The 12 best restaurants in Chelsea right now (2024)

This is one of a five of darling Jack’s Wife Freda locations in NYC. Walk-ins are encouraged for rosewater waffles at breakfast, duck bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches at lunch and fish a la plancha, chicken schnitzel and sirloin steak at dinner.

Rangoon expanded from its highly-regarded Brooklyn location to Manhattan in 2022. Burmese disco fries, fried chicken and grilled lemongrass pork meatball skewers are among small plates, with cinnamon chicken curry, tea leaf fried rice and oodles of noodles among the larger options.

Cookshop first opened on 10th Avenue in 2005, and its longevity in the ever-changing area is a testiment to its menus and atmosphere. Come by for wide-ranging, seasonally-updated brunch, lunch and dinner items, plus co*cktails, wine and beer.

When it’s steak you seek, head to Old Homestead, one of the best steakhouses in NYC with a mood to match. First opened in 1868, it’s certainly seen a few updates, but it still has a little bit of an Old New York feeling, with tufted leather banquettes and a fine selection of steaks, chops and classic apps like crab cakes and oysters Rockefeller.

One of the coolest barsin NYC and beyond, La Noxe is speakeasy-inspired from top to bottom, replete with an intimate subterranean location and discrete exit into the 28th Street subway station. Squeeze into the 600 square-foot space, settle into a sumptuous love seat and sip a tipple or two before you saunter back out into the night.

With a name that evokes classic showbiz lounges, a space that looks a little like a spaceship from the 70s and karaoke-style tunes that might bring you back to any decade, Sid’s sure is a time warp. And its live piano karaoke has been known to attract some real talent, so sip alittle liquid courage via beer, wine, and more co*cktails than most karaoke spots have on offer, before you take the stage.

Although we can’t help but wonder whether this erstwhile scenestaurant will make it to the incoming third season of theSex and the City reboot, we can always visit to reminisce. Now in its second decade, Carries, Charlottes, Mirandas andSamanthas can still pile in to ponder life’s greatest mysteries over eggs any way, big salads, burgers, four kinds of mac and cheese and–you guessed it!– cosmos.

Another Chelsea Market favorite, this is Israeli pita shop Miznon's first US address. Choose from "in a pita" options like the falafel burger, or "out of the pita" plates likeratatouille, whole roasted baby cauliflower and overnight brisket.