Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, Jungsik New York, and Per Se each hold three Michelin stars and a tasting menu. They are in Midtown-Times Square, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Tribeca-Civic Center, and Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.
Midtown-Times Square seafood fine dining with three Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. The room offers tasting menu, prix fixe, and à la carte formats, with an exceptional, sommelier-led program.
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square fine dining with three Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. Its exclusively plant-based tasting menu sets a clear format, with a wine list and sommelier-led service.
Tribeca-Civic Center modern Korean fine dining with three Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The tasting menu and prix fixe formats sit behind an exceptional, sommelier-led program with Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, California, Italy, and Germany named in the cellar.
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square French fine dining with three Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. Thomas Keller's restaurant serves a tasting menu and a prix fixe, with an exceptional wine program and sommelier-led service.
The city’s Japanese and Korean rooms show how precise the high end has become, from Edomae counters to modern Korean tasting menus.
Midtown-Times Square modern Japanese omakase from chef Keiji Nakazawa, with three Michelin stars and a wine list. The counter dining, omakase, tasting menu, and à la carte options are paired with a sake program.
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill Edomae omakase with two Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Chef Nozomu Abe works from a traditional hinoki counter, with seasonal otsumami and nigiri served in a hushed, disciplined format.
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square kaiseki with two Michelin stars and a minimal wine program. Counter dining, tasting menu, and prix fixe formats support a seasonal Japanese progression, and the room pours sake and craft cocktails.
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square contemporary Korean fine dining with two Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The 12-course tasting menu centres on house-made jang, with sommelier-led service and corkage allowed.
Gabriel Kreuther and The Modern are in Midtown-Times Square, Saga is in Financial District-Battery Park City, and Torrisi is in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square. Each holds a Wine Spectator award.
Midtown-Times Square modern Alsatian-French fine dining with two Michelin stars and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. The menu runs from tasting menu to à la carte, while the 10,000-bottle cellar is noted for depth in Alsace, Burgundy, and Bordeaux.
Financial District-Battery Park City contemporary fusion fine dining with two Michelin stars and Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence status. The 12-seat tasting menu is backed by an 8,000-bottle wine list with strengths in Burgundy, France, and Italy.
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square modern Italian dining with one Michelin star and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The wine list spans 850 selections and 4,700 bottles, with particular depth in Italy and Burgundy.
Midtown-Times Square contemporary American fine dining with two Michelin stars in 2025 and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. The formal dining room and Bar Room give the restaurant two modes of service.
Cocktail bars in the guide include rooms in East Village, West Village, and Lower East Side.
East Village Mexican-American cocktail bar with craft cocktails, low-ABV drinks, and zero-proof options. It holds a strong run of World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars rankings, and the food includes a birria grilled cheese.
West Village cocktail destination with two distinct rooms, Sip below and Guzzle above. The format pairs craft and classic cocktails with sake, gin, and whiskey, and the bar has earned major World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars recognition.
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square hotel with Michelin 2 Keys and a dining program led by Andrew Carmellini at Café Carmellini. The hotel also holds World's 50 Best Hotels No. 75 in 2025 and La Liste Top Hotels at 92 points in 2026.
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill hotel with Michelin 2 Keys and a Star Wine List recognition in 2026. Jean-Georges anchors the food side. The hotel holds World's 50 Best Hotels #43 in 2025 and a La Liste score of 95.5 points in 2026.
Midtown-Times Square, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Tribeca-Civic Center, and Financial District-Battery Park City hold many of the strongest wine-led rooms in our guide. Those neighbourhoods combine Grand Award cellars, sommelier-led service, and tasting menus that are built to match serious lists.
Greater New York has 72 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 96 Michelin stars in total. Those Michelin counts cover the five cities in the guide: New York City, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
Tasting menus at starred restaurants on this page are at Le Bernardin, Sushi Sho, Gabriel Kreuther, and The Modern in Midtown-Times Square; Eleven Madison Park, odo, and Joo Ok in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square; Jungsik New York in Tribeca-Civic Center; Per Se in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square; and Saga in Financial District-Battery Park City.
Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, Per Se, Gabriel Kreuther, and The Modern hold the Wine Spectator Grand Award, and Jungsik New York, Sushi Noz, Joo Ok, Saga, and Torrisi hold the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Awards in Greater New York
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Greater New York
Selected entries from the current guide for Greater New York.
New York City, United States
Le Bernardin New York reigns as the city's premier seafood destination, where Chef Eric Ripert's three-Michelin-starred artistry transforms ocean treasures into transcendent cuisine. This well-known Midtown institution has maintained The New York Times' four-star rating for over two decades, offering an unmatched fine dining experience centered on the philosophy that "the fish is the star."
New York City, United States
Atomix is where New York's Korean fine-dining conversation becomes precise, formal, and deeply contemporary. The counter format, illustrated course cards, and Junghyun Park's modern Korean cooking turn the meal into a study of accompaniment, sequence, and cultural translation rather than a conventional luxury tasting menu.
New York City, United States
Eleven Madison Park is where New York fine dining's old signals of luxury meet a plant-based tasting-menu format built around provenance, restraint, and a serious wine program. Daniel Humm's kitchen carries major recognition, including OAD's 2026 North America ranking, La Liste scoring, Star Wine List inclusion, and Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, but the more interesting story is how the room tests what luxury means without meat at the center.
New York City, United States
Jungsik New York helped move Korean fine dining in Manhattan from novelty to serious dining category. The TriBeCa restaurant links Korean structure and fermentation with contemporary tasting-menu technique, backed by James Beard recognition, La Liste scoring, Opinionated About Dining placement, and a cellar noted for Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, California, Italy, and Germany.
New York City, United States
Kabawa brings Caribbean cooking into New York City's tasting-menu conversation without sanding away its heat, generosity, or regional range. The counter-format restaurant from Paul Carmichael and Momofuku opened in March 2025 in the former Ko space, serving a three-course prix fixe with choices, extra side dishes, and recognition from the James Beard Foundation as a 2026 Best New Restaurant semifinalist.
New York City, United States
Daniel Boulud’s Upper East Side restaurant offers seasonal French cooking by Executive Chef Eddy Leroux. Guests can choose prix-fixe, tasting or vegetarian menus in the formal dining room, or visit the Lalique-designed bar and lounge.
New York City, United States
Two Michelin stars, an AAA Five Diamond rating, and a La Liste score of 93 points position Gabriel Kreuther among Midtown Manhattan's most serious fine-dining addresses. The kitchen channels French-Alsatian technique through a menu that runs from foie gras terrine to hay-smoked duck, while a 10,000-bottle cellar with particular depth in Alsace, Burgundy, and Bordeaux makes it as strong a wine destination as a culinary one.
New York City, United States
Per Se is New York's formal French-contemporary counterpoint to the city's looser bistro revival: a tasting-menu room built on ceremony, cellar depth, and Central Park views rather than neighborhood spontaneity. Chef Chad Palagi leads the kitchen, with Thomas Keller as owner; recognition includes three Michelin stars in 2024, La Liste 92 points in 2026, and OAD North America ranking in 2026.
New York City, United States
The Modern sits inside New York's museum-district version of fine dining: contemporary American cooking shaped by French technique, a formal dining room overlooking MoMA's sculpture garden, and a looser Bar Room for à la carte eating. Recognition from Michelin, La Liste, Forbes Travel Guide, AAA, OAD and New York Magazine places it firmly in the city's serious tasting-menu conversation without making the room feel sealed off from Midtown life.
New York City, United States
On Orchard Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Una Pizza Napoletana has held a singular position in American pizza since Anthony Mangieri began making naturally leavened, wood-fired Neapolitan pies by hand. Ranked #1 in the USA by 50 Top Pizza in 2025 and a Michelin Bib Gourmand holder, the menu extends to five or six pies with a short list of starters. Walk-in lines form more than an hour before opening.
