Whether it scores a New York Times one star or three, Nobu remains relevant, especially when Taylor Swift pays a visit. Earlier this month, Swift and Travis Kelce stopped by Nobu 57 and ate with a handful of others in a private dining room.

Swift first visited Polo Bar a long time ago, but well before that, the Polo Bar from Ralph Lauren, had been an impossible-to-get-into restaurant for mere mortals. There’s always the bar, “and the A-list crowd is reliably entertaining,” according to New York magazine.

It’s been nearly a decade since Swift was seen leaving the sushi and sashimi restaurant that opened in 2005 connected to the Bryant Park Hotel. Today, its menu features calamari salad, lobster tacos, roast duck, and a separate sushi and sashimi menu.

Swift visited the West Village speakeasy, Do Not Disturb, a couple weeks ago, where a tipster told @deuxmoi she stopped by with singer Phoebe Bridgers. The former home to the Beatrice Inn, the newish speakeasy features $20 cocktails “inspired by the lovers in our life,” according to the menu, along with bites such as beef tartare, a quinoa and kale salad, and a $28 smash burger with fries.

Swift visited Graydon Carter’s clubby West Village classic a few days ago (and more than once this month, according to a source). Perhaps she’s as enamored with the details as we are, from the Donald Trump quote on the restaurant serving “the worst food in the city” to the Ed Sorel murals. Look for a menu of small plates — burrata, beet salad, cheese plate, oysters, pate — and mains like Amish chicken, Scottish salmon, duck two ways and a cheddar burger with fries.

Cited for its romantic vibes, this MacDougal Street restaurant hosted Swift awhile back with

Todrick Hall, when they ordered two pizzas, two double French martinis, tiramisu and gelato, the owner told People magazine. Her visit was before the duo headed downstairs to the restaurant’s sibling jazz club, Bar Next Door.

A little over a week after critic Robert Sietsema checked into Minetta Tavern, Swift visited with Phoebe Bridgers. Restaurateur Keith McNally gave the rundown of her visit, noting she had oysters, scallops to share, and Dover sole (Bridgers had the lobster). Apparently, word traveled fast, as there were allegedly about 100 people waiting to see her Minetta Lane when she left.

Page Six reported that Swift was seen this week at Holiday Bar with Alana Haim and Danielle Haim.

“Swift appeared ‘very animated’ while dining with Alana and Danielle, who — along with their sister, Este Haim, opened for her on her Eras Tour,” according to the Post. Holiday Bar, from the group behind Saint Theo’s, opened last year, and was described as “so ’80s, it’s modern.”

A day after her Minetta Tavern visit in November, Swift met Selena Gomez, Sophie Turner, Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne, and wife of a Kansas City Chief’s Patrick Mahomes, Brittany Mahomes, People reported. Open for 25 years, BondSt the Japanese-ish restaurant opened a sibling location in Hudson Yards in the fall.

Zero Bond was where Swift was seen leaving earlier this month following her beau Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the New York Jets. The members-only Zero Bond from Scott Sartiano — also behind Sartiano’s, recently opened in Soho — requires upwards of a $5,000 initiation fee and a $4,000 annual payment. Mayor Eric Adams is a fan, too.

Swift met Zoë Kravitz and Laura Dern at Il Buco Alimentari in September. The more casual sibling to Il Buco from Donna Lennard — who helped launch careers like Justin Smillie and Ignacio Mattos— features an all-day cafe, market, and dining area; it builds a menu around cured meats and bread baked in-house. The restaurant suits a range of scenarios: as a place for snacks, panini, a whole fish, or other Italian-influenced mains.

Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones went to Temple Bar with Swift in September after dinner, according to People. The moody martini bar with its checked floor and disco ball closed in 2017, then reopened in 2021, with a very private looking entrance on Lafayette.

The singer visited Soho hotspot Lure for sushi, a spokesperson confirms. The restaurant staff snuck her in a back door with friend and stylist Ashley Avignone; they sat in a private side room. The restaurant run by Preston Clark is known for its oysters, shellfish towers, and seafood, as well as its newer items like dim sum.

Taylor Swift and friends ate at this spendy hotel restaurant in September, which, like its Paris location, offers dishes like steak tartare, escargot, sole meunière, and onion soup; a half-chicken is $54. A recent Vulture article described this scene: “...we are the only people in the dining room who are not rich tourists from out of state in $600 leggings and platform Dior sneakers.”

Swift and Turner visited Mulberry Bar earlier this month, the spot from Phil Meynell (VP of TSX Entertainment), Leo Jacob (partner in Bowery Hotel, Hotel Chelsea) and Justin Sievers (partner in Bar Primi). “You are either in or you’re so out,” writes Air Mail of the spot that opened in February, “so that you might as well have a slice at the nearby Upside Pizza and call it a night.”

A cozy tavern that opened in 2004, Freemans was one of the first stops back in NYC after Taylor Swift’s Argentina shows. Swift visited with Gracie Abrams, who opened for Swift’s U.S. summer tour. It’s straight-ahead fare like artichoke dip and Caesar salads; Amish chicken, pork chops, and delicata squash.

Open since 1990, Ron Silver’s Bubby’s — known for its pancakes, pies, biscuits, and other American comfort foods — was visited by Swift at least once with Lena Dunham.

In September, Swift visited Lower East Side Casino, where she ordered Cosmos, the once maligned cocktail, now, thanks to her, having a comeback. With its glam ’80s vibe, Casino is an Italian Riviera-themed party spot that attracts folks from the fashion and art worlds. Seafood anchors the menu with dishes like fritto misti, crudo, whole roasted turbot, and a lobster cioppino.

Swift cancelled her membership once other members of Casa Cipriani (who were kicked out) took photos of her with then beau, singer-songwriter, Matty Healy. For regular people who aren’t members, there’s always another Cipriani location (and its dubious reputation for how it treats people who aren’t famous).