The Best Restaurants in New York City

Local Resources (Manhattan daily newspapers, alt-weeklies, monthlies, portals, blogs)

• Meta: Kunda Eats Presents NYC Restaurant Review Table
  
• Daily: NY Times Dining and Wine
  • Diner’s Journal Blog
  • The Scoop (Crtic Sam Sifton’s current 50 favorite restaurants) | Gridskipper Map
  • Four-Star Restaurants by (former critic) Frank Bruni | Three Star
  • A Critic’s Choice of Restaurant Newcomers 2010 | Dishes That Earned Their Stars
• Daily: NY Daily News Food
• Daily: NY Post Food
  • Starvin’ for bargains?
  • NYC 2011 dining preview
  • Welcome to NYC’s slice wars: where old school battles new cool
  • Best Burgers in N.Y.C.
  • THE 10 MOST OVERRATED DISHES IN N.Y.C.
  • The roast of the town
  • BEST DEALS ON MEALS: WE NAME THE THE TOP VALUES ON FINE DINING IN NEW YORK
  • Great walk of China
  • My Foodie New York: Ruth Reichl 2011
• Daily: The Wall Street Journal New York City Culture
  • New York City Food Guide
  • Running a Danny Meyer Marathon 2010
• Alt-Weekly: Village Voice Restaurant Stories
  • Fork in the Road Blog | Our Ten Best
  • Best of NYC
  • 100 Dishes to Eat Now
  • Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries…NY Times Response: New York’s All-Time Best, an Alternate Take
• Alt-Weekly: New York Press Food
  • Best of Manhattan
• Alt-Weekly: Time Out New York Restaurant and Bars
  • Best restaurants and bars in NYC
  • 75 top brunch spots in NYC
  • 100 best things to eat and drink in New York City
  • Food & Drink Awards 2012 | 2011
• Business Weekly: Crain’s Restaurant Reviews
  
• Food Magazine: Edible Manhattan
• Monthly: New York Magazine Restaurants
  • Grub Street | The Grub Street Diet
  • Adam Platt’s Where to Eat 2012 |  2011 | 2010
  • Best of New York Food
  • Best New Restaurants 2012 |  2011
  • The 101 Best Sandwiches in New York 2010
• Monthly: Gotham Magazine Dining and Nightlife
• Monthly: The L Magazine Food and Drink
  • The Measure Blog
  • The Best of NYC FOOD and DRINK
  • The Brooklyn Food Power Rankings 2012
• Monthly: Modern Luxury Manhattan Dining
• Monthly: The New Yorker Food
• Student Newspaper: Columbia Spectator A&E
• Portal: Bloomberg Reviews
  
• Portal: Capital: Restaurants
• Portal: Daily Candy New York City Food and Drinks
• Portal: Gothamist: Food
• Portal: Thrillist Food and Dining New York City
• Portal: UrbanDaddy New York City Food
• Portal (French): French Morning
• Portal (Industry): FoodChef.net
• Portal: MondoMaps Interactive Maps New York
• Portal: newyorkology foodology
• Portal: Thrillist Food and Dining New York City
• Regional Paper: Columbia Daily Spectator (Morningside Heights) Food and Drink
• Regional Paper: The Villager Our Favorite Restaurants
• Food Blog: Blondie and Brownie
• Food Blog: The Daily Meal New York
• Food Blog: Eat Big Apple
• Food Blog: Eater New York City
  • The 38 Essential New York Restaurants
  • New York City Heatmap: Where to Eat Now
  • New York City’s 15 Best Stoner Foods 2011
  • New York’s Top 15 Closer Restaurants 2011
  • The Ultimate NYC Guide to May 21 Rapture Dining 2011
  • The Old Guard Restaurants to Visit Before It’s Too Late 2010
• Food Blog: Eating in Translation
• Food Blog: The Girl Who Ate Everything
• Food Blog: Gotham Gal
• Food Blog: Immaculate Infatuation
  • Lunch in Midtown
• Food Blog: Insatiable Critic (Gael Greene)
  • My Double Life: What I Love and Where I Eat 2010
    
• Food Blog: IN New York City Dining
• Food Blog: Jay’s NYC Restaurant Reviews
• Food Blog: A Life Worth Eating The List
• Food Blog: Midtown Lunch
• Food Blog: New York Journal
• Food Blog: NYC Food Guy
• Food Blog: The Pink Pig
• Food Blog: Restaurant Girl
  • RG’s Favorite Restaurants
• Food Blog: Serious Eats New York
• Food Blog: Tasting Table NYC
• Food Blog: virginia rollison | a day in the life
• Official Tourism Board: New York City (Restaurants | Twitter | Facebook) | New York State (Twitter | Facebook)
• For Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island, Upstate NY, Connecticut, and New Jersey information see bottom of the page

