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19 Restaurants Open on Monday in New York City

Rotisserie chicken, late-night dim sum, and maximalist Italian

by Eater Staff Updated Aug 21, 2023, 5:26pm EDT

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A selection of dishes at Bad Roman.

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by Eater Staff Updated Aug 21, 2023, 5:26pm EDT

Monday is one of the best nights of the week for dining out. The chaotic Thursday-through-Sunday crowds have died down and grabbing a walk-in seat at popular restaurants is usually easier to swing, even at peak dining times. It’s an off day for a lot of restaurants — especially with industry-wide staffing shortages — but plenty of places keep their doors open for peers in the hospitality industry, who might have the day off, and regulars in the neighborhood looking for a bite to eat. Here are some of our favorites right now.

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Cafe Luxembourg

There are no shortages of French brasseries in the city, but few restaurants can boast Cafe Luxembourg’s scene. On any given night, the dining room and bar are a gathering spot for longtime Upper West Side residents, New York Philharmonic performers, Broadway actors, and all sorts of creative types, from poets to architects. The menu offers reliable standards like strip steaks and pan-roasted salmon, but it’s the buzzy downtown energy (and dim lighting) in a room full of regulars that makes hanging out here feel like a night out.

200 W 70th St, New York, NY 10023

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Bad Roman

Maximalist restaurant Bad Roman injects some fun into the city’s regional Italian and Italian American restaurant scene, a Buca di Beppo version of a fern bar meets White Lotus-level decadence in a massive dining room one story below the three-Michelin-starred Per Se. Look for dishes like garlic babka and tiramisu ice cream cake on the menu — without going off the rails.

10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019

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The dining room at Bad Roman.

Ruta Oaxaca

When a meal on Monday calls for mole, as it should, Ruta Oaxaca checks that box and then some. The brightly colored Mexican restaurant in Astoria serves multiple varieties of mole blanketed over chicken and slow-cooked short ribs, as well as crispy fish tacos, chipotle-marinated shrimp with pineapple salsa, and baby-back ribs coated in a guava chipotle glaze. Eater critic Robert Sietsema found the restaurant to be excellent in an early review.

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35-03 Broadway, Queens, NY 11106

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A bowl of bright green ceviche packed with half-cut tomatoes and what appears to be pieces of shrimp and other seafood — Ceviche at Ruta Oaxaca.

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Chi Restaurant & Bar 棋酒吧餐厅

From the duo behind Spy-C Village in Forest Hills, comes Chi, a very good Hell’s Kitchen Chinese restaurant, from chefs Tom Lei and Tom Lo, the latter a doctor by day, chef by night, who runs an anesthesiology practice in Queens. You might call it fancy, because its sleek decor, or hand-crafted cocktails, or a beef tendon and caviar dish that happens to have been inspired by Wylie Dufresne. Don’t miss the mushrooms with duck egg yolks.

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492 9th Ave, New York, NY 10018

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Mushrooms on a plate. — Mushrooms with duck egg yolk at Chi.

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Ci Siamo

Chef Hillary Sterling, on the James Beard long list for best chef in New York, has turned this restaurant opposite Hudson Yards into a destination, one of those places that get better month over month. Get the onion torta, any of the wood-fired vegetables (smashed potatoes, smoked carrots, Brussels sprouts) and braised beans, followed by rapini agnolotti. And if meat is in your meal plan, consider the whole trout, braised lamb, or bistecca.

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440 W 33rd St Suite #100, New York, NY 10001

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The interior of the restaurant with tangerine bar seats, wood finishes, and light blue walls. — The interior of Ci Siamo.

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Heritage Grand Bakery

Located in the heart of Bryant Park, Heritage Grand Bakery focuses on varied grains and milling techniques. Look for dishes like branzino with pistachio chermoula or Tunisian chicken, as well as thin, tavern-style pizzas.

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8 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018

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A spread from Heritage Bakery. — A spread from Heritage Grand Bakery.

