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🎵 Lower East Side, New York City
54 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 54 Restaurants
✨ Late Night, Cocktails, Speakeasies
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Known for: Katz's Deli, cocktail bars, live music, vintage shops
Don't miss: Katz's Deli, Attaboy, Beauty & Essex, Wildair
💡 Attaboy has no sign -- unmarked door on Eldridge. Katz's is cash only at the counter.
Top 10 in Lower East Side
1
Dhamaka
Indian · Michelin Recommended, James Beard Best New Restaurant Nominee
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
Jewish Appetizing · James Beard America's Classics
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
Jewish Deli · James Beard America's Classics
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
Neapolitan Pizza · #1 50 Top Pizza USA 2025
Anthony Mangieri legendary 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 d...
93
5
Tenement Museum
Museum
Preserved tenement buildings at 97 and 103 Orchard Street telling the stories of the immigrant families who lived there between the 1860s and 1980s. Guided tours walk through recre...
93
6
Dirt Candy
Vegetarian Fine Dining · Michelin 1-Star
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
Cocktail Bar · World's 50 Best Bars
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
New American · 1 Michelin Star
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
Double Chicken Please
Cocktail Bar · World's 50 Best Bars
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
10
Russ & Daughters Cafe
Jewish Appetizing
The sit-down restaurant extension of the legendary 1914 appetizing shop, located on Orchard Street in the LES. Everything the original counter does brilliantly -- smoked fish, bage...
90
All 54 Restaurants in Lower East Side
Bowery Ballroom
Music Venue & Bar
89
Ha's Đặc Biệt
French-Vietnamese
89
Bistrot Ha
French-Vietnamese
88
Essex Market
Market / Landmark
87
Clinton St. Baking Co.
Brunch
85
Mission Chinese Food
Chinese
85
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery
Jewish Bakery
84
Supermoon Bakehouse
Bakery
84
Beauty & Essex
New American
84
Congee Village
Chinese / Cantonese
83
Beto's Carnitas & Guisados
Mexican
83
Rockwood Music Hall
Live Music
83
The Back Room
Cocktail Bar
83
The Roof at PUBLIC
Rooftop Bar
83
Cheeky Sandwiches
Sandwiches
82
Arlene's Grocery
Live Music
81
Welcome to the Johnsons
Bar
79
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