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Your ever-growing “restaurants to try” list has two new entries. Yelp has named two New York City spots among its Best New Restaurants of 2026 list: a Hudson Yards Mexican restaurant with a dramatic past life and a NoMad Indian clubhouse where dinner can turn into a four-course feast.
Limusina landed at No. 3 on Yelp's ranking. Before it became an amber-lit, Art Deco dining room, the space was a parking garage; now it’s a buzzy Mexican restaurant from Quality Branded, the group behind such high-profile names as Don Angie and Bad Roman.
Executive chef Craig Koketsu serves queso fundido flambéed with Xtabentún, a liqueur from the Yucatán, and a sword-shaped quesadilla filled with black truffle and guava jam. There’s also a long-bone short rib quesabirria with consommé for dipping, plus red snapper tacos coated in crunchy rice flakes.
Coming in at No. 10, Ambassadors Clubhouse has brought some considerable grandeur to NoMad. The restaurant comes from siblings Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi, whose London restaurant of the same name has earned a Michelin star. Its New York menu draws on Punjabi royal kitchens and North Indian street food, with a dining room that makes a compelling case for dressing up.
You can order à la carte, but Yelp’s reviewers recommend the four-course feast if you want to cover more ground. Among the dishes they singled out are beetroot raj kachori chaat, butter chicken chops from a charcoal tandoor and paneer tikka made with locally sourced milk. (The cocktails include a Patiala peg, a roughly 120-milliliter measure of whisky.)
Ambassadors Clubhouse also reflects the growing appetite for Indian food that Yelp identified in its dining data: searches for “Indian bowls” rose 135-percent, while “Indian food buffet near me” jumped 459% in the periods the company compared. Searches for Ambassadors Clubhouse itself climbed 8,214-percent, which might explain why getting a reservation can feel like an achievement.
For the ranking, Yelp considered full-service restaurants that opened after January 1, 2025, then weighed review volume and ratings through June 11, 2026. Filthy Animal in Tempe, Arizona, took the top spot, followed by Firstborn in Los Angeles.