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GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS. A Guide to ’s Most Generous GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS. A Guide to New York’s Most Generous Restaurants

Now serving for more than 25 years, City Harvest (www.cityharvest.org) is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect 28 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to nearly 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 300,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.

2011 EDITION GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS

Tyler Florence Marco Maccioni Philip Ruskin Foodwork Productions Osteria Del Circo Ruskin International

Tony Fortuna Nick Mautone Marcus Samuelsson City Harvest T Bar Steak & Lounge Mautone Enterprises Red Rooster Penny & Peter Glazier Tony May Chris Santos The Glazier Group SD26 The Stanton Social

Alex Guarnaschelli JULIAN MEDINA Benjamin Schmerler Food Council: Butter Tolache, Yerba Buena, First Press Public Relations Yerba Buena Perry Joseph R. Gurrera Rick Smilow Citarella Henry Meer Institute of Culinary Education City Hall Stephen P. Hanson JOHN STAGE B.R. Guest Restaurants Philip Meldrum Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Chair COUNCIL MEMBERS ANDREW CARMELLINI FoodMatch Locanda Verde Kerry Heffernan DR. FELICIA STOLER, Eric Ripert Michael Anthony South Gate Pamela & Marc Murphy DCN, MS, RD, FACSM Gramercy Tavern Benchmark Restaurants Johnny Iuzzini Bill Telepan Jean Georges Liz Neumark Telepan Honorary Chairs Donatella, Kefi, Mia Dona Tom Colicchio Great Performances Craft Restaurants Rita Jammet Laurent Tourondel Arthur F. Backal Phillip Baltz Bouquet Adventures Simon Oren BLT Restaurants Backal Hospitality Group & Baltz & Company Jorge Collazo Culinary Tour de State of the Art Enterprises Office of SchoolFood, STEVEN KAMALI Restaurant Group Maire Ullrich The NYC Department Steven Kamali Hospitality Cornell Cooperative Extension Dana Cowin Blue Hill, Blue Hill at of Education Becca Parrish Food & Wine Magazine Stone Barns Karen Karp Becca PR Tom Valenti Scott Conant Karp Resources Ouest Jennifer Baum Scarpetta, Faustina François Payard Porter House New York Bullfrog & Baum JIM LAHEY Francois Chocolate Bar Jean-Georges Ariane Daguin Sullivan Street Bakery Vongerichten Florian Bellanger Danny Meyer D’Artagnan ZAKARY PELACCIO Jean Georges Management Union Square MAD MAC Adam Perry Lang The Fatty Crew Hospitality Group John Doherty Daisy Mae’s BBQ USA Michael White Ron Ben-Israel BENJAMIN POLLINGER Alto, Convivio, Drew and Tracy Nieporent Ron Ben-Israel Cakes Geoffrey Drummond Leslie Lefkowitz Oceana Myriad Restaurant Group Four Seasons Hotel New York Melanie Young David Alain Ducasse Rachael Ray M. Young Communications Cristyne L. Nicholas Bouley Adour Alain Ducasse at Anita Lo Nicholas & Lence The St. Regis & Benoit Annisa Matthew Reich Communications LLC Restaurant and Bar Tom Cat Bakery The Lamb’s Club Daniel Gerard Loughran Gillian Duffy Alan Richman Terry Zarikian Terrance Brennan New York Magazine Grill Management The Artisanal Group Donna Rodriguez Todd English B.R. Guest Restaurants Ed Brown Olives Ed’s Chowder House Scott Feldman David Burke Two Twelve Management & David Burke Townhouse, Marketing CITY HARVEST WILL RESCUE AND Fishtail Myra Fiori Joey Campanaro illy caffè North America the little owl DELIVER 28 MILLION POUNDS OF Bobby Flay Scott Campbell Bar Americain New Leaf Café FOOD THIS YEAR.

A GUIDE TO NEW YORK’S MOST GENEROUS RESTAURANTS 2011 EDITION 3 dear friends, Navigating New York City’s neighborhoods is part of our job UPPER WEST at City Harvest. Our fleet of trucks and bikes are on the road SIDE day and night rescuing food and making fresh, nutritious BRONX deliveries where they are most needed. No one knows better that each of the city has its own unique character and buzzes with its own energy. As you’ll see in this guide, each MIDTOWN WEST CENTRAL neighborhood also has their own special mix of flavors. PARK

UPPER TIMES EAST City Harvest created Great Food, Good Hearts to acknowledge SQUARE SIDE restaurants that have gone above and beyond to help GARMENT DISTRICT City Harvest fight hunger, donating food, funds, or raising CHELSEA MIDTOWN our visibility. This year we’ve grouped restaurants in our EAST

Great Food, Good Hearts guide by neighborhood, and we’ve MURRAY WEST HILL asked chefs—our favorite locals—to give us the inside story. VILLAGE & These chefs have continued to feed City Harvest’s work at a GRAMERCY time when our purpose is clear. The need for emergency food SOHO remains high in New York City. Support from the restaurant EAST community and the city it feeds helps City Harvest provide VILLAGE LITTLE food to more than 300,000 hungry New Yorkers every week. ITALY FINANCIAL I hope you’ll help City Harvest thank our friends in the CHINATOWN DISTRICT LOWER EAST restaurant community by using this guide when you dine out. SIDE

Bon appétit,

Jilly Stephens Executive Director

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS

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WILLIAM ST TRIBECA NASSAU ST 31 58 TRINITY PL WALL ST MAE MAE CAFÉ GREENWICHST 30 12 CHURCH ST 4, 5 1 CHINATOWN 2, 3 32 MAGNOLIA BAKERY 59 WALLSÉ HUDSON ST RECTOR ST J, M, Z HANOVER 1, 9 R 11 WILIAM WATER ST 33 MARKET TABLE 60 YERBA BUENA 34 EXCHANGE 6 EST NEW BROADWAY 34 MATSUGEN 61 YERBA BUENA PERRY 43 29 CENTRE ST 51 OLD SLIP 44 WORTH ST OLD SLIP

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DOWNTOWN ANNISA BETEL BILLY’S BAKERY 13 BARROW STREET 51 GROVE STREET 75 FRANKLIN STREET (WEST 4TH STREET & 7TH AVENUE SOUTH) (BLEECKER STREET & 7TH AVENUE) (CHURCH street & BROADWAY) Tribeca (212) 741-6699 (212) 352-0460 (212) 647-9958 Chinatown www.annisarestaurant.com www.betelnyc.com www.billysbakerynyc.com Annisa is an upscale Contemporary Named for the betel leaf found Billy’s Bakery was founded with the Soho American restaurant located in throughout Asia and inspired by the goal of providing our customers with the heart of the . The hawker food stalls of the East, Betel classic American baked goods in Nolita restaurant boasts an award-winning was born by Australian entrepreneurs a warm, friendly atmosphere. Our wine list featuring female vintners Luke Fryer and Adam Woodfield, store is designed in a 1940s style Greenwich Village from all over the winemaking world. who have created an experience that with the delicious smells of fresh The seasonal, adventurous menu is is at once adventurous, addicting cakes and pies that bring back the Lower created by Chef and Owner Anita Lo. and seductive. Woodfield takes a feeling of Grandma’s kitchen. From Chef Name: Anita Lo modern approach to the menu with apple pies to red velvet cupcakes, our Cuisine Type: Contemporary American exotic Southeast Asian flavors and treats are meant to bring you back East Village The Details: Romantic Price Point: $$$$ ingredients, designed to awaken to a time when a bite of something any palate. Plates come in healthy sweet would brighten your day. portions, intended for sharing in Cuisine Type: Bakery BALABOOSTA the sleek, communal atmosphere Price Point: $ 214 MULBERRY STREET designed by Martin Brudnizki. (SPRING STREET) Chef Name: Adam Woodfield BLUE HILL (212) 996-7366 Cuisine Type: Southeast Asian Chef Name: Einat Admony The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; 75 WASHINGTON PLACE Cuisine Type: Mediterranean Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; ( & MACDOUGAL STREET) LAFAYETTE ST Price Point: $$$ Romantic (212) 539-1776 Price Point: $$ www.bluehillfarm.com GREENWICH ST BALTHAZAR Since April 2000, family proprietors 80 SPRING STREET BILL’S BAR & BURGER Dan, David, and Laureen Barber (CROSBY STREET & BROADWAY) 22 9TH AVENUE have seen Blue Hill grow from a (212) 965-1414 (13TH STREET) noted neighborhood restaurant to (212) 414-3003 www.balthazarny.com one that most recently received three www.brguestrestaurants.com Balthazar serves traditional bistro stars from . fare from breakfast through It’s not just the Bill’s Classic, a Located in a landmark speakeasy just late-night supper. Opened by Keith toasted sesame bun with lettuce, off of Washington Square Park, Blue McNally in 1997, Balthazar offers a tomato and pickles on the side; or the Hill is dedicated to creating a new French menu prepared by Chefs de Fat Cat, a double-stack with cheese category of neighborhood restaurant Cuisine Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson. on an English muffin; or the Bobcat, that maintains the classic attributes Diners can choose from an extensive a burger with Mexican green chilies of warmth and affordability while wine list, a raw seafood bar, and and jack cheese, that have critics delivering superior food and service. breads and pastries from Balthazar and amateur burger addicts alike Chef Name: Dan Barber fawning; it’s the Americana vibe Cuisine Type: Seasonal American bakery. Balthazar is renowned for its The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; exceptional design—the building was and cuisine, like thick shakes and Romantic converted from a leather wholesaler’s chili cheese dogs, too. Price Point: $$$$ warehouse to an airy space that can Chef Name: Brett Reichler Cuisine Type: American accommodate over 200 people in the The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; dining room and at the zinc bar. Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $ Chef Name: Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson Cuisine Type: French The Details: Open Late (after 11pm) GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS Price Point: $$ 2011 EDITION 13 DOWNTOWN

BUTTER RESTAURANT THE CAPITAL GRILLE CORTON 415 LAFAYETTE STREET 120 BROADWAY 239 (ASTOR PLACE & EAST 4TH STREET) (NASSAU & PINE STREETS) (WALKER & WHITE STREETS) (212) 253-2828 (212) 374-1811 (212) 219-2777 www.butterrestaurant.com www.thecapitalgrille.com www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Tribeca, the “Triangle At Butter Restaurant, one of the city’s The Capital Grille is nationally Corton is Drew Nieporent’s most notable female chefs, Alexandra known for its hand-carved, dry-aged acclaimed successor to the beloved Below Canal” has been Guarnaschelli, is the driving force steaks, fresh seafood, and the Montrachet. With an intimate, “ behind the creative greenmarket chef’s daily features using local and comfortable, and romantic our primary restaurant cuisine that has been attracting artisanal ingredients, award-winning ambiance, Corton features the home for over 25 years. diners to the hip, stylish Nolita wine list and personalized service in Modern French cooking of Chef and space for over five years. Diners are an atmosphere of relaxed elegance. Owner Liebrandt, while paying In many ways, it’s a presented with signature house-made Chef Name: Jason Miller great respect to the tradition of flavored butters, such as tarragon- Cuisine Type: Steak/Seafood classical . Corton takes small town within a big The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups orange or chervil and fleur de sel, as a Price Point: $$$ its name from the largest area of prelude to a meal of straight-forward Grand Cru in Burgundy, and features city, with cobblestone yet sophisticated dishes. many selections from the Burgundy streets and wonderful Chef Name: Alex Guarnaschelli CENTRICO region. Corton has earned two Cuisine Type: French American 211 WEST BROADWAY Michelin stars and three stars from The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (FRANKLIN STREET) architecture. The vibe is Kid Friendly; Romantic (212) 431-0700 The New York Times. Price Point: $$$ Chef Name: Paul Liebrandt relaxed, and there is a www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Cuisine Type: Modern French Centrico, restaurateur Drew Price Point: $$$ sense of festivity as more CABRITO Nieporent’s inspired tribute to 50 CARMINE STREET and more families and (BEDFORD & BLEECKER STREETS) Mexico, is located in the heart DA SILVANO (212) 929-5050 of Tribeca, with a wonderful 260 6TH AVENUE (HOUSTON & BLEECKER STREETS) celebrities are calling www.cabritonyc.com wraparound terrace overlooking Franklin Street and West Broadway. (212) 982-2343 Tribeca home. Whether Since opening its doors in the heart Overseen by Chef Aarón Sanchez, www.dasilvano.com of Manhattan’s West Village in May Centrico’s menu is a culinary journey you enjoy dining, 2008, Cabrito has been serving up Da Silvano is a New York icon, through the varied regions of Mexico serving upscale Italian food in the authentic Mexican fare, innovative with food that marries Mexican shopping, or attending cocktails and an all-around good heart of Greenwich Village. The tradition with an American bustling restaurant is open for lunch time. With an outstanding seasonal perspective, emphasizing seasonal a film festival, street and product-driven menu featuring and dinner seven days a week and ingredients and an inspired modern many VIP’s and celebs return time fair, or Little League traditional dishes and inspired twists technique. Handcrafted cocktails on Mexican classics, Cabrito is both and again, making both the inside are available at the hammered zinc and sidewalk café tables the perfect Baseball game—Tribeca a fun neighborhood restaurant and bar, which winds along one wall. delicious dining destination. spot for people-watching. Chef Name: Aarón Sanchez Chef Name: Silvano Marchetto embraces you with a Chef Name: David Schuttenberg Cuisine Type: Mexican Cuisine Type: Northern Type: Mexican The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; big urban hug.” The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Romantic Romantic Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $$$ Price Point: $$$ Price Point: $ – Tracy Nieporent

