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Global•Murray Hill•value
The Consulate - Murray Hill
Murray Hill is not a neighborhood that typically rewards ambition — it runs on reliable, unchallenging, and safe.
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Best dinner Restaurants in New York: 387 Picks for 2026
The best restaurants for dinner in New York, curated by TastyPals editors.
387 restaurantsAvg rating 9.2Updated July 2026
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Top picks for dinner in New York
Fast answers for diners searching for dinner restaurants in New York. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
The Consulate - Murray Hill
#1 pick
The Consulate - Murray Hill
Global | Murray Hill | value
Known for Hand Cut Lamb Tartare For One.
Fat Ronnie's Burger Bar NYC
#2 pick
Fat Ronnie's Burger Bar NYC
Burgers | New York | value
Strong pick for burgers.
Rosa – Agave & Wine Lounge
#3 pick
Rosa – Agave & Wine Lounge
Wine Bar | New York | moderate
Strong pick for wine.
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Burgers•New York•value
Fat Ronnie's Burger Bar NYC
Fat Ronnie's Burger Bar NYC is an easy burgers option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
burgersdinner
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10.0
Based on 145 reviews
3
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Rosa – Agave & Wine Lounge
Rosa – Agave & Wine Lounge is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
winedinnerdate night
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10.0
Based on 140 reviews
4
Ethiopian•Flatiron•moderate
Cafe Massawa
Cafe Massawa is an easy ethiopian option in Flatiron in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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10.0
Based on 137 reviews
5
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Brick Wine Bar
Brick Wine Bar is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
winedinnerdate night
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10.0
Based on 121 reviews
6
Caribbean•Upper West Side•value
Bar Manje
Bar Manje is an easy caribbean option in Upper West Side in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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10.0
Based on 70 reviews
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Burgers•New York•value
Flat Out Burger
Flat Out Burger is an easy burgers option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
burgersdinner
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10.0
Based on 27 reviews
8
Italian•Crown Heights•value
Crown Heights Pasta
Crown Heights Pasta is an easy italian option in Crown Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gem
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10.0
Based on 18 reviews
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Thai•New York•value
Mitr Thai Restaurant
Mitr Thai Restaurant keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable thai plan.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.8
Based on 9572 reviews
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Thai•Long Island City•moderate
Soothr LIC
Soothr's Long Island City outpost carries the East Village original's reputation for regionally rooted Thai cooking into Queens, and by most accounts it has settled quickly into the role of neighborhood anchor rather than hype destination.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 5301 reviews
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Thai•Fort Greene•moderate
Glin Thai Bistro
Fort Greene has quietly become one of Brooklyn's best Thai corridors, and Glin Thai Bistro, on Myrtle between Washington Park and Carlton, makes the case loudly.
dinnercool
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9.8
Based on 4790 reviews
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Mediterranean•Murray Hill•value
Mira Mediterranean & Hookah Lounge
Murray Hill isn't exactly where I expect to find myself at 3 a.m., but Mira keeps the lights on until 4, which already makes it an outlier in a neighborhood that usually rolls up the sidewalks early.
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9.8
Based on 4567 reviews
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American•Upper East Side•moderate
Vintage Green Rooftop
Vintage Green is the Upper East Side rooftop that does the harder thing — pairing a genuine view with a kitchen that reportedly takes the cooking seriously, rather than coasting on the terrace alone.
viewsdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 3185 reviews
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Thai•New York•value
Dagg Thai Restaurant
Here's the thing about a Midtown Thai spot a few steps from Grand Central: it could phone it in and still fill tables off commuter foot traffic.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.8
Based on 2779 reviews
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Caribbean•New York•value
Jerk House Caribbean Restaurant
Let's be clear about what Jerk House is and isn't.
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9.8
Based on 2618 reviews
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Thai•Gramercy•moderate
Malii Gramercy
Malii Gramercy occupies the kind of Second Avenue address that doesn't beg for attention, which suits it.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 2083 reviews
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Indian•Upper East Side•moderate
Cloves Indian Cuisine
Cloves Indian Cuisine sits at 66 Madison Ave with a pedigree that deserves attention before you even walk through the door.
spicydinnerindian
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9.8
Based on 1760 reviews
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Burgers•New York•value
Langan's
Langan's is a sensible burgers call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
burgersdinner
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9.8
Based on 1692 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn
RUA Thai - Thai Restaurant Brooklyn is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 1576 reviews
20
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Halal•Flatiron•value
Sharif's Famous
Sharif's Famous is a sensible halal call in Flatiron in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
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9.8
Based on 1544 reviews
21
Halal•New York•value
Koyaki
Koyaki is threading a needle that not enough restaurants attempt: a halal kitchen running through a Japanese-Korean framework, committed to both traditions without hedging.
halaldinner
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9.8
Based on 1188 reviews
22
Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Osteria Carlina Tribeca
Osteria Carlina arrives in Tribeca with something rarer than a good wine list: a room that appears to know exactly what it is.
upscaledinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 909 reviews
23
Seafood•New York•splurge
Big Blue Seafood & Grill
Big Blue Seafood & Grill is a seafood restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.8
Based on 905 reviews
24
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Sorso'
There are rooms that know exactly what they are, and Sorso — all 220 square feet of it on the corner of University Place and 10th Street — is one of them.
winedinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 761 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Aromi
Aromi arrives on Court Street with a clear sense of where it comes from: the name itself is a tribute to grandparents' gardens — the fruit trees, the herbs, the vegetables grown for the table — and that founding story isn't just marketin…
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 753 reviews
26
Greek•Astoria•value
Mimoza Restaurant & Lounge
Mimoza Restaurant Lounge is making a case that Astoria's 30th Avenue corridor still has room to surprise you — not through reinvention, but through the kind of stubborn regional specificity that most gastropubs abandon the moment they in…
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.8
Based on 557 reviews
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Spanish•New York•moderate
Tiny Tapas and Bites
Tiny Tapas and Bites occupies a particular niche that New York does surprisingly poorly: the neighborhood spot above 200th Street that takes its food seriously.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 439 reviews
28
Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
Restaurant Relax
Restaurant Relax has been anchoring the same corner of Newell Street in Greenpoint, and the pitch hasn't changed: handmade Polish food, daily-scratch cooking, and zero interest in impressing anyone who needs a tasting menu to feel fed.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.8
Based on 423 reviews
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Cremini's
Carroll Gardens doesn't need another red-sauce amnesia trip, and creminis seems to know it.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 423 reviews
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Mediterranean•Upper West Side•moderate
Florentin
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
Based on 393 reviews
31
Spanish•New York•moderate
AURA Tapas & Cocktail Bar
AURA Tapas & Cocktail Bar occupies a particular niche in the East Village ecosystem that First Avenue keeps generating: the Spanish-inflected room built equally around shareable plates and serious pours, where the cocktail program carrie…
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 387 reviews
32
Vegetarian•New York•value
Quantum Leap
Quantum Leap on First Avenue is one of the few vegetarian restaurants in Manhattan that has figured out how to be genuinely casual without feeling like an afterthought.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.8
Based on 371 reviews
33
Diner•Upper East Side•value
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.
classicdinnerdiner
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9.8
Based on 352 reviews
34
Bistro•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Korkscrew Bistro
Korkscrew Bistro arrived on Tompkins Avenue in spring 2024 with a point of view that Bed-Stuy's dining scene had genuinely left open: the warm overlap of French and Spanish bistro culture run through a global lens, priced at a level wher…
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9.8
Based on 312 reviews
35
Steakhouse•Crown Heights•value
Butcher Grill House
Butcher Grill House on Troy Avenue is a specific kind of Crown Heights institution: a Premium Glatt Kosher steakhouse born from a butcher shop, which means the sourcing obsession isn't a marketing angle — it's the literal origin story.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.8
Based on 302 reviews
36
Japanese•Crown Heights•value
Don Udon
Don Udon is an easy japanese option in Crown Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.8
Based on 289 reviews
37
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
Addey Ababa
Washington Heights doesn't need another Ethiopian restaurant that plays it safe, and Addey Ababa doesn't offer one.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.8
Based on 269 reviews
38
Vietnamese•Nolita•value
HIEN FROM VIETNAM
Hien From Vietnam isn't trying to be a full-service restaurant — it's a Vietnamese art café at 121 Mott St (Chinatown, closer to Little Italy than Nolita proper) built around the singular vision of owner Christmas Le, who brought her cof…
phodinnervietnamese
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9.8
Based on 199 reviews
39
Italian•NoHo•moderate
House of Domes
House of Domes has a thesis, and it commits to it fully: dining as theatrical ritual, with Tuscan craft at the center and a room designed to make the evening feel chosen.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 197 reviews
40
French•Bed-Stuy•moderate
BKB | Brooklyn Brasserie
BKB | Brooklyn Brasserie opened at 327 Stuyvesant Ave with a clear-eyed concept: transpose the Franco-Belgian brasserie tradition — specifically the animated corner bistros of Paris and the beer-forward cafés of Antwerp — into the heart…
dinner
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9.8
Based on 158 reviews
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Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Somm Time
Somm Time is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
winedinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 123 reviews
42
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
6 Restaurant - NYC
6 Restaurant - NYC is a italian pick in Carroll Gardens in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Tiger Bread with cultured butter, garlic confit and Bitterballen with dijon mustard also give you a decent sense of the menu.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.8
Based on 110 reviews
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Global•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
by & by
by & by is a sensible global call in Hell’s Kitchen in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
theaterdinner
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9.8
Based on 76 reviews
44
Greek•SoHo•value
Selene
Selene is a sensible greek call in SoHo in New York when you want something that usually lands well. Grilled Octopus and Sea Scallops also give you a decent sense of the menu.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.8
Based on 54 reviews
45
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French•West Village•moderate
Boucherie West Village
Boucherie West Village suits a night out in West Village when you want french that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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9.6
Based on 9525 reviews
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Dessert•New York•moderate
Le Parisien Bakery
A French bakery wedged into West 46th Street, half a block off the Times Square churn — which tells you most of what you need to know about who's at the counter beside you.
