NYC Restaurants You Can Try This Weekend

CHINATOWN, NY — Picking a restaurant in NYC can be daunting, with hundreds of different options that change frequently. Every week, Patch rounds up the best new restaurants and bars that have opened throughout the city. Here are the best new spots to grab dinner or a drink this weekend.

This week, check out a place with solo-dining booths for ramen, a craft cocktail bar, and more.

Ichiran

Where: 132 W. 31st St., Midtown

What to eat: Ramen, alone. Ichiran is famous for its solo dining booths, which it’s bringing to Midtown for the very first time. This is the popular chain’s second location in nYC after first opening in Bushwick. The restaurant is famous for its “Ramen Focus Booths,” where you can focus on your meal — alone. When the restaurant opened in Bushwick, it was named a New York Times’ critic pick. You can read more here.

Straylight

Where: 32 Mulberry St., Chinatown

What to drink: Inventive cocktails. Straylight is a new speakeasy-style bar located underneath the restaurant Juku. Straylight has an eclectic atmosphere although with intricately crafted drinks. Cocktails include drinks like the “Smoke on the Water” (Vida mezcal, passion fruit, pineapple, kombucha) or the “Bulleit Train” (made with Bulleit bourbon, sesame, matcha, cacao nib, ginger honey and oloroso).

Coco Pazzo

Where: 160 Prince St., Soho

What to eat: The longtime Upper East Side restaurant Coco Pazzo is back in a new neighborhood, after the original shuttered 10 years ago. The restaurant covers lunch and dinner, with lots of pasta dishes.

Blue Dog Cafe

Where: 155 W. 56th St., Midtown

What to eat: Egg sandwiches, all day. The offshoot of the Chelsea restaurant serves breakfast and lunch, with every variation of egg sandwich possible.

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