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Your guide to the best of New York’s food and drink scene spanning all five boroughs.
See New York’s new Michelin stars for 2023
After months and months of incremental updates to its guides, recent Bib Gourmand additions, and, as always, plenty of divisive picks across the lot, Michelin...
The 50 best restaurants in NYC right now
November 2023: Choosing a favorite restaurant in New York City is a joyful task with myriad possibilities depending on the occasion, mood and even the time of...
The 50 best bars in NYC right now
November 2023: Every drink seems ideal when you're at the perfect bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, rooftops send you soaring...
All of NYC's latest restaurant reviews
Dining out in New York City can be a labor of love. There are thousands of new and old restaurants to choose from, making reservations can seem like a sport or...
Restaurant and bar reviews
Don Don
November 16, 2023: With his latest restaurant, chef Sungchul Shim has established a pattern of opening a great new place every other year. First was Kochi, in...
Farina (★★★★)
November 9, 2023: The incongruously inviting Hamilton Avenue space enveloped by the rumble and the rubbish around the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has been...
November 16, 2023: With his latest restaurant, chef Sungchul Shim has established a pattern of opening a great new place every other year. First was Kochi, in...
Don Don
November 16, 2023: With his latest restaurant, chef Sungchul Shim has established a pattern of opening a great new place every other year. First was Kochi, in...
Farina (★★★★)
November 9, 2023: The incongruously inviting Hamilton Avenue space enveloped by the rumble and the rubbish around the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has been...
Untable (★★★★★)
October 26, 2023: Last month, four coworkers from Red Hook’s Somtum Der opened their own restaurant in Carroll Gardens, not too far...
Neeloo (★★★)
October 17, 2023: It only took one try to get a recent Friday night reservation at Neeloo. That relative rarity—a new restaurant, with abundant early...
Chama Mama (★★★)
October 6, 2023: Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights has long been one of the most idyllic stretches in New York City. Bookended by the picturesque promenade...
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While we remain devoted to New York City’s best restaurants, excellent new dining destinations pop up all the time to further complicate our...
The 12 best pies in NYC right now
The holidays have a lot going for them. Family, gifts, turkey, glasses in the shape of the new year…and pie. While NYC’s best bakeries turn out...
The best hot chocolate spots in NYC
Is there anything better than a cup of coffee from one of New York City’s best coffee shops? Well, maybe a sweet, rich, marshmallow-topped hot chocolate....
The 15 best burgers in NYC
What should a burger be? Fast food adjacent? Cooling in a stack on a paper plate beside a backyard grill. Stunt-priced at $86 and topped with a fleck of edible...
16 restaurants and bars with amazing views of NYC
Many of the best views in NYC are free. The best Statue of Liberty lookout is from a grocery store parking lot in Red Hook, the vantage point...
Autumn in New York, 2023
Where to eat Thanksgiving dinner 2023 in NYC
NYC really is the city that never sleeps—even on Thanksgiving. (So much for all that turkey tryptophan we’ve been hearing about!) While taking in...
NYC’s most anticipated new restaurants for fall of 2023
To everything there is a season, and fall in New York City is for restaurant openings. Sure, new places pop up all year-round, but autumn in Gotham is peak for...
NYC's best fireplace bars
In a town where functioning intercoms are considered an apartment amenity, New Yorkers seek niceties like fireplaces outside of the home. And this time of...
NYC's 20 best rooftop bars for cooler weather
Some might assume that sky-high imbibing is a spring and summertime affair, but it’s always rooftop season in NYC. Even during rain, wind and...
Columns
Let me tell you—Mallomars are NYC's best fall flavor
Let me tell you—Mallomars are NYC's best fall flavor
As sure as skeletons are set to dance with black cats, autumn in America arrives with certain iconic flavors. Pumpkin spice is most ubiquitous from...
Let Me Tell You—“No photos” should be NYC’s hot new going-out trend
Let Me Tell You—“No photos” should be NYC’s hot new going-out trend
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...
Let me tell you—your favorite place is going to close, however iconic
Let me tell you—your favorite place is going to close, however iconic
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...
Let me tell you—all the good cocktails already exist
Let me tell you—all the good cocktails already exist
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...
The Instagram Thing: This Michelin-starred restaurant pairs its cheesecake with a creature
The Instagram Thing: This Michelin-starred restaurant pairs its cheesecake with a creature
The Instagram Thing is an occasional column spotlighting things you’ll want to Instagram. Our previous editions highlighted the ten-foot snake topiary at...
Did Lady Gaga actually work at NYC’s Cornelia Street Café?
Did Lady Gaga actually work at NYC’s Cornelia Street Café?
I worked at The Cornelia Street Café in the West Village around about 2007-2008, but not for the entirety of either of those years. I was a server some...
