Best new restaurants: The 10 hottest eateries in NYC
Consult our always-up-to-date list of New York City's best new restaurants before planning your next night out.
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Photograph: Daniel Krieger
Best new restaurants: The NoMad
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Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Best new restaurants: Mission Chinese Food
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Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
Best new restaurants: Blanca
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Photograph: Lizz Kuehl
Best new restaurants: Pok Pok Ny
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Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Best new restaurants: Empellón Cocina
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Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
Best new restaurants: The Cannibal
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Photograph: Dominic Perri
Best new restaurants: Perla
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Photograph: Caroline Voagen Nelson
Best new restaurants: RedFarm
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Photograph: Virginia Rollison
Best new restaurants: Tertulia
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Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
Best new restaurants: Boulud Sud
The New York food landscape is a perilous place for cool-hunters. With new blockbuster venues opening each week it’s hard to keep track of the best new restaurants and the hottest tables in town. That’s why we’ve created this constantly updated list of the best new restaurants in New York. Come back early and often to get up to snuff on the chefs to watch, the reservations you need to score and the dishes you have to taste in New York City’s ever-evolving restaurant arena. Did we miss your favorite New York restaurant? Join the conversation in the comments.
Blanca
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 4/4
Chef Carlo Mirarchi and the team behind Roberta's moved his widely acclaimed tasting menu from their flagship restaurant to this sleek spot in the back garden. The white-washed digs here are minimal and modernist—a fitting setting for Mirarchi's artful composed dishes. The chef plays with order
- 261 Moore St, (between Bogart and White Sts), 11206
Mission Chinese Food
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Anthony Myint and Daniel Bowien shook up the San Francisco dining scene with Mission Chinese Food. The groundbreaking joint drew long lines on a dingy strip in the Mission and national acclaim for its eclectic Asian soul food. Bowien moved to New York to open this Lower East Side outpost,
- 154 Orchard St, (between Rivington and Stanton Sts)
Pok Pok Ny
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Chef Andy Ricker gained national renown (and a James Beard Award) with a trio of quirky Thai eateries, serving lesser-known Southeast Asian specialties, in Portland, OR. He debuted his signature dishes in New York at takeout joint Pok Pok Wing first, and then at this full-service restaurant in
- 127 Columbia St, (between DeGraw and Kane Sts)
The NoMad
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
The luxurious setting, flawless service, and preponderance of foie gras and truffles call to mind an haute cuisine titan. But with its fashionable crowd and cool, voluptuous vibe there are clearly some young Turks behind the wheel. Chef Daniel Humm and William Guidara, the celebrated team behind
- 1170 Broadway, (at 28th St)
Empellón Cocina
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Wd~50's talented pastry chef, Alex Stupak, shocked the food establishment when he abandoned avant-garde desserts to open a West Village taqueria. At this follow-up project, Stupak leaves behind tacos to delve further into Mexican regional cuisines with traditional and creative plates, like dry-aged
- 105 First Ave, (between 6th and 7th Sts)
The Cannibal
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
With its deli fridges stocked with ales and lagers and its aged steaks and whole hams dangling from steel hooks, the Cannibal is almost a parody of a manly restaurant. If you like artisanal meat and craft beer, though, restaurateur Christian Pappanicholas (Resto) has created something pretty close
- 113 E 29th St, (between Park Ave South and Lexington Aves), 10016
Perla
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
For this West Village hit, restaurateur Gabriel Stulman (Joseph Leonard, Fedora) teamed up with chef Michael Toscano, a talented youngster who caught the eye of the food cognoscenti while running the kitchen at Mario Batali’s meat palace Manzo. The toque has wasted no time in embracing the
- 24 Minetta Ln, (between Sixth Ave and MacDougal St)
RedFarm
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Restaurateur Ed Schoenfeld and head chef Joe Ng (Chinatown Brasserie) offer a playful homage to the golden age of Chinese fine dining at this groundbreaking eatery. The farm-to-table decor makes an unconventional backdrop for a Chinese joint, and the eclectic menu is just as hard to pin down. You
- 529 Hudson St, (between Charles and W 10th Sts)
Tertulia
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
At this easygoing taberna, chef Seamus Mullen (Boqueria) offers an idealized spin on old-fashioned Spanish fare, with rustic regional grub and hard cider on tap. Peer into the open kitchen and you’ll get an idea of what’s really at work here—the chef is flanked by a wood-burning grill on one side
- 359 Sixth Ave, (between Washington Pl and W 4th St)
Boulud Sud
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
At his most international restaurant yet, superchef Daniel Boulud highlights the new French cuisine of melting-pot cities like Marseille and Nice. With his executive chef, Aaron Chambers (Café Boulud), he casts a wide Mediterranean net—looking to Israel and Egypt, Turkey and Greece. Budget-minded
- 20 W 64th St, (between Broadway and Central Park West), 10023
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