Best restaurants in New York City

By Time Out editors Thu Sep 23 2010

Esperanto Photograph: Dan Eckstein

Best bakeries
Fresh loaves, chocolate-chip cookies and more.
Best BBQ
The city's stellar smokehouses.
Best burgers
Premier patties.
Best Chinese restaurants
Pork buns, dim sum and the most authentically spicy Szechuan fare in NYC.
Best coffee
Perk yourself up with caffeine and a pastry at these coffeeshops and espresso bars.
Best Indian restaurants
Regional Indian fare that goes way beyond curry.
Best Italian restaurants
The finest regional pasta dishes, antipasti and wine from the North and South of Italy.
Best Kosher restaurants
Best Mexican
No Tex-Mex here-just authentic or fusion Mexican food from restaurants and delis.
Best pizza
The city's finest pies.
Best sandwiches
NYC is eating its way through a new golden age of the sandwich.
Best seafood restaurants
Dive into lobster, oysters and New England--style fish shacks.
Best steakhouses
Porterhouse, sirloin, fillet mignon and rib eye to die for.
Best sushi restaurants
The city's temples to Japanese cuisine.
Best Thai restaurants
If you're looking for spicy, complex dishes, these are the right places.
Best vegetarian and vegan
Restaurants, cafes and bakeries for meat-free natural, organic and raw food.