These 8 on the map
The 8 restaurants on this page, pinned where they actually are. Tap a marker to see which one it is — all 20 are on the map in the Whosly app.
New York American
Danny Meyer started on Union Square in 1985, and the landmarks are still around it and Flatiron. Downtown has the newer rooms, Harlem the soul food.
8 of the 20
Gramercy Tavern
FlatironNew American restaurant$$$$Danny Meyer's 1994 landmark, with Michael Anthony cooking; the front Tavern grills à la carte.
Union Square Cafe
Union SquareNew American restaurant$$$Danny Meyer's first restaurant, opened in 1985 and still cooking off the Greenmarket, now under chef Lena Ciardullo. A midday menu fills 2:30 to 5 daily; dinner runs to 10:30.
Minetta Tavern
Greenwich VillageAmerican restaurant$$$Open since 1937 on MacDougal Street, once a haunt of Hemingway and E. E. Cummings. The Black Label burger is prime dry-aged beef; supper runs 11 to midnight.
Crown Shy
Financial DistrictNew American restaurant$$$On the ground floor of 70 Pine's Art Deco tower, starred six months after its 2019 opening and every year since. Weekday lunch; tandoori flatbreads like short rib with horseradish.
The Odeon
TribecaAmerican brasserie$$$Tribeca's brasserie since 1980, with a different special each night (Wednesday's Cornish hen Kiev, Friday's farro risotto), French onion soup and a busy bar. Dinner from 5 daily.
Melba's
HarlemAmerican soul food restaurant$$Melba Wilson's comfort-food room on 114th Street, open since 2005 by a Harlem native who wanted to cook for the neighborhood that raised her. Daily from 11; weekends from 10.
Gage & Tollner
Downtown BrooklynAmerican chophouse$$$Brooklyn's famous chophouse of 1879 to 2004, revived on Fulton Street in 2021. Happy hour runs weekdays 5 to 6 and weekends 3 to 5.
Rolo's
RidgewoodNew American restaurant$$A wood-fired bar and grill in Ridgewood: polenta bread with Calabrian chili butter, two-sheet lasagna verde.
The other 12
The 20 are spread across 15 neighborhoods. Financial District (2), Greenwich Village (2), Nolita (2), Tribeca (2) and Williamsburg (2) have the most; Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Flatiron, Fort Greene, Harlem, Herald Square, Lower East Side, Midtown, Ridgewood and Union Square have one each.
+12 more in the app
A seafood tasting on the 63rd floor of an Art Deco tower, a natural-wine room in Williamsburg, a Tribeca townhouse with a chef's counter on the third floor, a Southern menu on Elizabeth Street, and more.
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All 20, on your own map
This page is 8 of them. The NYC American pack in Whosly has all 20 — add it and every one drops onto your map, ready to save, rate and turn into a plan your friends RSVP to from a text, no app needed to answer. The pack is included with Planner Pro.
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