11 Restaurants For You to Try Right Now

Open since: Dec. 21
Type of cuisine: Soups, salads and sandwiches made with locally-sourced ingredients.

Chef Eli Kulp, who was paralyzed in the Amtrak derailment last year, has realized his “lifelong dream” of opening a restaurant in New York City. He and restaurateur Ellen Yin have three restaurants in Philadelphia, including High Street on Market. The Hudson Street restaurant will feature the an all-day menu, as well as an on-site bread bakery in the dining room. The restaurant is currently serving breakfast, brunch and lunch, but they plan to start dinner sometime in the coming weeks.

Open since: Jan. 8
Type of cuisine: American, Greek

Cousins is an American restaurant with a Greek flair, offering comfort food like burgers, hand-cut fries and sandwiches alongside traditional Greek fare based on the owner's mother's recipes.

Open since: January
Type of cuisine: Mediterranean

Dar 525, the beloved joint on Grand Street in East Williamsburg just expanded to another location in Greenpoint earlier this month. It boasts a wide array of Mediterranean fare from baba ghanoush and beet salad to flatbread pizzas and lamb sausage omelets for brunch.

Open since: Dec. 14
Type of cuisine: Irish

Hartley’s, which opened last month in the space that formerly housed Sip Bar, brings authentic Irish comfort food to Clinton Hill. The small, cozy pub offers favorites like traditional Irish soda bread, potato and leek soup and, of course, Guinness on tap. But it’s not all beer and bread at Hartley’s: cocktails include the Mary O, made with Old Overholt Rye, Campari, Carpano Antica and Prosecco.

Open since: Nov.
Type of cuisine: Coffee shop and baked goods

This sunny coffee shop has opened its doors across the street from Sunset Park’s namesake green space on Fifth Avenue near 41st Street. Parkette Brooklyn serves hot and cold beverages, $8 sandwiches and baked treats like Bed-Stuy’s DOUGH doughnuts.  

Open since: Dec. 30
Type of cuisine: French-inspired tapas

As its name suggests, the menu at Excuse My French is full of Franco-inspired dishes like fresh fig and goat cheese tartines, crepes and a duck confit parmentier. Excuse My French also offers a wide selection of cocktails.

Open since: Jan. 4
Type of cuisine: Italian

This Italian eatery finally reopened earlier this month following a kitchen fire in November, which took place just three days after its original debut, according to the Sunnyside Post. The restaurant serves up fresh pasta dishes and other Italian cuisine.

Open since: Late Dec.
Type of cuisine: Italian

The restaurant revival of Windsor Terrace continues with the addition of Della, a cozy Italian eatery serving housemade pastas ($18 for saffron tagliatelle with chorizo, piquillo peppers and pecorino cheese) and main dishes such as roasted eggplant ($17), hangar steak ($18), and branzino with smoky lentils, pickled veggies and charred lemon ($19).

Open since: Dec.
Type of cuisine: Western Chinese

Those devastated after Biang!, the acclaimed Flushing restaurant serving food from the Xi’an region of China, moved to the East Village, can cheer up, as they don’t have to travel to Manhattan to taste the wide hand-pulled noodles, which the eatery was known for. The owner, Jason Wang, decided to turn the Flushing space into another outpost of his popular chain Xi'an Famous Foods, which also serves Xi'an-style Chinese fare, including noodles, skewers and soups.

Open since: December
Type of cuisine: Japanese

If you’re in search of expertly crafted sushi for a reasonable price, look no further.