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38 Michelin-Starred NYC Restaurants Open for Outdoor Dining or Takeout

From patio omakases and build-your-own tasting menus to $5 soft serve ice cream, these 38 Michelin-starred restaurants have adapted their menus for outdoor dining

by Carla Vianna and Eater Staff Updated Sep 22, 2020, 11:21am EDT

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by Carla Vianna and Eater Staff Updated Sep 22, 2020, 11:21am EDT

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Less than half of the city’s 71 Michelin-starred restaurants now remain closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a growing list of them have adapted their ambitious fare for outdoor dining. Others have implemented delivery and takeaway programs — in an effort to become more accessible and to keep their staffs employed too.

This map can help you find the Michelin-starred restaurants that are still open. Keep in mind that while some of these venues have opted to reserve some — or all — of their seating for walk-in customers, others have reopened with a reservation-only model, with some tables being booked-out weeks in advance. Check Resy, OpenTable, and the Instagram pages of restaurants for the most up-to-date reservation statuses.

A number of New York City restaurants have resumed outdoor dining services. However, this should not be taken as endorsement for outdoor dining, as there are still safety concerns: for updated information on coronavirus cases in your area, please visit the NYC Health Department’s website. Studies indicate that there is a lower exposure risk when outdoors, but the level of risk involved with patio dining is contingent on restaurants following strict social distancing and other safety guidelines.

For more New York dining recommendations, check out the new hotspots in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, and our guide to brunch spots and food halls.

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Sushi Noz

This one-star omakase stunner has created a new delivery menu offering more casual options like bluefin tuna bowls with roe and uni ($115) and mix-and-match maki sets that start at $42. More luxurious boxed sets top out at $345. Orders can be placed via the restaurant’s website.

181 E 78th St, New York, NY 10075

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Masa

Chef Masa Takayama — known for running the most expensive sushi restaurant in the country — is now running a new delivery program. The chef behind the three-Michelin-starred restaurant is selling make-your-own temaki boxes of sliced raw fish, nori, rice, and caviar priced at $800. Each box is meant to feed up to four people. There’s also a $450 nigiri option that includes 42-pieces of sushi. Supplements include a $250 wagyu and black truffle add-on.

10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019

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Marea

Michael White’s one-star Italian seafood restaurant has reopened for outdoor dinner service. Popular dishes include lobster and burrata salad, fusilli with braised octopus, and red wine-braised short ribs. Champagne, wine, and cocktails like a classic Negroni are also available. Dinner is available daily from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., with reservations available through Sevenrooms.

240 Central Park S, New York, NY 10019

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Daniel

Daniel Boulud’s namesake restaurant is now open for outdoor dining. The menu pulls from the same takeout and delivery items that the restaurant has been serving for its new at-home dining offshoot, Daniel Boulud Kitchen, with either a $78 or $58 three-course menu available. Dishes might include seared hamachi with Jimmy Nardello pepper farcis, flatiron steak with shallot marmalade, or Boulud’s decadent ‘Frenchie’ burger.

60 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065

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Aquavit

Chef Emma Bengtsson’s two-Michelin-starred Scandinavian restaurant has reopened for takeout and outdoor dining, offering more traditional Swedish dishes than the venue’s formal tasting menus. Dishes include full smorgarsbords ($75) with assorted herrings, shrimp salad, and herring, as well as a la carte lojrom roe, gravlax, meatballs, butter poached trout with roe, and assorted dessert including sea buckthorn ice cream sundaes and princess cakes. Selections of infused aquavits also available for pickup. Order via Tock.

65 E 55th St, New York, NY 10022

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The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare

Cesar Ramirez’s three Michelin-starred chef’s counter normally involves 15 or so courses of French-Japanese seafood, a style of dining that doesn’t translate to takeout or delivery. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, however, the kitchen offers (slightly) more rustic dishes on Caviar. Among the current items are fresh Alaskan king crab salad with little gem lettuce ($88), chicken soup with truffles and foie gras ($26), Norwegian langoustines with Japanese rice and scallions ($76), and green tea tiramisu ($24). Wine is also available.

431 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

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Gabriel Kreuther

The two Michelin-starred Alsatian-leaning Bryant Park spot is now open for both takeout and outdoor dining. Kreuther offers more affordable fare than in the formal dining room, with two short set menus ($46, $76), and a variety of ambitious rustic fare available a la carte, including applewood smoked bacon tarte flambee, sturgeon and sauerkraut tart, and hay-smoked duck breast. Order takeout via Caviar.

41 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036

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Sushi Ginza Onodera

The Michelin-starred Midtown sushi spot, under the auspices of chef Kazushige Suzuki, normally offers an omakase-only service, but has switched to ambitious takeout amid the pandemic. Among the current offerings are sea eel rolls fo $60 or a chirashi box for $110. Pickup available Monday through Friday via Tock.

461 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017

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Sushi Amane

The one-star Midtown restaurant is offering a new “patio omakase course,” priced at $120 per person. It includes four small dishes, five pieces of nigiri, and tamago. Reservations are available from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday on Resy. The omakase dinner is reservation-only, but there is an a la carte menu for walk-ins as well. Dining time is limited to 90 minutes per table.

