Food

Where to eat

71 places. 23 carry a score; the rest are on the list and not scored yet. Nobody pays to be here.

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The 10 best in the city, any cuisine
9.9Pommes FritesBelgianGreenwich Village$On the MUSEENYC M ListFresh Belgian frites, a wall of sauces, and the most generous beer pour in New York.9.9Spicy VillageChineseChinatown$On the MUSEENYC M ListBig tray chicken on Forsyth Street — spicy, numbing, and built for a table, though we know someone who finishes one alone.9.8Joe's PizzaPizzaGreenwich Village$On the MUSEENYC M ListThe benchmark. If you only eat one New York slice, this is the one every other slice gets measured against.9.6Cafe VolkanCoffeeBoerum Hill$$On the MUSEENYC M ListExcellent coffee and food good enough to keep people in their seats long after the cup is empty.9.5BarbouniaGreekFlatiron District$$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListMediterranean cooking full of life and flavor on Park Avenue South. Order widely: every dish is worth trying.9.5Mary O'sBakeryEast Village$$On the MUSEENYC M ListA one-room shop in the East Village whose Irish soda bread scones are the reason to go, and it is not close.9.5Grand Street Skewer CartChineseChinatown$On the MUSEENYC M ListCharcoal, a hand fan and a stack of skewers on Grand Street — the cheapest great thing you will eat in Chinatown.9.4Lao Ma SpicyChineseNoHo$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListBuild your own dry pot at the counter — pick the meat, pick the vegetables, name your heat out of five.9.4Joe & Sal's PizzeriaPizzaFort Greene$$On the MUSEENYC M ListThin, well done, minimal flop — Myrtle Avenue pizza made by people who clearly care.9.3TabetomoJapaneseEast Village$$On the MUSEENYC M ListGreat Japanese ramen on Avenue A. No reservations: it's first come, first served.

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By cuisine

ChineseChinatown · NoHo · FlushingBelgianGreenwich VillagePizzaGreenwich Village · Fort Greene · Lower East SideCoffeeBoerum HillGreekFlatiron District · Lower East SideBakeryEast VillageJapaneseEast Village · Hudson Yards · Upper East SideNew AmericanWilliamsburg · NoHo · Upper East SideThaiAstoria · West VillageMalaysianLower East SideFrenchSoHo · Lower East SideMiddle EasternMidtown · SoHoBBQLong Island City · Red HookDessertGreenwich Village · Red HookPakistaniNoMadTaiwaneseChinatownMexicanMurray Hill · GreenpointKoreanNoMad · Midtown · Murray HillVietnameseLower East SideIndianNoMad · West VillageItalianGreenwich Village · West Village · WilliamsburgGermanUpper East SideCaribbeanWashington Heights · Times Square · Upper West SidePortugueseNolitaSoul foodHarlem · StapletonJewish DeliUpper West Side · Lower East SideSteakWest VillageSeafoodAstoria · City IslandDinerUpper East Side

