By Pete Wells, restaurant critic<\/p>\n
Here they are, the 100 best restaurants in New York City, ranked.\n <\/p>\n
There are at least two ways to read this list. Obviously, it is a guide, based on my decade of reviewing. If you use it this way, though, be warned that at some of these places you\u2019ll have a smooth leather seat with a full view of the kitchen and at others you\u2019ll have to find an empty patch of sidewalk and eat on your feet. And most fall somewhere in between.\n <\/p>\n
The list can also be used as a composite portrait of the city. I\u2019ve attempted to arrange my favorite restaurants into a pattern that captures the diversity and character of dining in New York. This was the fun part because it gave me a chance to see the dining landscape differently. When I review restaurants, I try to consider each on its own merits, almost as if others didn\u2019t exist. That isolated view is a major basis for the star ratings I typically give out. (I stopped for a while during the height of the pandemic.)\n <\/p>\n
But of course restaurants in major cities don\u2019t exist in isolation, and writing as if they did has a way of distorting my eyesight. Looking only at what\u2019s on my plate, I can miss what\u2019s just outside my field of vision. That was one reason for writing this guide: After rating hundreds of trees, I wanted to have a look at the forest.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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