Best tasting menu in New York, NY.
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- 3. Bohemian Restaurant.
- 4. Kochi.
- 5. Traif.
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1. Joomak Banjum
This Koreatown newcomer — from veterans of Union Square Hospitality Group’s Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant the Modern — features a $90 four-course tasting menu with options including truffle kung pao chicken, sourdough jajangmyeon, and a huckleberry brioche pudding.
2. Sushi On Me
Buckle in for the non-stop party at Sushi On Me, where the $89, 15-course omakase takes place in under an hour and comes with unlimited pours of sake. Far from a hushed sushi counter, the subterranean restaurant boasts live music on a nightly basis. Cash only.
3. Rezdôra
The acclaimed pasta pros at two-year-old Italian restaurant Rezdôra offer a $95 tasting menu that diverges from its a la carte lineup to highlight different types of pasta from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region.
4. Marble Dessert Dining
The dessert-focused, $95 tasting menu at Marble confidently criss-crosses sweet and savory boundaries to much success. While there’s no set items on the shapeshifting menu, expect lots of unexpected ingredient combinations, from chocolate and caviar tarts to beet and lychee desserts.
5. Niche Niche
At Niche Niche, a rotating cast of wine experts works with the restaurant to create a different four-course menu each night ($88 per person, with wine pairings). On Sundays and Mondays, the restaurant offers a separate tasting menu created by a guest chefs who work with the restaurant in one-week stints (price per person varies).
6. Sushi by M
This well-known, affordable omakase spot closed down its original East Village location and moved into a new, larger space in the same neighborhood earlier this year. While there’s more seating in the new spot, the guiding principle of Sushi by M’s less-expensive, speedy omakase service has remained the same.
7. The Musket Room
Michelin-starred Nolita standout the Musket Room, currently led by executive chef Mary Attea and pastry chef Camari Mick following a mid-pandemic reboot, offers a $95 dinner-only tasting menu.
ATOBOY
Chef-owner Junghyun “JP” Park originally opened Atoboy by taking the Korean staple of banchan to new heights with a large-format, affordable prix fixe menu.
Claro
This Michelin-starred gem in Gowanus lays claim to one of the nicest backyard patios in the city, and one of the heartiest four-course prix fixe menus, too. Claro is chef-owner TJ Steele’s love letter to Oaxaca and you can taste that in the riveting moles, the exceptional mezcal selection, and the housemade corn tortillas.
Dirt Candy
Is there anything chef-owner Amanda Cohen can’t do? A pioneer of vegetable-forward cooking and no-tipping policies, she’s one of the city’s (natch, the country’s) most influential chefs who also delivers one of the best — and most fun — tasting menus in the city, too.
Forsythia
Pasta purists adore this Lower East Side spot for its commitment to the art of pasta making in the Roman tradition. Beginning Feb. 1, Forsythia, which was a la carte only previously, will be prix-fixe only, and the menu includes your choice of five dishes — two antipasti, two pastas, and a dessert.
FRADEI
At Fradei, you never know exactly what your meal will entail and that’s the charm of it all: the true element of surprise. Chefs Sam Schwarz and Robert Cox will never divulge their menus until well after their three-week runs are over.
Fulgurances
The ephemeral nature of Fulgurances, likewise, makes it what it is: a destination for thrilling and inventive tasting menus in Greenpoint.
Joomak Banjum
What originally started as a pop-up from alums from The Modern (executive chef and partner Jiho Kim and chef de cuisine Brendan Skiber) and Electric Lemon (executive pastry chef and partner Kelly Nam) is now a brick-and-mortar spot that focuses on Korean-Chinese food, delivered with French technique and a decidedly New York point of view.