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 15 DOWNTOWN

DBGB KITCHEN AND BAR DELL’ANIMA DOS CAMINOS MEATPACKING 299 BOWERY 38 8TH AVENUE 675 HUDSON STREET (HOUSTON & 1ST STREETS) (JANE STREET) (14TH STREET) (212) 933-5300 (212) 366-6633 (212) 699- 2400 www.danielnyc.com www.dellanima.com www.brguestrestaurants.com MORE THAN DBGB Kitchen and Bar is Daniel Dell’anima means “of the soul” See description on page 34 Boulud’s downtown venue where the in Italian and features Chef Gabe Chef Name: Ivy Stark French brasserie meets the American Thompson’s hearty, eloquent dishes Cuisine Type: Modern Mexican ONE MILLION The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor tavern. A variety of house-made of thoughtful simplicity. Opened in Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (after sausages, from the Merguez to 2007 in the heart of the West Village, 11pm); Romantic NEW YORKERS the Anglaise, is offered alongside Dell’anima highlights seasonal, Price Point: $$$ mouthwatering burgers and towering local ingredients, and pastas made shellfish platters, great draft beers in-house. Joe Campanale’s wine list DOS CAMINOS SOHO RELY ON and affordable wines. For dessert, of over 200 labels features an array 475 WEST BROADWAY dig into soul-soothing classics: filled of small production, high-quality (WEST ) EMERGENCY crêpes, hot soufflés, and ice cream selections with an emphasis on (212) 277-4300 sundaes laden with decadent sauces traditional and natural winemaking. www.brguestrestaurants.com FOOD AT SOME and toppings. The interiors take Dell’anima can accommodate up to See description on page 34 their cue from the Bowery’s history 45 guests, and six lucky diners at the Chef Name: Meghan Young as New York’s industrial restaurant chef’s counter. Cuisine Type: Modern Mexican supply neighborhood. Chef Name: Gabe Thompson The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor POINT DURING Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (after Chef Name: Jim Leiken Cuisine Type: Italian The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; 11pm); Romantic Cuisine Type: American French Fusion Price Point: $$$ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic THE YEAR. Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $$ Price Point: $-$$ ED’S LOBSTER BAR DITCH PLAINS 222 LAFAYETTE STREET DELICATESSEN 29 BEDFORD STREET (SPRING & BROOME STREETS) 54 PRINCE STREET (DOWNING STREET) (212) 343-3236 (LAFAYETTE STREET) (212) 633-0202 www.lobsterbarnyc.com (212) 226-0211 www.ditch-plains.com Ed’s Lobster Bar transports New www.delicatessennyc.com; Ditch Plains is the simple yet ’s rich culinary heritage, www.macbar.net trendy New York-style oyster bar including simple yet refined classics Delicatessen inhabits a beautiful and fish shack created by Chef and like the Maine lobster roll, to a open-air space in Soho. This Restaurateur Marc Murphy and charmingly bright nook in Soho. high-design locale has three his wife, Pamela Schein Murphy With a delicious range of local different spaces, each with a of Landmarc. Whether you’re seafood and special emphasis on different aesthetic. Chef Michael hungry for a lobster roll or craving fresh Maine lobster and raw bar Ferraro’s international comfort eggs benedict, this laidback spot offerings, Ed’s combines quality food menu serves everything from serves their menu until 2am, seven ingredients with an unpretentious foie gras dumplings to fried chicken. days a week. With the same notable sense of perfection. Delicatessen’s sister restaurant, wine program offered at Landmarc, Chef Name: Edward McFarland Macbar, serves international this easygoing locale is a popular Cuisine Type: Seafood Price Point: $$ mac and cheese that comes in spot for good food and good times. 12 different flavors. Chef Name: Marc Murphy Cuisine Type: Comfort Food and Seafood Chef Name: Michael Ferraro The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Cuisine Type: International Comfort Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; Price Point: $$ Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS Price Point: $$ 2011 EDITION 17 DOWNTOWN

FAUSTINA AT THE COOPER FREEMANS regional Italian dishes always respect on tap, many of which also make it SQUARE HOTEL THE END OF FREEMAN ALLEY, OFF RIVINGTON STREET the seasons. The wine list features into the slow-food dishes filled with 25 COOPER SQUARE (CHRYSTIE Street & BOWERY) the best of Italy’s viniculture, while local ingredients.” (5TH & 6TH STREETS) (212) 420-0012 the specialty and classic cocktails Chef Name: Jimmy Carbone (212) 475-3400 showcase fresh ingredients and Cuisine Type: Market Menu www.freemansrestaurant.com The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; www.thecoopersquarehotel.com/ In the Fall of 2004, Taavo Somer house-made infusions. Open Late (after 11pm) and William Tiggert happened upon Chef Name: Saul Montiel Price Point: $ the-restaurant Cuisine Type: Italian After a decade of cooking some of a perfect, cozy space at the end of The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; an unused alley off The Bowery. Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; L’ARTUSI New York City’s favorite Italian Romantic food, Scott Conant (Scarpetta) Freemans Restaurant was born. The Price Point: $$$ 228 WEST 10TH STREET has opened Faustina at the Cooper restaurant is a rugged clandestine (BLEECKER & HOUSTON STREETS) colonial American tavern. The (212) 255-5757 Square Hotel, where he oversees HECHO EN DUMBO the hotel’s food and beverage cuisine is American: simple, rustic, www.lartusi.com and inspired by old-world traditions. 354 BOWERY program. Named for a Roman (GREAT JONES & EAST 4TH STREET) Opened in December of 2008, empress whose monument is the Chef Name: Ginger Madson/ Preston Madson L’Artusi is the next venture from the Cuisine Type: Rustic American (212) 937-4245 only building in the Roman Forum The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; www.hechoendumbo.com team that brought Dell’anima to the dedicated to a woman, the menu Romantic West Village. Chef Gabe Thompson reflects the chef’s simple, soulful Price Point: $$ Hecho en Dumbo specializes in and Beverage Director Joe Campanale approach to Italian cuisine. refined rustic Mexican antojitos, share their expertise in Italian or “small cravings,” crafted from Chef Name: Scott Conant FRENCH ROAST DOWNTOWN epicurean hospitality on a large scale Cuisine Type: Italian 78 WEST 11TH STREET organic, sustainable, and often with a menu that rotates seasonally. The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; locally-sourced ingredients. In Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; (6TH AVENUE) The 110-seat restaurant includes Romantic (212) 533-2233 addition to helping educate New expansive bar seating reserved for Price Point: $$ www.frenchroastny.com Yorkers about authentic Mexican walk-in guests, as well as a private cuisine and libations, the restaurant’s dining wine cellar for large groups. Enjoy a classic Parisian café menu overarching mission is to represent FRANçOIS PAYARD BAKERY at French Roast, with dishes like Chef Name: Gabe Thompson the contemporary cosmopolitan Cuisine Type: Italian 116 WEST HOUSTON STREET croque monsieur, steak frites, culture of Mexico, seldom The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (SULLIVAN & THOMPSON STREETS) Romantic escargot, and onion soup. With experienced in the States. (212) 995-0888 round-the-clock hours, seven days Price Point: $$ Chef Name: Danny Mena www.fpbnyc.com a week, diners at French Roast can Cuisine Type: Authentic Mexican François Payard Bakery offers a feel Parisian any time of the day The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; LANDMARC Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); variety of sweet and savory selections or the night. Romantic 179 WEST BROADWAY within a cozy and casual setting. Chef Name: John Lee Price Point: $$ (LEONARD & WORTH STREETS) The bakery offers signature pastries, Cuisine Type: French (212) 625-8265 The Details: Kid-Friendly; Open Late delicious baked goods and chocolates, (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Romantic JIMMY’S NO. 43 www.landmarc-restaurant.com Price Point: $$ to a wide array of freshly baked 43 EAST 7TH STREET, DOWNSTAIRS Landmarc serves up contemporary breads, sandwiches and , all (2ND & 3RD AVENUES) bistro fare. Executive Chef and Co- prepared onsite daily and available GUSTO RISTORANTE E BAR (212) 982-3006 Owner Marc Murphy serves rustic for dining in or to take away. Guests AMERICANO www.jimmysno43.com French and Italian favorites in an can watch the chefs in action through urbane, modern space worthy of its 60 GREENWICH AVENUE Jimmy’s no. 43 is the founder of the the shop’s distinctive glass-encased Tribeca setting. A remarkably well- (11TH STREET & 7TH AVENUE) Good Beer Seal & Good Beer Month kitchen. priced, well-rounded wine list adds (212) 924-8000 in July. Jimmy’s has also received the Chef Name: François Payard to Landmarc’s universal appeal. Cuisine Type: Bakery www.gustonyc.com Slow Food Snail of Approval, and Price Point: $ Chef Name: Marc Murphy Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano is Time Out New York praises, “beer is Cuisine Type: French Bistro as close to actually dining it Italy as a star here, with 12 quality selections The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late it gets. Gusto’s gutsy, authentic (after 11pm) Price Point: $$$ GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 19 DOWNTOWN

LOCANDA VERDE MAGNOLIA BAKERY buckwheat soba noodles, fresh , MOMOFUKU KO 377 401 BLEECKER STREET and shabu-shabu platters. 163 1ST AVENUE (NORTH MOORE & FRANKLIN STREETS) (11TH STREET) Chef Name: Matsushita (10TH & 11TH STREETS) (212) 925-3797 (212) 462-2572 Cuisine Type: Japanese (212) 500-0831 The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; www.locandaverdenyc.com www.magnoliabakery.com Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) www.momofuku.com Locanda Verde is a casual Italian A neighborhood bakery offering Price Point: $$$$ Since opening in March 2008, tavern from Chef and Partner home-style desserts made from Momofuku Ko has received Andrew Carmellini, operating scratch using the finest quality THE MEATBALL SHOP considerable attention from the partner Josh Pickard and design ingredients, fresh every day. Open 84 STANTON STREET press for its unique style. With just partner Ken Friedman, and is located breakfast to late night, all three (ALLEN & ORCHARD STREETS) an open kitchen, bar, and 12 seats, in Tribeca’s Greenwich Hotel. Open locations offer buttercream-frosted (212) 982-8895 diners at Ko are able to interact both daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, cupcakes, banana pudding, and www.themeatballshop.com with the chefs and each other. By Locanda Verde features the casual delightful cakes. The Meatball Shop is a 39-seat elevating the familiar Momofuku urban Italian cooking of Chef Cuisine Type: Bakery restaurant specializing in meatballs ingredients that diners expect from Andrew Carmellini as well as the The Details: Kid-Friendly; Open Late Noodle Bar and Ssäm Bar, Ko offers Price Point: $ of different varieties. Co-owners talents of award-winning pastry Daniel Holzman and Michael a three-star experience without Chef Karen DeMasco. During the Chernow have created an atmospheric, the pretention of traditional fine- daytime, Locanda Verde’s counter MARKET TABLE value-oriented restaurant where dining. In 2009, the offers delectable , pastries, 54 CARMINE STREET guests use market pens and laminated Foundation honored Ko with its and sandwiches to go. (BEDFORD & BLEECKER STREETs) menus to mix-and-match from a “Best New Restaurant” award. (212) 255-2100 Chef Name: Andrew Carmellini menu that offers different types of Chef Name: Peter Serpico Cuisine Type: Italian www.markettablenyc.com Cuisine Type: Asian/New American The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; meatballs, sauces and sides. Price Point: $$$$ Good for Groups; Romantic Market Table offers guests a wide Chef Name: Daniel Holzman Price Point: $$ variety of dishes that reflect both Cuisine Type: Meatballs The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; MOMOFUKU MILK BAR the season and Chef Mikey Price’s Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); MAE MAE CAFé straight-forward culinary sensibilities. Outdoor Dining 207 2ND AVENUE Market Table’s comfortable seating Price Point: $ (13TH STREET) 68 VAN DAM STREET (212) 254-3500 (HUDSON & VARICK STREETS) arrangement of the dining room is (212) 924-5109 flanked by huge windows which offer MERCER KITCHEN www.momofuku.com www.greatperformances.com/ a view of village life and guarantees 99 PRINCE STREET Momofuku Milk Bar is where Pastry cafes/mae-mae-café there is a great seat for everyone! (MERCER & GREENE STREETS) Chef showcases her Chef Name: Mikey Price (212) 966-5454 creative and inventive ways to satisfy Located in New York City’s Hudson Cuisine Type: Seasonal American even the most passionate sweet tooth. The Details: Good for Groups; Kid Friendly; www.jean-georges.com Square, Mae Mae Café offers Milk Bar’s menu features indulgent seasonal cuisine, lovingly served at Romantic The “hotel as home” concept extends Price Point: $$ to this restaurant in the form of a golf-ball-sized servings and offers pork affordable prices. The menu features buns as well as other savory items. fresh soups and salads, pressed panini, casual family kitchen. The main Chef Name: Christina Tosi homemade specialty dishes, and an MATSUGEN dining room area has an open kitchen Cuisine Type: Dessert outstanding selection of wines and 241 CHURCH STREET layout that includes five “family The Details: Open Late (after 11pm) loose-leaf teas. Mae Mae is open for () tables” in addition to banquette Price Point: $ lunch on weekdays and for dinner (212) 925-0202 and bar seating. Chef Jean-Georges and live jazz on Wednesday nights. www.jean-georges.com Vongerichten has created a relaxed Chef Name: Marc Spooner Matsugen serves delicate and subtle menu emphasizing , locally Cuisine Type: Seasonal New American modern Japanese cuisine in a serene, produced ingredients. The Details: Bar Scene; Romantic Price Point: $ modern setting in Tribeca. Japanese Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Cuisine Type: American Nouveau chefs hand-picked by Chefs and The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Partners Masa, Taka, and Yoshi Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Matsushita prepare house-made Price Point: $$$ GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 21 DOWNTOWN

MOMOFUKU NOODLE BAR MOTORINO MANHATTAN restaurateur Drew Nieporent, Nobu 171 1ST AVENUE 349 EAST 12TH STREET is a visual and culinary delight. (10TH & 11TH STREETS) (1ST & 2ND AVENUES) Dishes such as tiradito Nobu-style, (212) 777-7773 (212) 777-2644 yellowtail with jalapeño, squid pasta, The East Village is the www.momofuku.com www.motorinopizza.com and black cod with miso validate Momofuku Noodle Bar, the first See description on page 68 Nobu as the gold standard of epitome of downtown, of the Momofuku restaurants, Chef Name: Mathieu Palombino Japanese cuisine. “ showcases comforting yet sometimes Cuisine Type: Neopolitan Pizza Chef Name: Nobu Matsuhisa/ Toshio Tomita more so than any other Price Point: $ Cuisine Type: New-Style Japanese overlooked favorites. By featuring The Details: Romantic area under 14th Street. fresh market ingredients and daily Price Point: $$$$ specials it offers its customers all of MURRAY’S CHEESE It’s got an unpretentious the quality of a fine-dining experience 254 BLEECKER STREET NOBU NEXT DOOR (6TH & 7TH AVENUES) in a casual dining atmosphere. 105 HUDSON STREET (212) 243-3289 low brow attitude, Ramen, soft-serve ice cream, and (FRANKLIN & NORTH MOORE STREETs) www.murrayscheese.com and it is as diverse as pork buns all serve as examples of (212) 334-4445 how Chef Chang brings East Murray’s Cheese is New York City’s www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Village diners a fresh complexity it is interesting. There’s oldest cheese shop with flagship Nobu Next Door is a haven for to traditionally simple dishes. stores in Greenwich Village and savvy diners who crave Nobu’s everything you would Chef Name: David Chang . Its wide superb New-Style Japanese cuisine. Cuisine Type: Asian Fusion selection of cheeses, cooked and The Details: Open Late (after 11pm) A “no reservations” policy makes want here—great food, Price Point: $$ cured artisanal meats, and specialty the Nobu experience accessible to music and art—and it’s foods have been enticing New everyone. One major advantage is MOMOFUKU SSäM BAR Yorkers for seven decades. Murray’s a raw bar featuring the freshest wholesale business is proud to supply accessible to all.” 207 2ND AVENUE market catch of the day. cheese to New York’s top restaurants. (13TH STREET) Chef Name: Nobu Matsuhisa/ Toshio Tomita (212) 254-3500 Murray’s at Bleecker Street features Cuisine Type: New-Style Japanese – David Chang The Details: Kid-Friendly; Romantic www.momofuku.com grilled cheeses and salads, “Made by Murray’s” catering is a great Price Point: $$$$ Although Momofuku Ssäm Bar choice for an event, and “The Cheese opened as an imaginative Course” features educational classes NORTHERN SPY FOOD CO. restaurant, feedback from East nearly every night of the week. 511 EAST 12TH STREET Village diners has made it what it Cuisine Type: Purveyor (AVENUES A & B) is today. Ssäm Bar exemplifies the (212) 228-5100 necessary balance of innovation and www.northernspyfoodco.com tradition, serving dishes, such as a NOBU NEW YORK Northern Spy Food Co. is a green- Santa Barbara uni with whipped tofu 105 HUDSON STREET market-driven restaurant dedicated and tapioca, alongside traditional (FRANKLIN & NORTH MOORE STREETs) (212) 219-0500 to using only the best locally-sourced dishes like banh mi and hanger steak. ingredients available each season. In 2008 Chef Chang won the James www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Chef Name: Nathan Foot Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef: New Nobu’s original location continues Cuisine Type: Greenmarket-driven York” and most recently, Ssäm Bar to bring the most innovative New- The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; was named one of the S. Pellegrino Style Japanese cooking to New York Open Late Saturday and Sunday (after 11pm); Romantic 50 Best Restaurants in the World. City. A partnership of actor Robert Price Point: $$ Chef Name: David Chang De Niro, celebrated Chef Nobuyuki Cuisine Type: Asian Fusion/Korean Matsuhisa, and world-renowned The Details: Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $$$

