See all restaurants near the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Wright

• Price band: 4/4

The food at this Guggenheim eatery has visual panache (see the aluminum rainbow by sculptor Liam Glick wrapping the dining room), but the textures and flavors don’t live up to the presentation. Slimy lobster arrives with a sickly-sweet clementine sauce. Suckling pig is bland, dry and stringy, with

Café Sabarsky

• Price band: 2/4

Take well-behaved elementary schoolers to lunch at Café Sabarsky, the elegant Viennese café inside the Neue Galerie. (Kids under 12 aren’t allowed in the museum, but they’re welcome in the eatery.) Goulash soup and smoked salmon with cream cheese and scallions are solid choices, but it’s the

Centolire

• Price band: 2/4

One hundred lire wasn’t all that much even before the euro arrived, and it wouldn’t help much at this outpost from Pino Luongo. “Up or down?” the host will ask when you arrive. Go upstairs, where potted sunflowers light up a room overlooking Madison Avenue. The service is delightful; it’s nice when

Demarchelier

• Price band: 2/4

Every neighborhood deserves a decent bistro, so the Upper East has Demarchelier: close-packed tables, a chatty crowd and a relaxed bar. Main selections include calf liver splashed with sherry vinegar and buttery-sauced trout showered with nicely browned sliced almonds. Rib-eye steak béarnaise was

Table d’Hôte

• Price band: 2/4

“French country” is more than just a style at this petite eatery with white clapboard walls and slanting red wooden floors. Each table for two is topped with fresh flowers in a small milk pitcher; rustic goat-cheese fritters with beets and haricots verts are drizzled with bright raspberry

Sarabeth's

• Price band: 2/4

Charming Sarabeth's serves a homestyle breakfast, with little-house-in-the-woods menu items to match: Kids can try the Baby Bear—porridge with milk and honey—while parents nosh on the Goldie Lox, a plate of scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and cream cheese. Lunch and dinner are equally cozy, with the

Paola’s

• Price band: 2/4

Expect familiar regional Italian dishes at this relocated Upper East Side veteran, still under chef Paola Bottero.

Pascalou

A quaint chef-owned French bistro on the Upper East Side.

Le Pain Quotidien

• Price band: 1/4
• Critics choice

This charming Belgian chain, a bread-lover’s heaven, is a comfy all-day hangout. Groups of girlfriends meet to gossip and splurge on pastries, couples swap newspaper sections over coffee, and solo diners strike up conversations at huge communal wooden tables. Breakfast offerings are simple—frothy

Le Paris

Formerly known as Bistro du Nord, this Upper West Side spot serves duck confit, moules marinieres, steak tartar and other classic dishes.