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The best restaurants reviewed by New York Magazine.

  1. Jimmy's
  2. Babbo
  3. Sea
  4. Gramercy Tavern
  5. Zenon Taverna
  6. Denino's Pizzeria Tavern
  7. Café Habana
  8. Lupa
  9. Katz's Deli
  10. Bel-Aire Diner
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Restaurants reviewed by New York Magazine (Showing 1-95 of 2218)

West Village
June 15, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Not so long ago, the generic Coney Island hot dog was this town's preferred summer snack. But these days in the big...  full review at New York Magazine
Chelsea
May 19, 2008 - Roughly translated from the Italian, fare la scarpetta means to wipe your plate clean with a hunk of bread-a practice...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West American
May 18, 2008 - 1/5 stars - Ambitious five-star hotels have been showcases for grandiose cooking ever since the great chef Auguste Escoffier took...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown East
May 11, 2008 - 2/5 stars - As the name suggests, Olana, which opened two months ago among the sooty gray office buildings along lower Madison...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron American
May 11, 2008 - 2/5 stars - As the name suggests, Olana, which opened two months ago among the sooty gray office buildings along lower Madison...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron
May 11, 2008 - Faux smoke and applied grime above Wildwood's raucous 50-foot bar and a bold mix of rustic barn siding with...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West
May 04, 2008 - Alain Ducasse's unabashed need to be embraced by New York has a real chance for fulfillment at Benoit once he whips...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village Diner and Coffee
May 04, 2008 - 3/5 stars - Just two and a half months old, the New French, an unassuming little spot in the West Village, cannot fool the...  full review at New York Magazine
Greenwich Village American DollarDollarDollar
April 21, 2008 - 1/5 stars - At Elettaria, furtively located behind a red painted door among the jumble of knickknack shops and seedy shoe stores...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper East Side Mediterranean
April 21, 2008 - 2/5 stars - During the course of my gastronomic wanderings, I've exposed my debonair, Upper East Side mother to all kinds of...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village
April 21, 2008 - Tet is the most ambitious effort yet from Saigon-born Steven Duong, who won neighborhood hearts when he opened Nam in...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side Latin American
April 13, 2008 - La Rural, an Argentine bistro named for the annual livestock show in Buenos Aires, looks a lot like its predecessor...  full review at New York Magazine
+69% East Village Japanese, Asian and Noodle Shop DollarDollarDollarDollar
April 08, 2008 - 4/5 stars - According to the exacting code laid down by the original food mandarins at Michelin (and normally adhered to by this...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Pizza Dollar
April 07, 2008 - 3/5 stars - It's a sad but pretty well-established fact that a good slice is hard to find. Maybe that's why the recent opening of...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side Southern & Soul
April 07, 2008 - Notoriously fussy Upper West Siders did not hesitate to chew out star chef Jonathan Waxman's uneven southern-Creole...  full review at New York Magazine
+80% West Village American
March 30, 2008 - If splendid food comes first, with points for local-idol sightings, we'll write off the painful din at Commerce and...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side American
March 30, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Superfluous truffle-strewn dinners are the first thing to go during times of economic distress, along with the...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown East American
March 24, 2008 - 3/5 stars - If cooking, at its highest levels, is an intuitive, almost musical art, then so is putting together a great...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper East Side
March 03, 2008 - I couldn't wait to check out the St. Louis–style pork ribs at Smokin' Q, wrenched from the embers of a failed kosher...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side Wine Bar
February 25, 2008 - 1/5 stars - Of all the celebrated superstar chefs who rose to prominence in the nineties, Daniel Boulud is arguably the most...  full review at New York Magazine
+90% Williamsburg
February 25, 2008 - In no time at all we zoom over the Williamsburg Bridge to the charmingly rustic Fiore, with its spiffy service, flea...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village
February 24, 2008 - 1/5 - As anyone who's ever peeked inside a New York City restaurant kitchen knows, the majority of meals, from high French...  full review at New York Magazine
Williamsburg
February 24, 2008 - 2/5 - s anyone who's ever peeked inside a New York City restaurant kitchen knows, the majority of meals, from high French...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village American DollarDollarDollar
