Frequently out of towners when they believe about New York dining, they think about extraordinarily generous, dear food with interior decor designed by well-known star-chitects with much more well known celebrity chef’s advising the eaterie name. While those restaurants ( Olive, Spice Market, or all the Jean Georges for that matter ) are amazing restaurants- they should be, because disgusting amounts of cash are devoted to their selling, and management team, where the taste, quality of food is one of the major part in the well-oiled machine that is the culinary food experience. Nonetheless I want to highlight some of my favourite restaurants that are all a bit below the radar, and is going to be on your list of expensive New York restaurants to hit if you are visiting from out of town.

1. Casa Mono- Tapas- Stupendously little space- but they’ve got a sister wine bar nextdoor called Bar Jamon that permits you to slurp on amazing Riojas while you wait. This is also a fairly smart business strategy, so they never basically lose consumers to long waits. The food here at one of the expensive New York restaurants is actually based usually on Catalan style tapas, and not the north Pinxchos variety, and it’s more “done up” than you are typical run of the mill tapas bar that serve tortillas ( Spanish omelets loaded in butter and potatoes ) and croquettes. They serve a mean razor clam dish, and boiled short rib. Though I am not eager on sweet bread ( that’d be brain… ) it’s totally good from what I’ve heard. Dcor is straightforward, dark woods, and ambiance is dark and comfy. 2.

Sakagura- Japanese / Sake Bar a totally random location in the basement in midtown east, but if you are looking for the best broiled pork belly, authentic yet delightful Japanese street food and sake served the way in which it should be ( not in a box, but iced in a standard hollowed out glass server ) here is where you must try. Listed one amongst the expensive New York restaurants,it is in the basement of an office building, but if you go around late Apr, early May, it is stuffed with precise cherry blossoms attached to each column. Wonderful! There is not any sushi there- only prepared cooked food, and no, you will not find any chicken teriyaki there either.

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