New York City, United States
Thirty years into its run, Gramercy Tavern remains one of New York's most dependable American restaurants, a Union Square Hospitality Group landmark that holds nine James Beard Awards and a La Liste ranking, serving seasonal farm-to-table cooking across two distinct formats: a walk-in Tavern and a reservations-only Dining Room. Chef Michael Anthony leads a kitchen anchored in local sourcing, backed by a wine list of 2,225 selections and sommelier depth that few American restaurants match.
New York City, United States
Employees Only NYC remains a defining West Village cocktail room because it treats classic drinking as theatre without letting the room swallow the drinks. Its long run on the World's 50 Best Bars list, including #95 globally and #18 in North America for 2025, places it in a rare category: a 2004-era New York bar that continues to compete with younger technical programs.
New York City, United States
On Allen Street in the Lower East Side, Double Chicken Please has climbed from a neighbourhood curiosity to among the more-cited cocktail bars in North America, ranking #6 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual list in 2025. The bar's format sits at the intersection of conceptual bartending and accessible pricing, drawing a crowd that ranges from industry professionals to first-timers navigating the LES bar scene. Chef Mark Chou leads the program.
New York City, United States
A two-Michelin-star Edomae-style omakase on the Upper East Side, Sushi Noz operates at the precise end of New York's high-end sushi market. Chef Nozomu Abe presides over a 200-year-old hinoki counter in a hushed, temple-like room, where seasonal otsumami give way to nigiri of considerable technical discipline. Ranked 29th in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it belongs to a small peer group of counters where Tokyo-calibre sourcing meets Manhattan pricing.
New York City, United States
Overstory brings New York’s high-altitude bar format into serious cocktail territory, pairing a 64th-floor perch with a spirits-led program recognized by World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars, and the Tales Spirited Awards. The draw is not only the skyline; it is the way agave, whiskey, clarified builds, local ingredients, and a deep back-bar sensibility turn a view bar into a technical drinking room.
New York City, United States
Jean Georges holds two Michelin stars and, where Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's French technique meets Thai-inflected flavor logic across an ever-evolving tasting menu. The dining room's curved white seating and sheer drapes overlook Central Park, framing one of Manhattan's most recognized fine-dining addresses. A member of Les Grandes Tables du Monde and a La Liste Top 100 entry with 95 points in 2026.
New York City, United States
A Williamsburg wine bar and restaurant built around natural wine and seasonal New American plates, The Four Horsemen holds a 2022 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine Program and ranks #26 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list. With 40 seats and a list spanning over 750 bottles, it operates in a tier where the wine program and the cooking carry equal weight.
New York City, United States
schmuck. earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that the East Village address at 97 1st Ave has moved from newcomer to confirmed reservation. The room operates in a tier where front-of-house craft and menu precision matter as much as the food itself. It sits below the white-tablecloth stratosphere of Midtown but above the neighbourhood casual bracket, occupying the increasingly competitive middle ground where New York dining is most alive.
New York City, United States
Tucked behind a Hell's Kitchen grocery store, The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare operates at the summit of New York's counter-dining tier, two Michelin stars, a La Liste score of 91 points in 2026, and a ranked position in Opinionated About Dining's North America list. Chefs Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins lead a seafood-forward Japanese-French tasting menu served at a walnut counter where the kitchen has nowhere to hide.
New York City, United States
A few steps below street level on East 10th Street, Claud has become one of the East Village's most closely watched dinner reservations. Ranked #1 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list in both 2024 and 2025, it operates at the intersection of French-leaning bistro technique and ingredient-forward New American cooking, with a wine program running to 1,400 selections and 5,000 bottles in inventory.
