27 Great New York Tasting Menus Under $100

Chef-owner Junghyun “JP” Park originally opened Atoboy by taking the Korean staple of banchan to new heights with a large-format, affordable prix fixe menu. Six years later, Atoboy is still going strong with an entirely revamped menu of new seasonal favorites like yellowtail with green mustard and gim bugak or duck with chanterelles and quince. Longtime regulars need not fret, however: you can still order Atoboy’s excellent fried chicken with spicy peanut and gochujang sauce as a $28 add-on.

Cost: $75 per person, tips included.

Take a look at Atoboy’s spring 2022 menu here for a preview of what you might expect. 

This Michelin-starred gem in Gowanus lays claim to one of the nicest backyard patios in the city, and one of the heartiest four-course prix fixe menus, too. Claro is chef-owner TJ Steele’s love letter to Oaxaca and you can taste that in the riveting moles, the exceptional mezcal selection, and the housemade corn tortillas. Pro tip: the menus for dinner and weekend brunch change regularly, but whatever you do, don’t pass on the aguachile.

Cost: $48 per person (brunch); $78 (dinner); curated mezcal pairing for dinner ($55).

The critically acclaimed team behind Korean Chinese spot Joomak Banjum serves a 13-course omakase for $70 per person at this countertop spot located within Chelsea’s Olly Olly Market. DdoBar specializes in yubu tarts, football-shaped pockets of inari filled with all kinds of creative ingredients, and their omakase is truly inventive: Expect interesting flavor combinations like black bass with burnt lime jelly and green apple, or lobster with lobster butter and a nori sabayon. And save room for dessert: an earl grey soft serve. 

Cost: $70 per person for 13 courses. 

Is there anything chef-owner Amanda Cohen can’t do? A pioneer of vegetable-forward cooking and no-tipping policies, she’s one of the city’s (natch, the country’s) most influential chefs who also delivers one of the best — and most fun — tasting menus in the city, too. The tasting menu changes seasonally, but some classics you might find on the menu include a veritable “Tower of Terroir” (a towering deconstructed salad), kale matzoh ball soup, and a savory cake topped with the summer’s best tomatoes.

Cost: $95 per person, tips included.

Take a closer look at last summer’s tasting menu here. 

The beloved and ready-for-all-seasons outdoor dining setup at this Chinatown favorite for tabletop grilling might be gone for now, but Dr Clark is still a standout spot for a fun night out, kotatsu tables or not. If you’re looking for a tasting menu that’s ideal for a group, consider Dr Clark’s Choice ($65 per person) or the Hokkaido Set Course ($85 per person). Dr Clark’s Choice highlights their Jingisukan tabletop grill with udon, along with seasonal soup, sashimi, fried chicken, scallop risotto, and Basque cheesecake, while the Hokkaido Set Course adds a chinmi platter, chawanmushi, grilled fish, and your choice of dessert.

Cost: $65 or $85 per person, with full table participation. 

“Chef’s choice” here might mean succulent grilled prawns, summer rolls with beef tongue and pickles, or housemade Vietnamese “mortadella,” but whatever it is that night, it’ll be guaranteed delicious. Falansai chef-owner Eric Tran’s Dac Biet dinners, served family style, are not to be missed: his cooking draws from his father’s Vietnamese heritage and his mother’s Mexican roots for the kind of Vietnamese American fare you’ve likely never experienced before.

Cost: $83 per person.

Pasta purists adore this Lower East Side spot for its commitment to the art of pasta making in the Roman tradition. Forsythia’s prix-fixe menu includes your choice of five dishes — two antipasti, two pastas, and a dessert, with the option to add a Florentine steak for two to four, for an additional $85 supplement. Standouts on the menu include the agnolotti with braised short ribs in a rich duck jus and perfectly fried cacio e pepe suppli, along with a rotating lineup of seasonal dishes. Do note: On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Forsythia offers an a la carte menu in their outdoor pergola, and the a la carte menu is available at the bar Tuesdays through Saturdays.  

Cost: $89 per person for five courses in the dining room.

Find out everything you need to know about Forsythia before you go, here.

The ephemeral nature of Fulgurances, likewise, makes it what it is: a destination for thrilling and inventive tasting menus in Greenpoint. An offshoot of the Parisian chef incubator program of the same name, this Fulgurances, located inside a former laundromat, offers prix fixe menus from culinary veterans and up-and-comers alike, who take residency for anywhere from three to six months at a time.

Cost: $89 for six courses; $60 for wine pairing.

True to its Italian name, this Nomad restaurant embraces flowers in every dish. Executive chef Rae Kramer (Four Horsemen, Casa Mono, Il Buco Alimentari) has designed a menu that showcases the very best seasonal ingredients, and her chef’s four-course tasting menu doesn’t disappoint. The menu changes all the time, but do be on the lookout for Kramer’s deft pasta making skills — especially with the black pepper and lavender pappardelle — and the trout tartare toast. 