dessertdinner
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9.6
Based on 8187 reviews
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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.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 8140 reviews
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Italian•NoHo•moderate
La Pecora Bianca SoHo
Here's the thing about La Pecora Bianca SoHo: it's a bright, busy room that knows exactly what it is, which is not always a place built for two.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 6399 reviews
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Thai•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Elephant Ear
Elephant Ear does something that most Hell's Kitchen spots refuse to commit to: it picks a lane — specifically, the bold, herb-forward heat of Southeast Asian cooking — and drives down it without hedging.
theaterdinner
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9.6
Based on 5993 reviews
50
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Indian•New York•moderate
Patiala Indian Grill & Bar
Patiala Indian Grill & Bar is doing something the midrange Indian dining scene in New York rarely pulls off with conviction: it centers the kitchen's identity on the grill, not the curry pot.
spicydinnerindian
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9.6
Based on 4588 reviews
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Japanese•New York•value
Kin ramen
Kin ramen is a sensible japanese call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.6
Based on 4520 reviews
52
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Breakfast•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Hole In The Wall
Hole In The Wall is an easy global option in Bed-Stuy in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.6
Based on 4309 reviews
53
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Halal•New York•value
Shukette
Here's what Shukette is actually doing: running one of the more serious live-fire, Middle Eastern-inflected kitchens in the city out of a 68-seat room on 9th Avenue.
halaldinner
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9.6
Based on 4094 reviews
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Osteria Nonnino
Osteria Nonnino suits a night out in West Village when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 4060 reviews
55
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Thai•New York•value
Hey Thai
Hey Thai operates on a principle that a lot of New York restaurants have quietly abandoned: Thai food at its best is aggressive, not polite.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.6
Based on 3661 reviews
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Vietnamese•New York•value
La Dong
La Dong is a vietnamese restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.6
Based on 3604 reviews
57
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Thai•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Chalong Southern Thai
Southern Thai cooking is not the same thing as Thai cooking, and Chalong in Hell's Kitchen is making a deliberate case that New York is finally ready to understand the difference.
theaterdinner
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9.6
Based on 3547 reviews
58
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Spanish•New York•moderate
EZ Paella & Tapas
EZ Paella & Tapas suits a night out when you want spanish that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 3387 reviews
59
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Spanish•New York•moderate
Salinas Restaurant
Salinas Restaurant is a spanish pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 2837 reviews
60
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Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Mojitos
Mojitos is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.6
Based on 2517 reviews
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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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.6
Based on 2433 reviews
62
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Breakfast•Murray Hill•value
Hole In The Wall - Murray Hill
Hole In The Wall - Murray Hill is a global restaurant in Murray Hill in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinner
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9.6
Based on 2323 reviews
63
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Korean•Murray Hill•value
KJUN
Murray Hill is nobody's idea of a dining destination, which makes KJUN feel almost like a dare.
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9.6
Based on 2194 reviews
64
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Vegetarian•New York•value
Anixi Mediterranean Vegan Restaurant
Anixi Mediterranean Vegan Restaurant is an easy vegetarian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation. Fire Roasted Eggplant and Mushroom Ragù Hummus also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.6
Based on 2169 reviews
65
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Halal•New York•value
Halal Eats
Halal Eats is an easy halal option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
halaldinner
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9.6
Based on 2144 reviews
66
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Chinese•New York•value
Jiang Nan NYC
Jiang Nan NYC is a chinese restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
lunchdinner
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9.6
Based on 1983 reviews
67
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Nolita Pizza
Nolita Pizza is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 1440 reviews
68
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
RAS Plant Based
RAS Plant Based is a ethiopian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.6
Based on 1361 reviews
69
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.6
Based on 1338 reviews
70
Halal•New York•value
Shawarma Bay
Shawarma Bay is not trying to impress anyone, and that's exactly why it has a following.
halaldinner
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9.6
Based on 1299 reviews
71
Thai•Fort Greene•moderate
SUKH
Fort Greene does not need another Thai restaurant running through the Bangkok-greatest-hits routine, and Sukh — opened by the team behind Prospect Heights' Nourish — has no interest in being one.
dinnercool
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9.6
Based on 1144 reviews
72
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French•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Recette
Recette is a french restaurant in Bed-Stuy in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinner
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9.6
Based on 1113 reviews
73
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Moon Cheese Restaurant
Moon Cheese Restaurant is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.6
Based on 1086 reviews
74
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Seafood•New York•splurge
Aquarelle seafood & mediterranean east village restaurant NYC
Aquarelle seafood & mediterranean east village restaurant NYC is an easy seafood option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.6
Based on 1042 reviews
75
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American•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Miss Nellie's
Miss Nellie's arrives with a strong conceptual foundation: a Hell's Kitchen bar-restaurant named for Nellie Bly, the globe-circling journalist, and decorated accordingly — Victorian dark wood, framed curiosities, the feel of a well-appoi…
theaterdinner
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9.6
Based on 928 reviews
76
Burgers•Nolita•value
7th Street Burger Soho
7th Street Burger occupies a very specific lane in New York's smash-burger moment — and it does so with unusual discipline.
burgersdinner
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9.6
Based on 877 reviews
77
Halal•Upper West Side•value
Halal Chicks and Platters
Halal Chicks and Platters is a halal restaurant in Upper West Side in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
halaldinner
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9.6
Based on 790 reviews
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Spanish•New York•moderate
BONSAII Tapas & Wine Bar
BONSAII lands at 127 East 55th Street with a premise that Midtown doesn't often attempt seriously: a tapas bar built on the friction between Asian and Spanish culinary instincts, run by restaurateurs Kevin Cardenas and Ruben Cabrera, who…
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 786 reviews
79
Greek•Park Slope•value
Tziki
Tziki opened in Chelsea in 2024 with a founding story that's worth paying attention to: four friends with roots in Athens, Chios, Kefalonia, and Cyprus decided the city needed souvlaki done the way Athens has been doing it, the year the…
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.6
Based on 692 reviews
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Greek•Astoria•value
Fresco’s Grand Cantina
Fresco's Grand Cantina isn't trying to blend into Astoria's established Greek-and-Mediterranean corridor — it's doing something deliberately louder and more inclusive.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.6
Based on 670 reviews
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American•Long Island City•moderate
4747LIC
Long Island City has spent years defined by proximity — the bridge, the skyline across the water, the borough it is not.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 639 reviews
82
Vietnamese•New York•value
Pho99 NYC
Pho99 NYC is an easy vietnamese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.6
Based on 508 reviews
83
Vegetarian•New York•value
Sentir Vegan Mexican Restaurant
Sentir Vegan Mexican is doing something that most plant-forward restaurants in New York are too timid to attempt: cooking within the full grammar of Mexican cuisine rather than gesturing at it.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.6
Based on 487 reviews
84
French•Union Square•moderate
Le Basque French Vegan Restaurant
Chef Guy Vaknin — the founder of City Roots Hospitality and a decade-plus architect of New York's upscale plant-based scene — has done something genuinely unusual at Le Basque: he's built a Basque Country–inflected French restaurant wher…
centraldinnerlunch
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9.6
Based on 483 reviews
85
Indian•New York•moderate
Ane Bar & Restaurant
Ane Bar & Restaurant is an easy indian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
spicydinnerindian
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9.6
Based on 477 reviews
86
Vietnamese•New York•value
Ly Ly Vietnam Cookhouse
Ly Ly Vietnam Cookhouse on East 81st Street is the kind of place that makes you reconsider the Upper East Side's reputation as a culinary dead zone.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.6
Based on 455 reviews
87
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
Benyam
Benyam is a Harlem Ethiopian restaurant that positions itself as something more than a place to eat — it's a statement about Black creative life on the northern end of Manhattan.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.6
Based on 447 reviews
88
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…
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.6
Based on 443 reviews
89
Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
The Good Good
The Good Good is the East Harlem project that happens when three people who've already proven themselves — Juliet and Justine Masters of The Edge Harlem, and Lesly Bernard, the hospitality veteran behind Tillman's and Clementine — decide…
dinnersoul food
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9.6
Based on 395 reviews
90
Seafood•New York•splurge
Pesce lulu Seafood Kitchen NYC
Pesce Lulu is doing something genuinely rare inside Midtown East's lunch-break ecosystem.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.6
Based on 331 reviews
91
Spanish•West Village•moderate
WEST10WEST
West10West is making a specific argument about what a West Village dinner can be, and the room appears to make the case before the food arrives.
