Lower East Side
Lower East Side
Page 3Taikun Sushi
Taikun is an eight-seat omakase bar on the Lower East Side that serves a 13-course dinner for $85.
Parcelle
If you care about wine and talk about it often, you’ll like hanging out at Parcelle on the Lower East Side.
Jajaja Mexicana
Jajaja is a plant-based Mexican chain where you can eat some great food that just happens to be vegan
8282
Korean spot 8282 might just become your favorite LES hangout for fried chicken, gochujang margaritas, and delicious upscale anju and banju.
Lobby Lounge
Lobby Lounge is a fancy cocktail bar from the people behind Estela in the Nine Orchard hotel on the Lower East Side.
La Caverna
La Caverna is a Mexican restaurant on the LES where you can eat tacos and smoke hookah in a basement built like a cave.
Le Dive
Le Dive is a busy little wine bar in a very busy part of the Lower East Side, and it's a great spot to drink, snack, and take in a scene.
Mighties
Mighties is a burger spot in The Market Line on the LES that's never too busy. They use high-quality, grass-fed meat that's outrageously beefy in all the right ways.
Kuih Cafe
Kuih Cafe is open Friday through Sunday on the Lower East Side, and we encourage you to stop by for some kuih or a slice of durian cheesecake.
Una Pizza Napoletana
This LES restaurant is serving the best Neapolitan pies in NYC—and possibly the rest of the world, the Twittersphere, the Metaverse, and any other vaguely habitable place.
Lullaby Bar
The next time you're looking for a bar that has house-party energy and interesting cocktails, head to Lullaby on the Lower East Side.
Essex Pearl
Essex Pearl in the Market Line on the Lower East Side has a seafood-heavy, Southeast Asian menu, and it's great for a casual date.
Double Chicken Please
Double Chicken Please is a fun cocktail bar and restaurant on the Lower East Side with creative drinks on tap and a great hot honey fried chicken sandwich.
Pig & Butter
Pig & Butter is a tiny restaurant on the Lower East Side that serves brunch all week long.
Le French Diner
We like this tiny French restaurant on the Lower East Side so much we almost didn’t want to tell you about it.
Wu’s Wonton King
Wu’s is a big restaurant on the LES where you can get a whole roasted suckling pig and sit around a big round table. Plus, it’s BYOB.
Dhamaka
Dhamaka is an Indian restaurant in Essex Market on the Lower East Side serving fantastic regional specialties that are hard to find elsewhere in NYC.
Wildair
Wildair is a casual wine bar on the Lower East Side, attached to the acclaimed tasting menu restaurant Contra.
Cervo’s
Despite the wait times, we wholeheartedly recommend having a fun, seafood-dominated meal at Cervo’s on the Lower East Side.
Saigon Social
Saigon Social serves phenomenal Vietnamese food on the Lower East Side, and it’s one of our favorite new restaurants of 2020.
Wayla
Wayla is a fun spot on the Lower East Side, and it’s on our shortlist for best Thai food in NYC.