best restaurant in nyc??

what would you say is the BEST restaurant in the city??? %26amp;%26amp; what is the best thing to order there??

best restaurant in nyc??

per se

its a tasting menu - they do have a vegetarian option

but, if you%26#39;ve been to French Laundry, a lot of the menu is similar

Joy, the excellent SF food blogger - confessionsofarestaurantwhore.com or something similar has a play by play description of the typical offerings with pictures!

best restaurant in nyc??

Daniel and Le Bernadin are always mentioned in the top 3 or 4

Jean Georges is also incredible.

I dont eat cooked fish so have never been to Le Bernardin

Gramercy and Gotham are also up there

I haven%26#39;t been to Daniel or Per Se, but Le Benardin is my favorite in the city. I lunch there twice each trip. www.le-bernardin.com

I have a feeling you and your family might also enjoy Fleur de Sel if you%26#39;re in that part of town. www.fleurdeselnyc.com

cdnnikki - what%26#39;s the fanciest restaurant you and your parents have eaten at in Cali?

thanks for all the suggestions!! :D

%26amp; to answer your question livetotravel i go to an assortment of restaurants... bc we travel (usually to northern cali) a lot we like to try out a little bit of everything --- japanese (sushi:D), italian, french, indian, etc... so price really isn%26#39;t that important (it%26#39;s not like we are going to have a 1,000 burger tho)... if we will leave with a memorable experience and satisfying meal we are game! lol

personally we love to go to the neighborhood hangouts that have food u can%26#39;t get anywhere else... like katz deli in the lower east side... that is a true deli... u won%26#39;t find a place like that here in so cal.

Based on your last post, you might like Vivolo, Nice Matin, Bistro 60 and more of those kind of places. Have been to Per Se, the food is great, world class, but certainly not a neighborhood place. If you want to go for a big splurge ($400 to $900 dollars for two if you drink litely) it is a culinary experience that lasts around 3 hours.

If you like Greek, Pylos is excellent. It%26#39;s in the East Village and is sooo good.

It%26#39;s website is www.pylosrestaurant.com

The Modern dining room (the duck is ridiculously good), Peter Luger%26#39;s (the best steakhouse), the River Cafe (which is on a barge under the Brooklyn Bridge with an amazing view of Manhattan; everything is amazing), Nobu (amazing sushi), Babbo, and Eleven Madison Park (the rib eye will make you cry). Also, slightly less glamorous, but equally delicious is a place called Hearth in the East Village.

As for some of the places recommended by others on this post: Le Bernardin is all about fish. I found the food at Daniel very good but not amazing; the real star at that restaurant is the chef, who hangs out there a lot, and the service, which is some hard-core, flawless, old-school ballet service.

Some amazing, relatively inexpensive, and casual spots that you won%26#39;t need a reservation weeks in advance to go to: Spotted Pig, Fatty Crab, Otto, Corner Bistro (the best messy bacon cheeseburger, although there are heated debates among New Yorkers about this), Momofoku Noodle Bar, DokSuni (great, authentic Korean that is better than 90% of Koreatown), and any of the cheap Vietnamese places on Baxter Street in Chinatown. These places all have great food and are very New York, e.g. not filled with tourists, businesspeople, or people having birthday/graduation/anniversary dinners (which is what 85% of the expensive ';great'; NY restaurants tend to be).