The one surefire dish is the shepherd’s pie, a pile of curried lamb that’s been charred into chewy little bits and tucked into a crock pot topped with a hearty schmear of mashed potatoes. Read more.
Sit outside, hang with the finance bros, order a couple of beers, and make do with Adrienne's square pan pies to prevent a hangover. Kitchen closes at 11:30 p.m. Read more.
Augustine serves some of the city’s most exciting steaks, from a funky porterhouse rubbed in sweet-salty Montreal seasoning, to a strip crusted in a bevy of peppercorns. Read more.
Whether it's filled with buckwheat, chocolate hazelnut, or peanuts and chocolate (below), the salty, rich tart strikes the perfect balance every time. Read more.
Taker orders until 10:45pm, Chinese Tuxedo serves honey-drenched chicken liver, as well as the duck salad with lychees. It’s unquestionably one of the most expertly cooked birds in town. Read more.
At Mission Chinese Food, eating Chonqing chicken wings, dusted with sugar and electric-powered Sichuan peppercorns, is the gustatory equivalent of French kissing a taser. Read more.
At Le Coucou, the menu includes seaweed butter-warmed oysters, quenelles de brochet, Dover sole, and duck with foie gras. Also expect white tablecloths, tall candles and patrons dressed to the nines. Read more.
Sushi Seki has always held somewhat of a monopoly on omakase sushi in the after-hours, which is why it's nice to see John Daley do ambitious, late night, piece-by-piece tastings on the Lower East Side Read more.
Dirty French is creative at heart with dishes inspired by the Middle East (lamb carpaccio with mint and sheep’s yogurt) and Southeast Asia (fish sauce and lemongrass-braised chicken thighs). Read more.
Chef Adam Schopp blends pork and chicken broths, laces them with the truity sting of scotch bonnet paste and finishes off the affair with seaweed, jerk pork belly, and lychee-like ackee fruit. Read more.
You should have no problem ordering a ton of tacos at 11:30 p.m. Order the namesake al pastor (intensely porcine swine with chile and pineapple), as well as the insanely beefy tripe and tongue tacos. Read more.
If you want Crif’s best dish: The Chang Dog, a deep fried hot dog wrapped in bacon and topped with fiery kimchi, arrive after midnight if you want to get into PDT. Read more.
Located just below street level on St Mark’s, the gastro-bar fries up Bell & Evans birds in the Korean-style, creating a puffy, paper-mache skin doused in a Bonchon-esque spicy-vinegary orange sauce. Read more.
Estela is the ideal restaurant with reasonable portions. It serves tartare in a tapas-sized bowl and a hanger steak that just involves a few bites of flesh and won't mess up a palate. Read more.
The famed 24-hour Ukrainian diner serves a gut buster that includes two meat pierogi, two potato pierogi, and meat-stuffed cabbage with super rich mushroom gravy. Read more.
Motorino serves the best Neapolitan pies as the margherita is solid, but pros go for the soppressata picante, or the famous pizza with Brussels sprouts. Kitchen open until midnight. Read more.
Come here to Momofuku Milk Bar for a serious sugar fix, delivered via Christina Tosi’s elevated take on American childhood junk food, from birthday cake truffles to cereal milk ice cream to crack pie. Read more.
Ssam Bar helped re-energize the Blue Ribbon style of late-night dining: serving fatty, salty, strongly flavored foods. Sardines with chickpea miso and rice cakes with pork sausage are essential orders Read more.
Swing by Via Carota's bar and get a late-night rarity in New York: tripe, braised with tomatoes and pecorino, meant for scooping up with crusty grilled bread. Pastas are simple and trend vegetarian. Read more.
Spotted Pig stays open until 2 a.m. on weeknights. The correct order here is the roquefort burger, a chin-dribbling, medium rare beef patty slathered in blue cheese Read more.
Eating steakhouse-sized portions of meat after 11 pm can have devastating gastrointestinal consequences on even the sturdiest diners. But if you have to Beatrice Inn in the West Village is the choice. Read more.
Sit at one of the communal benches in Bar Jamon and order some slices of tortilla espanola, a nourishing egg and potato custard slicked with garlic aioli, and there is your perfect late night meal. Read more.
Tao Downtown takes 11:45 p.m reservations on weeknights where you can order some rock shrimp lettuce cups and ask he waiter what pairs best with a Red Bull at the bar. Read more.
Dinner is normally five-courses or more on the Captain's Menu, but those who ask politely and discretely should be able to order a few a la carte pastas around this time instead of going prix fixe. Read more.
Let's keep this one simple: You come to Alex Raij's tapas bar for the uni panini. It's sea urchin and butter smeared on a soft, crispy ficelle, the essence of ocean transformed in a sandwich spread. Read more.