New York City, United States
Lei is a Chinese American wine bar on Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, recognized by Star Wine List's White Star and Resy's 2025 Hit List. The room fills fast, bottles stacked floor to ceiling, tables spilling into the alley, while the kitchen produces focused modern Chinese small plates alongside a deep list of low-intervention wines.
New York City, United States
Ranked #15 in North America and #75 globally by the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Martiny's on East 17th Street has established itself as one of New York City's most consistently decorated bar programs. Its trajectory, from #68 globally in 2023 to #24 in 2024, signals a bar operating with real upward momentum in a competitive Manhattan field.
New York City, United States
Perched on the 63rd floor of a Wall Street Art Deco tower, Saga holds two Michelin stars and a wine list of 8,000 bottles with strengths in Burgundy, France, and Italy. Chef Charlie Mitchell brings a Southern-inflected American menu to one of New York's most architecturally compelling dining rooms. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday; the bar at Overstory on the 64th floor rounds out the evening.
New York City, United States
Atera holds two Michelin stars and an AAA 5 Diamond rating, placing it among a small tier of New York tasting-menu counters where Danish-influenced technique and seasonal ingredients converge. Chef Ronny Emborg's menu spans numerous courses that move between delicacy and richness, anchored by a wine program of 1,500 selections across 7,000 bottles. Dinner runs nightly at 77 Worth Street in Tribeca.
Greater New York
Selected entries from the current guide for Greater New York.
New York City, United States
The Fifth Avenue Hotel brings New York City luxury back toward maximalism, with Martin Brudnizki interiors, 153 rooms, and a dining program led by Andrew Carmellini at Café Carmellini. Recognition includes Michelin 2 Keys, La Liste Top Hotels 2026 at 92 points, World's 50 Best Hotels 2025 at No. 75, and Travel + Leisure T+L 500 Hotels 2026 featured status.
New York City, United States
A 1920s landmark on the corner of 77th Street and Madison Avenue, The Mark occupies a specific tier of Upper East Side hospitality: Jacques Grange-designed interiors, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's ground-floor restaurant, a Caviar Kaspia outpost, and 152 rooms rated Michelin 2 Keys (2024). La Liste placed it 95.5 points in 2026; the World's 50 Best Hotels ranked it #43 in 2025.
New York City, United States
Occupying the upper floors of the 1921 Crown Building at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, Aman New York translates the brand's resort-scale serenity into the center of Midtown Manhattan. Eighty-three all-suite keys, a 25,000-square-foot spa spanning three floors, and a Jazz Club paying homage to the Roaring Twenties sit behind a lobby set deliberately on the 14th floor, buffered from the street below.
New York City, United States
Baccarat Hotel New York brings the French crystal house into Midtown hospitality with a design language built around glass, silver leaf, silk, marble, and museum adjacency. Its 114 rooms, 55-foot marble pool, Spa de La Mer, Baccarat Bar, Star Wine List recognition, La Liste score, and Michelin Key place it in the city’s high-design luxury tier rather than the lifestyle-hotel lane.
New York City, United States
The Carlyle has anchored the Upper East Side's hotel hierarchy since 1930, carrying a reputation built across nine decades of discreet service, Art Deco interiors, and a cabaret programme that remains one of New York's most consistent cultural offerings. Ranked #64 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list (2025) and awarded two Michelin Keys (2024), it sits at the intersection of residential comfort and institutional prestige, with 190 rooms starting at $1,600 per night.
New York City, United States
Pendry Manhattan West occupies an undulating glass tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the Hudson Yards corridor, bringing Montage International's California-inflected luxury brand to its first New York outpost. The hotel's 164 rooms earned Michelin 2 Keys recognition in 2024 and a La Liste Top Hotels score of 91.5 points in 2026. Multiple bars, an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant, and Penn Station proximity make it a logistically coherent base for Midtown's west side.