245 E 44th St, New York, NY 10017

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Sushi Yasuda

The one-star sushi favorite is offering its full menu for takeout and delivery, including modified omakase selections, beer, sake, and wine. View the menu here. The restaurant asks that diners call 212-972-1001 in advance to place an order. Open Monday through Sunday.

204 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017

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Kajitsu

The Midtown vegetarian-heavy Japanese restaurant with one star is offering bento boxes for pickup and delivery. These include both vegetarian and meat offerings, such as beef with ginger and scallions over rice. Orders can be placed via Caviar or email at kajitsukokage@gmail.com.

125 E 39th St, New York, NY 10016

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Tempura Matsui

The famed omakase tempura spot in Murray Hill reopened in September for outdoor dining. Instead of the typically extravagant menus, which can run up to $230 before supplements, Matsui offers a more affordable tasting for $85. Takeout also available.

222 E 39th St, New York, NY 10016

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noda

The Michelin-starred sushi spot now offers takeout, with a limited menu that includes red miso soup or a $95 chirashi box designed to mimic “the progression of our omakase with lighter cuts followed by three different cuts of tuna, finished by savory eel and tamago.”

6 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001

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ATOMIX

Chef Junghyun Park and Ellia Park’s experimental chef’s counter venue has pivoted from long tastings to takeout and delivery amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The current offering is a four-course menu for $125 with optional supplements like sea urchin and caviar (both $45). August dishes included sea bass hwe with dashima dressing; black cod gui with ‘nduja kimchi stew; tomato bap with a carabinero prawn; and lamb jorim with chojang, chickpea, and Jimmy Nardello peppers. Order via Tock.

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104 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016

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Guk soup with burdock, fish cakes, baby corn, and plum blossom fill a third of a dark, earthenware bowl — Guk soup with burdock at Jungsik

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Casa Enrique

The popular LIC Mexican restaurant has reopened for outdoor dining with dinner service from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily and brunch service from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The seating is first come, first served. The best option here, as always, is the mole de piaxtla, a traditional Pueblan stew forged from chiles, almonds, raisins, plantains, sesame seeds, and chocolate, which is served over chicken and rice.

5-48 49th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101

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Cote

Diners can now order meaty feasts and batch cocktails from this one-star Korean steakhouse. Luxury meats like a dry-aged ribeye and Japanese wagyu are available raw for home-cooking, but there are also ready-to-eat options like kimchi wagyu paella, a galbi bowl, bibimbap, and $5 summer soft-serve, which can be enjoyed at outdoor tables in front of the restaurant. Cote is open from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday.

16 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10010

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odo

The one-star kaiseki counter may be closed, but chef Hiroki Odo is now offering Japanese-style comfort food in a relaxed outdoor dining set-up. Deep-fried skewers, grilled and pan-fried yakimono, and several noodle dishes are now available for a la carte ordering, though those craving a taste of Odo’s nine-course omakase can also order seasonal sushi and sashimi. The casual outdoor dining area, capable of seating up to 22 people, is open Monday through Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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17 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011

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Gramercy Tavern

Danny Meyer and chef Mike Anthony’s Michelin-starred staple has reopened for a la carte outdoor dining. Gone are the longer tasting menus — for now at least. Among the current outdoor offerings are tomato carpaccio with roasted beets and watermelon; chilled corn soup with pickled cauliflower; grilled chicken with cherry bomb pepper sauce; and cioppino with grilled pollock, squid, and lobster broth. Set menus are available for pickup and delivery from $34-$49.

42 E 20th St, New York, NY 10003

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Casa Mono

Andy Nusser and Joe Bastianich’s ambitious tapas spot on Irving Place is open for takeout, delivery, and outdoor dining, from 12 p.m through 10:00 p.m., seven days a week. Diners can expect the restaurant’s typical selection of composed small plates like fideos with chorizo, sea beans, and clams; confit goat with avocado queso, and grilled pork sobrasada with quince and honeycomb.

52 Irving Pl, New York, NY 10003

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Wallsé

Modern Austrian restaurant Wallse is open for outdoor dining from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Walk-ins are welcome but reservations are also available on Resy.

344 W 11th St, New York, NY 10014

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Jeju Noodle Bar

Douglas Kim runs the city’s only Michelin-starred noodle joint, slinging rich veal, wagyu, and truffle ramyun. Versions of those noodle dishes have been adapted for takeout, delivery, and outdoor dining, as have an assortment of the restaurant’s appetizers, including ja jang-style ribs, chicken wings, and gochujang beef ragu.

679 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10014

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Blue Hill

Dan Barber’s tasting menu restaurant is offering to-go boxes filled with produce, meat and fish from its partners ($60-$170). The boxes are available for pickup at both the Stone Barns (two stars) and Manhattan (one star) locations, though only the Tarrytown location is offering outdoor seating at this time, at $195 per person, pre-paid. Some a la carte items like eggs ($6 for one half dozen) are also available.

