34 Restaurants That Give You A Reason To Dine On The UWS: Eater

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The Upper West Side isn't exactly known across the city for its restaurants, but a food critic from Eater NY just picked out 34 restaurants in the neighborhood that should give you a reason to dine on the UWS.

Critic Robert Sietsema, along with the Eater staff, recently published "34 Reasons to Dine on the Upper West Side Now."

"At the start of this century, it was commonplace to say there were no good restaurants on the Upper West Side," Sietsema wrote in the article. "It was wrong then and is even more wrong now, as new places open up in spite of the pandemic."

The restaurants chosen range from Upper West Side institutions such as Gray's Papaya and Amsterdam Ale House to new arrivals Banh Vietnamese Shop House and Pastrami Queen.

However, like all NYC neighborhoods, the pandemic has still had a devastating effect on the Upper West Side's restaurant scene. More than a third, 12 of the 35 UWS restaurants on the same list last year, have closed since it was published at the beginning of 2020.

Here are the 34 local restaurants that Sietsema and the rest of the Eater staff say give you a reason to dine on the Upper West Side.

• 108 Food
• Bombay Frankie Roti Roll
• Happy Hot Hunan
• Thai Market
• Banh Vietnamese Shop House
• Makana
• Jerusalem
• Curry King
• Yu Kitchen
• Naruto Ramen
• Malecon
• Holy Schnitzel
• Barney Greengrass
• Celeste
• Jacob's Pickles
• Jin Ramen
• Land Thai Kitchen
• Two Wheels
• Nice Matin
• Blondie
• Jing Fong
• Red Farm
• Chirping Chicken
• Amsterdam Ale House
• Playa Betty's
• Viand Cafe
• Freddie & Pepper's
• Gray's Papaya
• My Pie Pizzeria Romana
• Seven Hills Mediterranean Grill
• Pastrami Queen
• El Mitote
• Epicerie Boulud
• Rosa Mexicano