February 04, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Bar Blanc, which opened just before the New Year in a narrow little space on 10th Street in the West Village, seeks...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West Korean and Asian
February 04, 2008 - Fatty Crab's hustling impresario Zak Pelaccio is still fine-tuning his Pan-Asian riff at Chop Suey as our foursome...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side American DollarDollar
February 04, 2008 - 3/5 stars - With its slightly awkward, preciously ambitious name, its modest size, and its bland, modishly stark interior...  full review at New York Magazine
Murray Hill Kosher, Eastern European and Sandwiches/Subs DollarDollarDollar
February 04, 2008 - The reconstituted 2nd Avenue Deli on a quiet side street is a bittersweet triumph-a mere sliver of the landmark it...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village
January 21, 2008 - The Underground Gourmet can't blame Jody Williams for refusing to call Gottino a wine bar. After all, New York is...  full review at New York Magazine
Greenwich Village
January 14, 2008 - 2/5 stars - More than ever, in their quest for the increasingly fragmented, ever-elusive consumer dollar, restaurateurs need a...  full review at New York Magazine
Soho
January 08, 2008 - There is no mule tethered to a lamppost out front of Hundred Acres. Beyond that, Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman...  full review at New York Magazine
Hell's Kitchen Wine Bar, Seafood and Steakhouse DollarDollarDollar
December 17, 2007 - Coming after "I'm not your bitch, bitch" fame on Bravo's Top Chef, chef-consultant Dave Martin's new "think bistro...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron American DollarDollarDollarDollar
December 17, 2007 - 1/5 stars - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Danny Meyer should find a good deal to be flattered about at...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron Steakhouse DollarDollarDollar
December 10, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Nothing in the restaurant world lends itself to over-the-top self parody quite like a steakhouse. To stand out amid...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Italian DollarDollar
December 10, 2007 - In no time at all, East Villagers have discovered the Smith with its good, honest el cheapo grub. Not to be confused...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West Italian and Steakhouse DollarDollarDollar
December 03, 2007 - The grand scheme to turn Shelly's Tradizionale into an Italian fish house celebrating the Tuscan seashore has been...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Coffee and Mediterranean Dollar
November 25, 2007 - A year and a half ago, when the Underground Gourmet adapted this magazine's five-star restaurant-rating system to our...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village American DollarDollarDollar
November 19, 2007 - 1/5 stars - The Lower East Side has been a restaurant destination for nearly a decade now, which is more than enough time for a...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Wine Bar and Tapas Dollar
November 19, 2007 - With Solex, his French wine bar, Frederick Twomey of the Italian Bar Veloce and the Spanish Bar Carrera has, as he...  full review at New York Magazine
Soho American
November 18, 2007 - 1/5 stars - After working his way through a few of Fabio Trabocchi's ornate compositions on the new menu at Fiamma, the high-end...  full review at New York Magazine
Lower East Side American and English DollarDollarDollar
November 12, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The Lower East Side has been a restaurant destination for nearly a decade now, which is more than enough time for a...  full review at New York Magazine
+79% Gramercy/Flatiron Indian and Vegetarian DollarDollarDollarDollar
November 12, 2007 - The team that created the brilliant and refined tasting menu at Dévi that quickly became a smash hit is back, having...  full review at New York Magazine
+76% Upper East Side American DollarDollarDollarDollar
November 05, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The doctrine of seasonal correctness is as ingrained in the collective restaurant psyche, these days, as linen...  full review at New York Magazine
Chelsea Tapas
October 29, 2007 - 3/5 stars - 'Where are the tables?" the man asked the bartender at El Quinto Pino one recent Saturday night while he and his date...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village Japanese and Sandwiches/Subs DollarDollar
October 22, 2007 - 1/5 stars - BarFry, which opened a little over a month ago on Carmine Street, is another new, small-scale Japanese restaurant...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron Spanish
October 22, 2007 - Pamplona is chef-owner Alex Ureña's bow to reality. Ureña, his passionate celebration of molecular cooking in this...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village Japanese DollarDollarDollarDollar
October 22, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The wise gastronomes of Japan have a single, ironclad litmus test when it comes to eating out in their own country...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West American DollarDollarDollarDollar
