The best things to order at NYC Restaurant Week’s top spots for summer 2024

Attractively appointed and anchored by a fantastic fresco familiar to diners all over NYC, Baar Baar contemporary Indian restaurant’s everyday offerings include dahi puri, tandoor-smoked pork belly, and swordfish tikka, in addition to items prepared by its frequent guest chefs. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 dinner; $45 Sunday dinner

This is about as fine dining-adjacent as Restaurant Week gets, it is literally adjacent to the super-fancy Modern after all. The Bar Room’s caviar hot dogs typically run at $38, so this week is a steal. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $60 Sunday brunch/lunch; $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner

Chocobar Cortés opened its South Bronx location in 2021 after establishing its first spot in San Juan in 2013. Its everyday menu incorporates chocolate into all manner of items, like the Chocobar salad bowl with chocolate vinaigrette, the grilled cheese with cheddar and chocolate butter and the chocolate-laced pancakes, waffles and French toast.

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $60 Sunday brunch/lunch; $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner 

Harlem's Contento was one of the best new restaurants of the year when it opened in 2021, and it's still a favorite for its Peruvian-influenced menu and lenghy wine list. 

Our prix fixe pick: The pernil with arroz con gandules, sweet plantain and chicharrón for $60 at dinner. 

Housed in the stellar landmark Art Deco tower, 70 Pine Street, Crown Shy is a collaborative effort between the late great James Kent (NoMad, Eleven Madison Park) and Jeff Katz (former general manager at Del Posto). Driven by the seasons, Crown Shy is rooted in European technique but draws inspiration from around the world 

Our prix fixe pick: Mafaldine with rock shrimp and chorizo for $60 at dinner.

Delmonico's is back after 196 or a couple of years, depending on who's counting. It's as grand as ever after a light facelift, and it feels as important as it is comfortable this restaurant week. 

Our prix fixe pick: The Maine crab cake, steak frites and chocolate layer cake for $60 at dinner. Restaurant Week's supplements are seldom worth the extra cost, but $23 more for the titular signature steak here is the rare exception. 

One of New York City’s best restaurants, Gramercy Tavern’s experiences are divided in two: the casual tavern section up front and the dining room in the back. Each are a treat, and it's unique to offer Restaurant Week in the typically more expensive latter, where a five-course dinner is $168.

Pre fixe offering: $60 lunch; $60 Sunday brunch/lunch 

If Bemelmans, one of the best bars in NYC, is still too much of ‘a thing’ at the moment, consider Dowling’s, also at The Carlyle hotel. The newer of the two, which opened in 2021, is pretty fancy and chic in its own right. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $60 Sunday brunch/lunch; $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner

The green environs are reason enough to make a visit to Fandi Mata. But chef Javier Vazquez Mariño’s eclectic Mediterranean fare is enough to keep you coming back.

Our prix fixe pick: Citrus burned chicken with harissa, smoked tomato and gem lettuce salad for $45 for lunch and dinner.

Fabulous Fish Cheeks Thai restaurant has been a Time Out New York favorite since it first opened in Noho in 2016. It’s no stranger to specials, both as a repeat Restaurant Week listee, and at its daily happy hour from noon to 6pm. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $60 dinner

The East River and bridge views from The Fulton’s two dining levels are breathtaking even to longtime locals who’ve seen ‘em all. The restaurant's specialty is seafood, and there’s plenty to catch at the number one ranked spot in its cuisine category. 

Our prix fixe pick: The half-dozen oysters, roasted Faroe Island salmon and the Fulton cookie for $60 at dinner. 

The restaurant by the same famed name at this historic address was among the first to join the event back in 1992. Move your reservation-clicking finger right away (or try your luck as a pop-in), or you might have to wait another 32 years for lunch and dinner deals at one of 2021’s best new restaurants. 

Our prix fixe pick: $60 dinner 

It is not every day that one of NYC’s best vegetarian restaurants offers deals for multiple days, but that’s why NYC Restaurant Week is such a celebratory time of year. HanGawi’s largely plant-based menu changes seasonally, so expect something fresh this summer.

Pre fixe offering: $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner

The latest from Marcus Samuelsson, Hav & Mar bridges his Ethiopian and Swedish upbringing. At the helm, chef Fariyal Abdullahi masters the seafood-centric menu with Ethiopian variations of her own, evident in the bread basket scattered with teff and injera and seared char with berbere oil.

Our prix fixe pick: The first course calls for the berbere-cured salmon with apple water and avocado for $60 at dinner.