Everywhere worth going

9.9Pommes FritesBelgianGreenwich Village$On the MUSEENYC M ListFresh Belgian frites, a wall of sauces, and the most generous beer pour in New York.9.9Spicy VillageChineseChinatown$On the MUSEENYC M ListBig tray chicken on Forsyth Street — spicy, numbing, and built for a table, though we know someone who finishes one alone.9.8Joe's PizzaPizzaGreenwich Village$On the MUSEENYC M ListThe benchmark. If you only eat one New York slice, this is the one every other slice gets measured against.9.6Cafe VolkanCoffeeBoerum Hill$$On the MUSEENYC M ListExcellent coffee and food good enough to keep people in their seats long after the cup is empty.9.5BarbouniaGreekFlatiron District$$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListMediterranean cooking full of life and flavor on Park Avenue South. Order widely: every dish is worth trying.9.5Mary O'sBakeryEast Village$$On the MUSEENYC M ListA one-room shop in the East Village whose Irish soda bread scones are the reason to go, and it is not close.9.5Grand Street Skewer CartChineseChinatown$On the MUSEENYC M ListCharcoal, a hand fan and a stack of skewers on Grand Street — the cheapest great thing you will eat in Chinatown.9.4Lao Ma SpicyChineseNoHo$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListBuild your own dry pot at the counter — pick the meat, pick the vegetables, name your heat out of five.9.4Joe & Sal's PizzeriaPizzaFort Greene$$On the MUSEENYC M ListThin, well done, minimal flop — Myrtle Avenue pizza made by people who clearly care.9.3TabetomoJapaneseEast Village$$On the MUSEENYC M ListGreat Japanese ramen on Avenue A. No reservations: it's first come, first served.9.2Scarr's PizzaPizzaLower East Side$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListSkip the famous takeout line: walk inside, get a table, and have great pizza with a drink from the bar.9.2White Noise CoffeeCoffeeBoerum Hill$$On the MUSEENYC M ListA Smith Street roastery where the kitchen is as considered as the coffee, and still nobody talks about it.9.2Cozy RoyaleNew AmericanWilliamsburg$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListA quiet block in Williamsburg, a room built for a long dinner, and cooking from the people who run the butcher shop down the street.9.1John Brown BBQBBQLong Island City$$A neighborhood barbecue spot on 40th Avenue that blends right into the block, with smoky meat and chicken that falls apart.9.1KopitiamMalaysianLower East Side$$Malaysian food and drinks on East Broadway that hit the spot every single time — walk in, find a seat, order at the counter.9.1FelixFrenchSoHo$$$On the MUSEENYC M ListA French bistro on the West Broadway corner that turns into a party without anyone announcing it.9.1Magdy'sMiddle EasternMidtown$On the MUSEENYC M ListA humble Park Avenue cart run by a family who genuinely cook — and portions that outrun the price.9.1Pye Boat NoodleThaiAstoria$$On the MUSEENYC M ListThai boat noodles in Astoria that taste authentic from the first bite — the dark broth most menus skip.9.1Surreal CreameryDessertGreenwich Village$On the MUSEENYC M ListLoud, photogenic sundaes — but the plain soft serve underneath is the actual reason to come.8.9HaandiPakistaniNoMad$On the MUSEENYC M ListPakistani cooking on Lexington made with real care, in a room that has no interest in impressing you.8.9The Halal GuysMiddle EasternMidtown$$On the MUSEENYC M ListThe 53rd and 6th cart we have been eating at for fifteen years — and the corner trick that skips the line.8.5Super BurritoMexicanMurray Hill$$Mission-style burritos on Third Avenue, signage that could be 1987 Taco Bell, and Guinness on tap.8.5Taiwan Pork Chop HouseTaiwaneseChinatown$A steam-table counter on Doyers, the crooked block below Canal — cheap, fast, and better than it needs to be.Rating TBD4 Charles Prime RibSteakWest Village$$$$A basement steakhouse with barely any seats and the toughest door in town.Rating TBDAmbassadors ClubhouseIndianNoMad$$$A London import doing Punjabi food in a room built like an old private club.Rating TBDAstoria SeafoodSeafoodAstoria$$Pick your fish off the ice, hand it over, bring your own wine.Rating TBDAtomixKoreanNoMad$$$$One counter, a small room, and a card for every course.Rating TBDBangkok Supper ClubThaiWest Village$$$Thai cooking at nightlife volume.Rating TBDBarney GreengrassJewish DeliUpper West Side$$$The Sturgeon King, on Amsterdam since 1908, with the same wallpaper and the same queue.Rating TBDCarboneItalianGreenwich Village$$$$The spicy rigatoni everyone has posted, in a room that still earns it.Rating TBDCharles Pan-Fried ChickenSoul foodHarlem$$Chicken fried