Platonic ideal of the West Village restaurant, circa 2010: Small and cluttered with vintage-looking furniture; a menu of cheffed-up peasant food; charcuterie and oysters; strong drinks; non-bludgeoning prices. This is more or less what you’ll find at Joseph Leonard [...]

Once you figure out which door to walk into—the Standard Hotel and its various lobbies and lounges seem to have about 17 entry points—you’re in for a meal that, however close it comes to sating your food desires, should at least temporarily calm your “Is New York still the center of the universe?” worries. The Standard Grill pulses with a certain be-here-nowness [...]

If you haven’t figured out where to eat tonight but are circling around the idea of a cozy/Italian/inexpensive/crowd-pleaser/West Village sort of place, head to the triangle formed roughly by Greenwich Ave., Eighth Ave., and West 11th. Where exactly? You could start with Dell’Anima, where [...]

It always seems ridiculous to name any burger NYC’s best; there are way too many variables, plus those silly awards have a way of ruining the things they celebrate (too much demand is the road to sloppiness). But it’s safe to say Market Table has one of the city’s best, an ingeniously executed burger made [...]

The city is packed with sushi joints (although very few outstanding ones) but there still aren’t enough restaurants doing what chef Sotohiro Kasugi does at Soto: Gorgeous, deceptively simple, crudo-like spins on raw seafood. His [...]