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PERRY STREET RON BEN-ISRAEL CAKES SHO SHAUN HERGATT 176 PERRY STREET 42 GREENE STREET 40 BROAD STREET, SECOND LEVEL (WASHINGTON STREET & HIGHWAY) (BROOME & GRAND streets) (EXCHANGE PLACE & BEAVER STREET) (212) 352-1900 (212) 625-3369 (212) 809-3993 www.jean-georges.com www.weddingcakes.com www.shoshaunhergatt.com CITY HARVEST Jean-Georges Vongerichten delivers A favorite of celebrities and the Located in the heart of the Financial casual elegance to the West Side at style-conscious, Ron Ben-Israel District, SHO Shaun Hergatt Perry Street, his modern culinary foray was named the “King of Cakes” invigorates one of Manhattan’s delivers located in the Richard Meier Towers. by Modern Bride magazine and last uncharted restaurant frontiers. Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten his cakes have been declared With its sleek design and seamless food to Cuisine Type: Contemporary American “perfect!” by Martha Stewart. hospitality, SHO Shaun Hergatt The Details: Good for Groups Price Point: $$$ These confectionary centerpieces transforms the neighborhood’s dining are featured at galas in New York’s entity with a restaurant unlike nearly 600 premier hotels and locations and anything Wall Street has seen. RECETTE are highlighted in numerous Chef Name: Shaun Hergatt 328 WEST 12TH STREET magazines and television specials. Cuisine Type: Modern French community (GREENWICH STREET) The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (212) 414-3000 By appointment only. Romantic Chef Name: Ron Ben-Israel Price Point: $$$$ food www.recettenyc.com Cuisine Type: Purveyor Recette means “recipe” in French, SPICE MARKET and is an urban American restaurant programs SAXELBY CHEESEMONGERS 403 WEST 13TH STREET that marries traditional and 120 ESSEX STREET (9TH AVENUE) progressive techniques and flavors. (DELANCEY & RIVINGTON STREETS) (212) 675-2322 that feed Broken down into “” and (212) 228-8204 www.jean-georges.com “plates,” the menu offers something www.saxelbycheese.com for everyone while giving diners the A timeless paean to Southeast Asian Saxelby Cheesemongers is New York’s hungry ability to order several dishes, or if sensuality, Spice Market titillates first cheese shop to feature an all- they choose, share amongst the table. Manhattan’s Meatpacking District American farmstead cheese selection. Chef Jesse Schenker manipulates with Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s New Yorkers. Saxelby carries a wide array of ingredients and temperature to create piquant elevations of the region’s cheeses and fresh dairy products, all maximum flavor. street cuisine served in a casual, sexy sourced from regional farms. Check Chef Name: Jesse Schenker atmosphere. Inspired by the street Cuisine Type: Modern American/French out saxelbycheese.com for more food Vongerichten enjoyed while The Details: Good for Groups; Open Late information on cheese platters, mail traveling in Southeast Asia, Spice (after 11pm); Romantic Price Point: $$$ order, gift certificates, and more! Market’s menu authentically uplifts Visit our store in the Essex Market its inspirations while offering guests for a chunk of fine fromage or a tasty the additional delight of family-style THE REDHEAD cheese sandwich. dining. Regional fish sauces, curries, 349 EAST 13TH STREET Chef Name: Anne Saxelby and spices are tweaked to tantalizing (1ST & 2ND AVENUES) Cuisine Type: Purveyor (212) 533-6212 effect in dishes like chicken samosas with cilantro-infused yogurt, www.theredheadnyc.com vinegar-infused pork vindaloo, Neighborhood restaurant serving and halibut cha ca la vong. seasonal, southern-inspired cuisine. Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Chef Name: Meg Larcom Cuisine Type: Southeast Asian Cuisine Type: Regional American The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; The Details: Bar Scene; Open Late Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) (after 11pm) Price Point: $$$ Price Point: $$

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SPOT DESSERT BAR STRIP HOUSE TORRISI ITALIAN SPECIALTIES WALLSé 13 ST. MARKS PLACE 13 EAST 12TH STREET 250 MULBERRY STREET 344 WEST 11TH STREET (2ND & 3RD AVENUES) (UNIVERSITY PLACE & ) (PRINCE STREET) (WASHINGTON STREET) (212) 677-5670 (212) 328-0000 (212) 965-0955 (212) 352-2300 www.spotdessertbar.com www.striphouse.com www.piginahat.com www.kg-ny.com Spot is the perfect haven for all Strip House’s menu integrates By day, Torrisi is a classic Italian Named for the hometown of Chef and natural desserts and beverages. traditional elements with modern deli offering a variety of sandwiches, Owner Kurt Gutenbrunner, Wallsé is Drawing inspiration from innovative interpretations. Executive Chef John antipasti, house-made pastries a destination for food and art lovers sweets from Asia as well as classic Schenk’s signature dishes include and coffee drinks. At night, it’s alike. The seasonally-influenced menu American desserts, Spot’s selection perfectly charred steaks, truffle transformed into a full service sit- features a modern interpretation of treats offers distinct and exotic creamed spinach, and goose fat down restaurant offering a nightly, of classical Viennese cuisine. In flavors using only the freshest, natural potatoes. The décor, full of dark, changing, prix fixe-only menu developing the concept behind his ingredients, made daily in-house. rich colors and back-lit Studio inspired by Italian American classics, first restaurant, Chef Gutenbrunner Not only do Spot’s desserts bring Manasse photographs, is balanced by the seasons, and the neighborhood. wanted the tone of his cuisine to one-of-a-kind creations to its guests, seductive music and ambient lighting. Chef Name: Mario Carbone/ Rich Torrisi be reflected in the ambience of but they reflect their determination Strip House is the only steakhouse Cuisine Type: Italian/American the establishment. The result is an Price Point: $$-$$$ to “go green.” 80% of the restaurant to be awarded four stars in Forbes overwhelming harmony of elegance, is made from repurposed or recycled magazine’s All-Star eateries, and simplicity, and lightness that won the materials, so Spot Dessert Bar is as awarded two stars from The New TRIBECA GRILL restaurant two stars just two months “natural” as can be. York Times. 375 GREENWICH STREET after opening. Chef Name: Pichet Ong/Mame Sow Chef Name: John Schenk (HUDSON STREET) Chef Name: Kurt Gutenbrunner Cuisine Type: Desserts Cuisine Type: Steakhouse (212) 941-3900 Cuisine Type: Austrian The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Romantic Romantic Price Point: $$$$ Now entering its third decade, Price Point: $$$ Price Point: $ Tribeca Grill is a respected TANUKI tavern New York landmark that receives YERBA BUENA THE STANTON SOCIAL 18 NINTH AVENUE worldwide recognition for excellent 23 AVENUE A 99 STANTON STREET (13TH STREET) cuisine, wine, and service. Owned (HOUSTON & 2ND STREETs) (ORCHARD & LUDLOW STREETS) (212) 660-6766 and conceptualized by Oscar- (212) 529-2919 (212) 995-0099 www.chinagrillmgt.com winning actor in a 1 PERRY STREET www.thestantonsocial.com Tanuki Tavern, a Japanese gastro- partnership with noted restaurateur (GREENWICH STREET & 7TH AVENUE) The design of this three-level hot pub and sushi bar in the heart of Drew Nieporent, Tribeca Grill (212) 620-0808 spot tips its hat to the neighborhood’s the Meatpacking District, takes its radiates excitement and energy. www.ybandco.com garment history and offers diners a name from the mischievous and jolly The 1,800-selection, 20,000-bottle Yerba Buena presents an innovative culinary odyssey. All menu items are creature of Japanese folklore. The wine list enjoys the distinction of take on Latin Cuisine. Executive Chef designed for sharing, offering guests restaurant’s atmosphere draws its Wine Spectator’s highest honor, the Julian Medina works magic preparing a chance to experience multiple inspiration from a Japanese izakaya. “Grand Award.” the fresh Latin flavors of Cuba, Peru, dishes and flavors throughout their Chef Name: Stephen Lewandowski With its light wood interior, glowing Cuisine Type: American Chile, Mexico and Argentina. The meal. In addition to its 120 seats, paper lanterns and eclectic indie The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; cockteleria classica (classic cocktail- The Stanton Social offers a raw bar, soundtrack, Tanuki Tavern’s casual Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Romantic bar) boasts a menu of carefully- Price Point: $$$ two lounges, and a full bar upstairs. and convivial vibe is great for a quick researched classics and an extensive Chef Name: Chris Santos bite, leisurely meal or late night . Latin American wine list. Cuisine Type: Multicultural The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Chef Name: Kazu Hashimoto Chef Name: Julian Medina Open Late (after 11pm) Cuisine Type: Japanese Cuisine Type: Latin American Price Point: $$$ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Romantic Price Point: $$ Price Point: $$

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LOwer midtown A Voce Madison modern techniques and classic nothing sweeter than enjoying a long 41 flavors intrinsic to the cuisines of meal over a sampling of delicacies. (26th Street) Spain, France, and Portugal. Chef Name: Paul DiBari Chelsea (212) 545-8555 Chef Name: George Mendes Cuisine Type: Southern Italian The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; www.avocerestaurant.com Cuisine Type: Mediterranean Gramercy The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining See description on page 60 Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic Price Point: $$ Price Point: $$ Flatiron Chef Name: Missy Robbins Cuisine Type: Italian Barbounia Price Point: $$$ Murray Hill Artisanal Fromagerie, 250 South Bistro & Wine Bar (20th Street) (212) 995-0242 ABC Kitchen 2 Park Avenue 35 East 18th Street (32nd Street) www.barbounia.com (Broadway & Park Avenue South) (212) 725-8585 Barbounia’s new menu focuses (212) 475-5829 www.artisanalbistro.com on Mediterranean cuisine with www.abckitchennyc.com Artisanal, Chef Terrance Brennan’s inspirations from several European Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten bistro-fromagerie-wine bar, has cultures. Hints of Greece are found and Phil Suarez co-create ABC received rave reviews from both in the traditional Mezze—tzatsiki Kitchen, presenting a changing menu critics and diners. Classic bistro fare and several other spreads, served with that is locally-sourced and globally abounds and pairs beautifully with Naon’s famous flatbread—which artistic in a fresh and articulate the more than 160 wines that are has acquired a cult-like following. space. ABC Kitchen invites you offered by the glass. But Artisanal’s Tastes from the south of Italy shine to engage in regionally-grown, raison d’être is its stock of more than through during lunch, which features MADISON AVE organically-focused cuisine that 250 varieties of hand-crafted cheeses, a mushroom and asparagus pizza is rooted in cultivating a safe aged and cared for in a custom-made topped with parmesan, fontina, and relationship between environment cave; all are available for sale at the truffle oil, hot from the taboon; and table with a committed focus bistro’s retail counter. and the mushroom gnocchi is an on local, sustainable and organic Chef Name: Terrance Brennan Italian-inspired entrée for the evening. seasonal product. Cuisine Type: French/Mediterranean Chef Name: Efraim Naon Chef Name: Dan Kluger The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Cuisine Type: Mediterranean/Greek Cuisine Type: Seasonal American Kid-Friendly; Romantic The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; The Details: Bar Scene; Romantic Price Point: $$$ Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic Price Point: $$ Price Point: $$ Bar Stuzzichini Aldea 928 Broadway BLT Prime 31 West 17th Street (21st & 22nd Streets) 111 East 22nd Street (Fifth & Sixth Avenues) (212) 780-5100 (Lexington & Park Avenues) (212) 675-7223 www.barstuzzichini.com (212) 995-8500 www.bltrestaurants.com www.aldearestaurant.com Nestled in New York’s Flatiron Aldea was opened by George Mendes District, Bar Stuzzichini has created At BLT Prime, we take the American in the spring 2009 to pay homage a superb menu of entrees and steakhouse to the next level. Unwind to his Portuguese heritage. A take “stuzzichini” or appetizers to offer and dine in a comfy yet modern on the Portuguese word for village, an authentic Italian dining experi- suede banquette on the first floor or the name “Aldea” evokes a relaxed, ence. Derived from the Italian verb overlook the dining room from the coastal vibe enhanced by Mendes’s “stuzzicare,” which means “to pick,” mezzanine. With a 30-foot dry aging innovative yet approachable dishes Bar Stuzzichini knows there is that strike a balance between