Cost: $85 per person for four courses.

Get a dish-by-dish recap of the tasting menu at Il Fiorista, here. 

What originally started as a pop-up from alums from The Modern (executive chef and partner Jiho Kim) and Electric Lemon (executive pastry chef and partner Kelly Nam) is now a brick-and-mortar spot that focuses on Korean-Chinese food, delivered with French technique and a decidedly New York point of view. Expect dishes like a sourdough jajangmyun, a different take on a classic Korean-Chinese noodle staple, or berry-cured hiramasa that resembles the color of lilacs. Joomak Banjum offers three different tasting menu options, ranging in price from $225 per person for their Studio Tasting to $95 per person for their four-course prix fixe.

Cost: $95 per person for a four-course prix fixe dinner.

Find out everything you need to know about Joomak Banjum before you go, here.

A quaint West Village neobistro specializing in natural wines, L’Accolade’s food menu is designed entirely to complement the eclectic wine list. The food menu rotates regularly, but you can expect to try bistro classics like steak tartare and a duck, as well as more seasonal takes like a chestnut soup with tortellini and black Burgundy truffles. 

Cost: $55 per person for two courses; $70 per person for three courses.

Last year, this swanky hotel restaurant appointed acclaimed chef Michael White (formerly of Marea, Osteria Morini, and Ai Fiori) to lead the kitchen at this Midtown stalwart for supper club vibes. White has kept the menu here pretty classic, adding a few flourishes of his pasta expertise, and now, there’s also a $70 three-course pre-fixe pre-theater menu, too. Choose from appetizers like steak tartare and fluke crudo, mains like a confit chicken or a grilled and marinated heirloom squash with truffes, and desserts like a classic chocolate cake sundae or a strawberry cake. 

Cost: $70 for three courses.  

At LittleMad, chef Sol Han turns up the volume on traditional Korean flavors with techniques he’s honed in French and Italian kitchens, and the results are delicious. Formerly a la carte, the restaurant went prix-fixe only, with a menu that’s got all their hits, and more. The five-course menu has their signature yellowtail served with Asian pears, as well as a delicate chou farci “mandoo” made with blue crystal prawn and foie gras in a lobster sabayon. And, as always, you can still make your meal “madder” by topping it with an uni, truffle, or caviar supplement, too. (We strongly suggest adding the Signature Mad Toast with Wagyu, caviar, and truffles for an extra $25.) 

Cost: $95 per person for a five-course prix-fixe. 

Get a closer look at some of LittleMad’s signature dishes here.

This Upper West Side neighborhood favorite from chef Michele Casadei Massari, focusing on the food of Emilia-Romagna, offers a vegan tasting menu for two or more that’s especially ideal for date night. It starts with a pinsa, then moves on to a saffron-accented spaghetti, followed by risotto with porcini, hazelnut, and truffles, and ends with dessert. 

Cost: $99 per person for five courses. 

Beloved for nearly a decade, Polo Dobkin and Stephanie Lempert’s standout restaurant near the Williamsburg Bridge now offers a weekly tasting menu that you definitely don’t want to miss. The menu changes all the time, depending on what’s in season (and what’s being harvested up at Meadowsweet Farm), but you might expect to see a tuna tartare accented with citrus kosho; dayboat scallops with Meyer lemon, romanesco, and blood orange; delicate tajarin noodles with winter truffles; a spiced duck breast with polenta; and a vanilla panna cotta with passionfruit and fresh berries. There’s also an optional beverage pairing, too.

Cost: $95 per person for five courses; $45 per person for a beverage pairing. Do note that Meadowsweet’s tasting menu is only offered on Thursdays.

Should you find yourself in Rockefeller Center (because who isn’t these days?) and are longing for a lovely, splurge-worthy lunch, do consider the $95 tasting menu at Naro, from the same team behind Atoboy and Atomix. The five-course lunch tasting menu is available in two formats — vegetarian and non-vegetarian — both are inventive and thoughtful reinterpretations of royal Korean cuisine: think mushroom kalguksu or chicken sanjeok. 

Cost: $95 per person for five courses. 

Chef-owner Greg Baxtrom’s previous stints at fine dining establishments like Alinea, Per Se, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns have given him plenty of experience with the tasting menu format, and he’s now brought the tasting menu back to Olmsted, his first New York restaurant. Expect plenty of the same creative twists you’ve come to expect from Olmsted, like sweet potato chawanmushi and short ribs with a black garlic frosting. 

Cost: $95 per person. 

Michelin-starred Oxalis is known for its thoughtful, precise cooking highlighting seasonal ingredients, and that shines through in its multiple tasting menus. You won’t want to miss the four-course prix fixe available in their atrium and garden behind the main dining room (known as The Bar at Oxalis). Simply put, it can’t be beat. And on Sundays, there’s a family-style brunch prix fixe from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., always with an egg dish, some kind of starch, a vegetable or salad, and something sweet, for $50 per person. Note: If you want to splurge on the full carte blanche menu in the dining room, it’s $150 per person for nine courses.

