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Lincoln

When Lincoln Center announced that it would build a restaurant on its campus—for a reported twenty million dollars—as part of a $1.2-billion redesign, and that Jonathan Benno, second-in-command to...

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The John Dory Oyster Bar

The British chef April Bloomfield and the restaurateur Ken Friedman, the well-loved team behind the Spotted Pig and the Breslin, have reincarnated their baroque Tenth Avenue seafood restaurant the John...

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The Dutch

In the old Cub Room space, on a sun-dappled corner in SoHo, chef Andrew Carmellini abandons his talent for pasta—the highlight of his rustic Italian menu at Locanda Verde—for a new restaurant devoted...

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Buvette

Jody Williams, formerly the chef of Gottino and Morandi, has gone Gallic with Buvette, a wine-and-small-plates establishment in a cozy sliver of a space that once housed the bare-bones Southern...

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Kutsher’s Tribeca

In the fifties and sixties, the heyday of Kutsher’s Country Club, a Catskills resort, you could catch a show by Buddy Hackett or Jackie Mason, rub shoulders with N.B.A. legends like Wilt Chamberlain,...

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Brooklyn Crab

The haters came on early and strong for this venturesome tri-level seafood shack in Red Hook. Almost immediately upon Brooklyn Crab’s opening, in June, Yelp reviews collectively deemed it one of the...

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Mission Chinese Food

Danny Bowien, the thirty-year-old Korean-born chef and main owner of Mission Chinese Food, grew up in Oklahoma eating the Chinese dishes of Middle America, fried rice and lo mein. After stints at...

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Rosemary’s

The West Village, in spite of the generally unreasonable real-estate prices, retains pockets of its original bohemian grit, and still feels like home to those who identify more strongly with Jane...

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Ngam

Hong Thaimee, the chef and owner of this unassuming Thai restaurant in the East Village, is not only unusually fetching for a chef (the former model looks a decade younger than her thirty-six years),...

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Mighty Quinn’s And John Brown Smokehouse

New Yorkers are familiar with the blood sport of whoever-gets-there-first. At Mighty Quinn’s—a new restaurant that, somewhat suspiciously, bills its food as Texalina barbecue (the sauce is Texas spicy...

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Chez Sardine

The restaurateur and University of Wisconsin alum Gabriel Stulman’s clutch of downtown Manhattan restaurants, a.k.a. Little Wisco, includes the neighborhood haunts Joseph Leonard and Jeffrey’s Grocery,...

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Estela

In the narrow space above his perennial dive bar Botanica, Mark Connell has enlisted the intriguing chef Ignacio Mattos to liven up the place. (It was most recently Nolita House, a comfort-food...

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The Elm

It might take a moment to shift gears after the walk—past a concrete expanse of McCarren Park, rife with weed (both kinds), dumpsters, and a row of outhouses—to the King & Grove hotel, in whose...

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Center Bar

At 8:46 on the morning of 9/11, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Michael Lomonaco, the executive chef of Windows on the World, was in the building’s below-ground concourse, where he had...

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Dead Rabbit Grocery And Grog

In February, two bartenders from Belfast, Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon, took the revival of bespoke cocktails full circle with their feisty Victorian-era parlor. The rabbit of which they speak is John...

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Uncle Boons

So many Thai joints are the same old mix-and-match variety—noodles or curry, chicken or beef—and function as delivery systems for a few variations on one basic, albeit delicious, theme. At Uncle Boons,...

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Russian Vodka Room

“Dorogie Tovarischi! Comrades!” reads the Web site for this dimly lit lounge on the fringes of the theatre district—but you will get no such greeting upon stepping up to the green marble bar. The...

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City Grit

“How y’all doin’ tonight?” called Sarah Simmons, the founder of City Grit, which originated as a private dinner club and has evolved into a reservations-only “culinary salon” in Nolita. We were...

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The Theatre

It might be hard to remember, after all the sequels, that the original “Rocky” movie, from 1976, was an honest, hardscrabble ode to the underdog. That Sylvester Stallone could barely pronounce his...

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The King Cole

If you would like to know where the well-maintained go for an after-work drink, enter the lobby of the century-old St. Regis hotel, circumnavigate the awkwardly placed restaurant and its pulsing club...

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Sushi Nakazawa

If Alessandro Borgognone, the owner of this new West Village sushi restaurant, hadn’t seen the documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” after a late shift cooking at his parents’ Bronx Italian restaurant...

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Café Nadery

What ever happened to the intellectual cafés of Greenwich Village, where struggling artists could order a cup of coffee (not a Venti), read a newspaper (not an iPad), and talk to someone sitting across...

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Long Island Bar

The proprietors of this bar—including Toby Cecchini, of the former, iconic Passerby—have the right idea. From 1949 to 2007, the space was home to an unpretentious diner that catered to the dockworkers...

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The Theatre

Idina Menzel has a spare but formidable track record. In 1996, she made her Broadway début in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent.” Her powerhouse voice insured that she held her own in a talented...

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All’Onda

The name of this new restaurant near Union Square means “of the waves,” which refers both to the ideal, soupy state of a proper risotto and to the concept of combining the cuisines of two archipelagos,...

