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Italian•West Village•$$$
Via Carota
Via Carota has built something that technically ambitious restaurants rarely manage: a reputation grounded entirely in restraint.
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8.8
Based on 3276 reviews
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Via Carota
Italian | West Village | $$$
Jody Williams and Rita Sodi's West Village room has achieved something rare: a restaurant that feels like it has always existed.
#2 pick
Don Angie
Italian | New York | $$$
Scott Tacinelli and Angie Rito's SoHo Italian-American is a love letter to a cuisine that New York has spent decades undervaluing.
#3 pick
Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi
Caribbean | Manhattan | value
Kwame Onwuachi's restaurant at Lincoln Center arrived in 2022 with the most culturally expansive menu in New York — a tasting menu that traces his own biography through Nigerian...
