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New York City Restaurant Reviews

Taking a bite out of the Big Apple is like taking a tasting trip around the world. At every meal you can dash off to a new country and dip your fork and spoon into the local cuisine without the international jet lag. People from all corners of the globe have opened restaurants here, and Manhattan's hungry masses, urban gourmands, and food critics have welcomed their diverse dishes and asked for seconds.

Whether you love Italian pasta, Thai noodle soups, or French pastries or you're looking to try something new, like Ethiopian kifto (spiced ground steak), a Scandinavian herring sampler, Lebanese pita bread, or Japanese desserts, just seek and you shall find. Your food journey may lead you to Chinatown for Cantonese, Cambodian, or Malaysian, to East 6th Street for Indian, to Harlem for Soul Food, or to Little Italy and Koreatown.

And New Yorkers aren't only infatuated with "foreign" food. We love our delis and diners, our American comfort food and regional cuisines. You'll find plenty of great burgers, bagels, seafood, steak houses, Texas BBQ, and New York pizza, the best kind (take that, Chicago). For elegant American fare, visit Gramercy Tavern, Hundred Acres, Dovetail, Apiary, or Per Se. For something a little spicier, try Elettaria, a Greenwich Village restaurant that serves contemporary American cuisine with Indian and South Asian influences. For adventurous food where cooking and alchemy meet, make reservations at Wylie Dufresne's wd~50, P*ong, or Eleven Madison Park.

New food trends hit the NYC dining scene all the time. Currently, restaurants are big on the locavore movement. More and more chefs—like those at Blue Hill and Eighty One—are seeking local, all-natural, market-to-table ingredients, and putting an emphasis on seasonal menus. We've also seen an insurgence of mobile gourmet food trucks doling out everything from desserts, dumplings, and waffles to tacos, pizza, and BBQ, a moveable feast indeed.

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