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Minetta Tavern It’s not too often that the coolest new ‘it’ restaurant in town not only pulls a highly fashionable, star studded crowd but actually turns out incredible food into the mix. You’re just as likely to find foodies as you are movie stars, models and a relaxed crowd of locals. With a distinctly 1930’s feel and a warm, buzzing candlelit ambience, Minetta Tavern has been dusted off and revamped by NYC restaurant demi-god, Keith McNally (of Balthazar and Pastis fame), who has the midas touch when its comes to re-launching fabulous local institutions.
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The Breslin Dining Room Following the success of her Michelin star gastropub, The Spotted Pig, in New York's Greenwich Village, acclaimed chef April Bloomfield has turned her attention to a new dining venture in the hipster-favourite hotel, The Ace Hotel. Renowned for her nose-to-tail modern British cuisine with rich, bold and hearty seasonal flavours, The Breslin Restaurant & Bar is packed every night (and we mean like sardines). This place is not really for health conscious diners, with a meat-heavy, artery-clogging menu of comfort food favourites.
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Locande Verde Acclaimed actor and restauranter Robert DeNiro’s fantastic new venture, Locanda Verde, boasts a cosy-yet-cool modern design, heart-warming Italian comfort cuisine and a relaxed, fashionable local crowd. The restaurant is tucked away on a quiet Tribeca backstreet in the A-list celebrity favourite, The Greenwich Hotel. After spending many years behind the stove in some of New York’s best fine dining restaurants, chef Andrew Carmellini has taken a change of pace by opting for a more crowd-pleasing, soul satisfying menu of Italian flavours.
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Blue Ribbon It’s rare to find a chain of restaurants that, a) are generally any good; b) can replicate the quality of food and dining throughout multiple restaurants, while still creating a fresh, new dining experience. The Bromberg Brothers’ Blue Ribbon restaurant group have found the magic formula, because all of their six restaurants in Manhattan have been a smash-hit. Local favourite Blue Ribbon Bakery, is set within a casual, rustic wooden space yet serves cuisine that is so heart-warming and stomach-satisfyingly good that you’ll want to slowly work your way through the entire menu.
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