Best Restaurants for Business Lunches

Acqua serves simple, fresh Italian food in a comfortable, neighborhood setting, with a menu that includes classic antipasti, paste, and secondi, as well as light, thin-crust pizzas from a traditional wood-burning oven.

From acclaimed chef Terrance Brennan, serving top-notch French bistro fare, including classics such as lamb shank and cassoulet, Artisanal has many intriguing dishes to offer. And if you love cheese, you will love Artisanal. Wi more...

Great Boerum Hill restaurant with nice garden and fine wine selection.

Many New Yorkers became enchanted of Art Deco master Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann during a stunning 2004 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given that the Art Deco craze never really faded, and that owner Jean Denoye more...

The Empire Hotel's replacement for the shuttered Center Cut, perpetrated by Eighty One proprietor and The Modern Seafood Cook author Ed Brown.

One of America's most popular restaurants, Gramercy Tavern serves inventive American cuisine in a rustic yet elegant setting. We've frequently enjoyed stopping by the Tavern Room in the late afternoon for the superb appet more...

Cooks prepare foods on a charcoal grill in front of patrons, in a sort of full-service version of Gyu-Kaku. The popular Tokyo restaurant's first location in New York features the aforementioned robata style, as well as f more...

Danny Meyer's Romanesque trattoria at the Gramercy Park Hotel has a decidedly casual feel, which isn't altogether surprising giving the proprietor's tenure as master of the Shake Shack. While certainly above and beyond that pa more...

Keith McNally waved his magic wand and updated this old stalwart to new glory. The stylish bistro now seats 85 in a classic setting defined by the same cohesive, subtly transporting aesthetic that has made McNally's other more...

The Midtown spawn of Nino's, with the same wonderful Northern Italian cuisine.

You can't miss the huge cow mounted above the Old Homestead's entrance, and this old-school steakhouse continues to please, even after nearly 140 years. While its newer neighbors such as Pop Burger symbolize the more...