The best restaurants in New York City run all the gamuts: there’s the fine dining and the free-wheeling; the extravagantly expensive and the markedly less so (although very little is downright cheap in this city). We have just about every type of cuisine, presented both traditionally and in multiplying fusions that take the dining experience every which way. And don’t even get us started on the best new restaurants in NYC, which so excel at keeping the industry on its toes that we had to make a separate article for the best and buzziest amongst them.
These, our picks for the best restaurants in New York City, aim to encompass the Big Apple’s vast diversities of geography, tradition, and time. You’ll find below a mix of storied institutions and buzzy hotspots, of French brasseries and Korean diners, of uptown and downtown and Brooklyn and Queens and everywhere in between. What do they have in common? Excellent food that you’d be wise to eat during your visit to this city. It’s by no means conclusive, so consider it a jumping off point.
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