to order in a cast-iron pan, by a man who has been doing it since the 1980s.Rating TBDChong Qing Lao ZaoChineseFlushing$$Chongqing hot pot inside a fake village, with private huts to eat in.Rating TBDCote 550KoreanMidtown$$$$Korean barbecue with a DJ up front and serious beef in the back.Rating TBDDon AngieItalianWest Village$$$$The pinwheel lasagna, in a small corner room that has stayed hard to book for years.Rating TBDEl MaleconCaribbeanWashington Heights$Dominican rotisserie chicken, under a row of birds turning in the window.Rating TBDHa's Snack BarVietnameseLower East Side$$$24 seats, Vietnamese-leaning food, and no way to plan ahead.Rating TBDHeidelbergGermanUpper East Side$$$The last of Yorkville's German restaurants, still pouring beer in boot-shaped glasses.Rating TBDHometown Bar-B-QueBBQRed Hook$$$Texas barbecue at the bottom of Brooklyn, sold by the pound until it runs out.Rating TBDI CavalliniItalianWilliamsburg$$$The Four Horsemen team does Italian, with the same taste in wine.Rating TBDJean'sNew AmericanNoHo$$$Farm-to-table upstairs, a disco ball downstairs.Rating TBDJ.G. MelonNew AmericanUpper East Side$$$A green-checked tablecloth burger pub that has not changed since 1972, and will not.Rating TBDJohnny's ReefSeafoodCity Island$$Fried seafood on paper plates at the end of City Island, facing open water.Rating TBDKiki'sGreekLower East Side$$No reservations, a long line, cheap house wine, and it has worked for a decade.Rating TBDKjunKoreanMurray Hill$$$Korean and Cajun cooking together, with zydeco turned up.Rating TBDLe French DinerFrenchLower East Side$$$Twenty seats, no website, no reservations, and a chef cooking a meter from your face.Rating TBDLexington Candy ShopDinerUpper East Side$$A 1925 luncheonette that still mixes the Coke syrup by hand.Rating TBDL'Industrie PizzeriaPizzaWilliamsburg$The burrata slice that went everywhere online, and the line that proves it.Rating TBDLucaliPizzaCarroll Gardens$$$Candlelit, cash only, BYO, and the hardest pizza table in New York.Rating TBDLucky CharliePizzaBushwick$$Pizza from Brooklyn's oldest coal oven, open late with Sinatra playing.Rating TBDMargonCaribbeanTimes Square$A Cuban lunch counter that Midtown office workers have kept alive for decades.Rating TBDMelba'sSoul foodHarlem$$Southern cooking on a Harlem corner, run by someone who grew up two blocks away.Rating TBDOr'eshMiddle EasternSoHo$$$$Live fire, wagyu skewers, and a bar full of people dressed for somewhere else.Rating TBDPapa SanJapaneseHudson Yards$$$$Peruvian-Japanese cooking under 30-foot ceilings.Rating TBDPizza 4P'sPizzaGreenpoint$$$A Vietnamese pizza chain's first New York room, and it is better than that sounds.Rating TBDRed Hook TavernNew AmericanRed Hook$$$A burger worth the trip to a neighborhood with no subway.Rating TBDSammy's RoumanianJewish DeliLower East Side$$$Vodka frozen in a block of ice and a lounge singer who won't stop.Rating TBDSemmaIndianWest Village$$$$South Indian cooking that doesn't turn the heat down for anyone.Rating TBDShaw-naé's HouseSoul foodStapleton$$Soul food served in what feels like someone's living room.Rating TBDSteve's Authentic Key Lime PieDessertRed Hook$A pie shack on a dead-end street by the water, selling frozen chocolate-dipped Swingles.Rating TBDSushi NozJapaneseUpper East Side$$$$A cypress counter on the Upper East Side with nothing to prove.Rating TBDSushi on MeJapaneseJackson Heights$$$Omakase under a disco ball, with sake shots and the staff singing.Rating TBDTaqueria RamirezMexicanGreenpoint$A Greenpoint counter doing Mexico City street tacos on a proper plancha.Rating TBDTashcaPortugueseNolita$$$Open Thursdays, shared tables, reservations by Instagram DM.Rating TBDTatianaCaribbeanUpper West Side$$$$Kwame Onwuachi's restaurant inside David Geffen Hall, and still one of the hardest tables in the city.Rating TBDThe Corner StoreNew AmericanSoHo$$$A supper club dressed up as a corner diner, packed with people who want to be seen.Rating TBDThe Eighty SixSteakWest Village$$$$An Art Deco steakhouse that made itself hard to get into on purpose.Rating TBDThe Four HorsemenNew AmericanWilliamsburg$$$A natural wine bar with a Michelin star and a line at 5:30.Rating TBDThe Polo BarNew AmericanMidtown$$$$Ralph Lauren built a country club under Fifth Avenue, and you have to call to get in.Rating TBDTorrisiItalianNolita$$$$The Major Food Group room where fashion, media and finance all ended up.Rating TBDUna Pizza NapoletanaPizzaLower East Side$$$One man, one dough, three nights a week.Rating TBDWild CherryNew AmericanWest Village$$$Part Hollywood supper club, part psychedelic diner, all in.