📍 Lower East Side, New York City
72 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 72 Restaurants
Delicatessen history on Orchard Street alongside Vietnamese noodle shops, natural-wine bars, and late-night cocktail rooms.
Top 10 in Lower East Side
1
Dhamaka
The most exciting Indian restaurant to open in New York in a generation. Chintan Pandya cooks regional Indian food that most Americans have never encountered — the fiery goat intes...
99
2
Russ & Daughters
The appetizing shop that invented the genre. Since 1914, four generations of the Russ family have been slicing smoked fish, spreading cream cheese, and making New Yorkers feel like...
96
3
Katz's Delicatessen
Since 1888, Katz's has been hand-carving pastrami that makes every other deli in the country look like an amateur hour. The sandwich is $28, it's the size of a small child, and it'...
95
4
Una Pizza Napoletana
Anthony Mangieri's pizza temple on the Lower East Side where each pie is a masterclass in simplicity and obsessive craftsmanship. He makes a limited number of pizzas each day with ...
93
5
Tenement Museum
Preserved tenement buildings at 97 and 103 Orchard telling the stories of the immigrant families who lived inside between the 1860s and 1980s. Guided tours walk you through recreat...
93
6
Dirt Candy
Amanda Cohen's Lower East Side vegetarian restaurant has a Michelin star and deserves two. The five-course tasting menu ($110) proves that vegetables can be just as exciting as any...
92
7
Attaboy
No sign, no menu, no phone number. Tell the bartender what you like — sweet, boozy, citrusy, bitter — and they'll make you something extraordinary. Attaboy is the spiritual success...
92
8
63 Clinton
One Michelin star for a seven-course American tasting menu ($112) on the Lower East Side. Chefs Sam Clonts and Raymond Trinh created one of the most affordable Michelin-starred exp...
92
9
Ernesto's
A Basque taverna on the Lower East Side that changes its menu daily, channeling the pintxos bars and asadors of San Sebastián with the confidence of a restaurant that wrote the boo...
92
10
Double Chicken Please
Double Chicken Please on the LES earned a spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list by doing something nobody expected: making cocktails inspired by food pairings. The drinks are serve...
91
All 72 Restaurants in Lower East Side
Russ & Daughters Cafe
90
Scarr's Pizza
90
New Museum
90
Dirty French New York
90
Bowery Ballroom
89
Ha's Đặc Biệt
89
Mắm
89
Kind Regards
89
Bistrot Ha
88
Corner Bar
88
Kisa
88
Tolo
88
Ha's Snack Bar
87
Contra
87
Essex Market
87
Kiki's
87
Swan Room
87
Wildair
86
Wayla
86
Forsythia
86
Clinton St. Baking Co.
85
Mission Chinese Food
85
Cervo's
85
Bufón
85
La Contenta
85
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery
84
Supermoon Bakehouse
84
Saigon Social
84
Beauty & Essex
84
Ivan Ramen
84
Bar Goto
84
Freemans
84
The Box
84
Sauce Pizzeria
84
Ray's
84
The Flower Shop
84
Okiboru House of Tsukemen
84
Silence Please
84
Dialogue Coffee & Flowers
84
Funny Bar
84
Sake No Hana
84
Congee Village
83
Beto's Carnitas & Guisados
83
Doughnut Plant
83
The Back Room
83
Lullaby
83
The Roof at PUBLIC
83
Tiki Tabu
83
Cheeky Sandwiches
82
Mercury Lounge
82
Mr. Purple
82
Fig. 19
82
Arlene's Grocery
81
Hair of the Dog
81
The DL
81
Wooly's Ice
80
Georgie's
80
Welcome to the Johnsons
79
The Concord NYC
78
Black Cat LES
78
Clandestino
78
Loreley Beer Garden
75
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