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\n Chambers is one of the best wine-focused restaurants in the city.
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The Tribeca Festival<\/a> celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. My colleagues at Vulture<\/a> have put together their guide to what to see, and I\u2019m here in critical capacity to point you toward my favorite places to eat before or after a screening should you find yourself in the Triangle Below Canal, my ancestral home. This is not a list of the hot new places. There are plenty of new and newish restaurants in Tribeca worth your time \u2014 homey Eulalie<\/a> is my favorite from the past few years, as out-of-time as the neighborhood itself \u2014 but these are the places I return to over and over again, many of them happy veterans of the burg.<\/p>\n Farra Square Diner Walker\u2019s Takahachi<\/a> Chambers
<\/a>71 Worth St., nr. Church St.
Michelin-starred Atera is next door, ready to oblige you with a $325 tasting menu and award-winning wine list, but I\u2019d sooner sneak to sister Farra, which would undoubtedly cause more of a stir among the small-plate-and-village-Burgundy set if not for the long shadow of its sibling. You\u2019ll sit, essentially, in the open kitchen, either at one of a handful of tables or a chrome bar and get credit from out-of-neighborhooders for discovering a less-touted gem. The prices here are, let\u2019s say, Tribecan, but that puts them solidly in line with many similar establishments in and out of the neighborhood. Much attention gets lavished on Farra\u2019s long spiral of coiled shrimp ravioli, but I come back for the solid chicken schnitzel and a much better branzino than the usual standard, in an herbal vermouth butter sauce.<\/p>\n
<\/a>33 Leonard St., at Varick St.
Tribeca used to have more diners \u2014 R.I.P. Socrates, for those of us who remember \u2014 but now Square Diner soldiers on with the torch alone. It\u2019s still great. Ungentrified, unshellacked, and inarguable, Square is the kind of place every neighborhood should have, and once did. Club sandwich and fries for lunch, meatloaf for dinner. It\u2019s a beloved institution staffed by beloved institutions: last year, when one of its longtime servers was taken by ICE, residents began a public pressure campaign and secured his release<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/a>16 N Moore St., at Varick St.
Speaking of neighborhood legends: viva Walker\u2019s. An if-you-know Tribeca favorite for decades, Walker\u2019s has the grit of a pub and the menu of a tavern, plus enough crayons for the paper tablecloths to keep kids happy. (Young Matthew, in his crayon days, always ordered the chili.) Owner Jerry Walker passed away last December<\/a>, but the bar and its thoroughly decent burger continue, and long may they. Walker\u2019s family also owned the similarly-great Ear Inn<\/a>, nudged off this particular list only for being perilously close to Soho.<\/p>\n
145 Duane St., nr. W. Broadway
Nobu<\/a> left Hudson Street years ago, while blue-chip omakases pop up and wither away throughout the neighborhood, but Takahachi on Duane Street has been my preferred neighborhood option for years. I know there are sushi snobs out there who turn their nose up at this 20-plus-year veteran, but for garden-variety nigiri and maki, Takahachi remains my pick (at least in the absence of dearly departed Rosanjin on the same block). Now if only Blau Gans were still open a few doors down for a nightcap afterwards.<\/p>\n
<\/a>94 Chamber St., nr. Church St.
Greenmarket-meets-wine-cellar Chambers (f\/k\/a Racines) has settled into its groove in recent years, marrying Pascaline Lepeltier\u2019s encyclopedic wine list with fancy-but-not-too locavore cooking from Jon Karis. The only downside of that is now everybody knows it, and it can be a pain to get in, even at the bar. It\u2019s always worth a try, but if that doesn\u2019t work out, don\u2019t forget Terroir<\/a>, the elder statesman of Tribeca wino beacons, either. That spot\u2019s food is all over the map (literally: wild morel bucatini with PNW morels, \u201cSan Diego tacos suadero,\u201d wiener schnitzel), but then, so is the wine, with about a zillion pours by the glass (and a \u201cmanifesto\u201d to guide you through them all), with offerings especially deep on owner Paul Grieco\u2019s beloved riesling.<\/p>\n