Florentin takes its name from the bohemian Tel Aviv neighbourhood and its cooking philosophy from a wider Mediterranean arc — French, Italian, Greek and Middle Eastern influences pulled into a single coherent kitchen.

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9.8

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Conway Diner

Conway Diner started life as a fast-casual counter in the food court of New World Mall in Flushing — the kind of origin story that tells you something real about a kitchen's priorities.

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Up Thai

Up Thai is one of the better-known thai spots in Upper East Side in New York, which makes it a practical place to start.

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9.6

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Burgers•Gramercy•moderate

Diner 24 NYC

A 24-hour diner is a strange thing to evaluate on Sophie's usual terms — there's no pacing to a room that never closes, no held shape to a night that bleeds into morning.

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9.6

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THEP Thai Restaurant

THEP arrives labelled fine dining, but the cheque tells a more honest story: $31 to $50 a head, entrees holding between $16 and $25.

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9.6

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La Pecora Bianca UES

La Pecora Bianca's Upper East Side location occupies a corner of the market-driven Italian category that the neighbourhood has historically underserved.

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9.6

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Broad Nosh Bagels & Caterings 42nd Street

Broad Nosh runs on a simple, honest premise that too many NYC bagel shops have abandoned: every bagel here is hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, and baked on premises daily.

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9.6

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Mediterranean•Upper West Side•moderate

Dagon

Dagon has arrived on the Upper West Side as something the neighbourhood rarely produces: a genuinely ambitious Israeli and Eastern Mediterranean kitchen that diners are treating as a destination rather than a convenience.

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9.6

Based on 2433 reviews

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Nuovo York Pizza

Atalay Mali came to pizza the way most people don't — through chemical engineering.

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9.6

Based on 1630 reviews

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Contemporary•Upper West Side•moderate

Pig and Khao

Pig and Khao suits a night out in Upper West Side when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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9.6

Based on 1338 reviews

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NYC Bagel & Coffee House (NYCBCH)

NYC Bagel & Coffee House isn't trying to reinvent anything, and that restraint appears to be precisely the point.

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9.6

Based on 703 reviews

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American•Upper West Side•moderate

Westville Upper West Side

Westville has built a quiet reputation across Manhattan for market-vegetable-forward American cooking that treats the side dish as the actual star of the meal, and its Upper West Side location carries that philosophy with the same casual…

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9.6

Based on 443 reviews

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Chinese•Chinatown•value

Bao Noodle House 包之面

Bao Noodle House sits at the edge of Chinatown on Bowery doing something the neighborhood's newer arrivals rarely attempt: cooking Fujianese-rooted food without softening it for outside audiences.

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9.6

Based on 375 reviews

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Grandma’s Dumpling House

Grandma's Dumpling House, tucked into 24 Pell Street in the heart of Chinatown, is doing something specific and deliberate: Northern Chinese dumplings made by hand, wrapper by wrapper, without machines and without shortcuts.

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Crave Fishbar Upper East Side

Crave Fishbar Upper East Side is a seafood restaurant in Upper East Side in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Broad Nosh Bagels Deli & Catering 58th Street

Broad Nosh Bagels Deli & Catering 58th Street is a dependable bakery option that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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9.4

Based on 7496 reviews

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Mediterranean•Gramercy•moderate

Barbounia

Barbounia is a mediterranean pick in Gramercy in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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9.4

Based on 4951 reviews

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French•Upper West Side•moderate

French Roast

French Roast on the Upper West Side has built its reputation not on ambition but on something rarer: consistency.

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9.4

Based on 4181 reviews

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L’industrie Pizzeria - West Village

L’industrie Pizzeria - West Village is a sensible pizza call in West Village in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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9.4

Based on 3408 reviews

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Pizza•New York•value

Roma Pizza & restaurant

Roma Pizza & restaurant is an easy pizza option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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9.4

Based on 1521 reviews

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Bagel Shop

On the Upper East Side, the Bagel Shop (1659 3rd Ave) keeps things refreshingly unpretentious: open 7am to 4pm daily, budget-friendly, the kind of place you duck into and walk out happy.