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9.6
Based on 330 reviews
92
Burgers•New York•value
Burgers & Beer
West Village has no shortage of burger spots leaning on nostalgia or gimmick, but Burgers & Beer at 170 West 4th Street is operating on a different frequency — a father-daughter-owned shop that treats the smash burger as a legitimate cul…
burgersdinner
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9.6
Based on 319 reviews
93
Vietnamese•New York•value
Pho Dragon Restaurant
Pho Dragon is a price-level-one Vietnamese counter in New York that has, by every account, placed its entire bet on the bowl.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.6
Based on 304 reviews
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Contemporary•New York•moderate
Hide Rooftop
Hide Rooftop does something Manhattan rarely bothers with anymore: it refuses to choose a lane and commits to that refusal with genuine confidence.
viewsdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 269 reviews
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Seafood•Upper West Side•splurge
The Shell Seafood Kitchen & Bar
The Shell Seafood Kitchen & Bar arrived on Amsterdam Avenue with a clear point of view: Mediterranean-inflected seafood — Italian, French, and Spanish in its bones — served with the kind of hospitality that co-founder Val Crovetto has bu…
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.6
Based on 268 reviews
96
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Cork Wine Bar (Soho)
Cork Wine Bar in Soho has a reputation that precedes it for reasons that have little to do with the wine list alone.
winedinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 237 reviews
97
Ethiopian•Greenpoint•moderate
Bersi Ethiopian Restaurant
Bersi is, first and foremost, a plant-forward Ethiopian kitchen built around a genuine point of view rather than a compromise position.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.6
Based on 233 reviews
98
Caribbean•Crown Heights•value
Greyz Bistro
Chef Garth Cheese is doing something at Greyz Bistro that Crown Heights specifically earns — a modern Caribbean-Asian fusion that doesn't treat either tradition as a backdrop for the other.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.6
Based on 218 reviews
99
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Untable
Untable seats thirty-six people — twenty-six of them in a room so compact the tables are almost conspiratorial — and yet it reportedly drew lines down Carroll Gardens blocks that the neighborhood hadn't seen in years.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.6
Based on 207 reviews
100
Italian•Nolita•moderate
Boni and Mott
Boni & Mott is the kind of Nolita room that earns its place on the street by being unambiguous about what it is.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 203 reviews
101
Pizza•Union Square•moderate
Angelina Bakery Union Square
Angelina Bakery Union Square is an easy pizza option in Union Square in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.6
Based on 186 reviews
102
Spanish•New York•moderate
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus is a concept with genuine historical weight, and alandalus — the restaurant — appears to take that seriously.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 175 reviews
103
Dominican•New York•value
Que Rico Restaurant
Que Rico Restaurant is an easy dominican option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.6
Based on 144 reviews
104
Halal•Park Slope•value
Mama Halal Food
Mama Halal Food is a sensible halal call in Park Slope in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
halaldinner
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9.6
Based on 132 reviews
105
Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
Frijoleros
Frijoleros suits a night out in Greenpoint when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.6
Based on 115 reviews
106
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Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
HOUSE Brooklyn
HOUSE Brooklyn is a japanese pick in Greenpoint in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.6
Based on 109 reviews
107
Wine Bar•Flatiron•moderate
Saint Urban
Saint Urban is the kind of wine bar room in Flatiron you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Ajoblanco w/ Green Almonds, Cucumber, Razor Clams & Mojama and Cavaillon Melon Salmorejo w/ Leeks & Duck Jamón also give you a decent sense of the menu.
winedinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 73 reviews
108
Burgers•Lower East Side•value
Ludlow Burger Co.
Ludlow Burger Co. is a sensible burgers call in Lower East Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
burgersdinner
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9.6
Based on 40 reviews
109
Vietnamese•New York•value
Cô Lạc
Cô Lạc is a sensible vietnamese call in New York when you want something that usually lands well. If Cô Lạc is your kind of order, that is a good sign.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.6
Based on 27 reviews
110
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Global•New York•value
OLIO E PIÙ
OLIO E PIÙ keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable global plan.
lunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 11298 reviews
111
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Vietnamese•New York•value
OBAO
OBAO occupies a particular lane in New York's Vietnamese scene that most restaurants in that category don't bother with: the menu reads less like a preservation project and more like an active conversation with the cuisine.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.4
Based on 9528 reviews
112
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Japanese•New York•value
Ivan Ramen
Ivan Orkin's path to the Lower East Side is unusual enough to be worth understanding before you walk in.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 9505 reviews
113
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Brunch•New York•value
The Dead Rabbit
The Dead Rabbit keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable global plan.
lunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 8393 reviews
114
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Thai•New York•value
Thai Villa
Thai Villa keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable thai plan.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.4
Based on 7659 reviews
115
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Dessert•New York•moderate
Levain Bakery
Levain Bakery is one of the better-known dessert spots in New York, which makes it a practical place to start.
dessertdinner
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9.4
Based on 7235 reviews
116
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American•Crown Heights•value
Cornbread Brooklyn
Cornbread Brooklyn is one of the better-known american spots in Crown Heights in New York, which makes it a practical place to start.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 7213 reviews
117
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Contemporary•Long Island City•moderate
Lost in Paradise Rooftop
Lost in Paradise Rooftop suits a night out in Long Island City when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 6792 reviews
118
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Burgers•New York•value
Au Cheval
Au Cheval is one of the better-known burgers spots in New York, which makes it a practical place to start. Chopped Chicken Liver and Roasted Marrow Bones also give you a decent sense of the menu.
burgersdinner
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9.4
Based on 6395 reviews
119
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Thai•NoHo•moderate
Fish Cheeks
Fish Cheeks is the kind of thai room in NoHo you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 5215 reviews
120
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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.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 4951 reviews
121
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French•Union Square•moderate
Boucherie Union Square
Boucherie Union Square is a sensible french call in Union Square in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.4
Based on 4888 reviews
122
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Greek•New York•value
Shuka
Shuka is a sensible greek call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 4257 reviews
123
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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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.4
Based on 4181 reviews
124
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Thai•New York•moderate
BIB GOURMAND
Pranakhon
Pranakhon is the kind of thai room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
centraldinnerbib gourmand
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9.4
Based on 3214 reviews
125
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American•DUMBO•moderate
Westville Dumbo
Westville Dumbo is the kind of american room in DUMBO you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 3068 reviews
126
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Burgers•New York•value
Black Iron Burger Theater District | Hamburger restaurant Bar
Black Iron Burger Theater District | Hamburger restaurant Bar is an easy burgers option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
burgersdinner
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9.4
Based on 2447 reviews
127
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Peruvian•Union Square•moderate
Mission Ceviche Union Square
Mission Ceviche Union Square is an easy peruvian option in Union Square in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.4
Based on 2073 reviews
128
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Ethiopian•Flushing•moderate
Bunna Cafe
Bunna Cafe is an easy ethiopian option in Flushing in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.4
Based on 1969 reviews
129
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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…
centraldinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 1962 reviews
130
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American•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
UT47 Kitchen & Bar
UT47 Kitchen & Bar is an easy american option in Hell’s Kitchen in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
theaterdinner
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9.4
Based on 1855 reviews
131
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Vegetarian•New York•value
Willow Vegan Bistro
Willow Vegan Bistro is a vegetarian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 1680 reviews
132
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Japanese•Prospect Heights•moderate
Ozakaya
Ozakaya is a japanese pick in Prospect Heights in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 1606 reviews
133
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Vegetarian•New York•value
Vegan On The Fly
Vegan On The Fly is a vegetarian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 1590 reviews
134
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Contemporary•Tribeca•splurge
Bluestone Lane Tribeca Café
Bluestone Lane's Tribeca outpost has a reputation that precedes it in a specific, useful way: this is a café that understands Tribeca mornings operate at a different register than the rest of Manhattan.
