Five Top Tables: The Best Restaurants in New York City Right Now
A new power dining room with fried chicken and ice-cold martinis, knockout Vietnamese and the original Soho hangout.
Fried chicken with maple biscuits and sides of shredded kale salad and tuna-topped crispy rice at Danny’s.
Photographer: Patrick CapriglioneWelcome to Five Top Tables, a column from Bloomberg Pursuits to guide your dining decisions in major cities around the world, including London, Dubai, Paris, Brussels, Manila and Edinburgh.
New York is both easy and hard when you want to go out to eat. There are an estimated 18,000 restaurants across the five boroughs, so no matter what you’re craving, someone is doing a good job of making it. Whether it’s quality Indian food — the Big Apple’s is better than London’s, experts say — or a flaky Jamaican patty or a not-too-pricey steak, New York’s got it. Yet finding the best places is not easy in a city so vast. There are plenty of great restaurants, but alongside them disappointments. With costs climbing, it doesn’t pay to make dining mistakes.