New York City, United States
The Lowell sits on East 63rd Street in the Upper East Side, a 74-room member of the Leading Hotels of the World with a Michelin Key and a 97.5-point score from La Liste (2026). Wood-burning fireplaces, ivy-laced terraces, and the Pembroke Room's Maison Dior tea service define its register: residential, pre-war in spirit, and pitched well above the midmarket Manhattan hotel tier. Rates from $3,695.
New York City, United States
Casa Cipriani New York occupies the Battery Maritime Building, a 1906 Beaux-Arts ferry terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan, earning Michelin 3 Keys recognition in 2024. The 47-room members' club and hotel combines Italian design restraint with river views of the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty, a 15,000-square-foot wellness centre, and two distinct dining formats rooted in nearly a century of Cipriani hospitality.
New York City, United States
A Firmdale property on SoHo's cobblestone namesake street, Crosby Street Hotel brings Kit Kemp's colour-saturated design sensibility to lower Manhattan's 86 rooms, a 107-seat cinema, and the all-day Crosby Bar. Awarded Michelin 3 Keys in 2024 and 94.5 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking, it occupies a distinct position in downtown New York's boutique hotel market. Rates from $1,525 per night.
New York City, United States
Firmdale's Midtown foothold on West 56th Street brings the group's signature design intelligence to a neighbourhood already dense with American luxury.
New York City, United States
At the southern edge of Central Park, The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park occupies one of Midtown Manhattan's most coveted addresses, placing guests within walking distance of Fifth Avenue shopping, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. The 259-room property, redesigned by Paris-based Gilles and Boissier, earned a Michelin Key in 2024 and a La Liste Top Hotels score of 95.5 points in 2026. Rates from $1,415 per night reflect both the address and the depth of service infrastructure behind it.
New York City, United States
Nine Orchard is a hotel in the restored 1912 Jarmulowsky Bank on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Its first floor houses Corner Bar, an all-day restaurant, and Swan Room, a cocktail lounge in the former teller room.
New York City, United States
At the cobbled corner of Greenwich and North Moore streets in Tribeca, The Greenwich Hotel occupies a particular position in New York's boutique hotel hierarchy: 88 rooms, an 85 percent repeat guest ratio, and a service culture built around recognition rather than transaction. Ranked 77th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list (2025) and awarded a Michelin Key in 2024, it draws a creative class that prizes discretion as much as design.
New York City, United States
A founding member of the Leading Hotels of the World and holder of a Michelin 1 Key, The Hotel Chelsea at 222 W 23rd St is one of New York's most culturally loaded addresses. With 155 rooms, a painstaking preservation of its resident-artist legacy, and rates from $850, it occupies a tier where historical weight and boutique sensibility converge in a way few Manhattan properties can claim.
New York City, United States
On Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, The Peninsula New York occupies one of Midtown Manhattan's most recognisable Beaux Arts facades and earns a Michelin Key alongside La Liste's 96.5-point recognition for 2026. With 239 rooms across 22 floors, a three-floor spa, rooftop bar, and locally sourced American dining at Clement, it sits firmly within New York's small tier of full-service luxury hotels where address, technology, and food programming converge.
New York City, United States
Hotel Barrière Fouquet's New York brings the Parisian luxury brand to Tribeca, occupying a converted post-industrial brick building at 456 Greenwich Street. The 97-room property earned Michelin 2 Keys in 2024, pairing Art Deco-inflected interiors and Toile de Jouy wallpaper with warehouse-scale windows and downtown Manhattan skyline views. Brasserie Fouquet's, a rooftop bar, Spa Diane Barrière, and a private cinema complete the offer.
New York City, United States
Warren Street Hotel brings Firmdale's signature collision of bold color, layered pattern, and considered comfort to Tribeca, where 69 individually designed rooms sit behind a bright blue façade on Warren Street. A 2024 Michelin 1 Key recipient, the hotel occupies a distinct position in Downtown Manhattan's accommodation market, pairing fashionable common spaces with a bar and restaurant that draws both guests and locals.
