Westchester’s first full-service Georgian restaurant comes from sister-brother duo Inga Duignan and Giga Jankarashvili.

A Southern restaurant in Westchester that serves tacos, fried chicken, burgers, and ribs.

A Persian restaurant and wine bar in Westchester with menu items like tahdig, bademjoon, and a range of kabobs. There is also a location in Chelsea.

A casual Italian gastropub in Westchester.

A French-Italian wine bar and restaurant in Hastings-on-Hudson.

An Italian restaurant from chef Raffaele Ronca focused on Neapolitan pizzas and pastas.

A wood-fired pizza and pasta spot in Eastchester, in Southern Westchester.

An Italian restaurant in Westchester from chef Giuseppe Fanelli.

Italian-leaning steakhouse located in Pelham.

A Croatian restaurant in New Rochelle specializing in whole fish and other seafood dishes like cuttlefish risotto, octopus salad, and marinated anchovies in Croatian olive oil.

A Bronx Peruvian restaurant specializing in fish soup, lomo saltado — stir-fried tenderloin served over french fries — and frozen empanadas.

An Italian restaurant known for its Neapolitan wood-fired pizza. It also has locations in Flatiron and Westchester.

A casual red sauce joint in the heart of the Bronx’s Little Italy.

A restaurant known for its tacos. In a Hungry City column in 2016, New York Times writer Ligaya Mishan particularly liked the suadero.

Mezcal and Mexican street-food inspired dishes, including elote with chipotle aioli and carnitas tacos.

A noodle shop in Harlem with kimchi, tonkotsu, miso, and shio ramens.

Open since 2008, this Bronx restaurant serves dishes like albondiga, beef meatballs with cumin, oregano, and tomato broth.

A South Bronx restaurant serving a mix of Southern comfort fare and Puerto Rican-leaning cuisine, including dishes like shrimp and grits, pernil, alcapurria fritters, and chicharron de pollo.

A modern Chinese restaurant serving Sichuan and Hunanese classics near Columbia University.

A French-leaning wine bar and restaurant on the UWS.

A pizzeria on the Upper East Side serving Neapolitan pizza and weekly specials.

Bright, airy restaurant serving up a Sichuan feast like crispy Chinese eggplant and Chongqing chicken.

An Italian restaurant serving pastas and pizza in Astoria.

An Upper East Side pub that’s famous for its hamburgers, cottage fries, and bloody marys.

An Upper East Side Czech restaurant that specializes in both Central European fare and tamales for takeout.

A popular pizzeria with more than 40 different Neapolitan pies.

A Korean restaurant in Murray Hill specializing in cast-iron grilled meats and other Korean staples like bibimbap.

A Chinese restaurant in Midtown offering soup dumplings and a variety of steamed buns including pan-fried Peking duck buns.

A traditionally-minded Sichuan restaurant in Flushing.

Astoria restaurant and raw bar serving housemade pasta and seafood.

A Turkish restaurant in Midtown East famous for manti, beef dumplings with garlic-spiced yogurt.

A Koreatown restaurant specializing in fresh homemade tofu.

The acclaimed and formerly Michelin-starred Sichuan spot in Midtown East; the team behind the restaurant also run Birds of a Feather in Williamsburg.

First launched in Seoul in 1976, Samwon Garden’s NYC outpost is a popular Korean barbecue spot in Koreatown.

Opened in 2019, Angel Indian Restaurant specializes in vegetarian Punjabi cooking.

A Tibetian restaurant in Jackson Heights with top-notch momos and noodle soups.

A restaurant in Koreatown where every dish is vegetarian or vegan. It serves foods like spicy rice cakes with vegetables and bean curd skin.

A Sunnyside Indian restaurant known for Goan-style Indo-Portuguese dishes like coconut milk-based fish curry, caldin, vindaloo with Kashimi chiles, and xacutti with roasted coconut.

An Italian restaurant in Kips Bay offering a variety of antipasti, pastas, and Sicilian pizza.

An Elmhurst restaurant with curries, noodles, and over a dozen Thai salads.

A Turkish restaurant serving cuisines of Istanbul and the Anatolian provinces.

A Chinese restaurant in Elmhurst with Sichuan cuisine and Taiwanese specialities. It’s popular for its spicy cumin lamb.

This all-day restaurant in the West Village serves seasonal cocktails and seafood during the pandemic, as part of a collaboration with neighboring business Brunetti Pizza.

West Village spot specializing in Middle Eastern fare like kubeh and mezze.

Located in Greenwich Village, this first U.S. location of the prominent chain from China serves housemade noodles and traditional Chinese recipes.

Cozy Thai restaurant that’s an offshoot of the nearby Pata Paplean bar.

A hip and popular temaki hand roll restaurant in Greenwich Village, with specialties including baby white shrimp, tori with caviar, and scallops with XO sauce and tobiko.