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Gato

Bobby Flay opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, when he was just twenty-six, but it was his Spanish bistro Bolo that earned him serious respect. When Bolo closed, in 2007, it wasn’t owing to...

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Navy

The owners of the Tribeca bar Smith & Mills, Matt Abramcyk and Akiva Elstein, were so enamored of their design concept—wartime bunker, in the vein of Bauhaus and Constructivism—they expanded on it....

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Summer Preview

The New York-born, Irish-Egyptian playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis was an actor first. With his friends John Ortiz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and John Gould Rubin, he was an early member of the Labyrinth...

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Beyond Beirut

Lebanese restaurants don’t get a lot of love in New York. Their roster usually includes a decent hummus or tabouli and some better than average grilled meat, dishes that seem to have roots elsewhere....

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Rockaway Beach Surf Club

In 2011, Rockaway Beach was poised to become the next hipster frontier. McCarren Park Pool party organizers held “Rock Beach” indie-band concerts, the concession stand Veggie Island served kale juice...

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Élan

When the Bronx-born chef David Waltuck opened his restaurant Chanterelle, in November, 1979, on a dark corner in SoHo, formal paeans to French cooking ruled midtown. Waltuck’s playful, lighter take on...

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Fall Preview

The experimental Belgian director Ivo van Hove has not only tackled the theatrical canon but also adapted works by master film directors, from Antonioni to Cassavetes. Van Hove strips plays down to...

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Dimes

Remember carob? And those people who swore not only that carob tasted just like chocolate but also that it was better for you? In the seventies, there was a certain kind of restaurant, usually...

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Emmett’s

Pizza has a fierce tradition in New York. Regional styles have long been kept at bay, but the big floppy slice and the Lombardi’s and John’s coal-fired* pies have lately had to compete with a wave of...

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Winter Preview

The Civilians make charmingly straightforward musical theatre about subjects both mundane (lost ephemera, in “Gone Missing”) and controversial (evangelical Christianity, in “This Beautiful City”),...

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White Street

If Ron Burgundy were real, he would bring his lady friends to this new Tribeca restaurant. It’s hard to think of a classier opening: ornate crystal chandeliers, velvet emerald drapes, black...

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Awadh

The first Nawab of Awadh, in what is now the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was the grandson of a wealthy Persian merchant. A string of Nawabs governed from the seventeen-twenties to the...

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The Eddy

If you were around for the heyday, in the eighties and nineties, of Indian row, on East Sixth Street in the East Village, you probably experienced a birthday party at the shabby jewel box Rose of...

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Racines NY

It takes guts to open a French wine bar across from Lot-Less, in the no man’s land between Tribeca and City Hall. The façade of Racines NY, an outpost of a pair of successful neo-bistros called...

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Rosie’s

When Cookshop opened, in 2005, in west Chelsea, it was on the cusp of both the farm-to-table explosion and a sea change in the neighborhood, driven by a migrating gallery scene and the impending High...

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Little Park

Andrew Carmellini’s latest Tribeca restaurant has a conundrum that could be filed under Good Problem to Have. The vegetable-focussed food is so good, so gorgeous and seasonal, that the setting, a...

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Wildair

Like Solange Knowles, Wildair is the younger, possibly cooler sister of an older, more established star—the affordable-tasting-menu mecca Contra, on the Lower East Side. Located two doors down, this...

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Seamore’s

In the late nineties, when marine conservationists first reported that swordfish was in danger of being overfished, many fishmongers and restaurants kept selling it, leaving conscientious omnivores to...

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Sushi Azabu / Azabu

On a desolate block in Tribeca, there’s a sweet little subterranean sushi den with nine seats and a rare, rather sublime intimacy. It isn’t particularly fancy (though it is not cheap), and if you want...

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Quality Eats

The menu at this svelte new West Village restaurant reads like a glutton’s day in Heaven, if such a thing were allowed: grilled bûcheron cheese, Nueske’s bacon with peanut butter and jalapeño jelly,...

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Llama Inn

Erik Ramirez, a former sous-chef at Eleven Madison Park, recently opened a quirky portal to Lima, Peru, at a boho-swanky restaurant wedged under the shadow of the B.Q.E. in Williamsburg. While...

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Murray’s Cheese Bar

If you are the kind of person who, upon hearing that there exists something called “buffalo cheese curds,” can think of nothing else until you eat them, then Murray’s Cheese Bar is for you. This narrow...

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High Street on Hudson

Tailored-denim napkins, butcher-block tableware, fermented, locavore, hearth-fired breads: down to the monochrome ceramics, this new West Village restaurant reads like a tableau in the cult life-style...

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Urbanspace Vanderbilt

It could be theorized that the proliferation of Roberta’s pizza is a benefit to society. This is actually happening, in part thanks to the London-based Urbanspace, which has a rather corporate-sounding...

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Nix

The vegetarians are winning. Not only are they healthier than the rest of us, they’re saving the planet, one carrot at a time—or, more specifically, one fewer hamburger at a time. (Livestock is...

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