upscaledinner
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9.4
Based on 1564 reviews
135
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Greek•Astoria•value
Inca Paisa Restaurant Astoria
Inca Paisa on Broadway is doing something Astoria genuinely needed: holding two culinary identities — Colombian and Peruvian — in the same room without collapsing either into a greatest-hits approximation.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 1547 reviews
136
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Japanese•New York•value
Shinjuku Ramen
Shinjuku Ramen is an easy japanese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 1535 reviews
137
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Italian•Fort Greene•moderate
Evelina
Evelina is a italian restaurant in Fort Greene in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercool
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9.4
Based on 1522 reviews
138
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Indian•New York•moderate
Spice Symphony Times Square
Spice Symphony, a few steps off the main theatre district drag on West 46th Street, addresses one of Midtown's most persistent dining frustrations: where to find genuinely well-spiced Indian cooking within walking distance of Broadway wi…
spicydinnerindian
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9.4
Based on 1485 reviews
139
Indian•New York•moderate
Musaafer
Musaafer is a indian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
spicydinnerindian
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9.4
Based on 1297 reviews
140
Global•Crown Heights•value
The Munchies
The Munchies is a sensible global call in Crown Heights in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 1285 reviews
141
Peruvian•New York•moderate
Tumi Peruvian Restaurant NYC
Tumi Peruvian Restaurant NYC is a peruvian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 1206 reviews
142
Global•Crown Heights•value
Crown Heights Mozzarella
Crown Heights Mozzarella is a sensible global call in Crown Heights in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 1151 reviews
143
Halal•Park Slope•value
Halal Bros Grill 5th Ave
Halal Bros Grill 5th Ave is a sensible halal call in Park Slope in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
halaldinner
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9.4
Based on 1070 reviews
144
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Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Salvaje Social Club NYC
Salvaje Social Club NYC is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.4
Based on 1054 reviews
145
Thai•New York•value
CHADA NYC
CHADA NYC is a thai restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.4
Based on 1051 reviews
146
Vegetarian•SoHo•value
Le Botaniste
Le Botaniste is a vegetarian restaurant in SoHo in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 1017 reviews
147
American•SoHo•moderate
Blue Ribbon Brasserie
Blue Ribbon Brasserie is a american pick in SoHo in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 1007 reviews
148
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.4
Based on 970 reviews
149
Greek•New York•value
White Olive
White Olive is a greek restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 965 reviews
150
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.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 830 reviews
151
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Burgers•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Lovely's Old Fashioned
Lovely's Old Fashioned is a love letter pressed into a potato bun — specifically, it's Chef Adam Schop's tribute to his grandmother Charlotte, who raised him on burgers layered with pickles and onions on exactly that bun.
theaterdinner
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9.4
Based on 825 reviews
152
American•Long Island City•moderate
Kakes NYC
Kakes NYC lands in Long Island City as a 21+ lounge and dining destination built around a specific premise: that dessert thinking should run through an entire meal, not just arrive at the end.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 762 reviews
153
Mediterranean•Prospect Heights•moderate
Leland Eating and Drinking House
Leland Eating and Drinking House arrived in 2020 on the corner of Dean and Underhill in Prospect Heights, and it's one of those rooms that seems to have understood its neighborhood before the neighborhood quite understood itself.
dinner
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9.4
Based on 695 reviews
154
French•West Village•moderate
Mino Brasserie
Mino Brasserie is making a quiet, deliberate argument in the West Village: that French brasserie cooking doesn't need to be reimagined, only done right and priced honestly.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.4
Based on 667 reviews
155
French•West Village•moderate
Le Petit Village
Le Petit Village opened in February 2025 at the corner of 7th Avenue South and Perry Street — a room built, quite deliberately, to feel like the South of France in the 1970s rather than a contemporary West Village opening.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.4
Based on 645 reviews
156
Vegetarian•West Village•value
CHLOE'S
Chef Chloe Coscarelli's return to 185 Bleecker Street is more than a homecoming — it's a corrective.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.4
Based on 599 reviews
157
Peruvian•New York•moderate
Harlemite Peruvian Cuisine
Harlemite Peruvian Cuisine occupies a specific and necessary lane on Lenox Avenue in Central Harlem — a traditional Peruvian kitchen helmed by Chef Gabriel in a neighborhood where that culinary tradition is rare, planting ají pepper heat…
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 593 reviews
158
Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
ACRE
ACRE opened on Meserole Avenue in the spring of 2020 — which is either the worst timing imaginable or proof that the concept was strong enough to survive it.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.4
Based on 582 reviews
159
Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
MADRE
MADRE is the kind of restaurant that Greenpoint's evolution has been building toward: a grown-up neighborhood spot that doesn't mistake seriousness for stiffness.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.4
Based on 552 reviews
160
Dominican•Flatiron•value
Chica & The Don
Chica the Don is doing something the Flatiron dining scene genuinely needed: straightforward Dominican cooking at a price point that doesn't require a business card to justify.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.4
Based on 528 reviews
161
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Spanish•Upper West Side•moderate
Tasca NYC
Tasca NYC is not competing with the tapas density of downtown Manhattan, and that restraint appears to be the point.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 459 reviews
162
Seafood•Upper West Side•moderate
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.4
Based on 378 reviews
163
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American•Prospect Heights•moderate
Arden
Arden arrives in Prospect Heights without fanfare, which appears to be a deliberate posture.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 350 reviews
164
Italian•Crown Heights•value
Briscola Trattoria
Crown Heights doesn't need another restaurant cosplaying as somewhere it's not, and Briscola Trattoria — which landed in September 2024 from Top Chef alum Silvia Barban and the LaRina crew — apparently understands this.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 337 reviews
165
Dominican•New York•value
Cocina Consuelo
Cocina Consuelo came out of a premise that sounds simple and almost never works: two people with serious kitchen pedigree — Karina Garcia, rooted in Dominican cooking and Hamilton Heights, and her husband Lalo Rodriguez, Mexican by train…
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.4
Based on 326 reviews
166
Japanese•New York•value
Yasubee Authentic Ramen
Yasubee Authentic Ramen is not trying to impress you — and in a city where ramen has become a vehicle for chef ego and forty-dollar bowls with reservation wait lists measured in months, that restraint reads as a genuine point of view.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 301 reviews
167
Thai•Prospect Heights•moderate
The Nuaa Table
Chef Pitipong Bowornneeranart spent years running the kitchen at Nuaa on the Upper East Side before that restaurant closed in 2018, and The Nuaa Table in Prospect Heights reads like a deliberate second act — quieter, more intentional, an…
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 301 reviews
168
Greek•New York•value
Gaia Restaurant
Gaia Restaurant is a sensible greek call in New York when you want something that usually lands well. Hamachi Crudo and Octopus also give you a decent sense of the menu.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 264 reviews
169
Peruvian•New York•moderate
INKAICO Peruvian Kitchen
At 447 Bergen St in the Slope-adjacent stretch of Brooklyn, INKAICO Peruvian Kitchen plants its flag as something specific: a Latino-owned room where Chef Miguel Aguilar — Lima-born, Bobby Flay-trained, and carrying genuine family legacy…
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 245 reviews
170
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
The Purple Tongue Wine Bar
Hell's Kitchen runs on pre-curtain adrenaline, and most of its wine bars are built accordingly — turnover-focused, forgettable by design.
winedinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 240 reviews
171
Contemporary•Prospect Heights•moderate
Cafe Mado
Cafe Mado has built a reputation in Prospect Heights as a room that understands something many contemporary neighborhood restaurants do not: intimacy is a spatial and atmospheric decision before it is a culinary one.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 237 reviews
172
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
BarrelHouse NY
BarrelHouse NY is a indian restaurant in Jackson Heights in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.4
Based on 230 reviews
173
American•Upper West Side•moderate
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…
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.4
Based on 221 reviews
174
Greek•Astoria•value
Porta 23
Porta 23 opened on 23rd Avenue with a premise that still reads as genuinely unusual for Astoria's Greek-heavy dining corridor: a kitchen that threads New American cooking through a distinctly Brazilian sensibility, landing somewhere betw…
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 188 reviews
175
Japanese•New York•value
Loong Ramen
Loong Ramen is doing something specific and worth paying attention to: a Battery Park waterfront spot founded by Michelin-trained chefs from Shanghai, serving tonkotsu-based ramen at price-point-one through a lens that is distinctly pan-…
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.4
Based on 186 reviews
176
Italian•Prospect Heights•moderate
Wayward Fare
Akhtar Nawab already proved his range with Alta Calidad, a Bib Gourmand operation that built a serious following on the strength of its cooking rather than its concept.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 157 reviews
177
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
Awaze
Awaze arrives in New York with a focused ambition: to bring Ethiopian cooking to a mid-price audience without flattening its edges.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.4
Based on 149 reviews
178
Greek•New York•value
Delos Greek Restaurant
Delos Greek Restaurant is an easy greek option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation. TARAMOSALATA and HTAPODI also give you a decent sense of the menu.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.4
Based on 127 reviews
179
Peruvian•New York•moderate
Brasa Peruvian Kitchen
Brasa Peruvian Kitchen is an easy peruvian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation. Tuna Ceviche and Spicy Mango Shrimp also give you a decent sense of the menu.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 109 reviews
180
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Cellar 36
Cellar 36 is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
winedinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 101 reviews
181
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
CARTA Wine Bar New York
CARTA Wine Bar New York is a wine bar pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
winedinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 92 reviews
182
Indian•New York•moderate
Manu's Dabeli Station
Manu's Dabeli Station is an easy indian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
spicydinnerindian
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9.4
Based on 84 reviews
183
Caribbean•Upper West Side•value
Patrick's on the Hill
Patrick's on the Hill is a caribbean restaurant in Upper West Side in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercaribbean
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9.4
Based on 81 reviews
184
Spanish•New York•moderate
Enoteca
Enoteca suits a night out when you want spanish that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 70 reviews
185
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French Brasserie•New York•value
La Grande Boucherie
This is the kind of room New York doesn't build anymore, and that's the whole point of going.
brunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 10289 reviews
186
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Rubirosa
Rubirosa is a dependable italian option in Nolita that a lot of diners already know and return to.
