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Welcome to Borgo, restaurateur Andrew Tarlow's first restaurant in Manhattan after a 10-year gap. The ingredient-forward trattoria features a wood-burning oven, a sleek black and marble bar and a plant-heavy back garden. The Chicories salad is made for sharing and the Timballo de Anelletti with braised beef cheek nestled inside is the dish to have on your table.

For six years, Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns ran the pop-up circuit with their Vietnamese concept, Ha’s Đặc Biệt. It gained quite the following during the pandemic era, exciting us with egg-scallion bánh mìs and cabbages stuffed with pork shank. Making the rounds all around NYC, the duo even landed a residency in Paris and caught the eye of the The New York Times. But the ultimate goal was always to get four walls to call their own, and as of 2025, the couple has finally settled down in the Lower East Side with a new name: Ha’s Snack Bar. A chalkboard lays out the specials of the day, which wax and wane with the moods of the chefs, and have thus far included snails bubbling in tamarind butter to bass crudo showered with nuoc cham. Plenty of wines lay behind the bar, cooling in ice buckets, ready to be paired with it all. 

Bowery's Bar Kabawa welcomes you to a Caribbean home. And here, at this home, we drink. The latest from the Momofuku team, the Bar Kabawa channels the rhythms of the islands with light woods and a color palette of turquoise blues and whites all set to Caribbean music thrumming through the speakers. Naturally, half of the cocktails are dedicated to the daiquiri, made classic with delicately thin shaved ice to the vegetal Bay Leaf Daiquiri made with nitro-muddled bay leaves. The rest relies on rum-forward drinks and a few shareables including a hollowed coconut full of your choice of rum. While one half of the bar shakes up drinks, the other half functions as an expo kitchen where you can watch chefs score banana leaves, fry and bake short rib and Guyanese pepper pot patties and torch desserts right at the counter. 

Juicy, fennel-spiked chunks of sausage from the S&D Pork Store a few blocks down are held in place—well, just barely—by a bunch of melted cheese on this Bronx shop's sausage pie. It's a hot, creamy mess of pizza-and-pork deliciousness. Yes, you will need a napkin—and a nap afterward.

Yes, we’re all tired of standing in line for the hottest new food in NYC. And yet, here we are, still waiting under the blazing sun for the chance to score a pie from the new pizza shop Ceres. After a buzzy opening due to the quality of the slices and the pedigree of the chefs (how often do Eleven Madison Park alums open a slice shop?), a nod from Dave Portnoy’s viral pizza reviews and a shout-out from Jimmy Fallon made it nearly impossible to get your hands on a pie.  Now that the folks at Ceres have become more accustomed to being the belle of the pizza ball, they’ve got a good system for slinging ‘em out from their tiny oven on Mott Street. You’ll have to show up hours before you’re ready to eat (they open at 11:30am), wait for your chance to put your name down inside their frills-free shop, and then wait…again. The menu is limited, but you’ll just have to trust the process.  Go for the white pie, topped with crème fraîche, sweet onions and salty, buttery pancetta, and then covered with a celebratory handful of chive confetti. The cheese, too, is a classic, but never plain, packed with San Marzano tomatoes and firm, fresh scamorza and then finished with half-melted, sharp-ish cheese and pocked with little burnt bubbles from the oven’s heat. Every pie is served on top of a crust inspired by the crispy-crunchy, airy-chewy joy of baguettes.  Pie prices can soar to $60—the ‘nduja, made with pork, burrata and aged balsamic for a spicy-and-sweet bite, is the spendiest—so be...

With a combined resume that includes Angel's Share, Employees Only and Alinea, Shingo Gokan's and Steve Schneider's bi-level bar was bound to be a hit. At the subterranean bar, Sip, Gokan provides a sleek, Japanese cocktail bar. Schneider's Guzzle is a saloon-style bar where classics are familiar with a little oomph (looking at your Sherry Colada Highball). Former executive chef of Chicago's Alinea, chef Mike Bagale balances both bars with high to low offerings, including "electric" chicken next to a $150 sandwich made with A5 wagyu. 

Bouncing back from Hurricane Sandy, Abraham Merchant (Merchant Rivers House) unveiled a beer-focused waterfront bar on the restored Pier 15. On offer are sea-inspired bar bites like lobster rolls, fish-and-chips, crab cakes and shrimp cocktail with heirloom tomato gazpacho. Sip local craft beers like Bluepoint on red bar stools as you watch sports games on seven flatscreens or, better yet, take in scenic skyline views through the floor-to-ceiling windows. During the day, the bar also doles out cones of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, sorbets and frozen yogurt, fit for indulging your inner kid as you soak up rays on the outdoor deck.

German transplants Ayana and Tobias Holler honor their heritage at this indoor biergarten and kaffeehaus in Fort Greene, outfitted with antique cuckoo clocks and large skylights. Along with hefty steins of Bavarian brews (Schneider-Weisse, Aventinus), find oversize plates of schnitzel with shoestring fries, and farmer's sausage with shredded citrus kale (a modern take on gruenkohl und pinkel). Daytime offerings include Kitten Coffee alongside German pastries and cakes.

We really like eating around the city, and we're guessing you do, too. So lucky for all of us, we've packed all our favorite restaurants under one roof at the Time Out Market New York. The DUMBO location in Empire Stores has fried chicken from Jacob’s Pickles, pizza from Fornino, delicious bagels from Ess-a-bagel and more amazing eateries—all cherry-picked by us. Chow down over two floors with views of the East River, Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline.  RECOMMENDED: The best things do in NYC

If you thought getting a table at Per Se was tough, try getting into Rao’s. On second thought, don’t. Rao’s (pronounced “RAY-ohs”) is really a private club without the dues. To eat here, you’ll need a personal invite from one of the heavy hitters who “owns” a table. These CEOs, actors, politicians, news personalities and neighborhood old-timers established a long-standing arrangement with the late, legendary owner Frankie “No” Pellegrino, and that's what ensures a seat at one of the ten tables at the Italian-American icon. In fact, reading this review is probably the closest you’ll get to Rao’s.