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Power Dining, NYC Style

New York restaurant power duo Jeff Katz and James Kent, of Michelin-starred Crown Shy fame, soar toward the stratosphere with their latest effort on the 63rd floor of an historic Financial District skyscraper. Dinners are multi-course tasting menus with a focus on seafood, and the stunning views are as opulent as a billionaire’s penthouse.

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Star chef Daniel Boulud — whose Restaurant Daniel, Café Boulud, and newly opened Le Pavilion are just part of a culinary empire spanning five U.S. cities and four other countries — hails from the French gastronomic paradise of Burgundy. But when you’re at Boulud Sud, you’ll think you’re on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean at his tribute to the vivid cuisines of Provence, Italy, Spain, and the Middle East.

At Temple Court, Tom Colicchio and team are putting out dishes that evoke the same sense of luxury that surrounds you all around at the bespoke Art Deco gem that is the Beekman Hotel. Think kampachi crudo and glazed lobster or a luscious chocolate torte.

Note: Reservations for Temple Court begin on Sept. 28, when the indoor dining room reopens.

After wowing Manhattan diners with his stints at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen and ABC Cocina and then his own acclaimed Loring Place, chef Dan Kluger has expanded to Long Island City. Floor-to-ceiling windows and a room-length yellow-framed mirror brighten the simply furnished dining room, where Kluger serves his own version of diner fare and kitchen-table dishes he remembers from his childhood.

You’ll certainly know what you’ll be drinking when you come to this Hudson Yards stunner. (And if you don’t, there are experts here to assist.) The list offers nearly 300 wine choices by the bottle and 25 by the glass, all perfectly suited to match chef Linda Luo’s stylish New American menu.

Proof That Midtown Is Back

Grab a window table in the long, narrow, sleekly furnished dining room or a Parisian-style café table outside and enjoy the classic American fare — including a selection of simply grilled or roasted seafood — at this stylish restaurant in the venerable Hotel Pierre across from Central Park. Pro tip: after dinner, stop for a nightcap and a taste of live music at the Pierre’s Two E Bar & Lounge.

Leave it to Mario Carbone and Major Food Group to revamp one of Manhattan’s most extravagant dining theaters. The Grill rose like a phoenix from its ashes back in 2018, and now, after a year-long closure, it’s back, and the originator of power lunches has never looked better. Pasta à la presse is tossed tableside, dover sole is wheeled out and filleted before your eyes, and baked Alaska arrives in a fiery tangle of blue flames.

Chef Ignacio Mattos of the perennially buzzy Estela and Altro Paradiso has taken over the old Bouchon Bakery space in Rockefeller Plaza for this new all-day café, bar, and bakery. Think Italian-style aperitivi, house-made breads and pastries, pasta and panini, and more.

This Japanese brasserie from the same team behind favorites like Carbone, Dirty French, and Sadelle’s has a menu that ranges from sushi to grilled Wagyu, and a playful, brightly colored design to go with it, orchestrated by renowned architect Peter Marino. Pro tip: the mostly non-Japanese breakfast menu draws a morning crowd of Manhattan power brokers in Midtown.

With multiple locations throughout the city, Friedman’s is a New Yorker’s tried-and-true standby for comfort food favorites like pancakes, waffles, fried chicken, sandwiches, burgers, and salads—many of them all gluten free, too. This Theater District outpost stands out for its incredibly spacious digs — a perfect respite from the hustle and bustle of nearby Times Square.

Best Places to Grab a Drink

Wine expert Paul Grieco opened the original Terroir as an intimate adjunct to Marco Canora’s East Village restaurant, Hearth. This buzzy Tribeca outpost — whose bottle-lined walls give it an engaging wine-cellar atmosphere — is larger, with an oysters-to-rib eye menu. And those bottles aren’t just for decoration: The wine list offers a dazzling selection of more that 80 choices by the glass.

You’ll want to join the swells sipping Pink Tuxedos (vodka and vermouth enhanced with beet, cherry, and chocolate) at this intimate bar located one flight up a stunning staircase from SAGA, the elegant new tasting-menu restaurant from the same team behind Crown Shy.

You’ll want to catch the express train to this colorful speakeasy-style cocktail bar hidden away in the 28th Street subway station. Founder Jey Perie’s unlikely inspiration for the place is the soigné Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle, but the cocktails here are original, the wines are mostly natural, and the food has a Latin accent.

Come thirsty to this Williamsburg craft beer bar and specialty food shop, a follow-up to the Clinton Hill original, opened by underground supper club pioneers Alicia and Daniel Guevara. Perch on a fire engine-red stool at the long parquet wood bar and explore the rotating selection of 16 specialty brews (look for Brooklyn’s own Grimm Butterfly Door double IPA), accompanied by “Mek & Cheese” with hot chicken or a Peking duck and duck rillette banh mi.

