The 10 Best Restaurants in New York

New York is the most-watched dining city in America and the only one where the conversation about a single restaurant becomes a national conversation. The Michelin Guide New York lists more starred restaurants than any other American city by a margin; the institutional fine-dining circuit through Le Bernardin, Per Se, Eleven Madison Park, Masa, and Daniel runs at registers that other American capitals can't approximate. The city's particular contribution to American gastronomy is the institutional power-dining tradition that runs through the Midtown corridor. The Grill, The Pool, Patroon, Le Bernardin's lunch service. Addresses where the room itself is part of the persuasion and the maître d' culture is the actual product. Around the institutional fine-dining circuit lives a chef-counter generation through Atomix, Tatiana, Don Angie, and the Lower East Side's most ambitious newer rooms that has redefined what a serious New York dinner can cost. The neighbourhoods to know are Midtown for the institutional power-dining circuit, the Financial District and Tribeca for the modern fine-dining wave, the West Village and Chelsea for the chef-owner generation, the Lower East Side and East Village for the most creative casual cooking, and Brooklyn for the sit-down chef-counter renaissance. These ten restaurants are the working list, ranked across the seven occasions our editors track.

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