List of restaurants in New York City explained

This is an incomplete list of notable restaurants in New York City. New York City’s restaurant industry had 23,650 establishments in 2019.^[1]

Restaurants in New York City

• 54 Below
• Bickford's
• BurritoVille
• Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill
• The Halal Guys
• El Internacional
• Jahn's
• Jing Fong
• Joe's Shanghai
• Kennedy Fried Chicken
• Lucciola (Italian restaurant)
• Korilla BBQ
• Max and Mina's
• The Meatball Shop
• Munson Diner
• Old Homestead Steakhouse
• Piccolo Cafe
• Ravagh Persian Grill
• T.G.I. Friday's – first location opened in 1965 in New York City
• Xi'an Famous Foods
• Zaro's Bakery
• Zaab Zaab

Brooklyn

• Childs Restaurants (Coney Island Boardwalk location)
• Childs Restaurants (Surf Avenue location)
• Defonte's
• Gargiulo's Italian Restaurant
• Gage and Tollner
• Junior's Restaurant
• Nathan's Famous
• Peter Luger Steak House – Brooklyn location was established in 1887 as "Carl Luger's Café, Billiards and Bowling Alley"^[2]
• The River Café
• Win Son Restaurant^[3]

Manhattan

• Aquavit
  • Asiate Atera
  • Atlantic Grill Baby Brasa
    • Balthazar Barbetta Barbuto
• Barney Greengrass
  • • • • Le Bernardin Blue Hill Café Boulud Caravaggio Carbone
    • Carlyle Restaurant Charles' Southern Style Kitchen Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
      • China Grill Management Cipriani S.A. Clinton Street Baking Company & Restaurant Le Coucou
    • Daniel Delmonico's Dirt Candy
      • • Dorrian's Red Hand Restaurant Eleven Madison Park Ellen's Stardust Diner L'Entrecôte El Quijote
          • • • • • • • Ferrara Bakery and Cafe Fraunces Tavern Gallagher's Steak House Gotham Bar and Grill Gramercy Tavern Gray's Papaya La Grenouille Guss' Pickles H&H Bagels The Halal Guys Hallo Berlin Hamburger America
• Hop Kee
  • • IDT Megabite Cafe J.G. Melon Jean Georges
      • Joe Allen Joe's Shanghai Julius Kappo Masa Restaurant
        • • • • • • Katz's Delicatessen Keens Steakhouse King's Carriage House Kossar's Bialys Lusardi's Magnolia Bakery Marea Masa Matsugen McSorley's Old Ale House – oldest "Irish" tavern in New York City;^[4] located at 15 East 7th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan; one of the last of the "men only" pubs, only admitting women after legally being forced to do so in 1970^{[5] [6]}
        • Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden Murray's Sturgeon Shop Numero 28 One If By Land, Two If By Sea Restaurant Old Homestead Steakhouse
          • The Original Soup Man Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant P. J. Clarke's The Palm Papaya King Patsy's
• Le Pavillon
  • • Peanut Butter & Co. Per Se Pete's Tavern
  • Pommes Frites Porter House New York
    • • • • Rainbow Room Rao's Ray's Candy Store Restaurant Aquavit Rolfe's Chop House Russian Tea Room – opened in 1927 by former members of the Russian Imperial Ballet, as a gathering place for Russian expatriates; became famous as a gathering place for those in the entertainment industry
• Salumeria Biellese
  • • • • • • Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto Sardi's Sasabune Second Avenue Deli Serendipity 3 Shopsins Shun Lee Palace
          • Le Soleil Smith & Wollensky Sparks Steak House Strip House Sushi of Gari Sushi Nakazawa
        • Sushi Seki Sushi Yasuda Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem Taïm Tavern on the Green – reopened as a restaurant on April 24, 2014, after being used as a public visitors' center and gift shop run by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation from 2010 to 2012
        • Tom's Restaurant Tribeca Grill Umberto's Clam House Union Square Cafe Upland
    • Veniero's Veselka The Water Club – American traditional cuisine restaurant moored on a barge on the East River at East 30th Street
  • West Bank Cafe Wo Hop
• Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery
• ZZ's Clam Bar