Little Mad

If you’re looking to start the week off with a bang, Koreatown’s Little Mad is a more energetic option for early weeknight dining. For an extra fee, caviar, uni, and truffles can be added to anything on the $75 set menu, which is overseen by Le Coucou alum Sol Han. One of the restaurant’s early hits, a beef tartare dotted with smoked tofu puree, arrives at the table with a large, light green maesangi chip and a wooden hammer for diners to smash it into tartare-scooping bits.

110 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

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Shot from the end of a dining room, a photograph of a series of tables set for service with napkins and cups. — Inside Little Mad.

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Çka Ka Qëllu

Critically praised Çka Ka Qëllu is an impressive display of Albanian food and culture that keeps expanding at a steady clip. The menu at the rustic, relatively new Murray Hill outpost, like its siblings in the Bronx and Connecticut, features platters of smoky grilled sausages, ground veal-stuffed dumplings, and slices of dense, crepe-like fli paired with a block of tangy feta.

118 E 31st St, New York, NY 10016

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A step down restaurant with a bright lit sign in red Albanian script. — Çka Ka Qëllu’s Murray Hill location.

Chama Mama

Georgian stalwart Chama Mama can get slammed on the weekends, but Monday diners are rewarded with shorter wait times and faster access to tangy pickled vegetables, plates of hefty, broth-filled khinkali, and the fan-favorite blistered cheese vessels known as adjaruli khachapuri.

149 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

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An oblong bread with handles has a gooey fried egg in a lake of molten cheese. — Khachapuri from Chama Mama.

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Buvette New York

The all-day cafe from Jody Williams and Rita Sodi doesn’t disappoint, whether you’re there early for a piping hot croissant for breakfast or in the evening for an old-school order like coq au vin or cassoulet.

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42 Grove St, New York, NY 10014

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Roscioli NYC

Long anticipated Rome import Roscioli has Monday seatings for its tasting menu that’s $105 and includes Italian wine pairings; there’s also the Taste the Legends of Wine dinners will allow for wine education. The alimentari (Italian provisions shop with cheese, meats, and other goods), will open after Labor Day.

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43 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

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Pasta with a wine glass.

Lord’s

Look for gutsy British fare inspired by London’s power duo, Rochelle Canteen (of the acclaimed Margot restaurant) and Fergus Henderson (St. John). A nod to Patricia Howard and chef Ed Szymanski, the duo behind Dame, for cooking the type of food that coursed its way through New York’s gastronomic zeitgeist more than a decade years ago — hay-smoked trout, pig head terrine, monkfish, sweetbreads — and keeping New Yorkers coming back for more.

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506 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012

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A wide plate layered with black lentils, an orange egg yolk, and a skewer of mushrooms laid over top. — Lentils with egg and mushrooms at Lord’s.

Superiority Burger

Industry folks with Mondays off can hit up vegetarian Superiority Burger, with its namesake dish and terrific desserts, provided they’re willing to wait in the crushing lines or give it a go later at night. Waits are hitting up to two hours on the weekends but notably shorter on this off day. Head to the back bar as you wait for generically named cocktails and homemade salty snacks that reside in an old-school gumball-style 25-cent machine with a stack of paper cones on the side.

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119 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

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A hand holds a sandwich made from a slice of focaccia overflowing with collard greens. — The collard green sandwich at Superiority Burger.

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Foul Witch

The Roberta’s team debuted this Italian restaurant and wine bar in the East Village with a menu of small plates of beans and tripe with pasta mains like veal tortellini or the garganelli with braised goat. While Roberta’s fine dining restaurant Blanca remains closed, this is a more casual a la carte sibling.

15 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

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Two plates, one with pasta the other with meat. — Goat garganelli and pork neck at Foul Witch.

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Dim Sum Palace

This chain restaurant with seven locations across Manhattan opened the Division Street restaurant after another location of Dim Sum Palace closed due to a fire last spring. Particularly noteworthy is that this location is open late. The dining room, and the menu, are vast.