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room and a menu boasting 13 cuts can satisfy their appetite in the porterhouse steak, and desserts, of meat, BLT Prime is the ultimate 130-seat Jazz Room, featuring live which, like the rest of the food at carnivore’s dream. entertainment nightly. Craft, celebrate great ingredients Chef Name: Chris Leahy Chef Name: Matthew Hughes and skillful execution. Cuisine Type: Modern American Steakhouse Cuisine Type: Seafood/Sushi Chef Name: Tom Colicchio My favorite thing about The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Cuisine Type: American Romantic Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); The Details: Good for Groups, Romantic owning three restaurants Price Point: $$$$ Romantic Price Point: $$$ “ Price Point: $$$ in the Gramercy/ Blue Smoke & Jazz Standard COLICCHIO & SONS Craftbar 116 East 27th Street Flatiron neighborhood is 85 10TH AVENUE (Lexington & Park avenues) (20th Street) (15TH & 16TH STREETS) having the Union Square (212) 447-7733 (212) 461-4300 www.bluesmoke.com (212) 400-6699 www.colicchioandsons.com www.craftrestaurant.com Greenmarket right A pioneer in New York’s growing Inspired by his time behind the Craftbar is Craft’s informal sister around the corner. and vibrant barbecue scene, both restaurant where Chef Tom Colicchio Blue Smoke & Jazz Standard have stove at Tom: Tuesday Dinner, Tom opened Colicchio & Sons applies the same philosophy of Sourcing fresh, local been bringing authentic pit barbecue “simple food derived from the finest and soulful live jazz to the Big Apple in January 2010. Soon after its inception, Colicchio & Sons was ingredients” to casual dining. The ingredients is as easy as since March of 2002. The restaurant menu changes according to season offers a selection of regional barbecue awarded three stars from The New York Times. In both the and features a variety of salami, rolling a wheelbarrow styles from across the country served cheeses, and favorites like pecorino with warm hospitality. Downstairs restaurant’s formal dining room down the street.” and informal tap room, Tom fondue with hazelnuts and acacia at Jazz Standard, guests can enjoy honey, stuffed sage leaves, and some of the best live music in NYC Colicchio improvises and explores with small-batch ingredients from Tom’s famous veal-ricotta meatballs. – Tom Colicchio while feasting on Blue Smoke’s Craftbar’s rustic and comfortable mouthwatering cuisine. micro-producers and family farmers with whom he has forged decades- dining room lends itself equally to a Chef Name: Kenny Callaghan quick lunch, a full-length dinner, or Cuisine Type: Barbecue long relationships. a snack at the bar. The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Chef Name: Tom Colicchio Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Cuisine Type: American Chef Name: Tom Colicchio Price Point: $$ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Cuisine Type: American Romantic The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Price Point: $$$ Good for Groups Blue Water Grill Price Point: $$ 31 Union Square West Craft (16th Street) DICKSON’S FARMSTAND MEATS (212) 675-9500 43 East 19th Street 75 9TH AVENUE www.brguestrestaurants.com (Broadway & Park Avenue South) (212) 780-0880 (16TH STREET) (212) 242-2630 Zagat Survey 2010 rated Blue Water www.craftrestaurant.com Grill 16th out of New York’s 50 most www.dicksonsfarmstand.com Tom Colicchio’s award-winning popular restaurants. Located in the Dickson’s Farmstand Meats is a heart of Union Square, Blue Water and groundbreaking Craft serves contemporary that purveyor of a unique selection of Grill’s guests can feast on a variety artisanal meat and meat products, of seafood delicacies, including the marries the finest ingredients, haute cuisine, and family-style service. launched by owner Jake Dickson in lavish seafood raw bar towers and a 2008. Dickson’s beef, lamb, pork, creative sushi menu. Music fans Dishes include pan-roasted day boat scallops, braised short ribs, the famous goat, and poultry are sourced from hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, local farms, hand-picked because of their commitment to the production of natural, humanely-raised, GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 33 LOWER MIDTOWN high-quality and distinctive meat . Guests may also L’Express products. They have an extensive enjoy wine, beer and cocktails from 249 Park Avenue South house-made charcuterie program, the bar’s extensive menu. Under (20th Street) dry-age their own meats, and serve Chef Humm’s leadership, Eleven (212) 254-5858 lunch on weekdays. Madison Park was designated Grand www.lexpressnyc.com Chef Name: Gabriel Ross Chef Relais & Châteaux in 2008, This Lyonnaise bouchon merges City Harvest Cuisine Type: Butcher-shop received its first-ever Four Star The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly the traditional southern and northern Price Point: $ review from The New York Times influences of French cooking. Since in August 2009 and won the James its founding by the Romans, delivers Beard Award for Best Chef: New has long been the “second city” of Dos Caminos Park York City in 2010. 373 Park Avenue South France. The bustle of this hub of food nearly Chef Name: Daniel Humm culture and cuisine is reflected in (26th & 27th Streets) Cuisine Type: French (212) 294-1000 The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; L’Express’s 24-hours-a-day, seven- 24 hours a www.brguestrestaurants.com Romantic days-a-week schedule. The menu Price Point: $$$$ celebrates meat and dairy products With locations in the Meatpacking of the region, with daily sausage District, Soho, Midtown East, and day, 7 days a Gramercy Tavern selections, charcuterie and cheese Park Ave South, Corporate Executive 42 East 20th Street plates, pig’s feet, sautéed tripe, pike Chef Scott Linquist creates Dos (Park Avenue South) dumplings, and plenty of beers and week using Caminos’ modern Mexican cuisine. (212) 477-0777 Beaujolais. Highlights include the made-to-order www.gramercytavern.com Chef Name: Thierry Haxaire a fleet of 17 guacamole and 150-bottle tequila Cuisine Type: French list. Mexican specialties like pescado A revival and renewal of the classic The Details: Bar Scene; Open Late (after 11pm) veracruzano and innovative takes on American tavern, Gramercy Tavern Price Point: $$ trucks, cargo traditional fare like carnitas tacos offers refined seasonal American are sure to please all. cuisine, warm hospitality, and un- Maialino Chef Name: Scott Linquist paralleled service. Gramercy Tavern Gramercy Park Hotel, 2 bikes and Cuisine Type: Modern Mexican has received two three-star reviews (21st Street) The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Good in The New York Times (2007 & (212) 777-2410 for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic volunteers Price Point: $$$ 1995), holds one Michelin star, and www.maialinonyc.com has been perennially ranked among the top of Zagat Survey’s “Most Maialino is a Roman-style trattoria, on foot. Popular” list. In 2008, the James located in the Gramercy Park Hotel. 11 Madison Avenue Beard Foundation honored Gramercy Serving lovingly prepared Roman- (24th Street) style cooking from Executive Chef (212) 889-0905 Tavern with its “Outstanding Restaurant” award. Nick Anderer, the menu draws its www.elevenmadisonpark.com inspiration from the classic dishes Chef Name: Michael Anthony Eleven Madison Park embodies an Cuisine Type: Contemporary American found throughout , and features The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; fresh, seasonal ingredients from urbane sophistication, serving Good for Groups; Romantic Chef Daniel Humm’s modern French Price Point: $$$$ the greenmarket and local farms. cuisine that emphasizes purity, Maialino is open throughout the day, simplicity, and seasonal flavors offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner. and ingredients. The restaurant’s Chef Name: Nick Anderer Cuisine Type: Roman-Style Trattoria dramatically high ceilings and The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; magnificent dining room Open Late (after 11pm) offer guests lush views of historic Price Point: $$$$ Madison Square Park and the

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MATSURI Primehouse New York SCARPETTA 369 WEST 16TH STREET 381 Park Avenue South 355 WEST 14TH STREET (9TH AVENUE) (27th Street) (9TH AVENUE) (212) 243-6400 x 1 (212) 824-2600 (212) 691-0555 www.matsurinyc.com www.brguestrestaurants.com www.scarpettanyc.com City Harvest Matsuri means “festival” in Primehouse offers meats produced At Scarpetta, Chef Scott Conant Japanese—gatherings of family, by Prime, the restaurant’s very brings his deft touch and unwavering friends and communities that take own bull, and delivers a twist on passion to creating food that is helps feed place throughout the year. Whether conventional steakhouse fare. unexpected and soulful. An Italian celebrating the harvest, holidays, Executive Chef Brian O’Donohoe expression that means “little more than children, flowers, or the stars, utilizes his personal style and shoe”—the shape bread takes when Matsuri is a time to shake off the creative flair to redefine the used to soak up a dish—Scarpetta 300,000 seriousness of life and enjoy the American Steakhouse. represents the pure pleasure of pleasure of one’s company. Chef Name: Brian O’Donohoe savoring a meal down to its very Chef Name: Tadashi Ono Cuisine Type: Steakhouse last bite. The farm-fresh ingredients The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Cuisine Type: Japanese, Asian and clean, earthy flavors in Conant’s hungry men, The Details: Good for Groups; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic Price Point: $$$$ seasonally-inspired Italian menu pay women and Price Point: $$$ homage to the chef’s heritage and Rosa Mexicano Union Square time spent in Italy. 9 East 18th Street Chef Name: Scott Conant Olives New York Cuisine Type: Italian children W Hotel Union Square, 201 Park Avenue South (5th Avenue & Broadway) The Details: Bar Scene; Open Late (17th Street) (212) 533-3350 (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Romantic each week. (212) 353-8345 www.rosamexicano.com Price Point: $$$ www.toddenglish.com Rosa Mexicano set a new standard Four-time James Beard Award- for Mexican cuisine in 1984 with its SD26 Restaurant & Wine Bar winning Chef Todd English brings location and quickly 19 East 26th Street his internationally acclaimed became famous for its tableside (Madison & 5th Avenues) interpretive Mediterranean cuisine to guacamole presentation and frozen (212) 265-5959 New York City at Olives. Big, bold pomegranate margaritas. Rosa www.sd26ny.com flavors are always on the menu at continues to lead and innovate with The modern, upbeat and exciting this perennial Union Square favorite, authentic, modern Mexican dishes in SD26 Restaurant & Wine Bar, which draws its inspiration from the its nine locations around the country. designed by Massimo Vignelli, best of the neighboring Greenmarket. Chef Name: James Cawley is co-owned by the legendary With an emphasis on seasonality, Cuisine Type: Mexican father-daughter restaurateurs, Tony The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Good Chef Todd English uses the freshest for Groups May & Marisa May. Executive Chef ingredients in his imaginative and Price Point: $$$ Matteo Bergamini presents a dining mouthwatering dishes. experience that is both unique Chef Name: Todd English and seductive, setting the standard Cuisine Type: Mediterranean in first-class Italian style with The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic contemporary flavors that are Price Point: $$ unmistakably Italian. As noted by Forbes magazine in 2009, “SD26 combines fabulous food with

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probably the snazziest contemporary TABLA outstanding value. A critical success interior you’ve seen in a long time.” 11 MADISON AVENUE from the outset, Union Square Cafe Chef Name: Matteo Bergamini (25TH STREET) has been ranked #1 or #2 “Most Cuisine Type: Italian (212) 889-0667 Popular Restaurant” in the Zagat The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; Open Late Fridays & Saturdays www.tablany.com Survey for more than a decade. City Harvest (after 11pm); Romantic Tabla is a groundbreaking Chef Name: Carmen Quagliata Price Point: $$$ Cuisine Type: American restaurant in the Flatiron District The Details: Romantic serving Executive Chef Floyd Price Point: $$$ has rescued Shake Shack Madison Cardoz’s New Indian cuisine, Square Park American food spiced with the Wildwood Barbeque more than Madison Square Park sensual flavors of India. While 225 Park Avenue South (Madison Avenue & 23rd Street) enjoying views of Madison Square (18th & 19th Streets) 300 million (212) 889-6600 Park and the Flatiron Building, (212) 553-2500 www.shakeshack.com guests may dine in the upstairs or www.brguestrestaurants.com downstairs dining rooms, or on the Inspired by classic roadside food Wildwood Barbeque serves up patio in the warmer months. Over pounds of stands, Shake Shack is a favorite spot multiregional American barbeque the next three months, Tabla will for New Yorkers and visitors alike. in a rustic urban setting, with a celebrate 12 momentous years Shake Shack’s all-American menu 50-foot-long bar featuring a wide food since of business, and invites their loyal includes burgers, hot dogs, frozen array of bourbons, 50 bottled and guests to join them for a final dining custard, wine, beer and more. draft beers, and the latest creative experience prior to closing their we began Cuisine Type: American cocktail selections. The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; doors on December 30th, 2010. Good for Groups Chef Name: Lou Elrose/Brett Reichler/ Chef Name: Floyd Cardoz Price Point: $ John Schafer in 1982. Cuisine Type: New Indian Cuisine Type: Modern Regional American BBQ The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Good Dining; Good for Groups; Romantic for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) SUSHISAMBA Price Point: $$$$ Price Point: $$ 245 Park Avenue South (19th & 20th Streets) (212) 475-9377 Union Square CafE www.sushisamba.com 21 East 16th Street (Union Square West & 5th Avenue) Only at SUSHISAMBA will you (212) 243-4020 find a unique blend of Japanese, www.unionsquarecafe.com Brazilian, and Peruvian cuisine, One of New York City’s most beloved music and design. From churrasco restaurants, Union Square Cafe (Brazilian barbeque) to a raw bar, showcases Chef Carmen Quagliata’s the offerings are a truly unique blend delicious, inspired Italian cuisine and of fiery Brazilian, zesty Peruvian, his passion for harvesting the best and fresh Japanese flavors. ingredients from the Greenmarket Chef Name: Fernando Navas Cuisine Type: Japanese, Brazilian & Peruvian right outside the restaurant’s doors. The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; When Danny Meyer opened Union Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Square Cafe in 1985, serving Dining; Romantic Price Point: $$$ American cuisine with an Italian soul, he pioneered a new breed of American eatery, pairing imaginative food and wine with caring hospitality, comfortable surroundings and

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midTOWN list, and wine-inspired decor by the ASIA DE CUBA 21 WEST talented Rockwell Group. 237 MADISON AVENUE (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) Chef Name: Didier Elena (37TH & 38TH STREETS) Midtown West (212) 582-7200 Cuisine Type: French (212) 726-7755 The Details: Good for Groups; Romantic Midtown East www.21club.com Price Point: $$$ www.chinagrillmgt.com Award-winning Executive Chef Extremely popular among savvy John Greeley delivers a fine dining ALTO urbanites since the day it opened, this experience at 21 Club, which offers 11 EAST Philippe Stark-designed masterpiece multi-faceted American cuisine. The (MADISON & 5TH AVENUES) expertly combines understated 21 Club’s dining room seats 170, (212) 308-1099 elegance, theatrical glamour, and an and the 30-seat intimate upstairs www.altorestaurant.com irresistible sense of fun. The Nuevo area promises a romantic evening. Chino-Latino cuisine brings intense Chef and Partner Michael White The three floors of private dining are flavors together in a distinct manner brings highly redefined Northern perfect for special occasions, business delivering imaginatively prepared Italian cuisine to midtown events, and other celebrations. The dishes in oversized portions intended Manhattan. historic prohibition-era private wine for sharing. Chef Name: Michael White cellar offers a variety of tasting menus Cuisine Type: Northern Italian Chef Name: Robert Tobin and received the ‘Grand Award’ from The Details: Outdoor Dining; Cuisine Type: Latin/ Chinese The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Wine Spectator. Good for Groups Price Point: $$$$ Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic Chef Name: John Greeley Price Point: $$$$ Cuisine Type: American TH The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; ARDESIA WINE BAR WEST 56 ST Romantic BENOIT RESTAURANT & BAR Price Point: $$$ 510 WEST 52ND STREET 60 WEST (10TH & 11TH AVENUES) (FIFTH & SIXTH AVENUES) (212) 247-9191 (646) 943-7373 ADOUR ALAIN DUCASSE www.ardesia-ny.com AT THE ST. REGIS NEW YORK www.benoitny.com Ardesia is a casual food and wine THE ST. REGIS NEW YORK, 2 EAST 55TH STREET Benoit in New York is the third bar located in Hell’s Kitchen in TH (FIFTH & MADISON AVENUES) member of Alain Ducasse’s Benoit NYC, inspired by the neighborhood’s EAST 34 ST (212) 710-2277 family, after and Tokyo. historic past and vibrant present. www.adour-stregis.com Benoit in New York represents an Ardesia offers over 30 wines by the opportunity for Chef Ducasse to Adour Alain Ducasse at The St. glass—something for every palette recreate a unique bistro experience Regis New York juxtaposes and pocketbook. They also offer an within a dynamic urban environment traditional elegance with modern eclectic food menu to compliment while still preserving the tradition of sophistication to present a flexible the wine and beer, which includes the original Benoit in Paris, which dining experience where guests share house-made charcuterie and artisanal opened its doors in 1912. The in Alain Ducasse’s and Executive cheeses, as well as fun dishes to restaurant and bar offer a menu Chef Didier Elena’s passion for fine share, like homemade NY-style of classic French bistro cuisine at food and wine. The contemporary pretzels and quail egg toast. lunch and dinner, Monday cuisine celebrates bold, authentic, Chef Name: Amorette Casaus local flavors, executed in a French Cuisine Type: Small Plates through Saturday. style designed with wine in mind. The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; Chef Name: Pierre Schaedelin Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Cuisine Type: French The restaurant features cutting-edge Price Point: $$ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; technology, a vast and diverse wine Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Romantic Price Point: $$