New York City, United States
After a years-long restoration under interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, Waldorf Astoria New York returns to Park Avenue with 375 rooms, a 30,000-square-foot spa, and 43,000 square feet of event space including a new opera-inspired Grand Ballroom. The property sits in the upper tier of Midtown luxury alongside Aman New York and The Carlyle, carrying nearly a century of institutional weight into a post-restoration identity.
New York City, United States
The Bowery Hotel occupies a singular position in downtown Manhattan's boutique hotel scene: 135 rooms designed to evoke a prewar New York apartment, with cast-iron window frames, salvaged brass fixtures, and a lobby bar that functions as one of the neighbourhood's better gathering spots. A Michelin Key recipient in 2024, it sits in the tier of design-led properties where atmosphere does the heavy lifting.
New York City, United States
Built in 1926 and restored under the Corinthia flag, The Surrey occupies a discreet corner of the Upper East Side at 20 East 76th Street, one block from Central Park. Martin Brudnizki's interiors update the Art Deco bones without erasing them, and the 100 rooms and suites carry a scale and quiet that the neighbourhood's newer arrivals rarely match. The 2025 World Travel Awards named it New York's leading luxury hotel.
New York City, United States
Two James Beard Award-winning chefs, Tom Colicchio and Daniel Boulud, anchor its dining program, and 287 rooms occupy a restored Renaissance Revival shell that went untouched for decades before a Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel-led reconstruction brought it back.
New York City, United States
Occupying a landmarked 19th-century Beaux-Arts building at 88 Wall Street, this 180-room boutique hotel earned a Michelin Key in 2024 and sits at the serious end of Lower Manhattan's accommodation tier. The Tontine Building's layered history, from colonial-era coffeehouse to the birthplace of the stock exchange, shapes an interior that spans centuries of material and art, including an unexpected collection of Australian Aboriginal works.
New York City, United States
A 46-story glass tower at the edge of SoHo, The Dominick positions itself against downtown New York's most design-forward hotels with 391 rooms starting at 425 square feet, a Michelin-starred restaurant under Chef Sean Hergatt, and a Sisley Paris spa with hammam treatments. La Liste ranked it 90 points in 2026. The address puts Tribeca and the West Village within walking distance.
New York City, United States
On 58th Street between Billionaires' Row and Central Park, 1 Hotel Central Park applies a materials-first sustainability ethic to a 234-room property that earned a Michelin Key in 2024. Reclaimed wood, salvaged brick, and living green walls define the aesthetic, an intentional departure from the gilt-and-marble register that dominates this corner of Manhattan. Rates from $947 position it firmly in the upper tier of New York luxury, with an environmental conviction that sets it apart from conventional neighbours.
Greater New York
Selected entries from the current guide for Greater New York.
New York City, United States
Superbueno on First Avenue in the East Village holds North America's #2 bar ranking from World's 50 Best (2025) and a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. The bar runs a technically driven Mexican-American drinks program alongside a food menu built around refined cantina classics, all delivered through a hospitality approach that has made it one of New York's most-visited bars.
New York City, United States
Employees Only NYC remains a defining West Village cocktail room because it treats classic drinking as theatre without letting the room swallow the drinks. Its long run on the World's 50 Best Bars list, including #95 globally and #18 in North America for 2025, places it in a rare category: a 2004-era New York bar that continues to compete with younger technical programs.
New York City, United States
On Allen Street in the Lower East Side, Double Chicken Please has climbed from a neighbourhood curiosity to among the more-cited cocktail bars in North America, ranking #6 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual list in 2025. The bar's format sits at the intersection of conceptual bartending and accessible pricing, drawing a crowd that ranges from industry professionals to first-timers navigating the LES bar scene. Chef Mark Chou leads the program.
New York City, United States
Attaboy NYC is a New York City cocktail bar with no printed menu, a bespoke drinking format, and a long awards trail that runs through World's 50 Best Bars and Top 500 Bars. Its lineage from the former Milk & Honey space gives it rare historical weight, while the 2025 expansion changed access without abandoning the bar's tightly controlled style.