27 Division St, New York, NY 10002

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Rolo’s

This Ridgewood restaurant is a favorite with industry workers — and actors who play them. The restaurant takes reservations, but in our experience, it’s always been possible to walk in here with a wait on a Monday night. The restaurant is popular for its straightforward menu anchored by a wood-fired oven, which turns out polenta breads, charred head-on shrimp, and one of the borough’s best burgers.

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853 Onderdonk Ave, Queens, NY 11385

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The exterior of the new Ridgewood, Queens restaurant Rolo’s — Rolo’s in Ridgewood stays open on Mondays.

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Place des Fêtes

This French-sounding bar specializes in Spanish wines and seafood in a cozy subterranean Clinton Hill dining room from the Michelin-starred Oxalis team in Prospect Heights. Look for small plates from sardine toasts to fancy ham or a Castelfranco salad with hazelnuts. Wines by the glass start at around $15.

212 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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An overhead photograph of a fried skate wing and other dishes at Place des Fêtes, a wine bar in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. — Fried skate wing and other dishes from Place des Fetes.

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The Fly

The Fly comes from the folks behind neighborhood restaurants Hart’s, around the corner, and Cervo’s, on the edge of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, both of which are also open for dinner on Monday. The specialty at this corner spot, the youngest of the trio, is rotisserie chicken and sexy vibes. Reservations are accepted, but the large dining room and curved bar make it possible to walk in here at peak hours.

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549 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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A curved bar with dark-colored stools, hanging wine glasses, and bottles of liquor atop a wooden frame — The Fly stays open until 11 p.m. on Mondays.

Red Hook Tavern

Remember Red Hook Tavern? The restaurant, open since 2019 and hiding in Red Hook ever since, still draws a crowd for its popular burger, now served with cottage fries instead of wedges. It stays open on Mondays with a portion of its dining room set aside for walk-ins.

329 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

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Dry-aged burger with American cheese, onions, and wedge fries at Red Hook Tavern — Red Hook’s most famous burger is served on Mondays.

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Cafe Luxembourg

200 W 70th St, New York, NY 10023

There are no shortages of French brasseries in the city, but few restaurants can boast Cafe Luxembourg’s scene. On any given night, the dining room and bar are a gathering spot for longtime Upper West Side residents, New York Philharmonic performers, Broadway actors, and all sorts of creative types, from poets to architects. The menu offers reliable standards like strip steaks and pan-roasted salmon, but it’s the buzzy downtown energy (and dim lighting) in a room full of regulars that makes hanging out here feel like a night out.

200 W 70th St, New York, NY 10023

Visit Website

Bad Roman

10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019

Maximalist restaurant Bad Roman injects some fun into the city’s regional Italian and Italian American restaurant scene, a Buca di Beppo version of a fern bar meets White Lotus-level decadence in a massive dining room one story below the three-Michelin-starred Per Se. Look for dishes like garlic babka and tiramisu ice cream cake on the menu — without going off the rails.

10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019

Visit Website

The dining room at Bad Roman.

Ruta Oaxaca

35-03 Broadway, Queens, NY 11106

When a meal on Monday calls for mole, as it should, Ruta Oaxaca checks that box and then some. The brightly colored Mexican restaurant in Astoria serves multiple varieties of mole blanketed over chicken and slow-cooked short ribs, as well as crispy fish tacos, chipotle-marinated shrimp with pineapple salsa, and baby-back ribs coated in a guava chipotle glaze. Eater critic Robert Sietsema found the restaurant to be excellent in an early review.

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35-03 Broadway, Queens, NY 11106

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A bowl of bright green ceviche packed with half-cut tomatoes and what appears to be pieces of shrimp and other seafood — Ceviche at Ruta Oaxaca.

Chi Restaurant & Bar 棋酒吧餐厅

492 9th Ave, New York, NY 10018

From the duo behind Spy-C Village in Forest Hills, comes Chi, a very good Hell’s Kitchen Chinese restaurant, from chefs Tom Lei and Tom Lo, the latter a doctor by day, chef by night, who runs an anesthesiology practice in Queens. You might call it fancy, because its sleek decor, or hand-crafted cocktails, or a beef tendon and caviar dish that happens to have been inspired by Wylie Dufresne. Don’t miss the mushrooms with duck egg yolks.

