12 places I recommend•6 in the Michelin guide
These are the 12 restaurants, bars and breakfast places in New York City I have eaten at myself and would recommend.
A Shanghainese restaurant on St Marks Place, its rooms strung with red and cream lanterns, where the menu runs from chicken soaked in Shaoxing wine to stir-fried rice cakes with pork and leeks.
Address: 19 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003, USA
A Sichuan restaurant on West 37th Street, its vintage dining room designed by Yiming Wang, serving regional specialities alongside the dishes everyone knows.
Address: 59 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018, USA
A Shanghainese restaurant on East 48th Street, run by the son of a restaurateur who opened his own xiao long bao house in 1994, with the recipes handed down from father to son.
Address: 7 E 48th St, New York, NY 10017, USA
A saloon on Third Avenue in a 1920s building, marked by a neon sign and green-and-white checked tablecloths, where the burger is the reason to come.
Address: 1291 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
A restaurant in the Seagram Building on East 52nd Street, in the room that was the Four Seasons, now run by Major Food Group and given over to American classics carved and finished at the table.
Address: 99 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022, USA
An Emilia-Romagna restaurant on East 20th Street in the Flatiron District, built around handmade pasta, from anolini di Parma to gramigna with a slow-braised sausage ragù in bianco.
Address: 27 E 20th St, New York, NY 10003, USA
Danny Meyer's Italian restaurant on West 33rd Street, set deep inside the Manhattan West development, where Hillary Sterling cooks behind an open kitchen.
Address: 440 W 33rd St Ste 100, New York, NY 10001, USA
The New York room of a Tokyo ramen house, on West 36th Street, where the noodles are made in-house and the tonkotsu is the bowl to order.
Address: 13 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018, USA
Masa Takayama's more casual room on the fourth floor of the Shops at Columbus Circle, next door to Masa itself.
Address: 10 Columbus Cir, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019, USA
Aman New York's speakeasy-style club in the Crown Building on West 56th Street, with live music nightly and a light menu drawn from across the Aman hotels.
Address: 9 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019, USA
Major Food Group's bakery and dining room on West Broadway in SoHo, founded in 2015 and named for co-founder Jeff Zalaznick's great-grandmother, built around bagels and smoked fish.
Address: 463 W Broadway, New York, NY 10012, USA
Ron Silver's American restaurant on Hudson Street in Tribeca, sourcing off what it calls the commercial food grid and known for its homemade pies. Great for typical American dishes and satisfying brunch items.
Address: 120 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013, USA