New York City, United States
Sip & Guzzle puts New York City's cocktail conversation into a two-speed format: brighter, louder drinking upstairs and a slower Japanese-accented program below. Its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist nod for Best New Bar, No. 5 placement on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025, and three 2026 Tales Spirited Awards Top 10 nominations make it one of the city's more closely watched bar openings.
New York City, United States
Overstory brings New York’s high-altitude bar format into serious cocktail territory, pairing a 64th-floor perch with a spirits-led program recognized by World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars, and the Tales Spirited Awards. The draw is not only the skyline; it is the way agave, whiskey, clarified builds, local ingredients, and a deep back-bar sensibility turn a view bar into a technical drinking room.
New York City, United States
schmuck. earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that the East Village address at 97 1st Ave has moved from newcomer to confirmed reservation. The room operates in a tier where front-of-house craft and menu precision matter as much as the food itself. It sits below the white-tablecloth stratosphere of Midtown but above the neighbourhood casual bracket, occupying the increasingly competitive middle ground where New York dining is most alive.
New York City, United States
Lei is a Chinese American wine bar on Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, recognized by Star Wine List's White Star and Resy's 2025 Hit List. The room fills fast, bottles stacked floor to ceiling, tables spilling into the alley, while the kitchen produces focused modern Chinese small plates alongside a deep list of low-intervention wines.
New York City, United States
Ranked #15 in North America and #75 globally by the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Martiny's on East 17th Street has established itself as one of New York City's most consistently decorated bar programs. Its trajectory, from #68 globally in 2023 to #24 in 2024, signals a bar operating with real upward momentum in a competitive Manhattan field.
New York City, United States
Dante NYC is a West Village aperitivo address with serious bar-world credentials: The World's Best Bar in 2019 and a long run across World's 50 Best Bars and North America's Best Bars lists. Its pull is not secrecy or spectacle, but the modern New York version of an Italian café-bar, built around negronis, garibaldis, vermouths, spritzes, classic cocktails and all-day food.
New York City, United States
America's only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse, Cote occupies a dark, atmospheric room in the Flatiron District where tableside grills and dry-aged A5 Wagyu reframe what a steakhouse can be. The Butcher's Feast at $65 remains the entry point. Ranked No. 2 on Robb Report's 50 Best Steakhouses in North America 2025 and holding a Michelin star since 2024, it draws a global following without straying from its core premise.
New York City, United States
Katana Kitten on Hudson Street has held a place in the World's 50 Best Bars global rankings every year since 2019, reaching #10 in 2021 and maintaining a North America top-15 position through 2024. The West Village bar occupies a specific niche in New York's cocktail scene: Japanese-American technique applied with enough precision to attract a loyal repeat clientele alongside the global bar crowd. Reservations are advised, particularly on weekends.
New York City, United States
Bar Snack at 92 2nd Ave in Manhattan's East Village lands at #85 on the 2025 World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars list, signalling its place in New York's more considered tier of neighbourhood drinking. The format pairs a tightly focused snack programme with a serious drinks list, operating where bar food is treated as a complement to cocktails rather than an afterthought.
New York City, United States
Clemente Bar puts Manhattan cocktail culture in a polished Madison Avenue register: design-forward, chef-led, and serious enough to earn a 2026 Opinionated About Dining Casual ranking at No. 118 in North America. Mariana Schurt’s name gives the room a culinary anchor, but the larger story is New York’s shift toward bars that read as restaurants in pacing, staffing, and ambition.
New York City, United States
The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog sits in New York City's Irish-bar lineage with a more serious cocktail pedigree than the category usually suggests. Its two-floor format, Irish produce and hospitality brief, and long run on World's 50 Best Bars lists make it a useful reference point for how tavern energy and awards-level drinks can share the same room.
