You'll see your noodles slammed into shape as you wait. It's filling, delicious, and soooo cheap for noodle soup and dumplings. Read more.
The best authentic Chinese food in Chinatown. It's basically a hole-in-the-wall restaurant but the food is amazing, even the snails! [Eww I know] Was featured on A. Bourdain's travel channel show. Read more.
Best dumplings I know of in Chinatown. Try the shrimp watercress - you'll be so glad you did.
Don't let the name fool you - the noodles aren't the only delicious items on the menu at this Chinatown fave. Savor the salt-baked soft-shell crab, duck w/ flowering chives, and killer suckling pig.
Devious authentic food from Xi'an. You will not be disappointed, and the prices are incredibly cheap.
The best soup dumplings in the city! Amazingly never too crowded, and spacious for Chinatown.
Props for the big tray of chicken (大盘鸡) and pancake with pork (肉夹馍）Seriously the MOST authentic Chinese hole-in-the-wall gem. The dishes are similar to Xi'an, but only more spicy and well-flavored.
This is some of the best roast pork in Chinatown. A serving over rice will set you back about five bucks. Cash only.
Semilla was one of the three spots awarded best restaurant of 2015. Even if you rarely eat meat,the vegetable-centric Semilla will challenge your notions of what's supposed to taste good.
Enter Australian import Babu Ji, whose self-serve beer fridge, casual vibe, and dashes of creativity –– lobster-stuffed potato croquettes! — have generated epic waits for dinner.
In the conservative world of sushi, SHUKO is pushing the genre forward with little more than gentle nudge.
Untitled deserves props for pushing the museum-dining envelope. There's not even a safe steak on the menu.
Santina is the last of the three spots awarded best restaurant of 2015. The place is a Renzo Piano-designed glass cube, a human terrarium whose interior evokes the Amalfi Coast circa 1953.
The Clocktower is dishing up epic fish & chips and Minetta-quality steaks in a restaurant where guests play billiards for free.
The Park Avenue South hangout delivers with precise food, including fragrant-spicy yuzukosho duck wings and stunning chicken-liver bolognese.
This Long Island City joint serves the city's best tonkotsu. The result is a silky, chowder-like mouthfeel, and a richness level that doesn't make you feel terrible when you're finished.
Contra is the new Lower East Side restaurant from chefs Fabian von Hauske (formerly of Faviken and Noma) and Jeremiah Stone (Isa).
This lively restaurant is one of your best bets for classic red-sauce cuisine in New York City. Make sure to try one of the homemade pastas, and one of the ultra thin-crust pizzas. [Eater 38 Member]
The chicken parm, Italian combo, and Saratoga club are all strong choices, and you're going to want an order of the calamari and the Buffalo cucumbers too. [Eater 38 Member]
Want top tier sushi at a great price? Head to Sushi Dojo. Order the 15-piece omakase and hand rolls. They also offers cooked dishes like braised snapper head and soba. Read more.
Exciting market-driven Italian cuisine, but the thing that you might like the most about this restaurant is the service. The team will make you feel like you're the guest of honor at a very hip party. Read more.
Kevin and Alex Pemoulie are serving inventive and all-around delicious New American food in Jersey City right now. If you hop on the Path Train, you're guaranteed to be charmed. [Eater 38 Member]
ABC Kitchen serves some of the city's best salads, as well as great pizzas and a fancy cheeseburger. And save room for the popcorn-topped ice cream sundae for dessert. [Eater 38 Member]
Satisfy your cravings for red meat and fancy beer at this casual Gramercy bar and restaurant. The menu includes steaks, tandoori lamb belly, & slow-roasted pig head. Read more.
Skip all the Chinese-American dishes and order straight from the Sichuan section of the menu. The dining room is way nicer than it needs to be. [Eater 38 Member]
There’s blood sausage, meaty curries, the ragged noodles called thenthuk, and don’t miss the wiggly mung-bean jelly laphing, carpeted with Sichuan peppercorns. [Eater 38 Member]
Bella Puebla offers such exotica as tacos arabes, chicken in a novel red pipian (pumpkinseed) sauce, and a fiery hot adobo de puerco.