Nolita dinnerdinnerstylish
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9.2
Based on 7163 reviews
187
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Greek•Astoria•value
Taverna Kyclades Astoria
Taverna Kyclades has held down a block on 31st Avenue in Astoria long enough that its reputation no longer requires any marketing.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 5229 reviews
188
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American•New York•moderate
MICHELIN ★
Gramercy Tavern
Gramercy Tavern has been a fixed point in New York dining for thirty years, which is an achievement that deserves precision rather than applause.
centraldinnermichelin star
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9.2
Based on 4888 reviews
189
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Peruvian•Upper East Side•moderate
Mission Ceviche
Mission Ceviche is a sensible peruvian call in Upper East Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 4268 reviews
190
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Thai•Cobble Hill•moderate
Lemongrass Brooklyn
Lemongrass Brooklyn suits a night out in Cobble Hill when you want thai that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
cozydinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 4138 reviews
191
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Spanish•SoHo•moderate
Boqueria Soho
Boqueria Soho is the kind of spanish room in SoHo you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 3811 reviews
192
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Ramen•New York•value
BIB GOURMAND
TONCHIN NEW YORK
Tonchin's New York address on West 36th Street draws a clear line back to a Tokyo original that has been operating, and the Manhattan outpost is reported to carry that lineage with some seriousness.
noodlesdinnercocktail
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9.2
Based on 3520 reviews
193
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Italian•Murray Hill•value
Scarpetta
Scarpetta is an easy italian option in Murray Hill in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 3236 reviews
194
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Osteria Barocca
Osteria Barocca is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 3172 reviews
195
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New American•New York•value
Parker & Quinn
Parker & Quinn earns a weekend detour when you want brunch that beats the usual default.
brunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 3114 reviews
196
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Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
Karczma
Greenpoint has been Brooklyn's Polish stronghold for decades, and Karczma — open — is the neighborhood's most durable argument for keeping that identity alive.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.2
Based on 2591 reviews
197
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Italian•SoHo•moderate
Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana
Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana is the kind of italian room in SoHo you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 2529 reviews
198
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American•Union Square•moderate
Union Square Cafe
Union Square Cafe occupies a particular psychic space in New York dining that very few rooms manage: it is the restaurant people return to not because they're chasing something new, but because they trust it completely.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.2
Based on 2470 reviews
199
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Italian•Murray Hill•value
Ci Siamo
Ci Siamo is an easy italian option in Murray Hill in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 2255 reviews
200
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American•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Barking Dog Hell’s Kitchen
Barking Dog Hell’s Kitchen is a sensible american call in Hell’s Kitchen in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
theaterdinner
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9.2
Based on 2244 reviews
201
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Dessert•Park Slope•moderate
SALSWEE
Park Slope runs deep with weekend-brunch destinations, but Salswee is making a quieter, more deliberate argument: that a dessert-forward café can anchor a proper evening rather than simply fill a lazy Sunday morning.
dessertdinner
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9.2
Based on 2195 reviews
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Dessert•Flatiron•moderate
NY Bakery and Desserts Times Square
NY Bakery and Desserts Times Square is a sensible dessert call in Flatiron in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dessertdinner
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9.2
Based on 1977 reviews
203
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Italian•SoHo•moderate
Piccola Cucina Estiatorio
Piccola Cucina Estiatorio is a italian pick in SoHo in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 1960 reviews
204
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Greek•New York•value
Skinos
Skinos occupies a genuinely unusual position in the Financial District — a Greek restaurant steps from One World Trade Center at 123 Washington Street that seems to function equally well as a neighborhood regular and a full-scale celebra…
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 1906 reviews
205
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Mediterranean•Fort Greene•moderate
Olea
Fort Greene has been quietly accumulating restaurants that feel like they belong to the neighborhood rather than to a moment, and Olea reads as the clearest example of that.
dinnercool
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9.2
Based on 1866 reviews
206
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Seafood•Upper East Side•splurge
Sea Fire Grill
Sea Fire Grill is a sensible seafood call in Upper East Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.2
Based on 1668 reviews
207
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Canto West Village
Canto, on Perry Street in the West Village, operates in the register this neighborhood does best: a room reportedly calibrated to feel like a borrowed living room — tables close enough that the conversation is ambient rather than overhea…
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9.2
Based on 1628 reviews
208
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Dominican•New York•value
El Tina Harlem Restaurant
El Tina in Harlem is a Dominican comedor operating with the quiet authority of a family that has zero interest in explaining itself to anyone.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.2
Based on 1445 reviews
209
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Japanese•SoHo•moderate
Momoya SoHo
Momoya SoHo suits a night out in SoHo when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 1439 reviews
210
Contemporary•DUMBO•moderate
Lucky Rabbit Noodles
Lucky Rabbit Noodles is the kind of contemporary room in DUMBO you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 1389 reviews
211
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Italian•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Norma Hell's Kitchen
Norma Hell's Kitchen is a sensible italian call in Hell’s Kitchen in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
theaterdinner
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9.2
Based on 1252 reviews
212
Italian•NoHo•moderate
Vic's
Vic's is a italian pick in NoHo in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 1223 reviews
213
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Palma
Palma is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdinnerintimate
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9.2
Based on 1187 reviews
214
Greek•New York•value
Avra Rockefeller Center
Avra Rockefeller Center is a greek restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 1146 reviews
215
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Clover Club
Clover Club is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.2
Based on 1092 reviews
216
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.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 1058 reviews
217
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Peruvian•New York•moderate
Artesano
What Artesano seems to understand — and what separates it from a lot of Peruvian restaurants working New York right now — is that the cuisine demands range.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 1020 reviews
218
Mexican•Fort Greene•moderate
Colonia Verde
Fort Greene does not lack for ambition, but Colonia Verde does something the borough's more congratulated rooms routinely fumble: it holds a specific culinary geography and refuses to let it blur.
dinnercool
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9.2
Based on 1003 reviews
219
Indian•New York•moderate
Adda
Adda in Long Island City operates on a premise that the rest of New York's Indian dining scene would do well to study: cook from specific regional traditions with seriousness, charge prices that don't require a special occasion, and trus…
spicydinnerindian
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9.2
Based on 911 reviews
220
Vegetarian•New York•value
Avant Garden
Avant Garden is making a quiet, principled argument that vegetarian dining in New York doesn't require sacrifice.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 909 reviews
221
Spanish•Cobble Hill•moderate
La Vara
La Vara is the kind of spanish room in Cobble Hill you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
cozydinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 902 reviews
222
Italian•West Village•moderate
Saint Theo's
Saint Theo's arrived on Bleecker Street in July 2021 as something the West Village had been quietly waiting for: a room that takes the Venetian cicchetti tradition seriously without making it feel like a museum exercise.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 891 reviews
223
Greek•New York•value
Pylos
Pylos is a greek restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
group dinnerdinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 845 reviews
224
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Italian•Greenpoint•moderate
Sereneco
Sereneco's origin story is legitimately unusual, and it shapes everything about how the place is put together.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.2
Based on 775 reviews
225
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Seafood•Fort Greene•moderate
Theodora
Theodora is the kind of project that happens when a chef stops optimizing for a certain kind of Manhattan approval and builds toward a personal vision instead.
dinnercool
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9.2
Based on 698 reviews
226
Steakhouse•Tribeca•splurge
Beefbar New York
Beefbar arrived in Tribeca carrying the full weight of its Monaco origins, and the neighborhood — cast-iron blocks, high ceilings, a certain expectation of ease — absorbs it without friction.
upscaledinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 635 reviews
227
Seafood•West Village•moderate
Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb earns its name.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 576 reviews
228
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
Haile
Haile is making a case that deserves attention: Ethiopian cooking, practiced with conviction and without softened edges, represents some of the most genuinely communal dining available in New York right now.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.2
Based on 566 reviews
229
Italian•Cobble Hill•moderate
Barbalu Bklyn
Barbalu Bklyn is doing something quietly radical in Cobble Hill: running an Italian-inflected contemporary room that trusts its neighborhood instead of performing for it.
cozydinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 537 reviews
230
Vegetarian•New York•value
Le Botaniste
Le Botaniste operates on a philosophy that most plant-forward restaurants pay lip-service to and then quietly abandon: that a vegetarian menu should feel like an act of abundance rather than concession.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 489 reviews
231
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Levant on Smith
The name means "to rise" — and Levant on Smith has an ambition that slightly exceeds its neighborhood's expectations, which is exactly the right amount.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.2
Based on 481 reviews
232
American•New York•value
The Mary Lane
The Mary Lane is running a quiet experiment in whether a globally-inflected menu can hold its own in New York without a high-concept pitch deck to justify itself — and by most accounts, it's working.
lunchdinner
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9.2
Based on 456 reviews
233
Italian•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Macosa Trattoria
Macosa Trattoria is making a quiet argument that Bed-Stuy deserves Italian cooking that doesn't apologize for its ambitions.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 452 reviews
234
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Greek•Astoria•value
Truth Restaurant Astoria
Truth Restaurant Astoria is a greek restaurant in Astoria in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 441 reviews
235
Italian•West Village•moderate
Felice on Hudson
Felice on Hudson is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 384 reviews
236
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Greek•Astoria•value
Tootles & French
Tootles & French is a sensible greek call in Astoria in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.2
Based on 354 reviews
237
Dominican•New York•value
El Sazón R.D.
