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The owners of Bamboo 52, Philip Marie, and Posh created this Hell’s Kitchen sports bar, featuring cheap burgers and beer.

An ambitious Italian menu that mixes the familiar and the obscure.

Daniela and Chris LaMotta opened Agua Dulce with operating partner Fernando Riquelme (Pampano, Rosa Mexicano), and a “Latin Regency” design scheme.

A family-style pizza place in the Ed Sullivan Theater puts a premium on blackened crusts and fresh ingredients.

A family-style pizza place puts a premium on blackened crusts and fresh ingredients.

The architect of the menu at Anthos is Michael Psilakis, a talented, kinetic chef who is fast becoming the poster boy of this unlikely Greek revival, the Mario Batali of “New Aegean” cuisine.

Mandy Oser’s day job is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Le Bernardin, but her next strategic partnership is with three other oenophiles (including her fiancé) at this wine bar.

A decent vegetarian selection and nearly two dozen kebab options set Ariana apart.

Reliable Mexican joint where the margaritas are strong and the food abundant.

What seems at first like yet another copycat Italian outpost, and a pricey one at that, is actually pleasantly understated.

This Israeli cafe offers a swipe of hummus, artful splashes of zhug and amba, and a distinctive, pillowy pita for only $4.60.

Korean-inspired entree rice “salads” are the key here, either in design-it-yourself combinations or suggested renditions.

It looks, sounds, and feels like a nightclub, but there’s good, fresh sushi too.

The fourth outpost of Woo Lae Oak's bi-coastal chainlet brings nouveau Korean cuisine to Hell's Kitchen.

Tex-Mex master and brash Iron Chef Bobby Flay tackles the brasserie idiom, American style.

The Modern's other half.

Moderate prices, understated design, and careful cooking distinguish this Hell’s Kitchen Indian spot.

Upscale Indian brasserie features authentically prepared regional specialties and a popular all-you-can-eat buffet lunch.

Cooking everything over an open fire never worked so well.

Serene Northern Italian digs with big flavors and equally big portions for pre-theatre dressed-to-kill couples.

A rollicking steakhouse feeding hordes of beef-eating businessmen and the people who love them.

Lickety-split tableside Japanese cooking shows.

Alain Ducasse opens a Stateside outpost of his casual Paris bistro Benoit in the space that was formerly La Cote Basque.

Laurent Tourondel's homage to the cult of the artisanal, the farm-raised, and the locally grown in a has all the totems of the new orthodoxy on display like photos of the restaurant’s purveyors cuddling dirty truffles and barnyard ducks.