Suspend your disbelief—at the weirdly non-New York vibe in the dining room, and at the fact that a seriously fantastic restaurant can exist in the Financial District tangle—and you’ll be in for one of the best food experiences to hit the city this year. At SHO [...]

Very rarely does a restaurant start hitting on all cylinders from the moment it opens. But to paraphrase that old ad: With a chef like Andrew Carmellini, it’s got to be good. At Locanda Verde, Italian-food genius Carmellini picks up where he left off at A Voce (which is now in Chicago transplant Missy Robbins’s highly capable hands) with a solid lineup of [...]

Ever since he turned up in NYC, first at the long-defunct Atlas on Central Park South, UK-born chef Paul Liebrandt has been sprouting all kinds of nut-job ideas—and bless him for that. Say what you will about molecular gastronomy and its equally overwrought brethren; it’s healthy to have a cheerfully bonkers streak running through a few of the city’s restaurants. Chicago embraced this long before NYC did. At Corton, Liebrandt may [...]

Matsugen, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s tribute to the soba noodle is—at least in its Tribeca incarnation—a pretty austere affair. The Tokyo branch is a little darker, louder, sexier, but New York City seems to equate soba-eating mostly with [...]