Crafty, creative farm-to-table ethos rules the roost at this tiny restaurant in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, from the minds behind fellow Brooklyn upstart The Pines.
Website: willowbk.com
Number of seats: 26
Average per-person check: $46
Popular dishes: Potato pierogi with oxtail, kimchi and onions; chicken liver cannoli with apple and graham; spring onion soup with poached egg and marinated shiitake.
What people come for: Natural wines, seasonal cocktails, CSA pickup point for a local farm.
Address: 506 Franklin Ave.
Phone Number: 718-399-2384

This casual but intensely refined Italian sandwich shop concept by the operators of the Major Food Group (Carbone, ZZ’s Clam Bar, Dirty French, Santina) expanded from its downtown original to an uptown outpost to go along with yet another inside Yankee Stadium.
Website: parmnyc.com
Number of seats: 100
Average per-person check: $45
Popular dishes: Chicken parmesan; house-roasted turkey sandwich; eggplant parmesan; warm mozzarella and garlic bread; ice cream cake.
What people come for: Party availability for groups of 20 to 100, catering options.
Address: 235 Columbus Ave.
Phone Number: 212-776-4921

At the wildly well-received new Whitney Museum of American Art, chef Michael Anthony, for the sake of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, offers smart, artful food to cultural aficionados and curious tourists alike.
Website: untitledatthewhitney.com
Number of seats: 62
Average per-person check: $45
Popular dishes: Spring onion and bacon tart; roasted and fried chicken with tatsoi and dill; grilled leeks and citrus-pasilla sauce.
What people come for: People-watching on extra outdoor patio seating.
Address: 99 Gansevoort St.
Phone Number: 212-570-3670