El Sazón R.D. is a dominican restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.2
Based on 354 reviews
238
Ethiopian•New York•moderate
Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant
Lalibela has built a reputation as the Ethiopian restaurant for people who are done approximating the experience — and the distinction matters.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.2
Based on 343 reviews
239
Indian•Flatiron•moderate
Passerine
Passerine is an easy indian option in Flatiron in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
spicydinnerindian
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9.2
Based on 261 reviews
240
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American•Upper West Side•moderate
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.2
Based on 260 reviews
241
Seafood•East Village•splurge
Penny
Penny is addressing something the East Village has long needed and rarely received: a seafood-forward room that operates with genuine warmth rather than the battered-and-fried pub standard or the cold minimalism of the austere raw bar.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.2
Based on 256 reviews
242
Japanese•Upper East Side•value
Taishoken NYC
Taishoken NYC is making a specific argument on the Upper East Side, and it's one worth hearing: that the tsukemen format — thick, chewy noodles served separately from an intensely reduced dipping broth — belongs in the same conversation…
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.2
Based on 196 reviews
243
Caribbean•Upper East Side•value
Jumieka Grand
Jumieka Grand is an easy caribbean option in Upper East Side in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnercaribbean
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9.2
Based on 185 reviews
244
Contemporary•DUMBO•moderate
Nobody Told Me
Nobody Told Me operates in deliberate contrast to the rest of DUMBO's restaurant economy, which tends to traffic in river-view drama and exposed-brick ambition.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 182 reviews
245
Caribbean•New York•value
Kabawa
Kabawa is a caribbean restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercaribbean
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9.2
Based on 142 reviews
246
Peruvian•New York•moderate
Nuyores
Nuyores is a peruvian restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 135 reviews
247
Wine Bar•New York•moderate
Zizi Wine Bar
Zizi Wine Bar is a wine bar pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
winedinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 99 reviews
248
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Napoles Gastrobar
Napoles Gastrobar is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.2
Based on 10 reviews
249
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Contemporary•DUMBO•moderate
Time Out Market New York
Time Out Market New York is the kind of contemporary room in DUMBO you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 7936 reviews
250
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Burgers•New York•value
5 Napkin Burger
5 Napkin Burger is one of the better-known burgers spots in New York, which makes it a practical place to start.
burgersdinner
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9.0
Based on 7673 reviews
251
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American•Upper West Side•moderate
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.0
Based on 7404 reviews
252
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Japanese•New York•value
Ichiran
Ichiran doesn't compete for the title of best date spot or loudest group table in New York — and that deliberate narrowness is the whole point.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.0
Based on 4696 reviews
253
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American•Murray Hill•value
Refinery Rooftop
Let's be clear about what Refinery Rooftop is actually selling: Empire State Building views through a retractable glass roof, set inside an industrial-chic room of vaulted brick and warm wood that reportedly sidesteps the generic rooftop…
dinner
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9.0
Based on 4395 reviews
254
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American•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Mom's Kitchen and Bar
Mom's Kitchen and Bar is an easy american option in Hell’s Kitchen in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
theaterdinner
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9.0
Based on 4189 reviews
255
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Spanish•New York•moderate
Boqueria W40th
Boqueria W40th suits a night out when you want spanish that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 3939 reviews
256
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American•Upper West Side•moderate
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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9.0
Based on 3697 reviews
257
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Dessert•New York•moderate
Bibble & Sip
Bibble & Sip is a dessert restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dessertdinner
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9.0
Based on 3664 reviews
258
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Diner•New York•value
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.
classicdinnerdiner
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9.0
Based on 3641 reviews
259
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Burgers•New York•value
Emily
Emily is a burgers restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
burgersdinner
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9.0
Based on 3535 reviews
260
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Dessert•New York•moderate
Taiyaki NYC Japanese Ice Cream
Taiyaki NYC Japanese Ice Cream is a dessert restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dessertdinner
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9.0
Based on 3516 reviews
261
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Dessert•New York•moderate
Grace Street Coffee & Desserts
Grace Street Coffee & Desserts has made a specific and confident bet: that a room organized around Korean-inflected sweets and serious matcha can hold its position in New York without hedging toward brunch crowds or late-night traffic.
dessertdinner
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9.0
Based on 3483 reviews
262
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Dessert•East Village•moderate
Spot Dessert Bar East Village
Spot Dessert Bar East Village is a dessert restaurant in East Village in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dessertdinner
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9.0
Based on 3171 reviews
263
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Mexican•Crown Heights•value
Chavela's
Chavela's is a sensible mexican call in Crown Heights in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnerhidden gem
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9.0
Based on 3132 reviews
264
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Vegetarian•New York•value
PLANTA New York
PLANTA New York is making a quiet but unmistakable argument: plant-based dining does not require you to sacrifice the thrill of the meal.
Plant-basedlunchdinner
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9.0
Based on 3111 reviews
265
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Mexican•Long Island City•moderate
Casa Enrique
Casa Enrique has held a Michelin star for Mexican cooking long enough that the accolade no longer surprises anyone paying attention to serious regional cuisine in New York — what still surprises people is the setting.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 3039 reviews
266
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Greek•Astoria•value
Mom's Kitchen & Bar
Mom's Kitchen & Bar is an easy greek option in Astoria in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.0
Based on 2575 reviews
267
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Indian•Tribeca•splurge
Bungalow
Bungalow is the kind of indian room in Tribeca you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
upscaledinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 2530 reviews
268
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Mexican•Greenpoint•moderate
Oxomoco
Oxomoco operates at a specific intersection that Brooklyn does not pull off often: a wood-fired Mexican kitchen with genuine ambition, priced and paced in a way that does not punish you for ordering a second round.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 2442 reviews
269
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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.
classicdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 2430 reviews
270
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Italian•West Village•moderate
La Lanterna di Vittorio
La Lanterna di Vittorio suits a night out in West Village when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Date nightdinnerintimate
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9.0
Based on 2420 reviews
271
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Japanese•Union Square•moderate
Kyuramen - Union Square
Kyuramen - Union Square is an easy japanese option in Union Square in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
centraldinnerlunch
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9.0
Based on 2268 reviews
272
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Harlem Public
Harlem Public is a soul food restaurant in Harlem in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnersoul food
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9.0
Based on 2241 reviews
273
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French•New York•moderate
MICHELIN ★
Le Coucou
Le Coucou on Howard Street operates on a logic that most contemporary New York dining rooms have largely abandoned: genuine French classicism, executed without irony or concession to the novelty market.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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9.0
Based on 2113 reviews
274
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Seafood•Tribeca•splurge
1803 NYC
1803 NYC suits a night out in Tribeca when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
upscaledinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 2081 reviews
275
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Japanese•New York•value
Kyuramen
Kyuramen is an easy japanese option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
noodlesdinnerjapanese
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9.0
Based on 1987 reviews
276
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American•Murray Hill•value
Monkey Bar
Murray Hill doesn't collect much editorial ink, and Monkey Bar is the kind of place that makes you wonder why critics keep bypassing the neighborhood.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 1811 reviews
277
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Peruvian•New York•moderate
Kausa
Kausa is an easy peruvian option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
seafooddinnergroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 1795 reviews
278
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Lido Harlem Restaurant
Lido Harlem Restaurant is a sensible soul food call in Harlem in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnersoul food
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9.0
Based on 1779 reviews
279
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Greek•Astoria•value
The Bonnie
The Bonnie is an easy greek option in Astoria in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.0
Based on 1682 reviews
280
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
The Edge Harlem
The Edge Harlem is doing something specific, and that specificity is exactly why it registers.
dinnersoul food
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9.0
Based on 1526 reviews
281
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Vietnamese•East Village•value
Madame Vo
Madame Vo is doing something the East Village Vietnamese scene has largely failed to pull off: treating the cuisine as worthy of a real dining room without flipping to SoHo pricing to justify it.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.0
Based on 1511 reviews
282
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Emporio
Emporio is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 1478 reviews
283
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Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Frankies 457 Spuntino
Frankies 457 Spuntino is the kind of italian room in Carroll Gardens you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 1466 reviews
284
American•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Rustik Tavern
Rustik Tavern is a american restaurant in Bed-Stuy in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 1405 reviews
285
Vietnamese•East Village•value
Hanoi House
Hanoi House isn't chasing refinement — it's chasing something harder to fake: a room that actually feels like the food deserves to be eaten in it.