Pizzerias

• • • Di Fara Pizza Grimaldi's Pizzeria Joe's Pizza
• John's of Bleecker Street
• Juliana's Pizza
• Kesté
• Ledo Pizza
• Lombardi's Pizza
• Lucali
• Patsy's Pizzeria – historic coal-oven pizzeria, regarded as one of New York's original pizzerias; known for its traditional New York–style thin crust pizza
• Ray's Pizza – "Ray's Pizza", and its many variations such as "Ray's Original Pizza", "Famous Ray's Pizza" and "World-Famous Original Ray's Pizza", are the names of dozens of pizzerias in the New York City area that are generally completely independent (a few have multiple locations) but may have similar menus, signs, and logos.
• Rizzo's Fine Pizza
  • Roberta's Spumoni Gardens – originally conceived as an ice and spumoni stand prior to World War II; eventually grew into a full-scale pizzeria known primarily for its Sicilian pizza and ices during the mid-1950s^[7]
• Totonno's

Defunct restaurants

• 21 Club
  • Andanada Aquagrill
  • Batard BiCE Ristorante
    • • • • Bouley Brasserie Julien Brasserie Les Halles Bridge Cafe Burger Heaven Cafe Chambord
• Café Nicholson
• Candle Cafe
• Carnegie Deli
• The Cattleman
• Chelsea Place
• Childs Restaurants
  • Le Cirque Cloud Club
    • The Colony Corton Costello's
• La Côte Basque
• Del Pezzo Restaurant
• Dubrow's Cafeteria
• Elaine's
• El Faro Restaurant
• Empire Diner
• Fashion Cafe
• The Florent
• The Four Seasons Restaurant
• Horn & Hardart
• Jekyll & Hyde Club
• Jimmy Ryan’s (jazz club)
• Jimmy Weston's (jazz club)
  • Kiev Restaurant LaRue – former nightclub from 1928 to 1968 at 58th and Park Streets
  • Lindy's Loft, Incorporated
• Longchamps
• Lüchow's
• Lundy's Restaurant
• Lutèce
• Manganaro's
• Mars 2112
• Mas
• Maxwell's Plum
• Mo Gridder's
• Moondance Diner
• Mori
• Munson Diner
• Neary's
• Old London Inc.
• Onyx Club
• Penny Cafeteria
• Ratner's
• Reuben's Restaurant
• Shanley's Restaurants
  • The Spotted Pig Stage Deli
• Stock Exchange Luncheon Club – former members-only dining club, on the seventh floor^[8] of the New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street in Manhattan
• Stork Club – former nightclub from 1929 to 1965
  • Teany Toots Shor's Restaurant
  • Wd~50 Windows on the World

See also

• List of Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City
• Lists of restaurants
• New York Restaurant Week

Notes and References

1. Web site: September 2020 . The Restaurant Industry in New York City: Tracking the Recovery . Office of the New York State Comptroller.
2. Web site: About Peter Lugers . Peterluger.com . 23 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140924055136/http://peterluger.com/about-peter-lugers . 24 September 2014 . dead .
3. Web site: Win Son. 2024-01-20.
4. News: Christopher . Gray . The Bridge Cafe: On the Trail of New York's Oldest Surviving Bar . . November 19, 1995 . September 8, 2009.
5. News: Blasts from the Past . Kevin . Dwyer . . June 5, 2005 . March 13, 2010.
6. Seidenberg v. McSorleys' Old Ale House, Inc., 317 F.Supp. 593 (S.D.N.Y. 1970).
7. http://www.spumonigardens.com/aboutus.html About Spumoni Gardens
8. News: In Brief: NYSE Luncheon Club Closing. 26 August 2012. Newsday. 27 April 2006. Carrie Mason-Draffen. Robert E. Kessler. Long Island, NY. ...due to stepped-up security and a steady erosion of customers since the 2001 terror attacks. The 108-year-old club, a members-only eatery on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange, lost money for three years, even after staff and service cuts..