{"id":246794,"date":"2026-05-28T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246794\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:53:19","slug":"best-new-york-city-restaurants-for-a-guys-dinner-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246794\/","title":{"rendered":"Best New York City Restaurants for a Guys\u2019 Dinner: 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guys&#8217; dinner is the meal that doesn&#8217;t need a reason but always has one\u2014a brother flying in, a deal closing, a 38th birthday, a bachelor party with a flight from Atlanta and a hotel in Tribeca. New York is built for the genre, with a chophouse tradition running back to the 1880s, <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/list\/new-york-city-best-greek-restaurants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Greek seafood row<\/a> on Ditmars Boulevard and a Pan-American <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/list\/best-oyster-bars-new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oyster bar parked<\/a> on an island in the harbor. The captains and bartenders in this town have seen every version of eight men on a Saturday, and most have a particular move\u2014a wine they nudge you toward, a side they triple-comp, a way of materializing a four-top when the two-top suddenly won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>A few rules a room has to follow to qualify: It needs a proper bar\u2014not three stools by the host stand, but a landing strip where you can stand, order the first round and let the table sort itself out. It needs ambient noise\u2014a guys&#8217; dinner dies in a hushed room and lives in one that bounces the laughter back at you. It needs something to share\u2014a steak for the table, a baked pasta, a multi-course feast that arrives in waves. The menu has to bend for the friend who wants everything from the raw bar and the friend who doesn&#8217;t, and the music should drift up after 10 p.m. without anyone asking.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup lands at MetLife on July 19 with the city in full eat-and-drink mode, and the next two months will be thick with visiting fans, group reunions and last-minute table requests. Whether you&#8217;re here for the tournament or rounding up the boys, here are 21 rooms for whatever the night demands\u2014formal to informal, brand-new to century-old, each one ready for whatever you bring through the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A guys&#8217; dinner is the meal that doesn&#8217;t need a reason but always has one\u2014a brother flying in,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96413,30602,1804,79380,96405,16305,96414,96408,31657,25102,22982,23595,4962,96415,68997,96416,96417,96418,96419,96410,96404,96406,96412,57679,232,96420,36123,14074,96402,9,24,55,54,1791,56,1789,11654,11652,36128,821,96411,96409,96407,22986,96421,4561,20912,7295,52884,96403],"class_list":["post-246794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-4-charles-prime-rib","tag-adam-clayton-powell","tag-america-united-states","tag-andrew-carmellini","tag-angie-rito","tag-babe-ruth","tag-bowery-meat-company","tag-buddha-lo","tag-cafe-carmellini","tag-carbone","tag-coqodaq","tag-cote-korean-steakhouse","tag-crane-club","tag-cuerno-new-york","tag-din-tai-fung","tag-don-angie","tag-gage-tollner","tag-hawksmoor","tag-huso","tag-j-p-morgan","tag-james-baldwin","tag-josh-capon","tag-josh-nadel","tag-keens","tag-lifestyle","tag-maison-premiere","tag-marcus-samuelsson","tag-melissa-rodriguez","tag-nat-king-cole","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nightlife-dining","tag-ny","tag-nyc-restaurants","tag-pete-wells","tag-peter-luger","tag-red-rooster","tag-restaurants","tag-roshara-sanders","tag-scotley-innis","tag-scott-tacinelli","tag-simon-kim","tag-six-coasts-by-smorgasburg","tag-tatiana","tag-taverna-kyclades","tag-teddy-roosevelt","tag-torrisi","tag-zac-posen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}