Fine Dining

Acru is the kind of tasting menu restaurant where you’ll want to be a regular.

If you want to feel like you were airlifted to France for a first class date night, La Bastide in North Salem is the spot. 

If hearing “Oui, Chef!” through an open kitchen makes you giddy, you’ll like Yingtao.

This high-end tasting menu spot hidden in a Hell’s Kitchen grocery store delivers more on luxury than originality.

The $180, Korean-inspired tasting at this Seoul transplant is unique and impressive. But how about that view?

This non-profit kaiseki spot in Fort Greene is thoughtful about the details—and about its impact.

This tasting menu deploys liquid nitrogen and other fancy touches to showcase regional Filipino cuisine.

This $300 tasting menu blends Japanese ingredients with French technique.

Eleven Madison Park struggles to justify its $365 price tag, but it’s still an interesting experiment.

We can’t think of a more “farm-to-table” restaurant than Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where you drive past your dinner on the way to eating it.

Part seminar on Korean fermentation, part impressive tasting menu, this eight-seat counter in Long Island City is one of the most unique fine dining options in town.

Highway Restaurant & Bar has great patio seating and a big menu on Montauk Highway.

From the Atomix team, this Korean fine dining restaurant at Rockefeller Center serves impressive-looking dishes, but none of them are that exciting.

At this sleek, serious yakitori spot in Chinatown you’ll have bites of food so simple and perfect they’ll move you near tears.

Al Coro is a fine-dining restaurant in Chelsea serving a seasonal Italian tasting menu. It isn't quite as inventive as we'd like, but the food is decadent and well-executed.

Saga’s themeless tasting menu is eclipsed by the FiDi restaurant’s other extravagances. Fortunately, you can always reserve a spot at Saga’s upstairs bar, Overstory, for the same 63rd floor view.

Between the peaceful room, precise kombu-curing, and rhythmic pace of hot and cold plates, a meal at 69 Leonard will demand your presence like it’s the cult leader of a silent meditation retreat.

Kosaka is a small, upscale sushi restaurant in the West Village that has one omakase in a tranquil setting.

L'Abeille is a Japanese-French restaurant in Tribeca that will remind you that tasting menus can be special.

Hags is a queer-owned restaurant in the East Village that's redefining the idea of fine dining.

Marea in Midtown makes some of the best pasta in NYC. You must order the bone marrow and octopus fusilli.

The River Cafe is a nice spot for '90s-era fancy food with a breathtaking view of the Manhattan skyline.

Forgive us for this controversial take, but Le Bernardin is as amazing as you've heard.

You want the short version of this review? The cheapest meal at Sushi Noz costs $250, and it’s worth the price.

Cosme is an upscale Mexican restaurant in Flatiron that’s much more approachable than it appears to be.