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BLUE FIN CAFE 2 CHURRASCARIA PLATAFORMA W HOTEL, , 1567 BROADWAY 11 WEST 53RD STREET 316 WEST 49TH STREET () (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) (8TH & 9TH AVENUES) (212) 918-1400 (212) 333-1299 (212) 245-0505 www.brguestrestaurants.com www.momacafes.com www.plataformaonline.com Located in the flagship W Hotel Located in the Museum of Modern Churrascaria is the name used to City Harvest Times Square, The New York Times Art, Cafe 2 offers an array of describe a restaurant that serves two-star-rated Blue Fin dazzles with delicious, fresh and seasonal Italian meat, mostly grilled, and rodizio is artful seafood delicacies and an foods and desserts from Executive a method of serving and preparing operates innovative sushi and raw bar menu. Chef Lynn Bound. Guests order the different cuts of meat. For the Music fans can delight in the jazz at the counter, and are served at first course, diners are invited to the a kosher trio, featured nightly. communal tables by our warm, gourmet bar. The main course Chef Name: Eric Woods caring staff. Museum visitors can at Churrascaria Plataforma consists Cuisine Type: Seafood/Sushi also take a quick break at the of a wide variety of different cuts of initiative to The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic Espresso Bar to relax and recharge savory beef, pork, chicken, turkey Price Point: $$$ after an enriching day of viewing and fish, in succession. support art. Cafe 2 is open to museum Chef Name: Carlos Magalhães visitors only. Cuisine Type: Brazilian BRASSERIE COGNAC The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; emergency Chef Name: Lynn Bound Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Cuisine Type: Italian Price Point: $$$ (55TH STREET) The Details: Kid-Friendly; Good for Groups (212) 757-3600 Price Point: $ feeding www.cognacrestaurant.com Convivio Brasserie Cognac’s cuisine combines CHINA GRILL 45 Tudor City Place programs the French classics with Executive 60 WEST 53RD STREET () Chef Florian Hugo’s modern (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) (212) 599-5045 creations. The setting is charming (212) 333-7788 www.convivionyc.com that provide and exciting with a classic French www.chinagrillmgt.com Convivio, the restaurant from Chris Brasserie-style menu. Over 100 With 40-foot ceilings, multi-level Cannon and acclaimed Chef Michael food to varieties of cognac are available, dining areas, a huge open kitchen, White, offers modern interpretations as well as a gorgeous wine list floor-to-ceiling windows, and a of the flavorful and soulful food including first-growth Bordeaux limestone floor with Italian marble of Southern Italy. The restaurant, those who sold by the glass. mosaic, China Grill takes diners on which has earned three stars from Chef Name: Florian Hugo a globe-spanning culinary adventure The New York Times, offers a Cuisine Type: French Brasserie menu that encourages diners to observe The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; in a spectacular setting. The Asian- Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); inspired world cuisine is legendary as if they were in Italy: leisurely, Outdoor Dining sensuously, and with gusto. kashrut Price Point: $$ and the scene is no less impressive. Generous portions of food are Chef Name: Michael White Cuisine Type: Southern Italian prepared on grills and in woks, and The Details: Good for Groups dietary law. served in bold, oversized plates. Food Price Point: $$$ is artistically presented as part of an extraordinary culinary journey. Chef Name: Jamie Knott Cuisine Type: Asian The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $$$

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DB BISTRO MODERNE LE CIRQUE Má PÊCHE 55 WEST 44TH STREET 151 EAST 58TH STREET 15 WEST 56TH STREET (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) (THIRD & LEXINGTON AVENUES) (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) (212) 391-2400 (212) 644-0202 (212) 757-5878 I absolutely love www.danielnyc.com www.lecirque.com www.momofuku.com At db Bistro Moderne, diners will Owner Sirio Maccioni welcomes Má Pêche, Momofuku’s newest midtown. It is such a experience a modern bistro where the friends and guests to his renowned restaurant, is also its first outside of “ traditions of French cuisine meet the Le Cirque restaurant and wine the East Village, taking on a French dynamic neighborhood; flavors of the American market. The lounge, located at the prestigious Vietnamese influence in a warm, it has small restaurants menu reflects the changing seasons One Beacon Court. Under the expansive setting adjacent to the with the simplicity of fine ingredients. leadership of the Maccioni family, Chambers Hotel in midtown. Its and cafes as well as a Located in midtown, Daniel Boulud’s Le Cirque features Chef Craig prix-fixe lunch and dinner have lively New York restaurant promises Hopson at the helm of the kitchen. already made it a welcome addition variety of luxurious dining that is as easygoing and The legendary restaurant entertains to the midtown crowd, as well convivial as it is delicious. A must for and attends to patrons with its as the large format meal, “Beef restaurants. It’s close to pre- and post-theater dining. hallmark service, exciting atmosphere, 7 Ways.” Má Pêche just recently Central Park, where you Chef Name: Daniel Boulud/ Laurent Kalkotour and private dining, as it has done for earned a two-star rave review from Cuisine Type: French over 35 celebrated years. The New York Times. The Details: Good for Groups can go relax on a break, Price Point: $$-$$$ Chef Name: Craig Hopson Chef Name: Tien Ho Cuisine Type: Modern French Cuisine Type: French/Vietnamese Influence The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; it has great shopping, Romantic Open Late (after 11pm) DOS CAMINOS THIRD AVENUE Price Point: $$$$ Price Point: $$$ the Theatre District, 825 3RD AVENUE (50TH & 51ST STREETS) . It (212) 366-5400 LE MARAIS MAGNOLIA BAKERY www.brguestrestaurants.com 150 WEST 46TH STREET 1240 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS really encompasses the (6TH & 7TH AVENUES) (49TH STREET) See description on page 34 (212) 869-0900 (212) 724-8101 spirit of New York.” Chef Name: Scott Linquist Cuisine Type: Modern Mexican www.lemarais.net GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; A French steakhouse that happens to (LOWER LEVEL DINING CONCOURSE) Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (212) 682-3588 – Eric Ripert (after 11pm); Romantic be Kosher, Le Marais offers an onsite Price Point: $$$ retail butcher shop, private party www.magnoliabakery.com room, and catering. Le Marais is also See description on page 20 LE BERNARDIN conveniently located for a pre- or Cuisine Type: Bakery post-theater meal. A prix fixe $22 The Details: Kid-Friendly; Open Late 155 WEST Price Point: $ (7TH AVENUE & AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS) brunch is also offered. (212) 554-1515 Chef Name: Mark Hennessey Cuisine Type: French/Kosher/Steakhouse MAISON www.le-bernardin.com The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; 1700 BROADWAY Open Late (after 11pm) Always highly rated in the Zagat Price Point: $$ (53RD STREET) Survey, Le Bernardin is also the only (212) 757-2233 French awarded www.maisonnyc.com four stars by The New York Times. Maison is an experience in the The City Harvest $45 prix fixe lunch coastal flavors of Brittany whose menu is offered daily ($5 of which gentle climate and situation make goes directly to City Harvest). it the perfect seafood region. At Chef Name: Eric Ripert Cuisine Type: Seafood Maison, the menu focuses on the The Details: Romantic fish, shellfish, and crêpes that are Price Point: $$$$ GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 47 MIDTOWN found in quaint restaurants dotted frites, gourmet “five napkin” desserts by Marc Aumont. In addition NORMA’S AT LE PARKER along the seaside towns of Brittany. burgers, succulent short ribs, and to The Dining Room, which overlooks MERIDIEN Maison’s casual setting and evocative tasty hors d’oeuvres are served in the the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller 119 WEST 56TH STREET flavors make for an authentically dining room’s sun-drenched lively Sculpture Garden, The Modern (6TH & 7TH AVENUES) French meal. yet elegant atmosphere. includes The Bar Room, a more (212) 708-7460 Chef Name: Mario Urgiles Chef Name: Andy D’Amico casual dining and bar area, and www.normasnyc.com Cuisine Type: French Cuisine Type: French two private dining rooms. A separate The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; The Details: Bar Scene; Open Late (after 11pm); street-level entrance on West 53rd At Norma’s, over the top decadent Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic breakfast is served all day long in a Outdoor Dining Price Point: $$$ Street allows guests to enjoy Price Point: $$ the restaurant and bar beyond contemporary ambiance. Known for museum hours. serving one of the best breakfasts in MICHAEL JORDAN’S town, Norma’s is also open for lunch MAREA Chef Name: Gabriel Kreuther THE STEAK HOUSE N.Y.C. daily. Who said you can’t eat eggs Cuisine Type: French American 23 The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (BROADWAY & 7TH AVENUE) and pancakes all day long? (43RD STREET) Romantic (212) 582-5100 Price Point: $$$$ Chef Name: Emile Castillo (212) 655-2300 Cuisine Type: American www.marea-nyc.com The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly www.theglaziergroup.com Price Point: $$ Chef Michael White and restaurateur Located at the landmarked Grand NOBU FIFTY-SEVEN Chris Cannon redefine the seascape Central Terminal on the north and 40 WEST of high-end Italian cuisine with the (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) OCEANA west balconies, Michael Jordon’s The opening of their third restaurant, (212) 757-3000 120 WEST 49TH STREET Steak House N.Y.C. is rated two stars Marea. The regional foods of Italy www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com (6TH & 7TH AVENUEs) by The New York Times. Its menu are heavily influenced by ingredients (212) 759-5941 features prime dry-aged beef, lobster, Nobu Fifty-Seven is the midtown drawn from the four bodies of water www.oceanarestaurant.com and seasonal seafood. Favorite sides location for legendary Chef Nobu that surround the boot. At Marea, include Michael’s macaroni and Matsuhisa and his New-Style Japanese Oceana, a Michelin-starred White and Cannon present a fresh in- cheese, hash browns, and creamed cuisine. The restaurant features restaurant owned by the Livanos terpretation of Italian coastal cuisine. spinach. The cheesecake and choco- new dishes from the wood-burning Restaurant Group, features the Chef Name: Michael White late cake are the final indulgence to oven and the hibachi table, as well modern global seafood of Executive Cuisine Type: Coastal Italian Chef Ben Pollinger and the The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; an incredible dining experience. as Nobu’s signatures, such as black Romantic The Steakhouse features two private cod with miso. Burnished woods, contemporary desserts and house- Price Point: $$$$ dining rooms, a wine salon, and a rich hues, and soft lighting create baked bread of Executive Pastry bar that overlooks the concourse floor. an elegant ambiance. Sake barrels, Chef Jansen Chan. Oceana offers private function rooms and a MARSEILLE Chef Name: Michael Vignola imported from Japan, tower over 630 NINTH AVENUE Cuisine Type: Steakhouse the vibrant first floor bar and lounge seasonal outdoor patio. (44TH STREET) The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; scene, and a striking stairway leads Chef Name: Ben Pollinger Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm) (212) 333-2323 Cuisine Type: Seafood Price Point: $$$$ to the main dining room. The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; www.marseillenyc.com Chef Name: Nobu Matsuhisa/Matt Hoyle Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Cuisine Type: New-Style Japanese Romantic Step into the vibrant and colorful THE MODERN The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Price Point: $$$ world of Marseille, a proud and Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic 9 WEST 53RD STREET Price Point: $$$$ integral landmark of the thriving (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood since (212) 333-1220 PIGALLE 2001. Chef Andy D’Amico creates 790 8TH AVENUE www.themodernnyc.com (48TH & 49th STREETs) exciting, flavorful, and authentic The Modern is a fine-dining (212) 489-2233 cuisine celebrating a mix of French, restaurant located at the Museum of Italian, Greek, and North African www.pigallenyc.com Modern Art featuring the original influences. Popular yet unique dishes Named for Montmartre’s red light French-American cuisine of Alsatian- such as bouillabaisse, perfect steak district, Pigalle was where the cancan born Chef Gabriel Kreuther, with girls twirled their skirts and where

