* = Restaurants I’ve tried and LOVE. ♥
The Village
Little Owl
Magnolia Bakery*
Murray’s Cheese
Faicco’s
Joe’s Pizza
Pop Bar
Molly’s Cupcakes
Corner Bistro
Sockerbit Candy Shop
Mamoun’s Falafel
A Salt and Battery
Tea and Sympathy
Waverly Inn
West Village/SoHo/TriBeCa
Morandi
Buvette
Chalait
12 Chairs
Hundred Acres
Bar Pitti
Gran Morsi
Santina
Narcissa
Pepolino
Minetta Tavern
The Spotted Pig*
Cafe Gitane
Parm*
La Esquina
Georgetown Cupcake
Fanelli’s Cafe
Tara’s Bulba
Chobani*
Pepe Rosso To Go
Rice to Riches
Cafe Habana
Tacombi
Balthazar
Lombardi’s Pizza*
Mercer Kitchen
Louro
Carbone
Grom*
Taim
Saint Ambroeus
Rubirosa
Dominique Ansel Bakery*
Chalk Point Kitchen
Blacktap Burgers
Little Cupcake Bakeshop
Morgensterns Ice Cream*
Lure Fishbar
Mercer Kitchen
Miss Lilly’s
Estela
Upper East Side
The Penrose
Beyoglu
JG Melon
The Smith*
The Hummus Place
Luke’s Lobster*
Red Farm
Upper West Side
Jacob’s Pickles
Shake Shack
Lolo’s Seafood Shack
Levain Bakery
Land Thai Kitchen
RedFarm
Thai Market
Zabar’s Grocery
Celeste
Patsy’s Pizza
Lower East Side/Chinatown/Financial District
Cocoron
Luke’s Lobster*
Clinton St. Baking Co
Pig and Khao
Russ and Daughters
Souvlaki GR
Adrienne’s Pizza
Black Tree
Yopparai
Dimes
Mission Chinese
Butcher’s Daughter
Egg Shop
Xi’an Famous Foods
Royal Seafood
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
Mud
Motorino
Katz’s Deli
Root & Bone
Brooklyn
Reynard
Juliette
Emily
Five Leaves
Sweet Chick
Pies n’ Thighs
Iris Cafe
Juliana’s
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
Dumbo Kitchen
Luke’s Lobster
Jacques Torres Chocolate
Paulie Gee’s
Motorino
Roberta’s
Grimaldi’s
East Village/Alphabet City
Cafe Mogador
Northern Spy Food Co.
Supper
Maharlika
Noreetuh
Soba Koh
Soiji
Sushi Dojo
Somtum Der
Union Square to Midtown
City Bakery
Friend of a Farmer
Gotham Bar and Grill
Eataly
Shakeshack*
Max Brenner
Sweetgreen
Burger Joint
Norma’s
Chelsea
Cafeteria
Westille
Cookshop
Doughnut Plant
Artichoke Basille’s Pizza*
Tipsy Parson
If your talking about NYC where im from you need to include Japanese ramen restaurant Ippudo! and when in Brooklyn can’t forget Spumoni Gardens!
Thanks for your recommendations Jennifer! Wish I could hop over tomorrow and try them 🙂
Yes Ippudo is amazing and are known not only for their Ramen but their pork belly buns!
I love pork belly buns! 🙂
The Smith, Levain, Shake Shack, Patsys and Zabars are actually on the upper west side 🙂
Hi Morgan! Thank you so much! I made those updates. I shuffled a couple of things around on the post recently. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
It’d be awesome if you could search genres of food on your website. Ie: breakfasts in nyc etc.
Love the suggestion! Thank you so much.