This New American restaurant in Greenpoint serves a daily-changing menu, including spaghetti with clams and watermelon and beets.

An East Village Japanese restaurant with a menu of cold and hot soba noodles, rice bowls, and sashimi.

A casual West Village Italian restaurant known for its affordable pastas and appetizers.

A Japanese restaurant with hand rolls, sushi, katsu sandos, and several meal sets.

An all-day NoHo restaurant from Cosme’s Enrique Olvera serving dishes like lobster burritos, branzino a la talla, suadero tacos, and beef birria.

The kitchen is helmed by a chef from Taipei’s Din Tai Fung chain, and the menu here serves well-reviewed soup dumplings and cocktails.

A casual East Village hangout with an expansive natural wine list.

Matthew Kenney’s vegan pizzeria in Manhattan’s East Village.

The East Village outpost of an international chain specializing in Northeastern Thai cooking.

Chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s tiny, well-liked bistro in the East Village. Temporarily closed at the time of publishing.

A chic plant-based Mexican restaurant in Greenpoint from chef Alan Delgado and the Oxomoco team.

An acclaimed new Greenpoint place for pierogies (filled with pork, potatoes, cheese, berries), borscht, kielbasa, and stuffed cabbage.

Located in Nolita, this neighborhood restaurant serves Italian-American classics like vodka pizza.

A Lower East Side Italian restaurant that turns out Roman classics like pasta puttanesca, carbonara, and amatriciana.

A crowd-favorite dim sum spot in Forest Hills.

A pizzeria that also serves ice cream and natural wines. Temporarily closed at the time of publishing.

Natural wine bar located in the lobby of the Hoxton in Williamsburg. Temporarily closed at the time of publishing.

A crowd-favorite Jewish cafe on the Lower East Side famous for its smoked salmon.

A Little Italy gem that specializes in tapas from Galicia on Spain’s northwest coast.

A Chinese restaurant in Forest Hills focused on Sichuan and Hunan fare.

A Chinese restaurant specializing in the Cantonese rice porridge.

A modern Vietnamese restaurant in Williamsburg from Matt Le-Khac, late of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Benu.

A Tribeca restaurant focused on Laotian fare from chef-owner Soulayphet Schwader.

A Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown with a large menu of curries.

An acclaimed udon and tempura restaurant started by a Japanese production company Rock’n Roll Japan and condom maker Sagami Rubber.

A vegetarian-friendly, Chinese restaurant on the Lower East Side known for its dim sum.

A Mexican-inspired restaurant in Williamsburg serving tapas-style dishes.

A Vietnamese restaurant in Brooklyn.

A Jewish and Japanese fusion restaurant in Williamsburg.

A restaurant serving Korean-American barbecue in East Williamsburg.

A popular pizza destination famous for its wood-fired pies.

A Bushwick Mexican spot serving flautas, tortas, assorted tacos, and beef birria.

Relaxed Thai bar and restaurant with interior cinema decor.

A pizzeria in the East Village known for its thin-crust Neapolitan style pizza.

An Israeli and Mediterranean restaurant in Fort Greene.

An affordable all-day cafe in Bed-Stuy selling tlayuditas, tetelas, quesadillas, tacos, fresh masa, and icy atole.

A Jewish deli specializing in Montreal-style cuisine, with smoked meat and poutine.

Known for its fire-focused cooking, this Brooklyn restaurant serves charred pizzas, steaks, and burgers.

A Thai restaurant helmed by critically acclaimed chef Sirichai Sreparplarn serving spice-packed dishes.

A creative French-Japanese skewer spot by the team behind Olmsted, with signature skewers that might include duck a l’orange meatballs, chicken breast with sauce l’estragon, and beef short rib with bordelaise sauce.

A Gowanus restaurant serving bread, pastries, and cocktails.

A Burmese restaurant in Crown Heights known for chef Myo Moe’s cozy bowls of noodle soups and flavorful curries.

Chef Jenny Kwak’s globally-minded Korean brasserie in Park Slope, serving up dishes like grilled oysters with seaweed butter, rice cake queso fundido, japchae noodles, spicy bouillabaisse, and sugar-dusted beignets.

Home to New York City’s best barbecue, this Red Hook restaurant serves slow-smoked meats atop sandwiches and by the pound.

A rotisserie chicken-centric cafe and bakery in Park Slope from chef Daniel Eddy, formerly of the Michelin-starred Rebelle.

An Italian wine bar in Staten Island, known for featuring international grandmothers in the kitchen.

An Asian menu with a focus on Filipino food, receiving one star from the Times at last review in 2009.

A Sri Lankan restaurant in Staten Island known for its can’t-miss lamprais, a flavorful rice dish made with egg, vegetables, and fish, wrapped and baked in a banana leaf.

A bustling Sunset Park dining room with steaming dim sum carts.