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec went SHAKE SHACK THEATER DISTRICT Gramercy Tavern, Maven, Zabar’s, with elegant decorative elements to paint them. At New York City’s 691 8TH AVENUE and Whole Foods, are showcases imported from Mexico. Pigalle, you can experience sexy (44TH STREET) for the bakery’s remarkable bread. Chef Name: Julian Medina Parisian fare like brandade de morue, (646) 435-0135 Chef Name: Jim Lahey Cuisine Type: Mexican The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; monkfish medallion gratinée, and Cuisine Type: Baked Goods www.shakeshack.com The Details: Kid-Friendly Kid-Friendly; Romantic duck confit. Pigalle’s brasserie style See description on page 38 Price Point: $ Price Point: $$ and Theater District location evoke Cuisine Type: American heady evenings in Paris. The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; VICTOR’S CAFé Good for Groups TERRACE 5 Chef Name: Thierry Haxaire 236 WEST 52ND STREET Cuisine Type: French Price Point: $ MOMA, 11 WEST 53RD STREET, 5TH FLOOR The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (5TH & 6TH AVENUES) (8TH AVENUE & BROADWAY) Open Late (after 11pm) (212) 333-1288 (212) 586-7714 Price Point: $$ SOUTH GATE www.victorscafe.com 154 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH www.momacafes.com Since its opening in 1963, Victor’s ROSA MEXICANO 1ST AVENUE (6TH & 7TH AVENUES) Terrace 5 is a full-service cafe, (212) 484-5120 inside the , Café has been the place New 1063 1ST AVENUE Yorkers return to again and again for (58TH STREET) www.154southgate.com offering a seasonal menu of savory selections and delicious pastries, generous portions of fresh, authentic, (212) 753-7407 The visually stunning Tony Chi- Cuban cuisine. www.rosamexicano.com designed South Gate restaurant, complemented by carefully selected wines and specialty cocktails. Cuisine Type: Cuban See description on page 37 situated on Central Park South, adds The Details: Kid-Friendly; Good for Groups; a new dimension to the midtown The cafe is situated adjacent to the Romantic Chef Name: Ignacio Cotzomi Painting and Sculpture Galleries and Price Point: $$$ Cuisine Type: Mexican Manhattan dining landscape. The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; Celebrated Chef Kerry Heffernan enjoys a spectacular view of the Abby Romantic Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden Price Point: $$$ creates a distinctive and seasonally- inspired modern American menu. and the surrounding skyline, with South Gate transitions from a casual terrace dining available seasonally. RUBY FOO’S, TIMES SQUARE morning patisserie to a sleek sky-lit Terrace 5 features Danish furniture 1626 BROADWAY lunch spot to a nighttime dining and tableware from leading modernist (49TH STREET) destination with an “urban tavern” designers and manufacturers. (212) 489-5600 intimacy. Chef Name: Lynn Bound www.brguestrestaurants.com Cuisine Type: Seasonal American Chef Name: Kerry Heffernan The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining Inside the 350-seat, multi-decked Cuisine Type: New American Price Point: $ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups “Palace,” bold colors, broad Price Point: $$$ decorative strokes, mahjong-tiled TOLOACHE walls, and a colorful open lobby SULLIVAN STREET BAKERY 251 WEST bar are the essence of Ruby Foo’s (BROADWAY & 8TH AVENUE) 533 WEST 47TH STREET design. Executive Chef Shawn (212) 581-1818 Edelman’s vast menu covers delicious (10TH & 11TH AVENUES) (212) 265-5580 www.toloachenyc.com dishes from every part of the Asian continent. www.sullivanstreetbakery.com Named after a flowering plant famed in Mexico for its use in love potions, Chef Name: Shawn Edelman Jim Lahey started Sullivan Street Cuisine Type: Pan-Asian Bakery in 1994 with little more than Toloache is a contemporary Mexican The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; bistro from Chef and Owner Julian Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; the wild yeast he cultivated by hand Open Late (after 11pm) in Italy, and a passion for bringing Medina. Located in the heart of the Price Point: $$ the exquisite, handcrafted breads of Theater District, the festive two-story Italy to the American table. Today, space features a guacamole and over 340 of New York’s finest ceviche bar, a wood burning oven, restaurants and markets, such as and an extensive tequila list, along Jean Georges, The Four Seasons, GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 51 4, 5, 6 10 E 86TH ST 2, 3 W 135TH ST E 85TH ST

E 84TH ST

13 W 130TH ST UPPER LEXINGTON AVE HARLEM EAST SIDE MADISON AVE 11 FIRST AVE 2, 3 4, 5, 6 W 125TH ST

E 79TH ST E 79TH ST MARCUS GARVEY

THIRD AVE E 78TH ST PARK 6 CENTRAL 1 PARK E 76TH ST MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD FIRST AVE 2 THIRD AVE 2, 3 6 E 116TH ST 12 FIFTH AVE E 72ND ST

E 71ST ST SECOND AVE 2, 3 6 RESTAURANTS CENTRAL PARK NORTH E 70TH ST 1 ATLANTIC GRILL 2 CAFÉ BOULUD PARK AVE 6

3 CAFÉ D’ALSACE FIFTH AVE E 106TH ST

4 DANIEL SECOND AVE 5 FRANÇOIS 6 CHOCOLATE BAR 4 E 65TH ST UPPER 6 GEISHA LEXINGTON AVE 5 7 7 JOJO EAST SIDE

MADISON AVE F E 97TH ST 8 MAÑANA 9 9 6 SERAFINA FABULOUS 6 8 E 61ST ST CENTRAL E 96TH ST GRILL PARK E 60TH ST 10 SHAKE SHACK E 59TH ST

UPPER EAST SIDE PARK AVE 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q E 58TH ST 11 SPIGOLO N, R 12 T-BAR STEAK & LOUNGE LEXINGTON AVE 13 WILLIAM GREENBERG DESSERTS THIRD AVE E 88TH ST 3 MADISON AVE

E 86TH ST 4, 5, 6 UPPER EAST SIDE

UPPER EAST SIDE Atlantic Grill Café D’Alsace François Chocolate Bar 1341 3rd Avenue 1695 2nd Avenue 714 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor (76th & 77th Streets) (88th Street) (63rd & 64th Streets) (212) 988-9200 (212) 772-5133 (212) 759-1600 www.brguestrestaurants.com www.cafedalsace.com www.fcchocolatebar.com New York seafood enthusiasts are Chef Philippe Roussel interprets François Payard teamed up with streaming into this jewel of the deep. the cuisine of his father’s native Parisian jeweler Mauboussin, to Featuring a raw bar, Atlantic Grill Alsace with a contemporary New open the François Chocolate Bar serves up seafood and sushi delicacies York flair serving traditional dishes on the fourth floor of Mauboussin’s ranging from the crab-crusted mahi like a charcuterie platter, foie gras Madison Avenue flagship boutique. mahi to the breathtaking three-tiered terrine, and hanger steak with fries. Designed as a chocolate jewelry shop, chilled shellfish tower. Complementing the cuisines is one the bar is devoted to chocolate and Chef Name: Cesar Lopez of the city’s most distinguished features signature Payard pastries, Cuisine Type: Seafood/Sushi beer selections and a dedicated beer a line of verrines, macaróns and the The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); sommelier to assist you in selecting François Quatre Quarts, along with Romantic the perfect lager, ale, or bock to suit decadent hot chocolates, teas, coffee, Price Point: $$$ your meal. and cappuccino. The shop also offers Chef Name: Philippe Roussel signature gifts and holiday specials. Cuisine Type: French Chef Name: François Payard Café Boulud The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; 20 East 76th Street Cuisine Type: Bakery, Chocolate Romantic Price Point: $ (Madison & 5th Avenues) Price Point: $$$ (212) 772-2600 www.danielnyc.com DANIEL Geisha TH 33 East 61st Street EAST 86 ST Café Boulud offers a causally 60 East 65th Street (Park & Madison Avenues) (Park & Madison Avenues) sophisticated ambiance, eclectic (212) 813-1113 cuisine, and above all, a place where (212) 288-0033 LEXINGTON AVE you feel warmly welcomed. The www.danielnyc.com www.geisharestaurant.com restaurant boasts a menu inspired by Chef Daniel Boulud’s contemporary Geisha’s sensuous menu was created Daniel Boulud’s four culinary muses. seasonal French cuisine and world in collaboration with four-star Chef Exquisitely prepared by Chef Gavin class wines are served in one of New Eric Ripert. Working with an Asian Kaysen are classic French dishes, York’s grandest fine-dining settings. palette of flavors and classic French seasonal delicacies from the vegetable In addition to the elegant main techniques, Chef Richard Lee master- garden, and flavors from around dining room, a bar and lounge are fully executes each dish, while the the world. Adjacent to Café Boulud available for superb cocktails and sushi bar offers a range of exquisitely in the Surrey Hotel is Bar Pleiades, more casual à la carte dining. The fresh sushi and sashimi. The interior, which offers the cocktail menu of Bellecour Room is at your disposal designed by David Rockwell, is talented mixologist Cameron Bogue for private entertaining. Daniel is one intended to reflect the delicacy and and an enticing food menu. of only seven Manhattan restaurants beauty of the Geisha. Chef Name: Daniel Boulud/ Gavin Kaysen to hold The New York Times’ coveted Chef Name: Richard Lee/Don Pham Cuisine Type: French Cuisine Type: Japanese Fusion The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; four-star rating. The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Good for Groups Chef Name: Daniel Boulud/ Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Price Point: $$ Jean François Bruel Romantic Cuisine Type: French Price Point: $$$ The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Romantic Price Point: $$$$

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JoJo Serafina Fabulous Grill T-Bar STEAK & LOUNGE 160 East 64th Street 29 East 61st Street 1278 THIRD AVENUE (3rd & Lexington Avenues) (Park & Madison Avenues) (73rd & 74th Streets) (212) 223-5656 (212) 702-9898 (212) 772-0404 www.jean-georges.com www.serafinarestaurant.com www.tbarnyc.com The Upper East Side JoJo, Chef Jean-Georges Families, businessmen, and With the opening of T-Bar Steak Vongerichten’s first independent celebrities dine at Serafina Fabulous & Lounge, restaurateur Tony has a timeless quality venture, opened almost two decades Grill to enjoy the ambiance and Fortuna remedied the dearth of good “ ago. Since being revamped and delicious Italian cuisine. The creative steakhouses on the Upper East Side. about it, a place that remade, JoJo now channels the pastas and risottos come to life with T-Bar offers USDA choice-grade lends itself to quiet turn of the century Paris of Henri the freshest ingredients, the thin-crust cuts, a solid cocktail list, and little de Toulouse-Lautrec and serves pizzas are produced in cherry touches like Nicolas Feuillatte, get-togethers among contemporary French cuisine. Guests wood-burning ovens, while the an exemplary champagne choice, are made to feel as though they are delicious desserts and extensive offered by the glass. Leave room friends and casual chats in a fanciful, luxurious townhouse wine list satisfy every craving. for T-Bar’s signature enormous, with details such as an old-fashioned Cuisine Type: Italian all-American dessert menu—you with the neighbors on coat check and a dumbwaiter. The Details: Bar Scene; Kid- Friendly; won’t regret it, even at the gym. Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; the block. That’s why I Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Open Late (after 11pm) Chef Name: Ben Zwicker Cuisine Type: French Price Point: $$$ Cuisine Type: American The Details: Romantic The Details: Bar Scene; Open Late opened JoJo there fifteen Price Point: $$$ (after 11pm); Romantic Shake Shack Upper East Side Price Point: $$$ years ago, and that’s Mañana 154 East 86th Street why we’re still around. 27 East 61st Street (Lexington & 3rd AVENUES) William Greenberg Desserts (Park & Madison Avenues) (646) 237-5035 1100 Madison Avenue It’s where our regulars (212) 752-8900 www.shakeshack.com (82nd & 83rd Streets) www.mananarestaurant.com See description on page 38 (212) 861-1340 come in to see friends www.wmgreenbergdesserts.com Mañana serves home-style Mexican Cuisine Type: American The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; New York’s premier bakery since and sit back, relax, and food with contemporary flavors Good for Groups in dishes like queso fundido, baby Price Point: $ 1946. Voted best black & white catch-up.” lobster tostada, and fajitas de filete. cookie in New York City. Also known for our candy cake, Chef Fermin Ortega’s cuisine is a Spigolo – Jean-Georges creative take on traditional Mexican schnecken, brownies, exquisite 1561 Second Avenue wedding cakes and many other Vongerichten cuisine; similarly, Mañana’s interior (81st Street) features a palette of colors, Aztec (212) 744-1100 wonderful treats. Cuisine Type: Bakery graffiti art, beautifully carved wood, A cozy and intimate Italian-influenced as well as authentic Mexican decora- restaurant owned and operated tions. Expect a lively scene and a by Scott and Heather Fratangelo, fabulous selection of margaritas. Spigolo has been given two stars by Chef Name: Fermin Ortega The New York Times. Now serving Cuisine Type: Mexican The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Chef Name: Scott Fratangelo Romantic Cuisine Type: Italian Price Point: $$ The Details: Outdoor Dining; Romantic Price Point: $$$

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1 B, C W 86TH ST W 131ST ST 6 9 4 W 84TH ST 1 HARLEM 17 A, B, C, D W 125TH ST

W 82ND ST B, C BROADWAY W 81ST ST AVE MORNINGSIDE

1 COLUMBUS AVE RESTAURANTS 14 BROADWAY PARK W 79TH ST W 120TH ST 1 A VOCE COLUMBUS

16 8TH AVE 78TH AVE 2 ATLANTIC GRILL 21 7 LINCOLN CENTER 1 B, C

W 116TH ST MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD 3 BAR BOULUD UPPER AMSTERDAM AVE 4 DINOSAUR BAR-B-QUE WEST SIDE 5 ED’S CHOWDER HOUSE 9A

WEST END AVE 20 11 HUDSON 6 FRENCH ROAST UPTOWN B, C RIVER DYCKMAN ST 7 ISABELLA’S 1, 2, 3 W 72ND ST 1 W 110TH ST 8 JEAN GEORGES

9 KEFI W 71ST ST 10 LANDMARC CENTRAL W 108TH ST A

TIME WARNER CENTER W 70TH ST PARK BROADWAY 11 LE MONDE 12 CENTRAL PARK WEST HENRY HUDSON PKWAY W 104TH ST W 199TH ST 22 1 COLUMBUS AVE 12 MAGNOLIA BAKERY ARDEN ST 13 NEW LEAF RESTAURANT

& BAR SICKLES ST W 100TH ST MORNINGSIDE ELLWOOD ST 14 NICE MATIN 3 PARK 15 NOUGATINE W 65TH ST 13 16 1, 2, 3 W 96TH ST OCEAN GRILL 9A WEST END AVE

17 OUEST AMSTERDAM AVE 2 W 64TH ST 18 PORTER HOUSE NEW YORK 19 5 W 94TH ST 19 ROSA MEXICANO 8 LINCOLN CENTER 15 20 SALUMERIA ROSI PARMACOTTO AMSTERDAM AVE W 92ND ST 1 10 18 BROADWAY 21 SHAKE SHACK W 58TH ST A, C, B, D, 1 COLUMBUS AVE W 90TH ST 22 TELEPAN

