Chef Marc Murphy and the Gerber Group just opened this stylish all-day New American restaurant in the Viceroy Hotel on 57th Street. The menu is full of American crowd-pleasers, but it also includes several Italian-influenced dishes like porchetta with escarole, calf's brains with capers and lemon, and squash gnudi with Parmesan cheese. The design titans at Roman + Williams created the dining room — it's a stunner.

The Upper West Side location of Ed Schoenfeld and Joe Ng's wildly popular Chinese restaurant has about twice as many seats as the original, plus a big bar in the back. The menu features favorites from Hudson Street, plus a few new additions, like a vegetable pancake, shrimp and mango dumplings, and diced raw tuna with noodles. Currently, Red Farm UWS is only open for lunch, but dinner will launch later this month.

Last month, Alex Raij and Eder Montero added a dining room to their Chelsea wine bar El Quinto Pino, where they are serving an expanded menu of Basque fare. New dishes include dirty rice with rabbit, flash-fried shell-on shrimp, and soft scrambled eggs with sea anemone. Favorites from the old menu are still available, and Raij and Montero plan to serve brunch and lunch soon.

Celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto and partners Patrick Fahey, Emmanuelle LaSalle Hill, and Tommy Hill recently turned the former Tribeca Canvas space into an Asian-influenced bistro with a mellow, lounge-like dining room. The menu includes things like short rib buns, uni carbonara, miso sea bass, a wagyu burger, and roasted chicken. Most of the entrees are priced in the high teens and low 20s.

Although the space is opulent, and perhaps just a bit over-the-top, the menu at Michel Richard’s new all-day restaurant in the New York Palace Hotel is full of moderately-priced, accessible Brasserie fare. Entrée options include an ahi tuna burger ($27), mushroom risotto ($24), “Michel’s Fried Chicken” ($28), and roasted chicken ($26). Villard Michel Richard is an oddity, for sure, but the early word indicates that the kitchen is turning out very good food right now. Note: Six and nine-course tasting menus are served in Gallery Michel Richard, the elegant, fine dining counterpart next to the barroom.

Contra is the new Lower East Side restaurant from chefs Fabian von Hauske (formerly of Faviken and Noma) and Jeremiah Stone (Isa). Stone and von Hauske are serving a five-course prix fixe of New American fare for $55. Back in August, Stone told Eater: "We're not trying to say we're the best chefs in the world. We just want to charge a fair amount so that we can do food that's interesting and that people like."

The EMM Group recently teamed up with former La Esquina chef Akhtar Nawab to open this sprawling Mexican restaurant in the old Abe & Arthur's space. On the menu, you'll find snacks, shareable small plates, raw fish dishes, tacos, a shellfish stew, and a 21-day dry-aged sirloin steak. Small dishes and tacos are priced $10 to $22, and they make up the majority of the menu. Nawab's tacos look fancy, but tasty.

The Cecil is the stylish new "Afro-Asian-American brasserie" from former Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons. Alexander Smalls, who was once the chef and owner of Cafe Beulah, is running the kitchen at The Cecil along with chef de cuisine Joseph "JJ" Johnson. The menu has things like deviled eggs, oxtail dumplings, a salad of heirloom beets and Brussels sprouts, a wagyu rib burger, duck two ways, and fried guinea hen. Most entrees are priced in the mid-20s.

The Chester is the new all-day restaurant in the Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC. The menu, which was created by chef Sam Hazen, includes things like artichoke dip, flatbreads, a Maryland lump crab cake, a lobster Cobb salad, buttermilk fried chicken, and a "Chester burger" made with a Pat LaFrieda patty. The restaurant is being operated by Paige Hospitality Group, which also runs The Ainsworth and Southampton Social Club.

Uva restaurateur Massimo Lusardi just opened Pagani, a casual Italian restaurant in the Bleecker Street space that formerly housed the O. Pagani & Bros. music store. Lusardi enlisted Taavo Somer's design group Friends & Family to create the dining room — they kept many of the details from the old music store intact. The menu from Tabla and Babbo alum Mark Barrett includes things like a poached farm egg with oyster mushrooms, rigatoni with braised rabbit, slow roasted veal shoulder with potato puree, and seared scallops with fennel.

The East Pole is the new Upper East Side restaurant from the team behind Downtown hot spots The Fat Radish and The Leadbelly. Chef Nicholas Wilber's menu includes light dishes like fluke crudo, white gazpacho, and roasted heirloom carrots, as well as things like chicken Kiev and a bacon cheeseburger with duck fat fries. The airy space has two dining rooms, a bar, and an outdoor garden.

Chef Han Chiang recently opened a branch of his wildly popular Philadelphia restaurant Han Dynasty on Third Avenue in the East Village. The menu includes things like Dan Dan noodles, beef tendons in chili oil, and dry pepper chicken wings, plus 14 protein-based entrees. The early word is very good, although some diners say that the spice levels are not as fiery as the menu suggests. This may change soon, though — the restaurant is still technically in its "soft opening" phase.

Back in July, Marc Forgione opened this Southeast Asian restaurant with his longtime right hand man Soulayphet Schwader (AKA "Chef Phet"). The menu includes things like crunchy coconut rice with sausage, bamboo grilled quail, duck laap, spare ribs, grilled chicken, and pork belly with quail egg. Most of the entrees on Chef Phet's menu are priced between $21 and $25. This is a really fun restaurant for date night.

Back in August, Michael and Alan Stillman opened an Italian spinoff of their Midtown hit, Quality Meats. This restaurant specializes in steak as well, but the menu also includes raw bar items, crudo, charcuterie, pastas, roasted fish dishes, and a shareable chicken parm the size of a hubcap. A first floor bar called The Standing Room serves sandwiches and snacks.

The West 51st Street branch of Ippudo serves the tonkotsu broth ramen and all the other favorites from the East Village location, but the menu here also includes some new dishes, like wontons stuffed with crab meat, sea urchin toast, and a gluten-free Shojin ramen. The space has a few less seats than the Downtown location, but this one's got an 11-seat ramen room, a lounge area, and a 20-foot ramen bar.