The restaurant landscape looks very different than it did a year ago. And with so many new dishes to try and chefs to discover, we've joined forces with our colleagues at Eater to bring you a guide to the 66 best new (or newly relevant) places to eat
As anyone who’s dined out while seated next to a plexiglass screen or inside a plastic igloo knows, it’s not the restaurants that went away during the pandemic but the packed dining rooms that give them life and spirit. Finally, in this post-vaccination phase, something resembling normalcy has been restored.
At Ras Plant Based Ethopian. Photo: Dina Litovsky This high-energy Crown Heights spot opened just before the pandemic, and as soon as outdoor dining kicked off, owners Romeo and Milka Regalli — they’d met working at Milka’s mother’s Upper West Side Ethiopian staple, Awash — built a plant-lined patio that attracts a diverse crowd of the young and the meatless. “Everything is supposed to make you feel like you’re in a backyard in Ethiopia, somewhere fun and funky,” says Milka.
At Ugly Baby, New Yorkers exchange glances and ask their neighbors for recommendations — yes, even during a pandemic. The great unifier? The incendiary cooking of southern Thailand. After a winter restricted to delivery, the neighborhood rejoiced when chef-owner Sirichai Sreparplarn reopened for indoor dining in April. Even more exciting: His new menu was nearly three times as long as the original, comprising mostly new dishes like peek gai and kang leung .
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