75 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10011

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Kanoyama

East Village sushi restaurant Kanoyama is open from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. for outdoor seating, with daily specials that include oysters — $3 each or four for $15 with a glass of sake — and cooked mussels. Closed on Mondays.

175 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

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Oxomoco

Oxomoco is doing outdoor service on its patio, though dinner reservations at the restaurant are booking out at least five days in advance, according to Resy. Daytime bookings are easier to come by. Items available for takeout include the restaurant’s guacamole as well as beet taco kits and lamb taco kits.

128 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

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Carbone

Major Food Group’s famous Greenwich Village red-sauce joint put together a shortened but growing menu that includes the spicy rigatoni vodka ($32), veal parmesan ($69), a whole branzino ($95), and a prime porterhouse, all available for outdoor dining on its sidewalks. The restaurant’s reservation-only tables can be booked two days in advance.

181 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012

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Momofuku Ko

Sean Gray and Su Wong Ruiz’s Momofuku restaurant now offers la carte pickup, delivery, and outdoor dining, a stark change for the two Michelin-starred spot, which has traditionally focused its efforts on long and expensive tasting menus at a chef’s counter. Current takeout dishes include cold fried chicken ($25), spicy tomato pie ($28), salt and sugar doughnuts ($12), and a burger kit ($30). Outdoor dining involves a $110, five-course menu, which is much cheaper than the traditional tasting.

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8 Extra Pl, New York, NY 10003

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Tuome

Thomas Chen’s Michelin-starred Asian-American restaurant is open for both takeout and outdoor dining, Tuesday through Saturday. Dishes include octopus with pork XO sauce, snow crab with noodles and dashi butter, and the famously crispy and succulent pig for two ($59) with spicy peanut noodles and condiments. Order takeout via the restaurant’s website.

536 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009

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The Musket Room

The Musket Room’s one-star globally-influenced cuisine is now available for outdoor eating. The restaurant from chef Mary Attea is open from Tuesdays through Saturdays. Tables can be booked ahead through Resy, though the restaurant’s patio is reserved for walk-in guests.

265 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012

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Contra

The one-star Lower East Side restaurant by Fabián von Hauske Valtierra and Jeremiah Stone is now offering delivery and takeout tasting menus for $70. The five-course meal might include seafood sausage with sea beans, steelhead trout with gooseberries, beef short rib, and banana caramel mille feuille.

138 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002

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Jungsik

The two Michelin-starred Tribeca staple is one of the few fine dining establishments to transfer its longer set menus to the great outdoors. The Korean spot serves a shorter four-course prix fixe for $145, or a more extended seven-course menu for $195. Jungsik also offers takeaway and delivery at $85 for three courses. Book or order via Tock.

2 Harrison St, New York, NY 10013

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Atera

Atera is best known for its modern $285 tasting menu, which comes from chef Ronny Emborg. During the novel coronavirus pandemic, though, the two-Michelin-starred Tribeca restaurant is offering a selection of small plates. Among the restaurant’s current selections are chili yogurt shishito peppers, squid noodles in miso, housemade sourdough rolls, and waffle covered in starberry and brown butter ice cream. Order takeout through Caviar and book reservations through Resy from Farra Wine Bar.

77 Worth St, New York, NY 10013

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The Four Horsemen

This Williamsburg natural wine bar, by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and chef Nick Curtola, has been selling pantry goods, coffee, and wines through its website for the duration of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In mid-July, though, the Michelin-starred venue reopened for outdoor dining, with weekly seatings available from Wednesday to Sunday. Reserve a table through Resy.

295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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Meadowsweet

Williamsburg restaurant Meadowsweet is open for outdoor dining. Dinner includes a variety of dishes like Scottish salmon, Wagyu empanadas, and cavatelli with shrimp and chorizo. Reservations are available through the restaurant’s website; walk-ins are also accommodated.

149 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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Peter Luger Steak House

Iconic NYC steakhouse Peter Luger is now accepting reservations for outdoor dining. Lunch and dinner service will be available from 11:45 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. daily. Walk-ins are welcome, but the restaurant notes that there is limited seating availability.

178 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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Crown Shy

Unfussy FiDi spot Crown Shy is open for outdoor dining. The set outdoor menu offers three courses — white bean hummus or ‘nduja fritters as a snack, an appetizer, and an entree — for $68. There are a couple of dessert options to add on, including the sticky toffee pudding or a selection of ice creams. The restaurant is taking reservations now for dinner service. Takeout also available.

70 Pine St, New York, NY 10005

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The River Café

Buzzy O’Keeffe’s famously romantic and scenic waterside restaurant lives on through outdoor dining. The restaurant is now open Tuesday through Saturday for three-course meals priced at $125 per person.

1 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Claro

Tostadas, moles, and mezcal flights are all up for grabs at this one-star sensation in Gowanus. The Oaxacan restaurant from chef TJ Steele opened up its backyard patio for drinks and snacks from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, while more formal sit-down service is available by reservation through Resy, with menus priced at $45 and $72.

284 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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