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Carnitas Ramírez
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Mexican
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East Village
Carnitas Ramírez, the sequel to the wildly popular Mexico City-style taqueria Taqueria Ramirez, is all about the pig, and it’s even more ambitious and exciting than the original.
By Priya Krishna
Sept. 17, 2024
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Lola’s
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Asian, Southern
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NoMad
At Lola’s, the chef and co-owner Suzanne Cupps offers a seasonal, vegetable-driven menu that feels like the kind of food you’d want to cook at home, except a lot better, built on classic techniques and a brilliant spark.
By Melissa Clark
Sept. 3, 2024
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Bungalow
NYT Critic’s Pick
3 star
Indian
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East Village
Bungalow, presided over by the famed television chef Vikas Khanna, serves personal and deeply creative spins on regional Indian dishes that defy expectations about what Indian restaurant food ought to be.
By Priya Krishna
Aug. 20, 2024
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Yemenat
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Middle Eastern
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Bay Ridge
Yemenat, opened by three refugees from the civil war in Yemen, has built a roster of dishes from all over the country. There are classic dishes served in most of the places where Yemenis gather in New York, like lamb haneeth. Other dishes are not so easily found, like shafoot, made by soaking a spongy bread in pea-green herbed yogurt sauce.
By Pete Wells
July 30, 2024
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Coqodaq
1 star
Korean
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Flatiron district
You can have a good time at Coqodaq, especially if you like eating Korean fried chicken out of a bucket and spending money on Champagne. The restaurant exploits our sentimental nostalgia for the chain restaurants of childhood, along with our suspicion that the future will be worse than the present so we’d better live it up while we can.
By Pete Wells
July 23, 2024
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Spice Brothers
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Middle Eastern
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East Village
Shawarma may seem like an unlikely choice for two classically trained chefs, especially in a city that already has a full variety of revolving meat towers. But the insight behind Lior Lev Sercarz and David Malbequi’s first restaurant together is that shawarma can be a vehicle for rubs, marinades, sauces and last-minute dustings of one powder or another.
By Pete Wells
July 2, 2024
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Penny
NYT Critic’s Pick
3 star
American, Seafood
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East Village
Seafood of one kind or another turns up in almost every item on the menu, handled with unusual sensitivity and clarity. Penny is a little reminiscent of the seafood counters of Barcelona, such as Lluritu and Cal Pep.
By Pete Wells
June 11, 2024
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Ilis
1 star
American, Scandinavian
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Greenpoint
Mads Refslund, the Danish-born chef and an owner of ILIS, is one of the founders of the naturalistic, intricate New Nordic style. His kitchen uses shells, sticks, wax and leaves as service pieces, and many of Ilis’s dishes have a certain spooky pagan beauty.
By Pete Wells
May 14, 2024
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Hamburger America
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
American, Hamburgers
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SoHo
It’s part fast-food restaurant, part shrine to roadside America, part art installation, part nostalgia immersion. The nostalgia is not some manufactured, soft-core exploitation; it’s more like an attempt to bring the past back to life by re-enacting it, one hamburger at a time.
By Pete Wells
April 16, 2024
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Shaw-naé’s House
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
American, Caribbean
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Stapleton
Shaw-naé Dixon, the chef and owner, makes a from-scratch style of soul food not often seen in New York City. A self-taught cook, Ms. Dixon has freely adapted the old Southern standbys, lightening here, tightening there.
By Pete Wells
April 2, 2024
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Carnitas Ramírez

Lola’s

Bungalow

Yemenat

Coqodaq

Spice Brothers

Penny

Ilis

Hamburger America

Shaw-naé’s House