October 15, 2007 - 2/5 stars - I've written before about the instructive, even allegorical career of Laurent Tourondel. The young, classically...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village Italian and Wine Bar DollarDollarDollar
October 08, 2007 - Restaurateurs, like TV producers, stand-up comics, and gold prospectors, operate in a landscape fraught with extreme...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West Mexican Dollar
October 08, 2007 - Toloache is an earnest Mexican bistro yearning for the big time. Hand-painted tile, silver lanterns, white...  full review at New York Magazine
DUMBO Dollar
October 01, 2007 - 3/5 stars - You never know where you might stumble upon an exceptional taco in this town: at a remote soccer field in Red Hook...  full review at New York Magazine
+80% Soho Italian, Mediterranean and Pub Food DollarDollarDollar
October 01, 2007 - Lured from his five-diamond (AAA) cocoon at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, new chef-partner Fabio Trabocchi...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper East Side Italian
September 17, 2007 - I don't want to jinx this jinxed restaurant address with rashly optimistic judgments, but Accademia di Vino could be...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron
September 17, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The endless stream of restaurants a professional critic must endure fall into various categories. There are the...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Italian DollarDollarDollar
September 17, 2007 - 1/5 stars - The endless stream of restaurants a professional critic must endure fall into various categories. There are the...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron Chinese
September 13, 2007 - 0/5 stars - So when, exactly, did the glamour and mystery of Chinese cuisine disappear from New York? Among the city's querulous...  full review at New York Magazine
Lower East Side Latin American DollarDollarDollar
August 27, 2007 - 1/5 stars - It’s hard to know exactly what kind of restaurant Rayuela means to be, which seems to be how the exuberant chef...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper East Side Southern & Soul DollarDollar
August 27, 2007 - Probably you Justin Timberlake fans (plus the guys who'd follow you anywhere) will haunt Southern Hospitality hoping...  full review at New York Magazine
+72% Lower East Side Spanish, Tapas and Wine Bar DollarDollar
August 27, 2007 - 1/5 stars - In the shark-tank world of New York restaurants, proprietors try all sorts of desperate measures to stay afloat. They...  full review at New York Magazine
+84% Midtown East Italian and Seafood DollarDollarDollarDollar
August 15, 2007 - In Manhattan's spring shuffle of three-star toques, Fiamma's Michael White now reigns in departed chef Scott Conant's...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village DollarDollarDollarDollar
August 15, 2007 - 1/5 stars - It has been my grim duty, recently, to plop down on my not-so-fluffy couch every Wednesday evening and watch (and...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village American and Asian DollarDollarDollar
August 15, 2007 - 1/5 stars - It has been my grim duty, recently, to plop down on my not-so-fluffy couch every Wednesday evening and watch (and...  full review at New York Magazine
East Village Cuban
August 08, 2007 - Few foods exert as tantalizing a pull on the Underground Gourmet's voracious appetite as rice and beans. Throw in a...  full review at New York Magazine
Chelsea Barbecue DollarDollar
August 08, 2007 - 1/5 stars - There was a time, not so long ago, when the city's community of ravenous and dispirited barbecue hounds didn't care...  full review at New York Magazine
+81% Midtown East Seafood DollarDollarDollarDollar
August 08, 2007 - It wouldn't be disappointing if Oceana's newest chef, Ben Pollinger, were a recognizable disciple of his mentor, the...  full review at New York Magazine
+75% Soho French and Seafood DollarDollar
July 16, 2007 - 1/5 stars - Imagine, these days, there are thousands of restaurants around the world named Provence (a quick Googling reveals one...  full review at New York Magazine
+83% East Village Japanese Dollar
June 19, 2007 - Aside from David Cross’s favorite, Minca, Momofuku pretty much has the lock on the ramen market. But this Wednesday...  full review at New York Magazine
Soho Italian DollarDollarDollar
June 11, 2007 - A glance at the menu reveals the grand ambition of Aurora Soho. Summer truffles indeed. A generous scattering of the...  full review at New York Magazine
Park Slope Hot Dogs Dollar
June 11, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Hot-dog eating is (almost) all about context. That most plebeian of foods wants to be devoured outdoors, ideally at a...  full review at New York Magazine
Murray Hill Seafood DollarDollar
June 05, 2007 - Quiet as an octopus scooting along the ocean bottom, Wild Edibles stuffed a mini eat-at counter and eight two-top...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West Italian DollarDollarDollar
June 04, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Once upon a time, in New York City, a French restaurant called Le Pavillon was the model from which fashionable...  full review at New York Magazine
Meatpacking District Steakhouse and American DollarDollarDollarDollar
