"There's also a huge Filipino community here, which brings a feeling of home, especially seeing all the variety of dishes like lumpia or chicken adobo, that reminds me of my grandma or childhood moments in the Philippines."
Counter Service's menu offers a variety of sandwiches served hot, including options like the Italian-inspired pork and broccoli rabe sandwich and all-day breakfast choices such as the Sausage and Cheddar with soft scrambled eggs, garlic sausage, chive mayo, crispy potatoes, cheddar, and pickled jalapeños.
A meal at Ikoyi is an otherworldly experience. From the flavours (phenomenal) to the cost (astronomical), everything at this intimate, intoxicating restaurant will be carved upon your memory.
The painting in question was gifted to the Inn's late founder Helmuth Deetjen by the late, celebrated local artist George Choley. This particular Choley painting had been in the same place since the 1980s, undisturbed, and a symbol of continued historic preservation.
Delmonico's has been serving top quality steaks and stiff martinis to New Yorkers since all the way back in 1837. The legendary steakhouse is known for popularizing Delmonico steak, a tender, heavily-marbled cut favored for its rich flavor profile and budget-friendly price.
When we closed temporarily, the full intention was to reopen in the spring. At the time, it felt like the responsible pause. At the same time, I was trying to divide myself between two restaurants, flying two planes while fixing them midair, and that wasn't fair to the businesses, the teams, or to myself.
New York is home to some of the most varied and raved-about restaurants in the U.S., from hole-in-the wall pizza spots to world-famous fine dining. Along with the excellent independent restaurants and diners are some impressive chain restaurant options diners love, from popular Chinese chains to delicious Peruvian and salad spots. So which ones are worth visiting? Here are seven of the best regional chain restaurants in New York, according to customers.
The meal begins with two bites from Clemente Bar (a black truffle broth and silken tofu made right then and there). Then it segues into this wonderful uni monaka, with two halves of a flower-shaped mochi wafer, one topped with a generous amount of uni, caviar, a flower garnish, and wasabi. Ichimura urges you to smush it together into a sandwich for a crispy, briny bite. After that, the meal proceeds into impeccable nigiri like hotate and tiger prawn.
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha's Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened Ha's Snack Bar, an itsy-bitsy restaurant on the Lower East Side. The Snack Bar, like the pop-up, served Vietnamese-inspired dishes that were clever, cheffy (and more than a bit French-inflected), and utterly cool without any sort of hauteur.
Heated Rivalry has taken over New York-well, the world really-with themed raves, trivia nights, watch parties and more. It's not looking like the horny obsession over the queer hockey romance is ending any time soon. In NYC, you can ice skate like Hollanov, hit the clubs like Hollanov and, yes, even scarf down tuna melts like Hollanov. From burgers to blueberry smoothies, here's where you can dine like the Heated Rivalry fellas in New York City.
Exclusivity, like any product, gets more valuable the more people want it; it is both the cruellest and the most honest thing that a restaurant can sell. The Eighty-Six, a mega-swank steak house that opened in the West Village last fall, was, from Day One, clubby, celeb-packed, and impossible to get into-no surprise, as it's the latest from Catch Hospitality Group, which previously brought us the impossible-to-get-into Corner Store.
When you hear that a restaurant is hard to get into, it signals that there must be something worthy of drawing a crowd - and with all of the restaurants on this list, that is certainly the case. Whether it's food so creative you just can't find it anywhere else, cocktails and wine lists crafted to impress, stellar service, or celebrity sightings, these locations are hard to get a table at for a reason.
New York City is many things: A place to meander through museums and parks, to sit enthralled in a dark off-Broadway black box theater, to live in a studio with a bathroom in the kitchen and happily pay an absurd amount for it. It should be no surprise that for those of us at Bon Appétit who call the city home, it's all about the food.