Stick with the three burgers: beef (dry-aged, heady and as soft as a terrine), chicken (juicy and truffle scented), or vegetarian. Pair the dishes with any of the cocktails by Leo Robitschek. Read more.
The Breslin serves one of the city's best burgers, but understand that it's a lamb burger in case that freak you out. Pork slatimbocca, merguez sausages and beef-stilton pies are other choices too. Read more.
The crust at Marta is thicker than a communion wafer, but the magic is that it don't crunch like a cracker it sports a soft, toothsome chew. For a carb fest, do the eggy, potato-laden carbonara pie. Read more.
The braised beef chili is rich with tender meat and heady with cumin, and the tacos are pretty good too, but the right move is a single dish: the shawarma, which is slow cooked and griddle crisped. Read more.
My colleague will argue a better pastrami sandwich is to be had at Katz's, but I'll politely disagree — 2nd Avenue's pastrami sandwich is the real cured meat champion. Read more.
Sometimes you don't want a rich and oversized restaurant burger late at night, you just need a smaller snack burger to ensure an easy sleep. Shake Shack is your burger joint made just for that. Read more.
Home to some of the city’s best paitan ramen, a tonkotsu-like preparation that involves a chicken broth so opaque with fat it nearly takes on the appearance of New England clam chowder. Read more.
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar is a rare den of high-end yet affordable civility on the fringes of the Theater District. Coq au vin drumsticks and spicy lamb sausages in pita are both excellent. Read more.
When going to the Russian Vodak Room, order the pickled vegetable platter; sucking the pulp out of a brined tomato is a life-changing Russian culinary tradition rarely experienced in Manhattan. Read more.
P.J. Clarke's is where you eat in Midtown East when you're stuck working late on a Monday. But understand others will have the same idea, and not all of those people will be sober. Read more.
The Ardesia kitchen slathers toast with bacon, quail eggs, and an obscene amount of foamy hollandaise. It packs all the flavor and goop of a BEC without all the heaviness. Read more.
Come to Yakitori Totto with great priced skewers for a clutch late night grab. Though be warned, late night activities might make it hard to walk up the long, steep flight of stairs. Read more.
Ramen and rice bowls are common finds at Donburiya, but it is the rib-sticking katsu curry: golden fried chicken atop an aromatically-spiced beef sauce, that is the game changer. Read more.
Perhaps the only New York restaurant that hands out free hand rolled cigars on the weekends, Guantanamera is famed for their plate of calamari in garlic sauce that is so rich it looks like cream. Read more.
Boulud Sud is a rare Southern European spot to remember that the Mediterranean extends to North Africa and the Levant, serves great harira (Moroccan lentil soup) and chicken tagine. Read more.
A rare burger, recommended, came out in 2 minutes during a recent visit, boasting a charred exterior and a silky, crimson interior. Add bacon and American cheese, then season with a lot of salt. Read more.
One reason to drop by RedFarm are Joe Ng’s masterful dim sum, from luscious pork and crab xiaolong bao to snowpea leaf dumplings so translucent you could almost read a book underneath the wrappers. Read more.
The Penrose on East 82nd represents a welcome reprieve from that neighborhood's sports bars. Go for the smoked meat sandwich, made with 40-day-cured brisket that's been slathered with mustard. Read more.
One of the few places open until 11 pm in Long Island City, go to Casa Enrique for the al pastor tacos and the hearty pozole. What really is the shining star though is the mole de piaxtla. Read more.
Against the competition in North Williamsburg, Andrew Tarlow's Reynard gives a hefty burger or a roast half check that when paired with a proper martini will do the trick. Read more.
Get the tripe chili if it's on the menu, served with a bag of corn chips, Frito pie-style. Otherwise, make a late night snack out of a barbecue mignonette-topped oysters and bacon jalapeño corn bread. Read more.
After a sturdy night of drinking in Williamsburg, this New Orleans-themed restaurant and cocktail bar is where you go for more drinking – and oystering as they are served until 1 a.m on weeknights. Read more.
Keep this one simple: You go to Pies 'n' Thighs for some of the city’s best fried chicken, served in a “box” or in hot sauce and honey butter biscuit sandwich, as well as a fine selection of pies. Read more.
Carlo Mirarchi is the longtime culinary maestro here, sending out duck prosciutto whose fat rivals Kobe in its ability to melt at room temperature, and whose flesh matches dry-aged beef in its flavor. Read more.
The kitchen closes at 11 pm and though the cocktail bar is open later. Start off with a dozen perfectly-shucked oysters, follow up with the meringue-like weisswurst, and finish with crispy Guinea hen. Read more.