Latest food and drink news
A new rooftop café with amazing views just opened at Rockefeller Center
Find the Weather Room on the 67th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Pumpkin pizza is on the menu at Emmy Squared just in time for Thanksgiving
A spin on your standard holiday pie.
8 iconic NYC foods perfect for your Thanksgiving table
You can’t go wrong adding these NYC delicacies to the table this year.
First look at the brand new Eataly opening in Soho
The new location will debut on November 25.
Where to eat in New York
The 50 best restaurants in NYC right now
November 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...
The 42 best brunch spots in NYC right now
Brunch is the highlight of any week, whatever day it is. Saturday brunch is the best time to gear up for the night ahead, Sundays are perfect for relaxing and...
November 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...
The 50 best restaurants in NYC right now
November 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...
The 42 best brunch spots in NYC right now
Brunch is the highlight of any week, whatever day it is. Saturday brunch is the best time to gear up for the night ahead, Sundays are perfect for relaxing and...
The 14 best rooftop restaurants in NYC
New York has plenty of places to look at stuff. Our museums are marvelous, our streets are superb, our new skyscrapers are nail-biting and even our subway has...
19 hidden backyards, gardens and patios for outdoor dining in NYC
As the days get longer, adding more rooftop drinking and outdoor dining minutes to each week, space at al fresco spots can run short, with entry as competitive...
NYC’s 10 best new restaurants of 2022
We all love to theme—literally at high-concept spots crafted after certain films, cats, dolls, devils, or sex, and as an organizing device: Dives....
Where to drink in New York
The 50 best bars in NYC right now
November 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...
The 20 best speakeasy-inspired bars in NYC
Although last year wrought quite the resurgence, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s the year...
November 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...
The 50 best bars in NYC right now
November 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...
The 20 best speakeasy-inspired bars in NYC
Although last year wrought quite the resurgence, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s the year...
The 19 best dive bars in NYC
New York City has fewer dive bars than any other drinking genre. The primary reason is that a real deal dive must already exist. One simply cannot open a...
NYC's 10 best bars for nonalcoholic cocktails
Whether you abstain from alcohol year-round, or simply cannot stop talking about Dry January at the beginning of every year, nonalcoholic...
The best rooftop bars in NYC
In the city that never stops sprawling, upward expansion has also reached great heights. Many incredible eating and drinking destinations are poised in the...
Best restaurants and bars by occasion
NYC's 12 best first-date restaurants
Like NYC’s most romantic bars and restaurants, almost any venue can be a great first date place. Some fledgling love birds flock to fine dining...
The 10 best fine dining restaurants in NYC
In New York City, tabs at our top fine dining destinations can easily meet and exceed the cost of plane tickets to Paris, the latest iPhone or a Schott jacket....
Like NYC’s most romantic bars and restaurants, almost any venue can be a great first date place. Some fledgling love birds flock to fine dining...
NYC's 12 best first-date restaurants
Like NYC’s most romantic bars and restaurants, almost any venue can be a great first date place. Some fledgling love birds flock to fine dining...
The 10 best fine dining restaurants in NYC
In New York City, tabs at our top fine dining destinations can easily meet and exceed the cost of plane tickets to Paris, the latest iPhone or a Schott jacket....
The most romantic bars in NYC
Not to spoil the ending like the last act of a so-so rom-com, but anywhere can be romantic. Glances have been stolen in dive bars, first kisses...
The 18 most romantic restaurants in NYC
Some nights you just want to grab a bite at a great restaurant or down a quick drink at a bar. But other nights—like when you’re celebrating a...
The 12 best themed restaurants and bars in NYC
Just when you think New York has it all, you look around and realize there’s no Rainforest Cafe. In one sense, we have a paucity of theme restaurants:...
Best restaurants by cuisine
Best restaurants by neighborhood
Best bars by type
The best speakeasy-style bars in NYC
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...
The 23 best cocktail bars in NYC
New York has enough bar categories, themes and conceits to fill the Gowanus Canal, but none dredge up as many connotations as the cocktail bar....
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...
The best speakeasy-style bars in NYC
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...
The 23 best cocktail bars in NYC
New York has enough bar categories, themes and conceits to fill the Gowanus Canal, but none dredge up as many connotations as the cocktail bar....
The 11 best Irish pubs in NYC
A New York City Irish pub is a special kind of place. Some are among the best bars in town, a few also happen to double as great restaurants, and...
The best wine bars in NYC
Including educational vin studios and natural-wine–focused neo-bistros
The 16 best beer bars in NYC right now
NYC’s beer scene just keeps getting better. Whether you like sipping a flight of craft beers or chugging out of a boot at a beer garden, New York has...