{"id":347702,"date":"2026-09-15T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:26:09","slug":"four-nyc-restaurants-made-new-york-times-restaurant-list-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347702\/","title":{"rendered":"Four NYC Restaurants Made New York Times\u2019 Restaurant List of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers have no shortage of restaurant lists <\/a>to argue about. The latest gives us a manageable number of tables to debate: four NYC spots made\u00a0The New York Times\u2019 The Restaurant List 2026<\/a>, detailed the publication’s\u00a050 favorite restaurants in America.<\/p>\n

The local picks are Bistrot Ha,\u00a0Meju<\/a>,\u00a0Yamada<\/a>\u00a0and Zoli. They range from a lively French-Vietnamese bistro to a seafood restaurant where even the cheesecake takes a surprising turn. (And before anyone starts claiming a top finish, the Times\u2019 list is unranked.) The paper’s 16 reporters and editors traveled around the country for this year\u2019s edition and restaurants featured in previous years were excluded.<\/p>\n

Bistrot Ha is the newer, roomier sibling of the tiny Ha\u2019s Snack Bar, though \u201croomier\u201d is relative in New York. Chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha draw on French bistro cooking and Ha\u2019s Vietnamese heritage. That means leeks vinaigrette get a hit of Maggi, escargot arrive with lemongrass and a Pavlova takes inspiration from Vietnamese iced coffee.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED:\u00a0The New York Times just named this Caribbean stunner the best restaurant in all of New York<\/a><\/p>\n

At Meju, chef Hooni Kim makes fermentation the main event. Tucked behind a banchan shop, the intimate restaurant looks to traditional Korean methods at a time when plenty of the city\u2019s high-end Korean dining pushes in more experimental directions. Kim talks diners through the food himself, giving the meal a sense of connection to the person preparing it.<\/p>\n

\"Yamada\"
\nPhotograph: Evan Sung\/YamadaYamada <\/p>\n

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Yamada offers another kind of close-up experience. Chef Isao Yamada serves kaiseki, the seasonal Japanese progression of carefully composed dishes, at a minimalist counter. The Times praised his attention to subtle shifts in flavor and to the life of individual ingredients. If you want dinner with flashing lights and a grand reveal, this probably isn\u2019t your table. If you want to see what a chef can do with close attention, it might be.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Zoli, chef Ned Baldwin\u2019s seafood spot, where the menu veers from surf clam aguachile and red shrimp tartare with kimchi dust to charred squid and mussels. Dessert keeps the surprises coming: Basque cheesecake gets taleggio, while black garlic deepens a chocolate cake.<\/p>\n

Four restaurants, four very different reasons to\u00a0make a reservation\u2014or at least start checking the apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers have no shortage of restaurant lists to argue about. The latest gives us a manageable number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,2591,56,63,65,64,821],"class_list":["post-347702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-new-york","tag-news-eating","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347702","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=347702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}