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You no longer need to wear a necktie, though the crowd has nothing against them...

A singles-thronged cucina that's a Stuy Town culinary boon.

An uptown version of the Lower East Side staple attracts a young, well-heeled clientele for drinks, Italian small plates, and did we mention drinks?

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

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

It's not on Second Avenue anymore, but everything else will be the same, promise the pastrami pros, and Toidy-Toid and Toid is an excellent address for a delicatessen.

A noisy lunchtime crowd chows down on succulent Chinese chicken, duck, and pork.

Inspired new American cooking packs this handsome room nightly with Hell's Kitchen locals and clued-in theatergoers.

An independent coffee bar with a rabidly loyal clientele and an exceptional product.

When a dining establishment makes a good slice of pizza for 99 cents, the chances are excellent that there’s going to be a rabble of slavering slice hounds beating down its door.

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

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 first-rate celebration of Americana, with just a few Asian blips.

A spiffy Japanese restaurant where diners can their own food on small contraptions conveyed to their tables.

Of the three stylish Thai places Parkpoom Watanasuparp has opened in Hell’s Kitchen so far (Aura and Q2 are the others), Aceluck feels the coziest.

The great French chef returns to New York. This time, he’s toned it down some.

This Gramercy Park eatery serves up sloppy red-sauce classics.

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

Casual Midtown standby for decent Tex-Mex.

This pleasantly clubby steak house has expense-account execs, third-night daters, and tourists out to be impressed.

It may look a little like a Far Eastern amusement park, but Aja's excellent pan-Asian fare demands that you take it seriously.

A generic stop on the Murray Hill sushi trail.

A neighborhood Japanese restaurant with solid sushi rolls and decent fare.

A Turkish interloper on the midtown block known as Little Brazil.

Where United Nations delegates go for Lebanese.