Eating At The Bar

If any restaurant could survive on atmosphere alone, it would be this one. But the food is pretty great too.

At this funky Red Hook restaurant, you can eat fried saltines and drink mai tai sodas.

Leland Eating & Drinking House serves excellent small plates, fresh focaccia, and hot cocktails from its corner spot in Prospect Heights.

Duffy’s Tavern makes a burger with three slices of cheese.

For a reliable bowl of ramen, Momofuku Noodle Bar always works.

Ignore the "Steak House" in the name, and treat Donohue's like the old-school Irish pub it really is.

Next time you’re looking for a date-night restaurant on the LES, book one of the kotatsu tables at Yopparai for some excellent Japanese food and sake.

A wine bar in Gowanus with an impressively saucy fried chicken sandwich.

Plug Uglies is an Irish sports bar with a great name and even better wings.

Grab some pre-flight nachos and a beer at this sports bar in LaGuardia's Terminal C.

Eat potato salad and drink martinis at this Basque spot from the team behind Cervo’s and The Fly.

It’s a chicken restaurant, where very special feels very easy. Come with a book, come with a friend, or come for your birthday.

A fun Israeli restaurant for a properly sexy date night.

The most reliable restaurant in New York. In a sexy way.

Casa Mono’s open kitchen is just as exciting as their encyclopedic Spanish wine and vermouth program.

Eat some very solid Spanish food and drink great cocktails next to a mural of Don Quijote fighting some windmills in this historic hotel restaurant.

Find some excellent pan con tomate at this Spanish restaurant and tapas bar in Soho.

Eyval is a Persian restaurant in Bushwick where you can eat stylish small plates like fava bean borani and potato tahdig.

A dream-come-true dinner party in Hamilton Heights, with excellent Mexican food.

For a big burger and saucy wings, go to Bonnie's Grill in Park Slope.

Fausto is a Park Slope Italian restaurant that’s great for a celebratory dinner or a date you really don’t want to mess up.

This pop-up will put jerk seasoning in anything, from wings and tacos, to pork shu mai and lo mein. It all works.

Fort Greene's premier destination for crunchy fried shrimp and bright red cocktails that look like they belong at Margaritaville.

Treat yourself to a seven-roll temaki box set at this 10-seat sushi counter in Long Island City.

The next time you need a big fish dinner, head for this Greenpoint patio.