacity ever since — a decade-plus of sustained demand that, by most accounts, has not loosened the kitchen's standards.

date night

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8.6

Based on 2621 reviews

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Caribbean•Manhattan•value

Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi

Kwame Onwuachi's tatiana, positioned inside Lincoln Center, has generated serious critical attention as one of the more conceptually coherent restaurants New York has opened in recent years.

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Mediterranean•Manhattan•$$$

Amali NYC

Amali occupies a particular and useful niche on the Upper East Side: a Mediterranean dining room that has built its reputation around group eating done without fuss.

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European•Manhattan•$$$$

Claud

Claud comes from the team behind Frenchette, which is about as reliable a signal as the East Village offers that a room takes both French technique and natural wine seriously.

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Vietnamese•Manhattan•$$$$

Ha's Snack Bar

has snack bar occupies a small room in Chinatown at a moment when that neighbourhood is producing some of Manhattan's more interesting eating and drinking.

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Sandwich Shop•Manhattan•$$$$

Sanwits

Sanwits is a sandwich shop restaurant in Manhattan in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. If Filipino Sandwich is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Kellogg’s Diner

Kellogg's Diner sits in Williamsburg at a comfortable remove from the neighbourhood's more theatrical brunch operations — the ones that have turned a weekend morning meal into a logistical exercise requiring advance planning and consider…

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8.0

Based on 4312 reviews

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Common questions about dining in Manhattan

What are the best restaurants in Manhattan, New York?

The top restaurants in Manhattan include Bar Susanne, arthur, Motek Flatiron. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings and editorial judgment.

What is the highest-rated restaurant in Manhattan?

Bar Susanne is among the highest-rated restaurants in Manhattan with a 10.0 Google rating across 13 reviews.

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