Cost: $65 per person for a four-course prix fixe at the bar; $50 per person for a Sunday brunch family-style prix fixe.

Read about the forager who supplies Oxalis and many other top New York restaurants with their ingredients here.

Chef-owner Kevin Chen describes Red Paper Clip’s cuisine as “modern American with a Taiwanese influence,” and it’s an apt description for the thoughtful cooking he and his team deliver at this West Village spot. On the tasting menu you’ll find a standout Everything Brioche that upends the traditional breakfast sandwich in favor of one with a miso yolk filling, topped with trout lox and roe, as well as a XLB agnolotti that combine the very best attributes of Chinese soup dumplings and filled Italian pasta. 

Cost: $90 per person for six courses.

One the city’s most lauded pasta restaurants also serves a curated regional pasta tasting menu inspired by Emilia-Romagna, allowing you to taste a little bit of each one of their signature housemade pastas, like the Grandma Walking Through Forest in Emilia, a green cappelletti filled with roasted leeks and a black mushroom puree, or the tagliolini al ragu, a Modenese classic.

Cost: $98 for regional pasta tasting of six courses.

Find out how to get into Rezdôra here.

This East Village wine bar from the same team behind Kindred serves a lovely, mostly vegetarian tasting menu that’s a true steal: $50 for four courses, and an additional $50 for wine pairings to go with your meal. The menu rotates every now and then, and for winter, they’ve got a roasted cauliflower with pumpkin panisse and watercress gnocchi with roasted maitake mushrooms. 

Cost: $50 per person for three courses; $50 for accompanying wine pairing. 

At Runner Up, chef-owner Daniel Eddy’s sequel to his charming South Slope bakery and café Winner, the focus is on wines and some exceptional food to go with it all. Through March 2023, Runner Up is offering a four-course prix-fixe menu at the bar for $60 per person, Tuesdays through Saturdays, with three seatings nightly. The menus change all the time but expect courses that might include a lamb and beef merguez with flatbread and salsa verde, or a Basque cheesecake with blood oranges, lemon curd, and an Earl Grey meringue. 

Cost: $60 per person for four courses. 

Sixty Three Clinton’s whimsical seven-course tasting menu from a pair of Brooklyn Fare and Bar Uchū alums — chef Samuel Clonts and restaurateur Raymond Trinh — is priced considerably lower than the tasting menu they had at Bar Uchū, but it’s every bit as delicious and memorable. The breakfast taco with an ajitama ramen egg, salsa verde, and smoked trout roe is a standout, and a wink to their Southwest upbringing and years of Japanese cooking. And for those who loved Clonts’ caviar hand roll from Bar Uchū, you’re in luck: they’re available here for an additional $55. 

Cost: $92 per person for a seven-course tasting menu. 

Get a dish-by-dish recap of the tasting menu at Sixty Three Clinton, here.

At this speakeasy-style Flatiron cocktail bar, the cocktail-centric prix-fixe experience puts a spotlight on the use of flowers and botanicals. The five-course experience includes an amuse bouche, and your choice of two cocktails, a food dish, and a dessert. Many of the cocktails here, like the Trumpet of Death, made with marjoram-infused LeSin vodka, dillweed cordial, Fernet Branca, carrot juice, and lime resemble works of art. For food, there’s everything from oysters dressed with mignonette and a lemongrass-accented lobster roll to a vegetarian beet tartare and fries topped with black truffles. 

Cost: $95 per person, prepaid reservations required. 

Tokyo Record Bar’s Vinyl Jukebox experience is unique — a thoroughly interactive experience that melds music and a lovely tasting menu into one unforgettable night. As soon as you arrive at the intimate underground listening room (Pro tip: You enter through their sister restaurant, Air’s Champagne Parlor), you and your fellow diners begin assembling the night’s playlist together, and your courses are paired with each song throughout the course of the night. In previous renditions, the focus has been on sushi omakase, but at the moment, Tokyo Record Bar has an izakaya-style prix-fixe, served family style. 

Cost: $65 per person. 

At this West 8th Street spot, chef-owner Zod Arifai, who was behind critically acclaimed New Jersey restaurants Blu and Next Door, crafts a seasonal menu that’s seemingly simple, but also stunning at the same time. Expect seasonally driven fare that might just surprise you, like a chilled corn soup with a skate escabeche for the summer, or sweet bay scallops with almond puree and poppyseed for spring. 

Cost: $95 per person for a seven-course tasting menu.

New York’s longtime standard bearer for yakitori has a chef’s omakase counter experience that consists of 14 to 15 courses, each one focusing on different parts of the chicken, as well as beef or pork, for $100 per person. It’s a true slice of Tokyo in New York. 

Cost: $100 per person.