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492 9th Ave, New York, NY 10018

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Mushrooms on a plate. — Mushrooms with duck egg yolk at Chi.

Ci Siamo

440 W 33rd St Suite #100, New York, NY 10001

Chef Hillary Sterling, on the James Beard long list for best chef in New York, has turned this restaurant opposite Hudson Yards into a destination, one of those places that get better month over month. Get the onion torta, any of the wood-fired vegetables (smashed potatoes, smoked carrots, Brussels sprouts) and braised beans, followed by rapini agnolotti. And if meat is in your meal plan, consider the whole trout, braised lamb, or bistecca.

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440 W 33rd St Suite #100, New York, NY 10001

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The interior of the restaurant with tangerine bar seats, wood finishes, and light blue walls. — The interior of Ci Siamo.

Heritage Grand Bakery

8 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018

Located in the heart of Bryant Park, Heritage Grand Bakery focuses on varied grains and milling techniques. Look for dishes like branzino with pistachio chermoula or Tunisian chicken, as well as thin, tavern-style pizzas.

Open in Google Maps

8 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018

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A spread from Heritage Bakery. — A spread from Heritage Grand Bakery.

Little Mad

110 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

If you’re looking to start the week off with a bang, Koreatown’s Little Mad is a more energetic option for early weeknight dining. For an extra fee, caviar, uni, and truffles can be added to anything on the $75 set menu, which is overseen by Le Coucou alum Sol Han. One of the restaurant’s early hits, a beef tartare dotted with smoked tofu puree, arrives at the table with a large, light green maesangi chip and a wooden hammer for diners to smash it into tartare-scooping bits.

110 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Visit Website

Shot from the end of a dining room, a photograph of a series of tables set for service with napkins and cups. — Inside Little Mad.

Çka Ka Qëllu

118 E 31st St, New York, NY 10016

Critically praised Çka Ka Qëllu is an impressive display of Albanian food and culture that keeps expanding at a steady clip. The menu at the rustic, relatively new Murray Hill outpost, like its siblings in the Bronx and Connecticut, features platters of smoky grilled sausages, ground veal-stuffed dumplings, and slices of dense, crepe-like fli paired with a block of tangy feta.

118 E 31st St, New York, NY 10016

Visit Website

A step down restaurant with a bright lit sign in red Albanian script. — Çka Ka Qëllu’s Murray Hill location.

Chama Mama

149 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

Georgian stalwart Chama Mama can get slammed on the weekends, but Monday diners are rewarded with shorter wait times and faster access to tangy pickled vegetables, plates of hefty, broth-filled khinkali, and the fan-favorite blistered cheese vessels known as adjaruli khachapuri.

149 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

Visit Website

An oblong bread with handles has a gooey fried egg in a lake of molten cheese. — Khachapuri from Chama Mama.

Buvette New York

42 Grove St, New York, NY 10014

The all-day cafe from Jody Williams and Rita Sodi doesn’t disappoint, whether you’re there early for a piping hot croissant for breakfast or in the evening for an old-school order like coq au vin or cassoulet.

Open in Google Maps

42 Grove St, New York, NY 10014

Visit Website

The exterior of Buvette NYC, with a bike parked outside and warm light in the windows — Buvette is open seven days a week.

Roscioli NYC

43 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

Long anticipated Rome import Roscioli has Monday seatings for its tasting menu that’s $105 and includes Italian wine pairings; there’s also the Taste the Legends of Wine dinners will allow for wine education. The alimentari (Italian provisions shop with cheese, meats, and other goods), will open after Labor Day.

Open in Google Maps

43 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

Visit Website

Pasta with a wine glass.

Lord’s

506 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012

Look for gutsy British fare inspired by London’s power duo, Rochelle Canteen (of the acclaimed Margot restaurant) and Fergus Henderson (St. John). A nod to Patricia Howard and chef Ed Szymanski, the duo behind Dame, for cooking the type of food that coursed its way through New York’s gastronomic zeitgeist more than a decade years ago — hay-smoked trout, pig head terrine, monkfish, sweetbreads — and keeping New Yorkers coming back for more.

