We all love to theme—literally at high-concept spots crafted after certain films, cats, dolls, devils, or sex, and as an organizing device: Dives....
Food & Drink
Your guide to the best of New York’s food and drink scene spanning all five boroughs.

The best things to order at NYC Winter Restaurant Week’s top spots for 2023
New York City Restaurant Week comes but twice a year, and reservations for the winter, 2023 edition are open now. Tables are available for brunch, lunch and...

NYC's 10 best bars for nonalcoholic cocktails
Whether you abstain from alcohol year-round, or simply cannot stop talking about Dry January at the beginning of every year, nonalcoholic...

The best restaurants for Valentine’s Day dinner in NYC
Whether you love it or you’re still deciding which way to swipe, Valentine’s Day raises feelings like heart-shaped mylar balloons escaping to their...

The best things Time Out New York editors ate in 2022
A lot can conspire to make a place seem great. The power of suggestion, beautiful surroundings, subsequent cost justification, wonderful company, and actually...
Restaurant and bar reviews

Figaro Café
January 25, 2023: If you pass by the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets in Greenwich Village, a pretty restaurant glows on its southwest corner. If...

Rana Fifteen
January 13, 2023: Every price tag in New York City comes with a caveat. This is below market rate. That wasn’t too bad. The other’s pretty...

Atti
December 20, 2022: On a lucky day, you might wake up thinking of a certain dish and get it. I recently arose with a powerful desire for egg soufflé. In...

Koloman
December 14, 2022: As year-end lists circle the city like a cursed chain letter whose hastily dismissed consequences are nostalgia for something neither...
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I had dinner inside a ‘volcano’ at this new immersive restaurant and bar
This new spot near Madison Square Park brings theatricality to your dinner plate.

You must solve a cipher to enter this speakeasy-styled restaurant and bar
The Office of Mr. Moto is NYC's latest speakeasy-style concept.

Here’s what’s going on at Time Out Market New York this week
Dumbo’s popular food hall has a slate of recurring events every day of the week!

One of NYC’s most expensive sushi restaurants reopens its more affordable spot next week
Noz Market returns Wednesday, January 25.
Latest updated features

NYC’s coziest outdoor dining spots
Even when the weather outside is frightful, NYC’s outdoor dining is still delightful, whether you’re boldly braving the early autumn air...

The most romantic bars in NYC
Not to spoil the ending like the end if a so-so rom-com, but anywhere can be romantic. Glances have been stolen in dive bars, first kisses completed at rooftop...

NYC's best fireplace bars
In a town where functioning intercoms are considered an apartment amenity, New Yorkers seek niceties like fireplaces outside of the home. And this time of...

NYC's 21 best restaurants for group dining
Groups! Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live a blissfully solitary existence out in the woods without ending up on some kind of government watch...
Columns

Let me tell you—these are the NYC food and drink stories you might have missed in 2022
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...

Let me tell you—all the good cocktails already exist
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...

Let me tell you—these are the NYC food and drink stories you might have missed in 2022
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...

Let me tell you—all the good cocktails already exist
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...

Let me tell you—“foam” no longer cuts it as eye-rolling shorthand for restaurant snobbery
“Let Me Tell You” is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink,...

Did Lady Gaga actually work at NYC’s Cornelia Street Café?
I worked at The Cornelia Street Café in the West Village around about 2007-2008, but not for the entirety of either of those years. I was a server some...

The Instagram Thing: This Michelin-starred restaurant pairs its cheesecake with a creature
The Instagram Thing is an occasional column spotlighting things you’ll want to Instagram. Our previous editions highlighted the ten-foot snake topiary at...
Where to eat in New York

The 50 best restaurants in NYC right now
January 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...

The 41 best brunch spots in NYC right now
Brunch is the highlight of any week, whatever day it is. Saturday brunch is the best time to gear up for the night ahead, Sundays are perfect for relaxing and...
January 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...

The 50 best restaurants in NYC right now
January 2023: Running a restaurant in New York City in any era is a herculean task. We tend to love any place willing to feed us, but some simply stand...

The 41 best brunch spots in NYC right now
Brunch is the highlight of any week, whatever day it is. Saturday brunch is the best time to gear up for the night ahead, Sundays are perfect for relaxing and...

NYC's 21 best restaurants for group dining
Groups! Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live a blissfully solitary existence out in the woods without ending up on some kind of government watch...

NYC's 12 best new restaurants of 2021
At this time last year, we didn’t know which exciting, surprising and splashy spots would emerge as 2021’s best new restaurants. But back then, we...

The 14 best rooftop restaurants in NYC
New York has plenty of places to look at stuff. Our museums are marvelous, our streets are superb, our new skyscrapers are nail-biting and even our subway has...
Where to drink in New York

The 50 best bars in NYC right now
January 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...

The best rooftop bars in NYC
In the city that never stops sprawling, upward expansion has also reached great heights. Many incredible eating and drinking destinations are poised in the...
January 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...

The 50 best bars in NYC right now
January 2023: Everything’s easier when you're drinking out at a bar. Your dive’s beer is frosty, the wine bar has harder-to-find...

The best rooftop bars in NYC
In the city that never stops sprawling, upward expansion has also reached great heights. Many incredible eating and drinking destinations are poised in the...

The 19 best speakeasy-inspired bars in NYC
Although 2022 has wrought quite the resurgence, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s the year...

The 19 best dive bars in NYC
New York City has fewer dive bars than any other drinking genre. The primary reason is that a real deal dive must already exist. One simply cannot open a...

Martini menus are NYC's biggest fall drinking trend
Earlier this year, frozen drinks were everywhere, most notably at some previously unlikely locations. A little later, espresso “martinis”, which...
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The best speakeasies in NYC
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...

The best outdoor bars in NYC
NYC has plenty of patios and terraces for boozy afternoons in the city
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...

The best speakeasies in NYC
Although reports of their resurrection are greatly exaggerated, the last of New York City’s real-deal speakeasies ceased operation in 1933. That’s...

The best outdoor bars in NYC
NYC has plenty of patios and terraces for boozy afternoons in the city

The most romantic bars in NYC
Cozy up to bae at a spot that’s equal parts sweet and sexy

The best wine bars in NYC
Including educational vin studios and natural-wine–focused neo-bistros

The 16 best beer bars in NYC right now
NYC’s beer scene just keeps getting better. Whether you like sipping a flight of craft beers or chugging out of a boot at a beer garden, New York has...