W 88TH ST UPPER WEST UPPER WEST

UPPER WEST A VOCE COLUMBUS a complete menu of seasonal French at its best. Highlights include tuna 10 , 3RD FLOOR bistro cooking. The restaurant’s steak, frites, lobster rolls, crab cakes, () cellar features the wines of Burgundy signature chowders from the chowder Upper West Side (212) 823-2523 and the Rhône Valley. The main bar and the ultimate raw bar. www.avocerestaurant.com dining room, with its cutting-edge, Chef Name: Ed Brown/John Miele Harlem contemporary design, includes Cuisine Type: American Seafood A Voce celebrates the simple The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; pleasures of Italian cooking in a communal seating at the charcuterie Kid-Friendly welcoming, sophisticated and bar and a tasting table in the round Price Point: $$$ modern environment. Executive Chef as well as an outdoor terrace. To Missy Robbins, who oversees both reach three private wine themed French Roast Uptown A Voce Columbus and A Voce dining rooms, diners travel through 2340 Broadway Madison, serves a menu of authentic the visually striking “cave à vin.” (85th Street) ingredient-driven, regionally-inspired Chef Name: Daniel Boulud/Damian Sansonetti (212) 799-1533 Cuisine Type: French creations that are at once refined The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; www.frenchroastny.com and approachable. From beautifully Open Late (after 11pm) Price Point: $$ See description on page 18 prepared fish and meats to pastas Chef Name: Frederick Piccarello made in-house each day, A Voce Cuisine Type: French offers a contemporary take on Italy’s The Details: Kid-Friendly; Open Late Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; Romantic most beloved dishes. 700 WEST 125TH Street Price Point: $$ Chef Name: Missy Robbins (RIVERSIDE DRIVE) Cuisine Type: Italian (212) 694-1777 The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Isabella’s Kid-Friendly; Romantic www.dinosaurbarbque.com Price Point: $$$ 359 Columbus Avenue Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is nestled under (77th Street) the grand Riverside Drive Bridge (212) 724-2100 Atlantic Grill Lincoln Center in Harlem near Fairway Market. www.brguestrestaurants.com CENTRAL PARK 49 West 64th Street Dinosaur has become a favorite WEST Considered by many to be a (Columbus & Central Park West) destination for Manhattanites, culinary staple of the Upper West www.brguestrestaurants.com locals, and everyone in the tri-state area for award-winning BBQ, live Side, Isabella’s offers outstanding See description on page 54 music, and a fun and friendly scene. Mediterranean cuisine at reasonable Chef Name: Chris Lim prices. As it is located near the Cuisine Type: Seafood/Sushi Chef Name: John Stage The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Cuisine Type: BBQ Museum of Natural History, there’s COLUMBUS AVE Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; no better spot to absorb the sights, Romantic Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining Price Point: $$ sounds, and celebrities of Manhattan Price Point: $$$ than Isabella’s vibrant outdoor café. Chef Name: John Lictro Bar Boulud Ed’s Chowder House Cuisine Type: American/Mediterranean Empire Hotel, 44 West 63rd Street The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; 1900 Broadway Good for Groups; Romantic (63rd & 64th Streets) (Broadway) Price Point: $$$ (212) 595-0303 (212) 956-1288 www.danielnyc.com www.chinagrillmgt.com Bar Boulud, Daniel’s casual bistro Lincoln Center has a cause for located across from Manhattan’s applause with Chef Ed Brown’s Lincoln Center, serves the signature casual-but-chic sea-shack concept. terrines and pâtés of famed Parisian Ed’s Chowder House offers charcutier Gilles Verot, along with traditional East Coast seafood fare

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 61 UPPER WEST

JEAN GEORGES Landmarc Time Warner atmosphere, welcoming service 1 CENTRAL PARK WEST Center and delicious food. (COLUMBUS CIRCLE & WEST 60TH STREET) 10 Columbus Circle, 3rd Floor Chef Name: Regis Courivaud (212) 299-3900 Cuisine Type: French (8th Avenue) The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; www.jean-georges.com (212) 823-6123 Open Late (after 11pm); Outdoor Dining; The Upper West Side Romantic Its tableside service and aptitude www.landmarc-restaurant.com/twc Price Point: $$ for giving natural flavors the ability Acclaimed Chef Marc Murphy has really exploded onto to stand on their own makes “ and Pamela Schein Murphy have the dining scene over Jean Georges a member of New York established two cherished downtown MAGNOLIA BAKERY 200 COLUMBUS AVENUE City’s very small circle of four-star eateries: Landmarc and Ditch Plains. the past few years and restaurants. Floor-to-ceiling windows (69TH STREET) Now, tapping into the creativity (212) 724-8101 give diners an extraordinary view of that has defined their reputation, the has turned into a mecca www.magnoliabakery.com Central Park in this visually stunning pair has opened the doors of their space. Jean Georges received three latest venture—a second Landmarc See description on page 20 for food, fashion and Michelin stars in the 2006 guide. location in Manhattan’s illustrious Cuisine Type: Bakery The Details: Kid-Friendly; Open Late culture without losing Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Time Warner Center. Bookending Cuisine Type: French Price Point: $ The Details: Romantic New York with their inimitable its neighborhood feel. Price Point: $$$$ combination of comfort, class, and quality, Murphy and Schein Murphy New Leaf Restaurant & Bar We’re excited to be a One Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tyron Park Kefi ensure that New Yorkers and visitors alike can enjoy the vitality of a (190th Street) part of such a vibrant 505 Columbus Avenue (212) 568-5323 downtown favorite in an uptown (84th & 85th Streets) www.newleafrestaurant.com area of the city, serving (212) 873-0200 location. New Leaf Restaurant is located in www.kefirestaurant.com Chef Name: Marc Murphy neighbors as well as Cuisine Type: French Bistro a beautiful Hudson River farm and Chef , who first The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); forest installation of the New York destination diners.” made his name serving upscale Romantic City Department of Parks. The modern Greek cuisine at Anthos, Price Point: $$$ kitchen at the New Leaf Restaurant has now moved his rustic Greek is administered by Scott Campbell, – Marc Murphy restaurant, Kefi, to a larger stage on Le Monde who uses the best Hudson River the Upper West Side. An elusive and 2885 Broadway Valley and local farm ingredients to folkloric concept, “kefi” (the bliss (112th & 113th Streets) provide for guests’ modern attitudes and delight that accompanies good (212) 531-3939 and palates. food in good company) is deeply www.lemondenyc.com Chef Name: Scott Campbell tied to the cultural ethos of Greece. Cuisine Type: Contemporary American Chef Psilakis channeled the essence Le Monde celebrates the cuisine The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; of the Loire Valley. Known as the Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups; Romantic of kefi, blending rustic cuisine and Price Point: $$$ well-selected, well-priced wines with “garden of France,” the Loire is a serene, comfortable atmosphere. home to some of France’s best-loved Chef Name: Michael Psilakis dishes like Coq au Vin. Sample Cuisine Type: Greek some of the great Loire wines, The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; including Charles Jouget Chinon Kid Friendly; Romantic Price Point: $$ or Daniel Chatard Sauvignon. Le Monde celebrates the convivial bourgeois lifestyle with its warm

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Nice Matin Ocean Grill PORTER HOUSE NEW YORK run with décor designed by Oscar- 201 West 79th Street 384 Columbus Avenue 10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, 4TH FLOOR winning movie set designer Dante (Amsterdam Avenue) (78th & 79th Streets) (BROADWAY & 60TH STREET) Ferretti. The décor is complemented (212) 873-6423 (212) 579-2300 (212) 823-9500 by Executive Chef and Partner www.nicematinnyc.com www.brguestrestaurants.com www.porterhousenewyork.com Cesare Casella’s assaggi, a small- Take a relaxing turn with a trip Across from the Museum of Natural Porter House New York, located in plate menu of Italian classics priced to southern France’s Côte d’Azur History, Ocean Grill caters to Upper the Time Warner Center, is Michael at $10 or less. Guests can eat well at Nice Matin. Home to the West Side seafood lovers with a Lomonaco’s take on a traditional and escape the day’s challenges for Mediterranean-influenced flavors daily-changing selection of fresh steakhouse: big, succulent meats in as little as $25 or take dinner home of southern France, Nice is one of seafood offerings, from raw bar tandem with a premium seafood with dishes prepared by Casella. France’s oldest and most celebrated samplers to sushi and lobster. program. Here, Lomonaco reinvents Chef Name: Cesare Casella Cuisine Type: Italian port cities. With influences from Chef Name: Juan Carlos Ortega the steakhouse genre, mixing modern The Details: Kid-Friendly; Romantic Italy, Corsica, and Greece, the Cuisine Type: Seafood/Sushi style and culinary insights with the Price Point: $$ The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; cuisine features locally grown Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); congeniality and hearty welcome of produce like tomatoes, garlic, olives, Romantic the porter house of old. Price Point: $$$ Shake Shack Upper West Side and saffron, as well as fresh local Chef Name: Michael Lomonaco 366 Columbus Avenue seafood. Diners seeking a place in the Cuisine Type: American The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (77th Street) sun need journey only to the Upper Ouest Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic (646) 747-8770 West Side to enjoy traditional dishes 2315 Broadway Price Point: $$$$ www.shakeshack.com such as salade Niçoise, daube of (83rd & 84th Streets) See description on page 38 beef short ribs, and pissaladiére (212) 580-8700 Rosa Mexicano Lincoln (thin-crusted Niçoise pizzas). www.ouestny.com Cuisine Type: American Center The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Chef Name: Andy D’Amico Nouveau American cuisine in an Good for Groups Cuisine Type: French 61 Columbus Avenue Price Point: $ The Details: Outdoor Dining; Romantic upscale, casual environment. (62nd Street) Price Point: $$$ Decorated in dark wood and red (212) 977-7700 leather seating with balconies www.rosamexicano.com Telepan overlooking the main dining floor. 72 West 69th Street NOUGATINE See description on page 37 An open kitchen allows for a (Columbus Avenue & Central Park West) 1 CENTRAL PARK WEST Chef Name: Joe Quintana (212) 580-4300 (COLUMBUS CIRCLE & WEST 60TH STREET) connection between the client and Cuisine Type: Mexican (212) 299-3900 the dining experience. An intimate The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; www.telepan-ny.com 10-seat bar is situated at the entrance Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups www.jean-georges.com Price Point: $$$ Bill Telepan’s acclaimed seasonal and is a perfect staging point to American restaurant is open for Offering a stunning view of embark on the dining experience. lunch, brunch, and dinner and offers Central Park coupled with a casual Chef Name: Tom Valenti Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto a 700-selection wine list. atmosphere, Nougatine is the Cuisine Type: French/American 283 Amsterdam Avenue Chef Name: Bill Telepan The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; ultimate informal café at the four- (73rd & 74th Streets) Cuisine Type: American Good for Groups; Romantic The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; star rated Jean-Georges restaurant. Price Point: $$$ (212) 877-4800 Here diners will find vibrant, fresh Romantic www.salumeriarosi.com Price Point: $$$$ cuisine where natural ingredients Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto, an stand on their own. Italian gourmet market and Chef Name: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Cuisine Type: French restaurant, fills its 25-seat dining The Details: Bar Scene; Outdoor Dining; area for lunch and dinner with guests Good for Groups in the market for tapas-style Italian Price Point: $$$ cuisine and a chic atmosphere. The lively neighborhood joint hits a home

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 65 THE BOROUGHS

outer boroughs Buttermilk Channel NEW BRONX 524 Court Street (Huntington street) JERSEY Flushing Meadows (718) 852-8490 www.buttermilkchannelnyc.com Astoria Buttermilk Channel is a 50-seat American restaurant located in Carroll Gardens Carroll Gardens. Chef Ryan Angulo’s 10 Williamsburg cuisine celebrates the flavors, HUDSON RIVER ingredients, and traditions of the CENTRAL PARK neighborhood. The menu is Red Hook complemented by an all-American wine list and a selection of New 8 1 Fort Greene York State draft beers. Chef Name: Ryan Angulo Greenpoint Cuisine Type: American Bistro The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; MANHATTAN PARK SLOPE Outdoor Dining; Romantic EAST Price Point: $$

QUEENS DuMont Restaurant 11 Acela Club 432 Union Avenue 4 Citi Field (Metropolitan Avenue) 3 (Roosevelt Avenue) (718) 486-7717 5 (718) 565-4333 7 www.dumontrestaurant.com www.myriadrestaurantgroup.com Named after the original fourth If there were a Hall of Fame for network and TV brand, DuMont ballpark restaurants, The Acela RESTAURANTS is a true neighborhood restaurant Club at Citi Field would be a lock featuring a simple yet thoughtful and 1 ACELA CLUB for admission. Located on the well-executed menu with a selection 2 BUTTERMILK CHANNEL BROOKLYN Excelsior Level and accessible to of market-fresh daily specials. 6 3 DUMONT premium ticket holders, the 350-seat DuMont’s intimate layout and cozy Acela Club has panoramic views RESTAURANT ambience make for a unique dining 2 overlooking left field. Diners can 4 THE MEAT HOOK experience with well-informed, enjoy a multi-tiered, fully-enclosed, warm, and genuine service. 5 MOTORINO 9 climate-controlled dining room or Chef Name: Polo Dobkin WILLIAMSBURG PROSPECT an outdoor seating patio. The hearty Cuisine Type: American PARK The Details: Outdoor Dining; Romantic 6 NO. 7 Contemporary American fare is Price Point: $$ 7 RYE inspired by Drew Nieporent’s Myriad Restaurant Group, which manages 8 SHAKE SHACK CITI FIELD the restaurant in collaboration with 9 STONE PARK CAFE Aramark. 10 TRATTORIA L’INCONTRO Chef Name: Michael Sobelman 11 VAN LEEUWEN Cuisine Type: Contemporary American The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; ARTISAN ICE CREAM Good for Groups; Romantic Price Point: $$$

