26 Seats

Aqua Santa

Black Bettie

Blue Note

Blue Ribbon Sushi

Cafeteria

Chat n' Chew

Fresh

Gnocco

La Lacandera

L-Café

Kellogg's Diner

Matamoros Puebla Grocery

Milo's

Oznot's Dish

Pangea

Peter Luger's Steakhouse

Planet Thailand

Polish American Restaurant

Radio Perfecto

Relish

Sunset Diner

Thai Cafe

Tavern on the Green

Viceroy

 
You don't have to spend that much time in New York to figure out this city is all about eating.  In Manhattan alone there must be a couple thousand restaurants which is a lot for an island that is a few miles wide and 10 or so miles long.  Also 95% of these restaurants are unique, non franchise places to eat.  It makes it tough sometimes to figure out where to go.  It especially makes it hard when you don't know what type of food you want.  Unlike other places I lived I just had to decide on Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Seafood or American.  Here I have to decide on (in alphabetical order) Afghan, African, American, Argentine, Asian, Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, Caribbean, Chinese, Eastern European, Eclectic, French, German, Greek, Indian & Sri Lankan, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Moroccan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian, Seafood, Spanish, Thai, Turkish or Vietnamese.  And these are general because you can be more specific like American Creative / American Regional or Northern Italian / Southern Italian and so on.  It really is out of hand.  

So far I have only shaven a small sliver of ice off the North Pole when it comes to the number of restaurants I have gone tried.  I will try to write a little about each place but this could be a whole web site in itself.  Actually there are quite a few web sites dedicated to eating in New York.