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9.4

Based on 1477 reviews

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Jin Mei Dumpling

Jin Mei Dumpling is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.4

Based on 1159 reviews

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Italian•Upper East Side•splurge

La Voglia NYC

La Voglia occupies a generous stretch of Third Avenue at 92nd, a block from the Y, and the room itself makes a case before the food arrives: 150 indoor seats, retractable windows, 80 more on the patio.

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9.4

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Nala’s Bagel and Brunch

What Nala's Bagel and Brunch appears to understand — and what its following confirms — is that restraint can be its own form of hospitality.

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9.4

Based on 1100 reviews

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Italian•Upper West Side•moderate

Canto Upper West Side

The Upper West Side has long had an identity problem — too residential for downtown ambition, too genteel to court the scene.

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9.4

Based on 970 reviews

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Japanese•Gramercy•moderate

Oceans

Oceans lands on Park Avenue South with the ambition of a Vancouver import that knows exactly what it wants to be: a 220-seat seafood palace that doesn't apologize for its scale.

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9.4

Based on 830 reviews

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Fu Zhou Wei Zhong Wei Jia Xiang Feng Wei

Fu Zhou Wei Zhong Wei Jia Xiang Feng Wei is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.4

Based on 521 reviews

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Italian•Upper East Side•splurge

Water & Wheat Upper East

Water & Wheat on 3rd Avenue is built on a thesis, not a trend.

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9.4

Based on 416 reviews

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L'Osteria

L'Osteria on the Upper East Side does not appear to be in the business of reinventing Italian fine dining, and by all accounts that restraint is the point.

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9.4

Based on 386 reviews

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The Mermaid Inn Upper West Side

The Mermaid Inn's return to the Upper West Side — this iteration at 335 Columbus Ave — carries the particular weight of a neighborhood actually wanting something back.

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9.4

Based on 378 reviews

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North Dumpling 北方锅贴

North Dumpling 北方锅贴 is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.4

Based on 371 reviews

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Phoenix Palace

Phoenix Palace landed at 85 Bowery as a sister concept to Potluck Club, and by most accounts it arrived without the usual hedging of a new opening.

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9.4

Based on 244 reviews

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The Grand Feast

At 854 Amsterdam Avenue, where Cafe Roma once held court between 101st and 102nd streets, Chef Jose and maître d' Felipe have built something the Upper West Side quietly needed: a family-run room organized around the classical French and…

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NY Pizza Suprema

NY Pizza Suprema is a dependable pizza option that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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9.2

Based on 8587 reviews

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Bakery•New York•value

Best Bagel & Coffee

Best Bagel & Coffee is doing something quietly radical in a city that has turned breakfast into a content opportunity: it's refusing to perform.

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9.2

Based on 6668 reviews

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Liberty Bagels Midtown

Liberty Bagels Midtown is not performing New York nostalgia — it is operating inside it, without apology.

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9.2

Based on 4744 reviews

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Bakery•New York•value

Russ & Daughters

Russ & Daughters is a bakery restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.2

Based on 4658 reviews

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Pizza•New York•value

Kesté Pizza e Vino

Here's the thesis on Kesté: Roberto Caporuscio trained directly under the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana in Naples, and the downtown Manhattan room he brought that education back to is about as unpretentious as a serious pizza oper…

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9.2

Based on 3357 reviews

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Chinese•Chinatown•value

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.2

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Capizzi

Capizzi has a reputation built on exactly the kind of restraint that New York's noisier pizza spots tend to forget is a skill.

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9.2

Based on 2399 reviews

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Piccola Cucina Uptown

Piccola Cucina Uptown trades on a familiar bit of theatre — the Bucatini Cacio e Pepe ($29.45) finished tablerise in a wheel of parmesan, a gesture more often seen than tasted these days.

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9.2

Based on 2376 reviews

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Pizza•Midtown•value

Don Antonio

What Don Antonio is doing in Midtown deserves more attention than the neighborhood usually pays to pizza history.

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9.2

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ZOI MEDITERRANEAN UES

ZOI Mediterranean occupies the bones of Blue Mezze Bar on Second Avenue, and it carries the inheritance honestly: a candlelit room that fills early, dishes arriving in waves, a manager named Okan who works the floor like he knows your name.