New York City, United States
An 18-seat cocktail bar in Manhattan's Flatiron district, Shinji's ranked No. 90 on North America's Best Bars 2025 and No. 382 in the Top 500 Bars global list. The format combines technical cocktail work with theatrical service inside an interior that signals ceremony over casualness.
New York City, United States
Angel's Share on Grove Street in the West Village operates at the more considered end of New York's wine bar spectrum, earning Opinionated About Dining Casual recognition in 2025. The list leans toward producer-driven selections with a format suited to extended, unhurried drinking.
New York City, United States
Maison Premiere has held a place on the World's 50 Best Bars list since 2014, operating from a 19th-century New Orleans-inspired room on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. The bar program centers on absinthe and raw shellfish, two categories that reward attention and patience in equal measure..
New York City, United States
Please Don't Tell (PDT) entered the New York cocktail conversation in 2007 through a phone booth hidden inside a hot dog counter on St. Marks Place, and it spent the next several years at the summit of the World's 50 Best Bars rankings, reaching No. 1 in 2011.
New York City, United States
A SoHo dive bar reborn as a serious cocktail destination, Milady's at 160 Prince Street carries decades of neighbourhood history into a program that earned it a spot at #44 on North America's Best Bars in 2024. It is the rare place where institutional memory and technical ambition occupy the same room.
New York City, United States
Operating since 1885, Keens is one of Midtown Manhattan's oldest chophouses and a James Beard America's Classic. The dry-aged USDA Prime cuts, broiled on a high-temperature grill, anchor a menu that also features the signature mutton chop and prime rib hash. Ranked #150 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list, it remains a reference point for old-school New York steakhouse tradition.
New York City, United States
On the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, Yoshino holds the #1 ranking on Opinionated About Dining's North America list for 2025 and a Michelin star, placing it at the summit tier of New York's omakase scene. Chef Tadashi "Edowan" Yoshida brings a precision-driven approach to sushi and yakiniku, anchored by a hinoki counter sourced from a 300-year-old tree and service that turns each course into a deliberate, theatrical moment.
New York City, United States
Opened in November 2024 at One Madison Avenue, La Tête d'Or is Daniel Boulud's first dedicated steak restaurant, bringing French technique to the American steakhouse format. The Flatiron room features Art Deco design with walnut floors, marble, and blue velvet, while the menu pairs dry-aged and oak-grilled cuts with French sauces and a prime rib trolley that arrives tableside.
New York City, United States
Mace has held a position inside the World's 50 Best Bars rankings since 2015, making it one of New York City's most consistently recognised spice-driven cocktail bars. Located at 35 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, it operates in a tier of technically serious, ingredient-led programs that have shaped how the city thinks about flavour.
Greater New York
Selected entries from the current guide for Greater New York.
Brooklyn, United States
In a borough better known for craft spirits, it represents a distinct strand of New York's drinks scene, one where wine is made, not just poured.
Brooklyn, United States
The address alone places it within walking distance of Brooklyn's broader spirits corridor.
Brooklyn, United States
Van Brunt Stillhouse operates from the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn. The distillery sits within a broader Red Hook spirits corridor that has redefined what small-batch American production looks like outside Kentucky and Tennessee. Visit for the programme, stay for the sense of place.
New York City, United States
Long Count is a chef-led New York City wine restaurant built around aged bottles by the glass rather than the usual young-list churn. Every glass pour carries at least 10 years of age, with Coravin service allowing older wines, including a 2012 Brunello di Montalcino, to appear in a more flexible restaurant format.
Brooklyn, United States
Red Hook Barrel Yard belongs to Brooklyn’s working-edge drinking culture, where production spaces, waterfront warehouses, and tasting rooms sit closer to maker economies than polished Midtown hospitality. With for hours, pricing, awards, or winemaking, the editorial value is contextual: use it as a lens on how urban wine and spirits venues translate place when the vineyard is elsewhere and the barrel room is in Brooklyn.
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