Open in Google Maps

506 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012

Visit Website

A wide plate layered with black lentils, an orange egg yolk, and a skewer of mushrooms laid over top. — Lentils with egg and mushrooms at Lord’s.

Superiority Burger

119 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

Industry folks with Mondays off can hit up vegetarian Superiority Burger, with its namesake dish and terrific desserts, provided they’re willing to wait in the crushing lines or give it a go later at night. Waits are hitting up to two hours on the weekends but notably shorter on this off day. Head to the back bar as you wait for generically named cocktails and homemade salty snacks that reside in an old-school gumball-style 25-cent machine with a stack of paper cones on the side.

Open in Google Maps

119 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

Visit Website

A hand holds a sandwich made from a slice of focaccia overflowing with collard greens. — The collard green sandwich at Superiority Burger.

Foul Witch

15 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

The Roberta’s team debuted this Italian restaurant and wine bar in the East Village with a menu of small plates of beans and tripe with pasta mains like veal tortellini or the garganelli with braised goat. While Roberta’s fine dining restaurant Blanca remains closed, this is a more casual a la carte sibling.

15 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

Visit Website

Two plates, one with pasta the other with meat. — Goat garganelli and pork neck at Foul Witch.

Dim Sum Palace

27 Division St, New York, NY 10002

This chain restaurant with seven locations across Manhattan opened the Division Street restaurant after another location of Dim Sum Palace closed due to a fire last spring. Particularly noteworthy is that this location is open late. The dining room, and the menu, are vast.

27 Division St, New York, NY 10002

Visit Website

A large plate of lobster sits dim sum and smaller plates of meats and seafood. — Dim Sum Palace stays open until 3 a.m. in Chinatown.

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Rolo’s

853 Onderdonk Ave, Queens, NY 11385

This Ridgewood restaurant is a favorite with industry workers — and actors who play them. The restaurant takes reservations, but in our experience, it’s always been possible to walk in here with a wait on a Monday night. The restaurant is popular for its straightforward menu anchored by a wood-fired oven, which turns out polenta breads, charred head-on shrimp, and one of the borough’s best burgers.

Open in Google Maps

853 Onderdonk Ave, Queens, NY 11385

Visit Website

The exterior of the new Ridgewood, Queens restaurant Rolo’s — Rolo’s in Ridgewood stays open on Mondays.

Place des Fêtes

212 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

This French-sounding bar specializes in Spanish wines and seafood in a cozy subterranean Clinton Hill dining room from the Michelin-starred Oxalis team in Prospect Heights. Look for small plates from sardine toasts to fancy ham or a Castelfranco salad with hazelnuts. Wines by the glass start at around $15.

212 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Visit Website

An overhead photograph of a fried skate wing and other dishes at Place des Fêtes, a wine bar in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. — Fried skate wing and other dishes from Place des Fetes.

The Fly

549 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

The Fly comes from the folks behind neighborhood restaurants Hart’s, around the corner, and Cervo’s, on the edge of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, both of which are also open for dinner on Monday. The specialty at this corner spot, the youngest of the trio, is rotisserie chicken and sexy vibes. Reservations are accepted, but the large dining room and curved bar make it possible to walk in here at peak hours.

Open in Google Maps

549 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Visit Website

A curved bar with dark-colored stools, hanging wine glasses, and bottles of liquor atop a wooden frame — The Fly stays open until 11 p.m. on Mondays.

Red Hook Tavern

329 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Remember Red Hook Tavern? The restaurant, open since 2019 and hiding in Red Hook ever since, still draws a crowd for its popular burger, now served with cottage fries instead of wedges. It stays open on Mondays with a portion of its dining room set aside for walk-ins.

329 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Visit Website

Dry-aged burger with American cheese, onions, and wedge fries at Red Hook Tavern — Red Hook’s most famous burger is served on Mondays.

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