New York Magazine

Fashionable duds and charming antiques surround diners at this restaurant nestled within a designer clothing store.

A cozy D.J.-equipped mezzanine overlooks an airy formal dining room decorated with images of the owners’ grandfathers (Abe and Arthur), while former Brasserie chef Franklin Becker serves refined American food.

A petite steakhouse where a taxidermied version of your dinner looms overhead.

Situated across from Hudson River Park, Antica Venezia Ristorante’s relative remoteness suggests a tidy spot for a tryst.

Well-crafted panini and tramezzini washed down with easy-drinking wines.

A wine bar serving lunch and dinner.

A three-hour cruise around lower Manhattan that evokes memories of sultry bateau-mouche rides down the Seine.

Snappy fast-food stand that both carnivores and quasi-vegetarians will like.

A vegan spot complete with a selection of organic wines and beer.

Indian street food distinguished by celebrity chefs.

One of the few raw oyster bars in the city, Bongo is a catch!

Art-world hotspot in Chelsea West, strategically located near key galleries.

A stylish fast-food joint where the burgers and shakes rely on locally produced ingredients.

The second wave of Stephen Starr's well-orchestrated shock-and-awe campaign to take culinary Manhattan.

Tasty eats and juicy gossip at a cheery, no-pretense Puerto Rican diner.

A caffeinated couple behind the Greenpoint original opened this cozy Chelsea storefront serving a half-dozen single-origin roasts from North Carolina's renowned Counter Culture Coffee, each ground and brewed to order.

The folks at Cafeteria have honed a surefire formula: amped-up comfort food plus an unquestionably hip Chelsea setting, times 24 hours a day.

A spiffed-up luncheonette serves rustic Caribbean food and great Cuban sandwiches.

A solid Chelsea Italian restaurant.

Around-the-clock traditional diner fare at a cozy Chelsea spot.

Jim Lahey of Sullivan St Bakery opens a 54-seat Chelsea pizzeria as a stage for a new Lahey pizza creation—round, thin-crusted, Neapolitanish, and iconoclastically topped.

Five Points' rustic, Greenmarket-inspired menu and its casual hominess is reproduced at the Chelsea outpost, Cookshop.

Chef de cuisine Chris Albrecht, who opened the original Las Vegas Craftsteak, transcends the genre’s stale formula with kurobuta pork chops, braised osso buco, and a full spectrum of Colicchio-sanctioned sides.

That seriously grown-up $12 margarita sums up the tale.

A low-key Chelsea facade belies the extraordinary Italian offerings inside.