Mediterranean restaurant Iris opened its sprawling space in midtown in 2021. The critically acclaimed, beach-y, beige spot makes a mean eggplant moussaka, fried lamb’s tongue and branzino. 

Our prix fixe pick: The whipped feta for the table and the gyro spiced lamb pita for $45 at lunch. The spiced lamb flatbread, branzino filet and the pistachio baklava for $60 at dinner. 

​​Time Out New York Best of the City award winner Kokomo was also one of our favorite restaurants of 2020. The stylish Caribbean spot’s lengthy everyday menu includes slow-braised oxtail, jerk chicken and coconut curry mussels. 

Our prix fixe pick: The ackee and salt fish plantain cups, oxtail rice and peas and the chocolate sweet plantain lava cake for $60 at dinner. 

Kru is bringing its “modern interpretation of 100-year-old Thai recipes” to Restaurant Week this summer. Its operators are also co-owners of Fish Cheeks, which appears above. 

Our prix fixe pick: The savory fruit bite, cold noodles with shrimp and prawns and the beef tongue "massaman" curry for $45 at dinner. Or pop in for lunch, albeit two courses, for $30.

A top Restaurant Week destination if there ever was one, Le Rock at Rockefeller Center was one of the best new restaurants of 2022. Its four-course prix fixe includes some of the French flavors and preparations that first made the shining spot a favorite last year.

Our prix fixe pick: The tete de cochon (aka head cheese), duck confit and the profiterole for $60 at dinner. Or stop in for lunch for two courses for $45.

Celebrity chef Daniel Boulud's Le Gratin was another one of 2022's best new restaurants. Its lovely space is equally well-suited to workday lunches and romantic dinners, and it's serving both with selections from its Lyonnais-inspired menus this Restaurant Week. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $45 Sunday brunch/lunch; $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner

This truly beautiful viewstaurant soars among the best of them, held high above FiDi. A Manhattan in hand at Manhatta? We couldn't get more New York if we tried.

Out prix fixe pick: The hamachi crudo, American Wagyu bavette and chocolate sabayon tart with a crispy feuilletine for $60 at lunch. 

With a combined resume that spans Atoboy, Eleven Madison Park and Jungsik, owners Jeff Kim and Matt Lee pull from all over the world for their tasting room turned a la carte restaurant. Don’t be surprised if you find country ham sitting on crispy tteok (rice cakes) next to a braised oxtail tagine.

Our prix fixe pick: A favorite from the tasting menu days, order the frog legs with lemongrass, galangal and ginger.

Sometimes you’re going to end up around Penn Station, the Garden, Herald Square and all the big stores over there, and this is a good bet in the area. Piggyback brought its predecessor, Pig & Khao’s, downtown aesthetic several blocks north in 2019, and its Southeast Asian-influenced preparations are on the menu for Restaurant Week. 

Our prix fixe pick: The lumpia Shanghai and the Taiwanese pork chop for $30 at lunch including Sunday lunch. To snag the s'mores sundae or sticky toffee cake, come in for dinner priced at $60. 

One of our most-ordered menu items for all of 2023, Shan's Chongqing chicken is on the Smith Street Szechuan spot's menu this Restaurant Week. 

Our prix fixe pick: The sweet and sour ribs, egg drop tomato soup and the mapo tofu for $30 at lunch, including Sunday. Meanwhile, the five-course dinner deal calls for the chicken with Szechuan pepper sauce, pork dumplings in chili oil, kung pao prawns, sautéed bok choy and yuzu coconut cotta for dessert. 

Citing her own mother as a culinary influence, chef/owner Rawia Bishara brought her own daughter on as a partner in Tanoreen in the years since first opening the restaurant in 1998. The present space is comforting and inviting, with hummus, feta salad, eggplant preparations, kabob varieties and whole fish all on the menu. 

Pre fixe offering: $45 lunch; $60 dinner

Tribeca Grill was an early Restaurant Week adopter 32 years ago, when inaugural venues were serving $19.92 lunch specials for a few summer days. That’d be about $44.29 today, so this generally palate-pleasing new-American mainstay still sounds like a pretty good deal for 2024. 

Our prix fixe pick: The Caesar salad, grilled mahi-mahi and the chocolate torte for $45 at dinner. 

You can spot Wayan’s lovely facade a mile away, and its verdant bar-adjacent seating area and ornately appointed back dining room are just as pretty. Some of its also photogenic and delicious daily bites include satays, lobster noodles and fan-favorite corn fritters.

Pre fixe offering: $30 lunch; $60 dinner; $60 Sunday dinner