Four Horsemen sounds great - thanks for the recommendation!
Those would have been my first two. Other options King, Frenchette and The Modern.
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The were serving kurkuri aloo chaat at La fete today. One of the highlights of the food.
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I had 3 dinners on Monday Night
1st stop Estella (Julian Haart
Riesling Goldtröpfchen Kabinett 2024)
2nd stop The Noortwyck (Suenen C+C)
3rd stop Zimmis (Gonon 2014)
It was all so good. This city is delightful
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Jeez. Iâve heard of a bang bang. But a bang bang bang? âNother level.
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I have been traveling a lot and after a meal in Boston at a restaurant that was picked for the NY Times Americaâs best 50 in the U.S list I thought to myself the food was not even close to my last 50+ meals in NYC. Similar thoughts after a few meals in Raleigh-Durham this week.
Now Nashville that is an entirely different story. I will be putting up a writeup in the Nashville thread. What an exciting food scene!
I am back in NYC tomorrow and having a hard time on deciding where to go!
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Eyval, duh.
looking fwd to your Nashville post!
Finally made it to Kabawa last night. Great meal and awesome service. Will definitely be back soon
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anyone ever been to eulalie? i always forget this place because its not on the reservation sites but figured id ask if anyone has been. the ânewâ version is in the former batard/montrachet space.
You came here for the food??? 
Iâve had a similar run the past two weeks (not in one night!). Dinners at Estela, Noortwyck, CheLi, Sushi Sho, and Crown Shy. The one, sadly, notable miss was I ended up at Daniel for a last minute celebratory dinner. We drank an 88 Ducru that was lovely, but the rest of the meal was forgettable, especially for the cost.
The rest, however, were all great in their own ways. A special shout out for Sushi Sho if folks are into high end sushi. Outside of Japanâs itâs one of the best sushi places Iâve eaten. Estela was excellent as always - I always find something interesting to drink from the wine list Alessandra and her team have put together and the classic dishes (fried arroz negro, endive cups) are always great. At Noortwyck I drank my first Phelan Farm Chardonnay which was quite good and the current pasta lineup is excellent.
There are many amazing cities to dine in around this great big world, but NYCâs combination of quality, variety, energy, and wine+food symbiosis is hard to beat. Oh what a time to be alive. 
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Dave Barry on NYC restaurants today:
New York was great. Itâs an amazing city, a world-class cultural center with so much to offer: The museums, the theaters, the symphony, the ballet, the opera⊠these are all things I may have walked past on my way to the restaurants. Because the main cultural activity I engaged in there was eating.
Of course I didnât eat at any of the really trendy restaurants; I wouldnât have been able to get a table. Nobody can. Thatâs why theyâre trendy. The way it works is, an important influencer or a famous celebrity such as Taylor Swift eats at a certain restaurant, or the New York Times prints a rave review, and immediately thousands of New Yorkers attempt to make reservations there, which creates a logistical problem because the typical New York restaurant has roughly the same square footage as a yoga mat. So pretty soon the restaurant stops taking reservations altogether, which means if you want a table you have to go there in person and wait in line (or as they say in New York, on line). This only makes the restaurant more desirable to New Yorkers. These are the same people who become visibly annoyed if somebody in front of them on the sidewalk is walking slower than 16 miles per hour, yet they will patiently stand motionless for hours outside a restaurant in hopes of getting a tiny table jammed in so close to another tiny table that you sometimes accidentally take a bite from a complete strangerâs entree. And the longer the line outside is, the trendier the restaurant is deemed to be. In fact the ultimate New York restaurant would never seat anybody. It wouldnât even need to have an interior. It would just be a closed door with a long line of trendy New Yorkers staring at it hopefully.
The whole piece is Barry-funny (with some seriousness thrown in for good measure).
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incredible piece of writing! thanks for sharing
I was in town for work meetings.
Had a decent meal last night at Peregrine. Luckily I checked the wine list ahead of time. It was pretty bad. I stopped at the new St Pierre wine bar / shop which is great and picked up a few bottles. They all showed great. Hospitality and wine service at Peregrine could not have been nicer.
Didnât mean to give you a hard time, Robert, more a comment about the food scene here out in the provinces, where âdecentâ is more rare than it should be, and inspired even more so.
No place like Noo Yawk.
Heck, I witness the massive wealth daily, when customers think nothing of ordering REAL shrimp wontons as extras with their soup noodles.
My wife and I will be in NYC in a couple of weeks. I havenât been in the city in over 15 years so I have greatly appreciated reading all the reports in this thread. We have dinner reservations for Smithereens, Lei, and Atoboy. What are everyoneâs favorite places to grab a glass before dinner or a drink afterwards?
The Parcelle Chinatown bar is ~10m walk from Lei. Reservations recommended.
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I usually go to Gramercy Tavern or Union Square Cafe, BYOW.