Blanca is a 12-seat tasting-menu restaurant hidden in a room behind Roberta’s. And it’s incredible.

Le Turtle is a Lower East Side restaurant that we almost thought was a joke. Turns out the joke’s on us.

This place is so real, it’s not even real. Or is it?

Oxalis serves a tasting menu of seasonal dishes in a casual space in Prospect Heights.

The Aviary NYC is an overpriced cocktail bar in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Midtown.

Honey Badger is a tiny, experimental restaurant in Prospect Lefferts Garden that serves things like ostrich tartare in an ostrich shell.