The 100 best restaurants in New York City 2026
A list can be a way to make sense of chaos. In the case of New York, the challenge is overabundance. We have so many outstanding restaurants, it’s easy to forget how outstanding they are. We take them for granted. Let this list be your reminder.
To put it together, I scoured the city end to end. I took subways to the last stop, then walked, sometimes another 20 or 40 blocks. The journey to the restaurant could take longer than the meal. Always in a hurry, I remembered that, like many women in New York, I am very good at running in three-inch heels.
Of course, a list is never just a list. It is an argument: This is what is good, what matters. Cue the debate.
