The Rough Guide New York Restaurants

INTRODUCTION The great quality, diversity and magnitude of the New York restaurant scene may go a long way towards explaining the notoriously neurotic behavior of the citys diners. Only in this worldly metropolis of 18,000 restaurants does the simple act of settling upon a place to eat provoke the despair that comes from passing up hundreds of outstanding options. This guides 321 restaurant reviews, each a discerning outline filled in with local color, insight, attitude, specific recommendations and prices, will offer you invaluable assistance in making the best possible choices given your particular tastes, cravings, whereabouts and budget. From taqueria to trattoria, old hamburger joint to new American bistro, Thai hideaway to French hotspot, all the restaurants covered are enthusiastically recommended and none is exorbitantly priced. The Rough Guide to New York City Restaurants is organized by location. If you know where you plan on being or in which part of the city youd like to eat, you can consult the chapter in question and compare the dining options in that area. Detailed neighborhood maps help you pinpoint each restaurant. (If you prefer to choose by cuisine, check the indexes in the back of the guide.) Whether you have a lifetime, a week or 22 minutes to devote to dining out in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx or Staten Island, it will be virtually impossible to flip through the pages of this guide and wish you were somewhere else. New York is not, thank goodness, the be-all and end-all. The city of immigrants depends heavily on culinary capitals and unspoiled hinterlands the world over for inspiration. Nevertheless, this guide makes a very solid case for it being the greatest dining destination on the planet. There are arguably better locations for a single meal or a particular specialty. But nowhere else can you do it all so well in so little time.