Restaurateurs Med Abrous and Marc Rose of L.A.’s Winsome and Genghis Cohen have added this crowning glory to their new Anything at All restaurant, downstairs in the Graduate Hotel on Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus. You’ll definitely want to spend time at the marble-topped bar or on the wraparound terrace at this knockout 18th-floor lounge, and drink in not just the signature cocktails but also the 360-degree views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens.

Grab a seat at the colorful downstairs bar or claim a spot at one of the shiny upstairs picnic tables and settle in for some unconventional modern Mexican fare: think steak tacos with hoisin sauce and shiso leaves. Come thirsty, especially for mezcal or tequila, and don’t miss the cocktails concocted by Jim Kearns, who runs the bars at sister venues Slowly Shirley and The Happiest Hour.

True Neighborhood Gems

A vintage West Village townhouse furnished to evoke a French country house (complete with garden), Bobo offers a short but appetite-provoking, mostly Gallic menu anchored by a classic filet mignon au poivre with pommes frites. It’s from the same veteran restaurant team behind the place also operates the popular Rosemary’s, Claudette, and Roey’s.

Burmese cuisine shines brightly at chef Myo Moe’s Rangoon, where she’s cooking generations-old family dishes that evoke the flavors of traditional Burmese fare with her soups, noodle dishes, and curries.

This beloved jewel box of a spot is a temple to Italian cured meats from Northern Italy, from prosciutto and bresaola to mortadella, and so much more. At lunch, don’t sleep on the panini, and for dinner, you can’t go wrong with an order of wine, pasta, and plenty of meats and cheeses.

Opened by a team whose experience includes stints at Eleven Madison Park, Craftbar, Clinton St. Baking Co. and a couple of artisan-focused wine shops, this stylishly casual neighborhood gem features farm-fresh food, an anthology of craft beers, and a friendly and efficient staff.

Look for serious sushi with a side of fun at this East Village innovator. It’s not everywhere you’ll find king salmon sushi with fried tomatoes and mayo, or eel with foie gras and garlic butter. Pro tip: the 16-piece omakase menu is a bargain at just $98 per person.

This little gem of a sushi place brings a seaside-casual atmosphere inspired, appropriately, by Bondi Beach in Sydney. Savvy sushi-lovers come for the generous and well-priced lunch combination specials. Or settle in for a nighttime feast of classic nigiri or innovative handrolls.

Seven years after bringing the breezy Baba Cool style to Fort Greene, Gabriella Mann has opened a second location of her all-day café, this time in Williamsburg. Expect sandwiches, salads and bowls, bar snacks, signature lattes, natural wines, and a laid-back atmosphere. (It might help to know that “Baba cool” is French slang for “hippie.”)

In a city full of sushi bars, this spacious Stuytown gathering place changes up the game, supplementing its ample menu of classic Japanese specialties with a selection of exuberantly colorful fusion dishes, from “new style spicy tuna” to a filet mignon roll.

Little Italy was never like this. When Gelso & Grand opened in 2015, it changed the red-sauce game with housemade pasta (like braised lamb campanelle), wood-oven-fired pizza (one with roasted mushrooms and truffled créme fraîche), and grilled bluefin tuna. If you love Italian food, this should definitely go on your Resy Hit List.

Jajaja makes magic with its plant-based street food: Think hearts of palm ceviche, jackfruit tamales, and coconut queso quesadillas. And better yet, you know a meal here is always going to be fun: “Jajaja” is the sound of laughter in Spanish.

Yes, it is from Francis Staub (yes, that same French cookware Staub) and yes, it’s delicious. Located in the old Coq Rico space in Gramercy, this spit-roasting temple is as close as you’ll get to a true poulet rôti on this side of the Atlantic.

There’s no better place to enjoy a bottle of good Italian wine and a plate of pasta or a table crowded with little plates of assorted cicchetti (Venetian-style tapas) than this warmly rustic wine bar (think red brick, white tile, lots of wood, floor-to-ceiling windows) — a sibling of chef Roberto Passon’s mini-empire of Italian food-and-wine emporiums (Terra, Briciola, Aria West Village, etc.).

It may be across the river from Manhattan’s famed Koreatown, but you’ll want to add this restaurant to your list when you’re in the mood for bibimbap, kimchi stew, bulgogi, and other staples of Korean cuisine. The bossam box is a great introduction to the place, offering a choice of nine main dishes accompanied by an array of side dishes and condiments.