Review Sites – Critics

• Backpackers’ Ultimate Guide: New York City Eating & drinking
• CNN Weissmann Travel Reports New York City Restaurant Review
• Conde Nast Traveller Where to Eat Out: New York City
  • Jaunted Blog New York City
• Dopplr: New York Eat
• Epicurious: New York’s Top Restaurants
• Finding Dulcinea New York City
• Fodor’s: New York City Restaurants
• Food & Wine Best Places to Eat: New York City
• Forbes Startle: New York City Restaurants
• Frommer’s: New York City Restaurant Overview
• The GQ City Guides: New York City
• Let’s Go: New York City Food
• Lonely Planet: Restaurants in New York City
• Michelin Guide: New York City 2012
  • Gridskipper Map 2011
• Moon Guide: New York City Food
• National Geographic City Guide: New York City
• Nile Guide: New York City Restaurants
• SAVEUR Top Destinations: New York City
• Travel + Leisure: Restaurant Guide
• Wall Street Journal: NYC Food Guide

Review Sites – Crowdsource

• Foursquare New York City
• Menu Pages New York
• Qype New York City
• TripAdvisor: New York City Restaurants
• Urbanspoon: New York City
• Yelp: New York City Restaurants
• Zagat: New York

Articles

• Bon Appetit: New York Beer Scene Travel Guide
• CNN Traveller: New York: What To Do In A Day 2010 | 2008
• Delicious Magazine (UK): 48 hours in New York | Healthy eating | Top 5 NYC dessert spots
• epicurious: The Favorite New York Restaurants of the City’s Top Food Bloggers
• epicurious: New York’s Top Restaurants: Our critics pick the best eateries in five essential categories
• Esquire: Where You Should Eat in New York City Right Now 2011
• Essential Travel (UK): 24 hours in New York
• Evening Standard: Pizza the action in New York 2010
• Goop (Gwyneth Paltrow):  New York
• Gourmet Traveller (Australia): Matt Skinner’s insider guide to New York 2009
• Gridskipper: 10 Bars and Restaurants to Help You Survive Fashion Week 2010
• Gridskipper: Beginner’s Guide to Chinatown 2010
• Gridskipper: Dining in Manhattan’s Parks 2009
• Gridskipper: Dirt Cheap New York Eats 2009
• Gridskipper: German Restaurants in NYC 2009
• Gridskipper: Harlem’s Food For the Soul 2008
• Gridskipper: Lobster Rolls in NYC 2009
• Gridskipper: The Long NYC Breakfast 2009
• Gridskipper: New York City’s Best Barbecue 2009
• Gridskipper: New York’s Top-Dollar Restaurants 2009
• Gridskipper: NY’s Best Moules Frites 2009
• Gridskipper: New York City’s Best Hangover Restaurants 2011
• Gridskipper: NYC’s Best Soups 2008
• Gridskipper: NYC Hand Food 2009
• Gridskipper: NYC’s Most Delicious Hot Dogs 2008
• Gridskipper: NYC’s Top Bagel Shops 2009
• Gridskipper: Ode to New York Steak Palaces 2009
• Gridskipper: Time Warner Center-Adjacent Lunch Spots 2009
• Gridskipper: Two Blocks from 30 Rock: Lunch 2009
• Grub Street: Jeffrey Steingarten Cooks Goat Sous-Vide, Disdains Brooklyn Boosterism 2010
• Guardian: Ten top live music bars in New York 2009
• Guardian: Top 10 bars in NYC 2008
• Independent: After dark in New York: Chef Daniel Boulud reveals his favourite places to dine 2008
• Independent: 48 Hours in New York 2007 | 2003
• NY Times 36 Hours: New York City 2010
• NY Times: A New York City Weekend for $100 2011
• NY Times: New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously 2010
• NY Times: Crust Is a Canvas for Pizza’s New Wave 2009
• NY Times: A Tour Guide Tames Lunch in Midtown 2009
• NY Times: A New York City Weekend for $100 2010
• Reuters: 48 hours in New York on a shoestring 2010
• Reuters: 48 hours in New York for the holidays 2008
• Saveur: 24 Hours of Paris — In New York
• Spectator (UK): New York: an insider’s guide 2010
• TampTamp: NYC’s Top 10 Coffee of 2010 2010
• Taxi Gourmet: Top 15 Cabbie-Recommended Dishes in NYC 2010
• Time: New York City: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours

Television Shows

• Anthony Bourdain Layover Episode: New York City
• Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Episode: New York City
• Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Episode: Disappearing Manhattan
• Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Episode: Outer Boroughs
• Bizarre Foods Episode: New York
  • NY Post: My ‘Bizarre’ food New York: Andrew Zimmer
• Man v Food Episode: New York City

Discussion Boards

• Chowhound Manhattan
  • Best
• Chowhound Outer Boroughs
• eGullet: New York
• Quora New York City
• TripAdvisor: New York City Forum

Neighboring Resources (Brooklyn media)

• Brokelyn: Food & Drink
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle On Food
• Brooklyn Paper Dining
• Brownstoner Restaurants
• Edible Brooklyn
• Food and Wine Go List Brooklyn 2011
• Free Williamsburg Dining
• Brooklynguy’s Wine and Food Blog
• Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog
• Articles
  • Conde Nast Traveller Where to Eat Out: Brooklyn
  • Gridskipper: Boozing in DUMBO 2009
  • Gridskipper: Boozing on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn 2009
  • Gridskipper: Brooklyn Sushi 101 2009
  • Gridskipper: Brooklyn’s French Eateries 2008
  • Gridskipper: Brooklyn’s Workingman’s Pizzerias 2009
  • Gridskipper: BYOB Williamsburg 2008
  • Gridskipper: (The Other) 5th Avenue 2009
  • Irish Echo: A feast grows in Brooklyn 2010
  • NY Times: Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement 2009
  • NY Times 36 Hours: Brooklyn 2011 | 2005
• Television Shows
  • Man v Food Episode: Brooklyn

Neighboring Resources (Queens media)

• Queens Courier Dining
• Queens Gazette Restaurants
• Queens Tribune Restaurant Reviews
  • Best of Queens 2008
• Edible Queens
• Articles
  • Gridskipper: New York’s Other Chinatown 2008
  • Gridskipper: Queens Eats Under $10 2009
  • NY Times: Great Eating in Flushing 2008
  • NY Times: Over the Queensboro, to Nosh 2011

Neighboring Resources (Staten Island media)

• Staten Island Advance Food and Dining
• What’s Good Dining

Neighboring Resources (Long Island media)

• exploreLI Restaurants (Newsday)
  • Long Island’s all-star chefs
  • Long Island’s Best pizza
  • Fine Dining on Long Island
• Long Island Press Food
  • Best Of Long Island
• Thrillist Hamptons Food
• Bon Appetit: North Fork, Long Island Travel Guide
• Conde Nast Traveller Where to Eat Out: Bridgehampton
• Conde Nast Traveller Where to Eat Out: Hamptons
• Hampton Magazine East End Eats
• Zagat: Long Island
• Edible East End
• Television Shows
  • Man v Food Episode: Long Island
• Articles:
  • NY Magazine: Take the Kids to the Hamptons 2007
  • NY Magazine: Summer on the Cheap in Montauk 2007
  • NY Magazine: Explore Modern Montauk 2010

Neighboring Resources (Upstate New York/Hudson Valley media)

• LoHud.com (Journal News) Small Bites
• Metromix Hudson Valley
• Westchester Magazine Restaurants
  • Best of Westchester, NY
• Rockland County’s Best Magazine Restaurant
• Westchester WAG Wining and Dining
• Hudson Independent Food
• Zagat: Westchester
• Articles
  • NY Post: 10 reasons to love Westchester now

Neighboring Resources (Connecticut media)

• The Hour (Norwalk) Food
• Stamford Advocate Food
• Connecticut Post (Bridgeport) Food
• Greenwich Time Food
• The News-Times of Danbury Food
• The Stamford Times Food
• Connecticut Magazine Dining Guide
  • Best of Connecticut 2010
  • Reader’s Choice 2010
  • The Breakfast Bunch
• Moffly Media (Fairfield County) Food and Drink
  • Best of the Gold Coast
• Stamford Plus magazine
• The Feast Connecticut
• Zagat: Connecticut
• Articles:
  • NY Magazine: Rediscover Connecticut 2007

Neighboring Resources (New Jersey media)

• The Star-Ledger (Newark) Food and Dining
• Metromix Jersey Shore Restaurants (Asbury Park Press)
  • Best of Awards
• Bergen Record and Herad News Food/Dining
  • Table Talk Blog
  • Second Helpings Blog
• Courier News (Bridgewater) Food
• New Jersey Monthly Restaurants
  • Table Hopping with Rosie
  • Best of New Jersey
• (201) Magazine (Bergen) Food
  • Best of Bergen
• Edible Jersey
• Jersey Bites
• Off the Broiler
• Television Shows
  • Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Episode: New Jersey
  • Man v Food Episode: New Jersey