Restaurants Perfect For Impressing Out of Towners
our suggestions
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Picca
9575 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CADining in Los Angeles is different than dining in New York. You probably don’t need us to tell you that, but every time we eat food in this town, we’re reminded of the fact that having a valet out in front of the restaurant is just about as essential as getting good press. Let’s just [...]
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L’Artusi
228 W 10th St., West Village, NYL’Artusi can officially go on our list of favorite restaurants in this town. A few things stand out as qualifications for such an honor – outstanding and consistent food, great service, good music, and some ancillary entertainment that comes in the form of great people watching.
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Allswell
124 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NYSometimes when we head for Brooklyn to check out a restaurant that the locals are all fired up about, we end up disappointed. You quarantined Brooklynites can have a tendency to over-hype your beloved neighborhood staples – staples that sometimes wouldn’t cut it when put up against the big boys in the West Village or [...]
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Babbo
110 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, NYOf all the Batali restaurants, Babbo is the one most aligned with the Infatuation ideals for good eating. Del Posto, Lupa, Otto and Eataly have a tendency to be filled with faux-New Yorkers, which Stang covered in depth in the Lupa review. Babbo (and Casa Mono) are where the real motherf*ckers are at. When we [...]
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Mas (farmhouse)
39 Downing St., West Village, NYOne of our go-to destinations for Fine Dining in NYC. Mas is incredible.
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Vinegar Hill House
72 Hudson Ave., Brooklyn, NYOne of our favorite restaurants that is 100% worth the trip to DUMBO.
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Marlow & Sons
81 Broadway, Brooklyn, NYA funky oyster bar that’s relatively small in size but big on personality. Also, the food is great. Mark this down as an Infatuation favorite.
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Ippudo
65 4th Ave., East Village, NYIn my dreams there is a Japanese Willy Wonka, and his factory looks like one giant Ippudo. I want to be the fat little German kid that drowns in a river of pork broth and noodles. This updated review of Ippudo is not here to mark a change in our opinion of the place. I [...]
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Freemans
End of Freeman Alley, Lower East Side, NYIt’s painful going back and reading a lot of the reviews I wrote two and a half years ago, especially this one. Freemans was not only the first review ever written for this website, but my first stab at a restaurant review period. There was nothing Immaculate about my writing skills back then. Although its [...]
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Momofuku Ssäm Bar
207 2nd Ave., East Village, NYBelieve the hype. This is an all time Infatuation favorite. Be prepared to eat an unhealthy amount of pork and be very, very happy about it.
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