This week on Resy we’re exploring the many facets of French restaurants in New York. We unpack why New York has always been obsessed with them. We ruminate on the timeless joy they bring. We help you get a table at Frenchette. We tell you where you should go to drink French wine. We’ve got a soft spot for a classic Midtown bistro. And we’ve got a list of French restaurants for every occasion.

 

Long gone are the days where French restaurants in the city equated to jacketed waiters and white tablecloths — although New York will never disavow haute cuisine, no matter how many pundits have declared fine dining is dead. Today, we’re seeing a proper rebirth of what French restaurants can be, from the quintessential brasserie to the exciting neobistro. So, if you’re saving French restaurants solely for the purpose of fancy, splurge-worthy occasions, we must inform you: You are missing out on some of the city’s most exciting dining experiences.

There is the perfect French restaurant for date night, for kids, for when you’re hungover, and everything in between, and we have them all listed here for you. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the excellent French restaurants here — we admit there will be many we’ll have missed — so, take this as a trusted resource of sorts, a list of places the Resy Editorial team has come to love and patronize over the years. As they say, bon appétit.

Dining and Cooking