dhammer53

And the best food in New York can also be found in Brooklyn.

hhonorman

Don't forget about the Soup Nazi.

aa4ever

Aureole is great along with Vong, Le Bernadin, and Gotham Bar and Grill. Babo and Dartagnan too for the fancy places.

For the more informal to totally informal...
Second Avenue Deli
Sweet and Tart Café in Chinatown (best dim sum)
Joe's Shanghai (and maybe the new ginger)-best soup dumplings/shanghai food
Venieros-best for takeout
Shun Lee-Although fancy, great Chinese
City Bakery-The absolute BEST American pastry
Payard-the best french pastry shop
Balthazar (Soho)-I've only been for breakfast, but its great and supposed to be fabulous for dinner. Great bakery
Hemsin-Turkish in sunnyside Queens
Amy's Bread-A bakery, but also serves breakfast
Sullivan Street Bakery-Bakery, the best bread in NYC
Madras Mahal - (South) Indian food (dosas, iddly, ect)

So much great food in New York: Hard to know where to eat when only up for a week a couple of times a year!!

anonplz

I think some of the best meals I've ever had in New York were:

1. Filet Mignon at Smith & Wollensky in Midtown;
2. Polenta/Sausage thing at Da Silvano's in the West Village;
3. Blue Cheese Burger, medium-rare, at Clancy's Pub on 2nd and 52nd;
4. Viceroy and Food Bar, both on 8th Avenue in Chelsea, are consistently very good (Fish and Chips, Burgers, that sort of thing, with good wines);
5. Fortune dumplings/pot stickers at this Chinatown hole-in-the-wall with a blue awning near Delancey;
6. Shaheen Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, from BEFORE they were shut down by health code violations - in the intervening period, their chef moved on, and they're good sweets now but not much else;
7. Cafe de Bruxelles for Belgian/French.

As someone else said, New York has so many good restaurants, it's hard to choose which is best...

Non-NonRev

I really miss Pastrami King on Queens Blvd. They had their own smokehouse on the premises.

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guv1976

Pastrami King has relocated to Manhattan, and is now known as Pastrami Queen (no joke). Here's a link to a recent review that contains the restaurant's address and telephone number:

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Writ...620&RefID=1570

Canarsie

I noticed Free Delivery emblazoned on their awning in one of the pictures.

I wonder if Atlanta is within their Free Delivery area...

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Tip

For those of you who love pastrami but do not like it fatty (as it is in one of the pictures), order your pastrami lean, end cut only. It will cost a buck or two extra, but to me it is definitely worth it.

luxury

I agree wholeheartedly with Gotham Bar and Grill and Daniel. I would add:

Jean-Georges, Trump International Hotel
Alain Ducasse, Westin Essex House Hotel

Babbo
Sushi Yasuda
La Cote Basque
Grimaldi's
Town
Nobu

fly co to see the yanks

love gotham, nobu, peasant and soup nazi.

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