New York's 10 best restaurants (Part I)
Chosen by 600 food experts
New York, even if you’re not there or have never been, the city feels a bit like yours. Simply because of those overdoses of Sex and the City and Gossip Girl that we’ve absorbed over the years. There’s one thing almost as enjoyable as going to New York, and that’s dreaming about the city. Imagining where you’ll sleep, shop, and eat. Because aside from the fact that there are amazing restaurants in New York, with the right culinary choice, the chance of running into one of the main characters from the series you devoured is significant. Restaurant guide World of Mouth (nice pun, it must be said) surveyed 600 chefs, food journalists, and other food lovers about the places where they prefer to lick a plate clean. Here they come!
10. Koloman, 16th West 29Th Street
The chef is from Austria and therefore has a passion for viennoiserie (pastry specialties) which he combines with his love for French cuisine. There’s a small menu with bar food and a refined menu for those sitting at tables. Small but skilled, that’s evident in everything.
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9. The Noortwyck, 289 Bleecker Street, corner of 7th Avenue
With one line you’ve got me, you know. I really love those old Dutch, Americanized names like The Noortwyck (it gives me a huge Gilded Age feeling) and it’s also located on Bleecker Street, one of the coziest little streets in New York. The chefs work as much as possible with local products and have an extensive and ‘fun’ wine list. They are also open for brunch; very much a New York thing to do, and they also have a pastries and cocktail menu. Oh yes, they named the restaurant that because Noortwyck is Dutch for Northern District and the location is exactly where the northern part of New Amsterdam once was. Nice, right?
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8. Balthazar, 80 Spring Street
Have you seen the 73 questions with Anna Wintour? One of the questions asked is: where do you want to have lunch? She answers in a somewhat different tone: Balthazar. And Balthazar is a classic. It’s a cozy-looking, polished brasserie that they probably find very French, but I still find it incredibly American. They have the best eggs for breakfast, a lot of types of fish, and amazing bread. Next to the brasserie is their own bakery where you definitely want to buy a sandwich with that amazing Balthazar B baked in. Very high celebrity spotting potential.
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7. Fini Pizza, 305 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn
I just don’t know where to start telling what I love about Fini Pizza. The most important thing is that they want to enhance the neighborhood feeling, cherish the past, and look together towards the future. They sell traditional sliced pizzas, have thirty special trash bins that they place at small businesses and empty themselves to keep the neighborhood clean, they organize baseball games to enhance the neighborhood feeling (the winner gets to eat for free at Fini Pizza for life) and they give a standard 25 percent discount to teachers, police officers, and firefighters. This because they ensure a safe neighborhood and work towards the future.
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6. Katz’s Delicatessen, 205 Houston Street
Katz’s Deli is that typical deli you see in a hundred movies. Think: lots of neon and big letters. A bit of the counterpoint to Balthazar. You go here for the best bagel, coleslaw, and Jewish specialties like Matzo Ball Soup. Their corned beef and pastrami are the magnets of this place; they are prepared using a special recipe and take up to thirty days. They call it the melt-in-your-mouth pastrami.
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So, dear friends, tomorrow part 2. We have to keep it a bit exciting in life, otherwise this article will be way too long for our kind with a concentration span of max about four minutes :).