phodinnervietnamese
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9.0
Based on 1356 reviews
286
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Japanese•Murray Hill•value
The Flatiron Room Murray Hill
The Flatiron Room Murray Hill is a sensible japanese call in Murray Hill in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 1257 reviews
287
Contemporary•West Village•moderate
Dante West Village
Dante West Village is the kind of contemporary room in West Village you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 1228 reviews
288
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
The Queensboro
The Queensboro is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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9.0
Based on 1136 reviews
289
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Mediterranean•Greenpoint•moderate
Glasserie
Glasserie occupies a former glass factory in Greenpoint, and the space — high ceilings, candlelight, the bones of something industrial softened into something warm — has a reputation for feeling genuinely unforced in a way that a lot of…
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 945 reviews
290
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Italian•New York•moderate
MICHELIN ★
Torrisi
Torrisi occupies a position in New York's dining landscape that few Italian-American restaurants have seriously contested: the deliberate, rigorous reclamation of a cuisine long accustomed to being condescended to.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 941 reviews
291
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Greek•Astoria•value
Sotto la Luna
Sotto la Luna is a sensible greek call in Astoria in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnergroup dinnergreek
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9.0
Based on 899 reviews
292
Dominican•New York•value
Zoralie
Zoralie is a dominican restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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9.0
Based on 860 reviews
293
Chinese•Long Island City•moderate
Jing Li
Jing Li is the kind of chinese room in Long Island City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 817 reviews
294
Italian•Nolita•moderate
Peasant
Peasant suits a night out in Nolita when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 810 reviews
295
Ethiopian•Upper West Side•moderate
Massawa
Massawa is a sensible ethiopian call in Upper West Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
group dinnerdinnerspicy
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9.0
Based on 758 reviews
296
Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
Wenwen
Wenwen takes its name from two women — Eric Sze's mother and wife, who share the same Chinese character — and that founding detail tells you something about how the place operates.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 735 reviews
297
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Gersi Restaurant Brooklyn
Gersi Restaurant Brooklyn suits a night out in Carroll Gardens when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 626 reviews
298
Brunch•Upper East Side•value
Café Maud
Café Maud is a sensible global call in Upper East Side in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
lunchdinner
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9.0
Based on 558 reviews
299
American•NoHo•moderate
Odd Sister
Odd Sister landed on Mercer Street in late 2023 with a design thesis most new restaurants are too timid to commit to: the speakeasy and the salon, collapsed into one room without apology.
stylishdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 510 reviews
300
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Brunch•Murray Hill•value
Albert’s Bar
Albert’s Bar is a sensible global call in Murray Hill in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 510 reviews
301
Seafood•New York•splurge
Cobble Fish
Cobble Fish operates as an unambiguous seafood counter in New York City — no staging required, no concept to decode.
seafooddinnerupscale
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9.0
Based on 479 reviews
302
Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
Lingo
Lingo is doing something quietly radical in Greenpoint: a menu that refuses to pledge allegiance to any single culinary tradition, and by all accounts it's sharper for it.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 330 reviews
303
Italian•Carroll Gardens•moderate
Luana's Tavern
Luana's Tavern suits a night out in Carroll Gardens when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
dinnerdate nightitalian
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9.0
Based on 253 reviews
304
Halal•New York•value
Halal Hibachi Bites
Halal Hibachi Bites is a sensible halal call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
halaldinner
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9.0
Based on 212 reviews
305
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Diner•Flatiron•value
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…
classicdinnerdiner
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8.8
Based on 24187 reviews
306
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American•Tribeca•splurge
Bubby's
Bubby's keeps showing up in the right conversations in Tribeca when people want a reliable american plan.
upscaledinner
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8.8
Based on 8635 reviews
307
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French•Tribeca•splurge
Balthazar
Balthazar keeps showing up in the right conversations in Tribeca when people want a reliable french plan.
upscaledinner
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8.8
Based on 7746 reviews
308
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Red Rooster Harlem
Red Rooster Harlem is one of the better-known soul food spots in Harlem in New York, which makes it a practical place to start.
dinnersoul food
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8.8
Based on 7718 reviews
309
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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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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8.8
Based on 5476 reviews
310
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Mediterranean•NoHo•moderate
Jack's Wife Freda
Jack's Wife Freda is not trying to be the most interesting restaurant in New York.
stylishdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 4936 reviews
311
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Dominican•Flatiron•value
Malecon Restaurant (175th Street)
Malecon Restaurant (175th Street) is a dominican restaurant in Flatiron in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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8.8
Based on 4090 reviews
312
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Dominican•New York•value
Café Nuñez
Café Nuñez is making a quiet, stubborn argument that Dominican cooking belongs in the same conversation as every other cuisine New York takes seriously — and by most accounts, it's winning.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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8.8
Based on 3002 reviews
313
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Diner•New York•value
Golden Diner
Golden Diner is an easy diner option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
classicdinnerdiner
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8.8
Based on 2904 reviews
314
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American•New York•moderate
RH Rooftop Restaurant at RH New York
RH Rooftop Restaurant at RH New York is a american pick in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
viewsdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 2665 reviews
315
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American•DUMBO•moderate
The River Café
The River Café suits a night out in DUMBO when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 2509 reviews
316
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Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Locanda Verde Tribeca
Locanda Verde Tribeca is the kind of italian room in Tribeca you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
upscaledinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 2339 reviews
317
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Little Ruby's SoHo
Little Ruby's SoHo is a italian pick in Nolita in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 2307 reviews
318
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Contemporary•Long Island City•moderate
Maiella
Long Island City doesn't perform romance the way Manhattan does — no velvet-rope theatre, no sommelier deployed as a prop.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 2059 reviews
319
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American•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Peaches HotHouse
Peaches HotHouse is an easy american option in Bed-Stuy in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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8.8
Based on 2008 reviews
320
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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.
classicdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1863 reviews
321
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Italian•Tribeca•splurge
Serafina Tribeca
Serafina Tribeca is a italian pick in Tribeca in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
upscaledinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1704 reviews
322
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Maison Harlem
Maison Harlem is an easy soul food option in Harlem in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnersoul food
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8.8
Based on 1543 reviews
323
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Dominican•New York•value
El Castillo De Jagua Restaurant
El Castillo De Jagua Restaurant is a dominican restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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8.8
Based on 1440 reviews
324
Brunch•DUMBO•moderate
Superfine
Superfine is a contemporary pick in DUMBO in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1405 reviews
325
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Mediterranean•DUMBO•moderate
Celestine
Celestine is a mediterranean pick in DUMBO in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1383 reviews
326
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
Pietro Nolita
Pietro Nolita is the kind of italian room in Nolita you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Nolita dinnerdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 1374 reviews
327
French•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Chez Oskar
Chez Oskar has been doing something quietly radical in Bed-Stuy for years: running a French-leaning global bistro that reads as genuinely belonging to the neighborhood rather than parachuting in from above it.
dinner
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8.8
Based on 1291 reviews
328
Burgers•Fort Greene•moderate
Walter's
Walter's is an easy burgers option in Fort Greene in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnercool
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8.8
Based on 1207 reviews
329
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American•Upper West Side•moderate
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.
UWS dinnerfamily dinnerdinner
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8.8
Based on 1072 reviews
330
Caribbean•New York•value
Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine
Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine is a sensible caribbean call in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnercaribbean
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8.8
Based on 989 reviews
331
Contemporary•Greenpoint•moderate
Chez Ma Tante
Chez Ma Tante is the kind of contemporary room in Greenpoint you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Oysters and Chicken liver pâté also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.8
Based on 981 reviews
332
American Brasserie•East Village•value
The Terrace and Outdoor Gardens at the Times Square EDITION
The Terrace and Outdoor Gardens at the Times Square EDITION is a strong brunch move in East Village in New York when you want the meal to feel worth leaving the house for.
brunchdinner
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8.8
Based on 977 reviews
333
French•Fort Greene•moderate
Café Paulette
Café Paulette is a sensible french call in Fort Greene in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnercool
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8.8
Based on 972 reviews
334
Indian•New York•moderate
Chatti by Regi Mathew
Chatti by Regi Mathew is doing something that most Indian restaurants in New York still won't risk: building an entire identity around Kerala, not as a regional footnote tucked beneath a North Indian menu, but as the whole point.
spicydinnerindian
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8.8
Based on 822 reviews
335
Burgers•Cobble Hill•moderate
Henry Public
Henry Public is the kind of burgers room in Cobble Hill you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
cozydinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 664 reviews
336
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Laly's Restaurant
Laly's Restaurant is a indian restaurant in Jackson Heights in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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8.8
Based on 606 reviews
337
Contemporary•Prospect Heights•moderate
gertrude’s
gertrude’s is the kind of contemporary room in Prospect Heights you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 472 reviews
338
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Brunch•Cobble Hill•moderate
June
June is a contemporary pick in Cobble Hill in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Burrata and Tuna Crudo also give you a decent sense of the menu.
cozydinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 449 reviews
339
American•Fort Greene•moderate
Sailor
Sailor is a american restaurant in Fort Greene in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercool
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8.8
Based on 439 reviews
340
Vietnamese•New York•value
Bánh Anh Em
Bánh Anh Em is a vietnamese restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
phodinnervietnamese
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8.8
Based on 423 reviews
341
American•Prospect Heights•moderate
No. 7 Restaurant
No. 7 Restaurant is the kind of american room in Prospect Heights you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 388 reviews
342
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Contemporary•New York•moderate
Creature's Rooftop
Creature's Rooftop suits a night out when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
viewsdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 308 reviews
343
American•Fort Greene•moderate
Peaches Prime
Fort Greene has been quietly assembling one of Brooklyn's most interesting dining corridors, and Peaches Prime reads as the neighborhood's clearest statement of intent: contemporary American cooking filtered through a distinctly Black Br…
dinnercool
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8.8
Based on 280 reviews
344
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Italian•West Village•moderate
Ambra
Ambra is a italian pick in West Village in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Date nightdate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 259 reviews
345
Contemporary•DUMBO•moderate
gair
gair suits a night out in DUMBO when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 240 reviews
346
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Luna's Kitchen & Bar
Luna's Kitchen & Bar is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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8.8
Based on 165 reviews
347
Contemporary•Tribeca•splurge
Smith & Mills
Smith & Mills is a contemporary pick in Tribeca in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
upscaledinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 64 reviews
348
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Contemporary•Flatiron•moderate
230 Fifth Rooftop Bar
230 Fifth Rooftop Bar suits a night out in Flatiron when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
viewsdinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 25186 reviews
349
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Sylvia's Restaurant
Sylvia's is not trying to be the next thing in Harlem, and that restraint is the whole point.
dinnersoul food
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8.6
Based on 8911 reviews
350
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Halal•New York•value
Adel's Famous Halal Food
Adel's Famous Halal Food keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable halal plan.
halaldinner
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8.6
Based on 5424 reviews
351
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Diner•New York•value
Brooklyn Diner USA
Brooklyn Diner USA keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable diner plan.
classicdinnerdiner
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8.6
Based on 5071 reviews
352
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Mexican•Union Square•moderate
Rosa Mexicano
Rosa Mexicano at Union Square is doing something the neighborhood's dining landscape genuinely needs: contemporary Mexican cooking that respects the cuisine's architecture without flattening it into queso-blanketed familiarity.
centraldinnerlunch
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8.6
Based on 4740 reviews
353
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Contemporary•SoHo•moderate
Ladurée Soho
Ladurée Soho is a sensible contemporary call in SoHo in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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8.6
Based on 3787 reviews
354
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Corner Social
Corner Social doesn't position itself as a reinvention of anything — it lands in Harlem as a full-service soul food dining room that takes the neighborhood seriously.
dinnersoul food
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8.6
Based on 3314 reviews
355
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American•Prospect Heights•moderate
Sweet Chick
Sweet Chick is a american pick in Prospect Heights in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 3086 reviews
356
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Caribbean•New York•value
Negril Village
Negril Village is a caribbean restaurant in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinnercaribbean
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8.6
Based on 2872 reviews
357
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American•Greenpoint•moderate
Five Leaves
Five Leaves is the kind of american room in Greenpoint you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.6
Based on 2608 reviews
358
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American•SoHo•moderate
The Dutch
The Dutch has developed a clear identity in a neighborhood full of rooms still auditioning for one — and that commitment alone puts it ahead.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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8.6
Based on 2426 reviews
359
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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.
classicdinnerdiner
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8.6
Based on 2346 reviews
360
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem is a sensible soul food call in Harlem in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnersoul food
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8.6
Based on 2121 reviews
361
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Japanese•Greenpoint•moderate
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds is a japanese pick in Greenpoint in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.6
Based on 1642 reviews
362
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American•Prospect Heights•moderate
Sisters
Sisters is a american pick in Prospect Heights in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 1556 reviews
363
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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.
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 895 reviews
364
Italian•DUMBO•moderate
AlMar
AlMar is a italian pick in DUMBO in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 830 reviews
365
Mediterranean•Cobble Hill•moderate
Kitchen at Cobble Hill
Kitchen at Cobble Hill is a mediterranean pick in Cobble Hill in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
cozydinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 432 reviews
366
Seafood•Bed-Stuy•moderate
Copacabana seafood and brunch
Copacabana seafood and brunch is a global restaurant in Bed-Stuy in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
dinner
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8.6
Based on 265 reviews
367
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Latin American•Long Island City•moderate
Blend on the Water
Blend on the Water is the kind of latin american room in Long Island City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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8.4
Based on 5941 reviews
368
Google
French•NoHo•moderate
Lafayette Grand Café & Bakery
Lafayette Grand Café & Bakery does something NoHo has long needed done correctly: it makes the room the argument.
stylishdinner
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8.4
Based on 5493 reviews
369
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Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Taqueria Coatzingo
Taqueria Coatzingo is a sensible indian call in Jackson Heights in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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8.4
Based on 2105 reviews
370
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Contemporary•New York•moderate
Nubeluz
Nubeluz suits a night out when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
viewsdinnerdate night
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8.4
Based on 1610 reviews
371
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American•Hell’s Kitchen•moderate
Lilly's Craft and Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen has never been short on taverns, but Lilly's Craft and Kitchen at 675 9th Avenue pulls off something that most of its neighbors fumble: it earns that word "craft" without making you feel lectured at.
theaterdinner
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8.4
Based on 1257 reviews
372
Italian•Greenpoint•moderate
Milk & Roses
Milk & Roses has worked out something that a lot of Greenpoint rooms are still chasing: how to feel genuinely romantic without manufacturing the atmosphere through obvious moves.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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8.4
Based on 1014 reviews
373
Google
American•NoHo•moderate
Jean's
Jean's arrived in NoHo without announcing itself, and that restraint appears to be entirely deliberate.
stylishdinnerdate night
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8.4
Based on 650 reviews
374
Contemporary•New York•moderate
One40 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar
One40 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar is the kind of contemporary room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
viewsdinnerdate night
Read restaurant page
8.4
Based on 332 reviews
375
Indian•Jackson Heights•value
Homemade Taqueria Jackson Heights
Homemade Taqueria Jackson Heights is an easy indian option in Jackson Heights in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerhidden gemindian
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8.4
Based on 301 reviews
376
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Dominican•New York•value
La Casa Del Mofongo
La Casa Del Mofongo is an easy dominican option in New York to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinnerdominicanlatin american
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8.2
Based on 4947 reviews
377
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Contemporary•DUMBO•moderate
Cecconi's DUMBO
Cecconi's DUMBO suits a night out in DUMBO when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
Read restaurant page
8.2
Based on 3177 reviews
378
Contemporary•Long Island City•moderate
Lighthouse Rooftop
Lighthouse Rooftop is the kind of contemporary room in Long Island City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
Read restaurant page
8.2
Based on 947 reviews
379
Caribbean•Upper East Side•value
LÉLÉ
LÉLÉ is doing something the Upper East Side has needed for a while: bringing Afro-Caribbean culture into a room that doesn't sand down its edges for the neighborhood.
dinnercaribbean
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8.2
Based on 350 reviews
380
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Italian•Nolita•moderate
The Butcher's Daughter
The Butcher's Daughter is a italian restaurant in Nolita in New York that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Nolita dinnerdinnerstylish
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8.0
Based on 2171 reviews
381
Mediterranean•SoHo•moderate
Pera Soho
Pera Soho suits a night out in SoHo when you want mediterranean that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
SoHo lunchlunchdinner
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8.0
Based on 1085 reviews
382
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Soul Food•Harlem•moderate
Native Harlem
Native Harlem is a sensible soul food call in Harlem in New York when you want something that usually lands well.
dinnersoul food
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8.0
Based on 573 reviews
383
Contemporary•NoHo•moderate
The Nines
The Nines is doing something quietly radical for NoHo: making a mid-price room feel genuinely grown-up without tipping into theater.
stylishdinnerdate night
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7.8
Based on 341 reviews
384
Google
Chinese•Queens•moderate
The Alcove
The Alcove suits a night out in Queens when you want chinese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Queens diningdinnerconsidered
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4.8
Based on 1299 reviews
385
Google
Italian•Bronx•moderate
Antonio's Trattoria
Antonio's Trattoria suits a night out in Bronx when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Bronx diningdinnerconsidered
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4.6
Based on 1614 reviews
386
Google
Indian•Crown Heights•moderate
La'Mode BK
La'Mode BK is the kind of indian room in Crown Heights you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Crown Heights diningdinnerconsidered
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4.6
Based on 475 reviews
387
Google
Seafood•Bronx•moderate
City Island Lobster House
City Island Lobster House is a seafood pick in Bronx in New York when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Bronx diningdinnerconsidered
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4.4
Based on 5695 reviews
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