May 28, 2007 - Updating Old Homestead's sidewalk seating with a nip and a tuck to pass it off as the new Prime Burger Café is...  full review at New York Magazine
Murray Hill Seafood DollarDollarDollar
May 28, 2007 - 1/5 stars - More than any dish I can think of, salmon is useless to restaurant critics. It's a stolid, predictable fish that...  full review at New York Magazine
Gramercy/Flatiron Japanese and Sushi
May 21, 2007 - 2/5 stars - For the time being, the invasion of the Godzilla-size dining palaces appears to have ceased. This parade of grandiose...  full review at New York Magazine
Tribeca DollarDollarDollarDollar
May 21, 2007 - 1/5 stars - For the time being, the invasion of the Godzilla-size dining palaces appears to have ceased. This parade of grandiose...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West American, French and Italian DollarDollarDollar
May 14, 2007 - I'm betting that the food at Landmarc in the Time Warner building never has to be one jot better than it is right now...  full review at New York Magazine
Murray Hill European DollarDollarDollar
May 14, 2007 - 4/5 stars - According to The Oxford Companion to Food, Belgium's culinary and spiritual identities can be divided along...  full review at New York Magazine
+71% East Village Mediterranean, International and Tapas DollarDollar
May 07, 2007 - 1/5 stars - So what is a gastropub, exactly? If you ask the owners of the original gastropub in London, a scruffy place called...  full review at New York Magazine
Meatpacking District International
May 07, 2007 - So what is a gastropub, exactly? If you ask the owners of the original gastropub in London, a scruffy place called...  full review at New York Magazine
+90% East Village French DollarDollarDollar
April 30, 2007 - "It’s a real find,” our producer friend Dasha promises, inviting us to discover the no-airs bistro Tree in the East...  full review at New York Magazine
+86% Gramercy/Flatiron American DollarDollarDollarDollar
April 23, 2007 - 3/5 stars - It's been said (and if it hasn't, then I'll go ahead and say it) that great chefs have many of the same qualities as...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown West American DollarDollarDollar
April 23, 2007 - Spotlight Live is braced for flocks of free-spending fame freaks, wannabe American Idols and karaoke fans hungry for...  full review at New York Magazine
Williamsburg Vietnamese DollarDollar
April 16, 2007 - 3/5 stars - Vietnamese restaurants in New York tend to fall into two categories: those with atmosphere (and its incumbent sexy...  full review at New York Magazine
+73% East Village Korean and Asian Dollar
April 02, 2007 - 3/5 stars - Since we're at the tail end of a long and dreary winter, and since I've been grumpily attempting to do what no...  full review at New York Magazine
Park Slope Pub Food
March 27, 2007 - After opening in June 2006, this Irish-expat's pub on a formerly desolate stretch of Fourth Avenue quickly became the...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village American DollarDollarDollar
March 26, 2007 - 1/5 stars - My first doomed attempt to gain entrance to Graydon Carter's much-hyped, -publicized, and, in some quarters, -reviled...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper West Side Greek DollarDollar
March 05, 2007 - We will make it to Lincoln Center by 7:30, won’t we?” asked the woman of a certain age who was doing the early-bird...  full review at New York Magazine
Midtown East DollarDollar
February 18, 2007 - F ans of Sam DeMarco's comfort food at the restaurant First, and later District, will want to know he's back from a...  full review at New York Magazine
Lower East Side French
February 14, 2007 - Tonight Regaté opens up a few doors down from Zucco (the place with the lavatory library). It’s the third French...  full review at New York Magazine
+63% Upper East Side Italian DollarDollar
February 12, 2007 - A rustic heft and a pop of creative ego flavor the Sicilian cooking of Salvatore Fraterrigo, the new resident chef at...  full review at New York Magazine
Upper East Side Greek
February 05, 2007 - Where there once were Swedish meatballs, there are now keftedakia krasato (and a consulting chef late of Periyali...  full review at New York Magazine
Greenwich Village Pub Food
February 05, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The Underground Gourmet is no spring chicken, but that didn't stop the bouncer at the Stoned Crow from checking our I...  full review at New York Magazine
West Village Thai and Asian
January 28, 2007 - Not even a week's gone by and we're back a second time to taste more spicy designer riffs on Thai staples at Hurapan...  full review at New York Magazine
Lower East Side Pizza
January 27, 2007 - What are a couple of career nightlifers to do when the economic realities of the club business are giving them grief...  full review at New York Magazine
Chinatown Vietnamese and Sandwiches/Subs
January 23, 2007 - It takes chutzpa to open up a báhn mì shop around the corner from the beloved Bánh Mì Saigon (not to mention Viet-Nam...  full review at New York Magazine
+81% Prospect Heights Pizza, Italian and Vegetarian Dollar
December 18, 2006 - After opening what might be New York’s most idiosyncratic wine bar—Prospect Heights’ rustic Aliseo Osteria del Borgo...  full review at New York Magazine
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