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The MEAT HOOK No. 7 Shake Shack Citi Field are strongly suggested in advance, 100 FROST STREET 7 Greene Avenue 123-01 RoosEvelt Avenue especially for larger parties. Closed (LEONARD AND MEEKER streets) (Fulton Street) (126th Street) on Mondays. (718) 349-5033 (718) 522-6370 www.shakeshack.com Chef Name: Rocco Sacramone Cuisine Type: Italian www.the-meathook.com www.no7restaurant.com See description on page 38 The Details: Kid-Friendly; Good for Groups The Meat Hook is a locally- and Located in the heart of Fort Greene, Cuisine Type: American Price Point: $$$ sustainably-sourced, custom-cut, No.7’s Tyler Kord serves a menu The Details: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Good for Groups whole-animal butcher shop. They that’s been described as “big-city, Price Point: $ Van Leeuwen Artisan make approximately 40 varieties of night-out-on-the-town chef food,” sausage and charcuterie in-house. “risk-taking,” and “casual badass.” Ice Cream 632 Manhattan Avenue They buy their animals and butcher Managing Partner Matt Suchomski’s STONE PARK CAFé 324 FIFTH AVENUE (Nassau Avenue) on site, providing customers with wine list is vast and eclectic, and (718) 701-1630 anything and everything they need his cocktails have been known (3rd STREET) (718) 369-0082 www.vanleeuwenicecream.com from nose to tail. to inspire the sensation of “singing Chef Name: Tom Mylan birds fluttering around your www.stoneparkcafe.com Van Leeuwen’s ice cream is made Cuisine Type: Purveyor spinning head.” “The clean lines of Stone Park’s in upstate New York using only Chef Name: Tyler Kord cuisine match the graceful sway of fresh hormone-free milk and cream, Motorino Williamsburg Cuisine Type: Eclectic New American the room. Stone Park Café delivers cane sugar, egg yolks, and the finest The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; flavors from small producers around 319 Graham Avenue Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); concentrated pleasures that move (Ainsli & Devoe Streets) Romantic with the seasons. Standbys are the world, such as Sicilian pistachios (718) 599-8899 Price Point: $$ tweaked just enough to make them and Michel Cluizel chocolate www.motorinopizza.com interesting. This is the kind of place from France. Their five trucks (check out www.twitter.com/VLAIC for Motorino is a casual Neopolitan Rye every neighborhood should have: 247 South 1st Street good for a hotsy-totsy date, a locations) and Greenpoint store pizzeria operating in Williamsburg, serve a selection of 14 flavors, classic Brooklyn and on 12th Street in (HAVEMEYER & ROEBLING STREETS) low-key business dinner, a birthday (718) 218-8047 celebration with friends or just a sundaes, banana splits, root beer Manhattan. Chef Mathieu Palombino floats, and homemade toppings. uses handcrafted ingredients to www.ryerestaurant.com night away from the hot stove.” –Caryn Brooks, New York Magazine Two trucks and their store also create the pizzas, which are cooked Rye restaurant, created and owned now serve a full coffee program by Cal Elliott provides an extensive Chef Name: Josh Grinker in the Renato wood-burning ovens Cuisine Type: Contemporary American using Intelligentsia Coffee and found at each restaurant. Motorino menu inspired by market-fresh The Details: Bar Scene; Kid-Friendly; house-made pastries. was called the “city’s best pizza” by ingredients and handmade Good for Groups; Outdoor dining; Romantic Chef Name: Ben Van Leeuwen Sam Sifton of The New York Times, preparation. Its secluded location Price Point: $$ Cuisine Type: Artisanal Ice Cream and was awarded Best New Pizza provides a charming experience. The Details: Good for Groups; Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Dining; Romantic and Best Artisan pie by Time Out The dining room offers cozy nooks Price Point: $ NY in 2009 and 2010. for intimate meetings and spacious Trattoria L’Incontro 21-76 31st Street Chef Name: Mathieu Palombino seating for large gatherings. Rye’s Cuisine Type: Neopolitan Pizza lovingly-restored mahogany-topped (Ditmars Boulevard & 21st Avenue) The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; (718) 721-3532 Kid-Friendly; Open Late (after 11pm); bar provides a beautiful setting Outdoor Dining; Romantic for sampling its handmade classic www.trattorialincontro.com Price Point: $ cocktails. Trattoria L’Incontro in Astoria has Chef Name: Cal Elliott become a destination restaurant Cuisine Type: Market-Driven American with excellent food and service. Their The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Open Late (after 11pm); Romantic adjoining wine bar Vino de Vino Price Point: $$ is a great place to enjoy a sparkling wine before dinner. Reservations

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 69 OUTSIDE OF manhattan D’Artagnan (800) Dartagnan (212) 822-0033 QUICK SERVE: www.dartagnan.com Blue Hill at Stone Barns D’Artagnan is the nation’s leading Looking for a tasty meal or snack that’s also fast? 630 BEDFORD ROAD, POCANTICO HILLS, NY (914) 366-9600 purveyor of all-natural and organic The following eateries regularly donate food to City Harvest poultry and game, free-range www.bluehillfarm.com meats, foie gras, smoked and cured Blue Hill at Stone Barns marks the charcuterie, wild mushrooms, second incarnation of family and truffles. 5 Napkin burger Circa KFC Pollo Campero proprietors Dan, David, and Laureen Cuisine Type: Purveyor Barber. The original Blue Hill 7-Eleven Corner Shop Café Kiva Cafe Pret A Manger restaurant, located in Greenwich Alexandra Cucina & Company Kosher Pizza Palace Ray’s Pizza SerendipiTea Village, opened in 2000 and was American Trash Dallas BBQ La Crosta Pizza Red Lobster named after the former Berkshire 73 PLANDOME ROAD, MANHASSET, NY home of David and Dan’s (888) 832-5423 Angelica Kitchen Danu Le Pain Quoitidien Relish Concessions grandmother. Blue Hill at Stone www.serendipitea.com Applebee’s Deluxe Leo’s Bagels Sotheby’s Terrace Barns combines a working farm, Established in 1995, SerendipiTea Hanover Square Café restaurant, and educational center Atrium Café at Dishes is committed to the import, Studio Museum Lot 2 Strictly Roots in the spectacular surroundings manufacturing and promotion of Dizzy’s Club of Pocantico Hills, New York, premium quality teas and tisanes, Au Bon Pain Coca-Cola Mama’s Backyard Stumptown Café/Leo’s revitalizing a collection of barns as well as to environmentally Bagel Express E.A.T. Sunberry’s Café and creating a space that highlights and socially responsible practices Latticini Deli BAMcafe Eagle Bar Sweet Emily’s the abundant resources of the including organic, fair trade Mama’s Food Shop Beach Bagels Eat A Pita Tastebud’s Natural Hudson Valley. and biodynamic product and Mara’s Homemade Foods Chef Name: Dan Barber biodegradable and recycled Bon Bistro El Café at El Museo Cuisine Type: Seasonal American Marche Madison packaging. Over 200 varieties are del Barrio The Monster The Details: Bar Scene; Good for Groups; Brother Jimmy’s BBQ Outdoor Dining; Romantic packed and blended by hand on Mendy’s Kosher Deli Fast Break Gourmet The Moonlight Bar Price Point: $$$$ SerendipiTea premises in New York. Bubby’s Food Naidre’s Park Slope and Grille Cuisine Type: Purveyor CAVIARTERIA Fast-N-Fresh Nizza The Rib Shop Bussaco (800) 4-CAVIAR George’s Nonna Apa Pizza Tom Cat Bakery (212) 759- 7410 Café Ate Glendale Bagels Olive Garden Tovli Inc. www.caviarteria.com Café Casano Golden Krust “Once Upon a Traffic Cuisine Type: Purveyor Café Des Artistes Tart, Inc.” Great Jones Café Van Dam Diner Café Duke O’Neals Guastavino’s Village Café Grumpy Oyster Bar & Hale & Hearty Soups Water Taxi Beach Restaraunt Café Mom Restaurant Harlem Wing & Panera Bread Café Un Deux Trois Waffle Wave Hill Café Penny Licks Catherine K. Café Herban Kitchen ‘Wichcraft at ICP Pershing Square Independent Zaro’s Bread Basket Restaurant Chipotle Restaurant Zigolinis Restuarnt Pizza & Pita Chirping Chicken K and S Bagels Zocalo

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 71 BID AGAINST HUNGER: The contributions of these chefs and restaurants make our annual Bid Against Hunger New York’s most anticipated restaurant tasting.

A Voce Dinosaur Bar-B-Que The Meatball Shop SD26 Torrisi Italian VIP Participants Missy Robbins John Stage Daniel Holzman Matteo Berganini Specialties Caviarteria Rich Torrisi and Lucas Santos Aldea Dos Caminos Murray’s Cheese Seäsonal Mario Carbone George Mendes Ivy Stark and Scott Restaurant & New Leaf D’Artagnan Linquist Weinbar Trattoria Ardesia Restaurant and Bar Wolfgang Ban and L’incontro Amorette Casaus Ed’s Chowder Great Scott Campbell Eduard Frauneder Rocco Sacramone House Performances Atlantic Grill at Ed Brown No. 7 Serafina Tribeca Grill Hudson Valley Lincoln Center Tyler Kord Freddy Duarte Stephen Lewandowski Christopher Lim Ed’s Lobster Bar Foie Gras Ed McFarland Northern Spy SHO Shaun Hergatt Victor’s Café Michael Ginor Balaboosta Food Co. Shaun Hergatt Einat Admony François Payard Nathan Foot Wallsé Salumeria Rosi Bakery South Gate Kurt Gutenbrunner Parmacotto Barbounia François Payard Oceana Kerry Heffernan Cesare Casella Efraim Naon Ben Pollinger Yerba Buena Gramercy Tavern Spigolo Julian Medina Saxelby Benoit Restaurant Michael Anthony Ouest Scott Fratangelo Cheesemongers and Bar Tom Valenti Zac Young Anne Saxelby Pierre Schaedelin il laboratorio Spot Dessert Bar Porter House Pichet Ong Tom Cat Bakery del gelato Cocktails Betel Jon Snyder New York Adam Woodfield The Stanton Social Valrhona Michael Lomonaco Painkiller Chris Santos landmarc Giuseppe Gonzalez Chocolate Billy’s Bakery Marc Murphy Recette Stone Park Cafe Jesse Schenker Sweet Afton William Greenberg Blue Hill & Blue Hill Josh Grinker L’Artusi Rauiri Curtin Desserts at Stone Barns Gabe Thompson The Redhead Strip House Dan Barber Meg Grace Larcom Ward III Cenobio Canalizo Le Bernardin Michael J. Neff Buttermilk Channel Eric Ripert Ron Ben-Israel Ryan Angulo Cakes Sullivan Street Le Cirque Ron Ben-Israel Bakery Cabrito Craig Hopson Jim Lahey Zak Pelaccio Rosa Mexicano Locanda Verde David Suarez SUSHISAMBA China Grill Andrew Carmellini Fernando Navas Bradley Day Russ & Daughters Maialino Niki Russ Federman T-Bar Steak and More than half of the food Craft Nick Anderer and Joshua Russ Lounge James Tracey Tupper Ben Zwicker Matsuri that City Harvest rescues is Defonte’s of Tadashi Ono Salumeria Rosi Tabla Brooklyn Parmacotto Floyd Cardoz The Meat Hook Vinny Defonte and Cesare Casella Nicky Defonte Tom Mylan Telepan fresh produce. Bill Telepan

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 73 RESTAURANT INDEX

Restaurant Name Page(s) Restaurant Name Page(s) Restaurant Name Page(s) Restaurant Name Page(s) 21 Club...... 42 The Capital Grille...... 14 Jean Georges...... 62 New Leaf Restaurant and Bar...... 63 A Voce...... 30, 60 Caviarteria...... 70 Jimmy’s No. 43...... 19 Nice Matin...... 64 ABC Kitchen...... 30 Centrico...... 14 JoJo...... 56 No. 7...... 68 Acela Club...... 67 China Grill...... 44 Kefi...... 62 Nobu Fifty-Seven...... 49 Adour Alain Ducasse Churrascaria Plataforma...... 45 L’Artusi...... 19 Nobu New York...... 23 at the St. Regis New York...... 42 Colicchio & Sons...... 33 Landmarc ...... 19 Nobu Next Door...... 23 Aldea...... 30 Convivio...... 45 Landmarc Time Warner Center...... 62 Norma’s at Le Parker Meridien...... 49 Alto...... 43 Corton...... 15 Le Bernardin...... 46 Northern Spy Food Co...... 23 Annisa...... 12 Craft...... 33 Le Cirque...... 47 Nougatine...... 64 Ardesia Wine Bar...... 43 Craftbar...... 33 Le Marais...... 47 Ocean Grill...... 64 Artisanal Fromagerie, Bistro & Wine Bar...... 31 Da Silvano...... 15 Le Monde...... 62 Oceana...... 49 Asia De Cuba...... 43 Daniel...... 55 L’Express...... 35 Olives New York...... 36 Atlantic Grill...... 54, 60 D’Artagnan...... 70 Locanda Verde...... 20 Ouest...... 64 Balaboosta...... 12 db Bistro Moderne...... 46 Má Pêche ...... 47 Perry Street...... 24 Balthazar...... 12 DBGB Kitchen and Bar...... 16 Mae Mae Café...... 20 Pigalle...... 49 Bar Boulud...... 60 Delicatessen...... 16 Magnolia Bakery...... 20, 47, 63 Porter House New York...... 65 Bar Stuzzichini...... 31 Dell’anima...... 17 Maialino...... 35 Primehouse New York...... 37 Barbounia...... 31 Dickson’s Farmstand Meats...... 33 Maison...... 47 Recette...... 24 Benoit Restaurant & Bar ...... 43 Dinosaur Bar-B-Que...... 61 Mañana...... 56 The Redhead...... 24 Betel...... 13 Ditch Plains...... 17 Marea...... 48 Ron Ben-Israel Cakes...... 25 Bill’s Bar & Burger...... 13 Dos Caminos...... 17, 34, 46 Market Table...... 20 Rosa Mexicano...... 37, 50, 65 Billy’s Bakery...... 13 DuMont Restaurant...... 67 Marseille...... 48 Ruby Foo’s, Times Square...... 50 BLT Prime...... 31 Ed’s Chowder House...... 61 Matsugen...... 20 Rye...... 68 Blue Fin...... 44 Ed’s Lobster Bar...... 17 Matsuri...... 36 Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto...... 65 Blue Hill...... 13 Eleven Madison Park...... 34 The Meatball Shop...... 21 Saxelby Cheesemongers...... 25 Blue Hill at Stone Barns...... 70 Faustina at The Cooper Square Hotel...... 18 The Meat Hook...... 68 Scarpetta...... 37 Blue Smoke & Jazz Standard...... 32 François Chocolate Bar...... 55 Mercer Kitchen...... 21 SD26 Restaurant & Wine Bar...... 37 Blue Water Grill...... 32 François Payard Bakery...... 18 Michael Jordan’s Serafina Fabulous Grill...... 56 The Steak House N.Y.C...... 48 Brasserie Cognac...... 43 Freemans...... 18 SerendipiTea...... 70 The Modern...... 48 Butter Restaurant...... 14 French Roast...... 18, 61 Shake Shack...... 38, 50, 56, 65, 69 Momofuku Ko...... 21 Buttermilk Channel...... 67 Geisha...... 55 SHO Shaun Hergatt...... 25 Momofuku Milk Bar...... 21 Cabrito...... 14 Gramercy Tavern...... 34 South Gate...... 50 Momofuku Noodle Bar...... 22 Cafe 2 ...... 44 Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano...... 18 Spice Market...... 25 Momofuku Ssäm Bar...... 22 Café Boulud...... 54 Hecho en Dumbo...... 19 Spigolo...... 56 Motorino...... 23, 68 Café D’Alsace...... 55 Isabella’s...... 61 Spot Dessert Bar...... 26 Murray’s Cheese...... 23

GREAT FOOD, GOOD HEARTS 2011 EDITION 75 RESTAURANT INDEX

Restaurant Name Page(s) The Stanton Social...... 26 Stone Park Café...... 69 Strip House...... 26 Sullivan Street Bakery...... 50 SUSHISAMBA...... 38 Tabla...... 39 T-Bar Steak & Lounge...... 57 Tanuki Tavern...... 26 Telepan...... 65 Terrace 5...... 51 Toloache...... 51 Torrisi Italian Specialties...... 27 Trattoria L’Incontro...... 69 Tribeca Grill...... 27 Union Square Cafe...... 39 Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream...... 69 Victor’s Café...... 51 Wallsé ...... 27 Wildwood Barbeque...... 39 William Greenberg Desserts...... 57 Yerba Buena...... 27

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