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9.2

Based on 1847 reviews

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1915 Lanzhou Hand Pulled Noodles & Dumplings

1915 Lanzhou Hand Pulled Noodles & Dumplings is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.2

Based on 1575 reviews

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Contemporary•Gramercy•moderate

Dear Irving Gramercy

Dear Irving Gramercy is a contemporary pick in Gramercy in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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9.2

Based on 1058 reviews

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See No Evil Pizza

See No Evil Pizza is an easy pizza option in Midtown in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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The Wolfe

The Wolfe is a american pick in Upper West Side in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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9.2

Based on 260 reviews

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Marcel

Marcel is a fine dining restaurant in Upper East Side in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Jacob's Pickles

Jacob's Pickles is not trying to compete with the destination restaurants that migrate uptown on reputation alone — it is trying to be a neighborhood institution, and by most accounts it has succeeded on those precise terms.

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9.0

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Maison Pickle

Maison Pickle is the Upper West Side doing what it does best when it stops apologizing for not being downtown: leaning into comfort with full conviction and zero irony.

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9.0

Based on 3697 reviews

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Carnegie Diner & Cafe

Carnegie Diner & Cafe is a diner restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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9.0

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Shanghai 21

Shanghai 21 is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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9.0

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Uncle Lou 快樂人

Uncle Lou 快樂人 is an easy chinese option in Chinatown in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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9.0

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Italian•Gramercy•moderate

Upland

Upland is the kind of italian room in Gramercy you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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9.0

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Bakery•Flatiron•value

Liberty Bagels Wall Street

Liberty Bagels Wall Street — technically addressed in Flatiron, spiritually operating somewhere between civic institution and corner bakery — is doing something the upscale brunch crowd has largely abandoned: feeding people properly, fas…

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9.0

Based on 2181 reviews

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Best Pizza

Best Pizza in Williamsburg is not being ironic with the name, and that straightforwardness extends to everything about the place.

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9.0

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King Dumplings

King Dumplings is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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9.0

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Joe's Pizza Broadway

Joe's Pizza on Broadway is, by all accounts, a deliberate act of restraint in a neighborhood that has largely forgotten how to be cheap.

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8.8

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Ellen's Stardust Diner

Let's be clear about what Ellen's Stardust Diner actually is: a Broadway-themed time capsule on the edge of Flatiron where the servers sing show tunes between delivering your eggs, and the whole room either surrenders to that immediately…

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8.8

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American•Upper West Side•moderate

The Smith

The Smith suits a night out in Upper West Side when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff. If Unable to identify signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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8.8

Based on 5476 reviews

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Wo Hop

Wo Hop is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in New York when you want something that usually lands well.

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8.8

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Golden Diner

Golden Diner is an easy diner option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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8.8

Based on 2904 reviews

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The Penrose Bar

The Penrose Bar occupies a particular register on the Upper East Side that most rooms in this zip code fumble: it is neither a power-lunch bunker nor an occasion-restaurant desperately auditioning for prestige.

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8.8

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American•Gramercy•moderate

Friend Of A Farmer

Friend Of A Farmer is a american pick in Gramercy in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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8.8

Based on 1863 reviews

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The Milling Room

The Milling Room is a american pick in Upper West Side in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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8.8

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Brooklyn Diner USA

Brooklyn Diner USA keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable diner plan.

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8.6

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Diner•Chelsea•value

Empire Diner

Empire Diner sits on 10th Avenue in Chelsea like it has no interest in impressing you — which is exactly why it works.

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8.6

Based on 2346 reviews

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Uva

Uva has operated on Second Avenue, which, on the Upper East Side, counts for something — not merely longevity, but a particular kind of accumulated credibility.

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8.6

Based on 2086 reviews

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Dim Sum Palace

Dim Sum Palace occupies a corner of the Chinatown grid where the clientele skews local and the prices stay honest without apology.

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Lombardi's

Lombardi's is a dependable pizza option in SoHo that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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8.4

Based on 8971 reviews

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Joe's Shanghai

Joe's Shanghai keeps showing up in the right conversations in Chinatown when people want a reliable chinese plan.

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8.4

Based on 6183 reviews

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Common questions about classic in New York

What are the best restaurants for classic in New York?

The top restaurants for classic in New York include Malii Gramercy, Giulietta, Florentin. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.