In Eater series Dining Confidential, chefs, restaurateur, and restaurant world big wigs share their favorite off the beaten track, sometimes secret, sometimes far-flung restaurants. To best make use of their suggestions, we've compiled 15 of them into the following map, from Sara Jenkin's go-to homey Italian to George Mendes' favorite restaurant in Newark and the Torrisi boys' hidden gem in Chinatown. Because even the most famous of New York food world luminaries aren't eating at the at the new hotness all the time.

—Compiled by Maite Alvarez