As checks kept climbing this year, New York’s best new restaurants still managed to show off great value, paired with excellent cooking and hospitality. Those destinations are celebrated throughout both Eater’s local and national 2026 Eater Awards, presented
by Capital One. At Somssi, the team’s histories come together over caviar-topped potatoes and mini cocktails. New Brooklyn bakery Diljān draws on Afghan and Latin American baking traditions. A parrilla newcomer dazzles in a city full of steakhouses. And a rum bar spotlights an underdog spirit. Here’s where to find this year’s Eater New York restaurant award winners across the city.
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Graciela
81 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY, 10014, US
(646) 738-9880
New York didn’t really need another steakhouse, but Graciela makes a good case for one. Pablo Rivero, the chef and restaurateur behind Buenos Aires’s Don Julio, brings the Argentine parrilla to the West Village, where live fire gives rib-eyes and New York strips plenty of smoke and char. The rest of the menu, frankly, steals the show from the steaks, with items like osso buco empanadas, morcilla to break up among greens and an orange-yolked egg, and broccoli dip topped with curls of aged cheddar and served with grilled bread. The fries fall among the city’s best, crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Take note of hospitable gestures, like a glass of limonada at the door, or perhaps an extra scoop of ice cream at dessert.
Somssi
79 Macdougal St, New York, NY, 10012, US
Ahris Kim, who ran operations at Atomix, and chef Daniel Gronert have put their lives into Somssi, and it’s a restaurant worth getting to know. Kim grew up in Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Wisconsin; Gronert has German roots and worked a stint as a South Carolina pitmaster. Their menu reflects those experiences, in dishes like the Potato Potato Potato, a caviar-topped Tater Tot riff over miso hollandaise, a tare-glazed grilled ox tongue, and pork schnitzel served like shrimp toast. Embroidered lace curtains and handprints on the bathroom wall make the room feel personal, while the service draws on their fine-dining experience without making it a production. Order a couple of Christian Gray’s mini cocktails, then let Jenny Eagleton find you a wine or sake you’ll enjoy. Sommsi is an Eater 2026 Best New Restaurant.
Echo Lake
357 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211, United States
A daiquiri is a good introduction to Echo Lake, the rum-focused Williamsburg bar from Chloe Frechette, former executive editor of Eater sibling site Punch, and Paul McGee of Chicago’s now-closed Lost Lake. In their two-bars-in-one-space, the couple pairs serious cocktails with dishes like oysters dressed in tepache mignonette and green coconut curry chowder. There’s also Tiny and a Tot, a lager-and-rum-shot combo to keep things simple. For a closer look at the couple’s personal rum collection, head downstairs to their basement bar, Undercurrent. Echo Lake is one of Punch’s 2026 Best New Bars.
Perk: Eater members get a free side of soft serve with the purchase of any full-price cocktail through January 31, 2027. (21+ | Terms apply)
Zoli
312 Maujer St, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, US
Ned Baldwin spent more than a decade making Houseman a great neighborhood restaurant in Hudson Square. At Zoli, next to the contemporary art center Amant in East Williamsburg, he is leading a seasonal stunner that complements the art. Surf clams with avocado and triggerfish with leeks spotlight Baldwin’s reputation for seafood. And the vegetables deserve as much attention: soy-pickled pole beans, okra skewers, and romano beans with Sungolds. There’s ambition here without fussiness in a kitchen that includes cooks from Frenchette, Wildair, and Estela. Houseman pastry chef Nicole Sheets is a sweets genius: Save room for her cheesecake.
Diljān
330 Hicks St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, US
Diljān in Brooklyn Heights, also a national Eater Award winner for Best New Bakery, comes from Little Flower Cafe’s Ali Zaman and Mohamed Ghiasi and Honduran American baker and cookbook author Bryan Ford. The trio draws on Afghan and Latin American baking traditions for items like the saffron shah(a crescent of laminated pastry filled with saffron cream), a halwa-topped sticky bun, and the samosa-pastry stuffed with halal lamb. Enormous Afghan flatbreads come topped with halal beef bacon and scallions or sour cherry cream cheese. Other pizzas feature Afghan cumin, kofta kebabs, or beef pepperoni. Desserts include flan with cardamom-laced apricots, and variations on conchas, too.
Perk: Eater members get a free Afghan chai with the purchase of any pastry through January 31, 2027. Terms apply.
Badaboom
421 Bainbridge St, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, US
Roast chicken and natural wine became one of the year’s most expensive pairings elsewhere in the city, but Badaboom found a way to bring the price back down to something reasonable. After catching heat for its $32 half bird, the wine bar held a pay-what-you-wish chicken night, then made a lasting offer: a $16 half chicken during happy hour, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The rotisserie oven greets diners at the door, its birds spinning until their skin turns mahogany brown. A half chicken arrives over quartered potatoes with roasted garlic and plenty of gravy. It’s a generous dinner at a price that leaves room for the wine.
Perk: Eater members get a free chocolate mousse with the purchase of a side and main through January 31, 2027. Terms apply.
Graciela
81 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY, 10014, US
(646) 738-9880
New York didn’t really need another steakhouse, but Graciela makes a good case for one. Pablo Rivero, the chef and restaurateur behind Buenos Aires’s Don Julio, brings the Argentine parrilla to the West Village, where live fire gives rib-eyes and New York strips plenty of smoke and char. The rest of the menu, frankly, steals the show from the steaks, with items like osso buco empanadas, morcilla to break up among greens and an orange-yolked egg, and broccoli dip topped with curls of aged cheddar and served with grilled bread. The fries fall among the city’s best, crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Take note of hospitable gestures, like a glass of limonada at the door, or perhaps an extra scoop of ice cream at dessert.
Somssi
79 Macdougal St, New York, NY, 10012, US
Ahris Kim, who ran operations at Atomix, and chef Daniel Gronert have put their lives into Somssi, and it’s a restaurant worth getting to know. Kim grew up in Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Wisconsin; Gronert has German roots and worked a stint as a South Carolina pitmaster. Their menu reflects those experiences, in dishes like the Potato Potato Potato, a caviar-topped Tater Tot riff over miso hollandaise, a tare-glazed grilled ox tongue, and pork schnitzel served like shrimp toast. Embroidered lace curtains and handprints on the bathroom wall make the room feel personal, while the service draws on their fine-dining experience without making it a production. Order a couple of Christian Gray’s mini cocktails, then let Jenny Eagleton find you a wine or sake you’ll enjoy. Sommsi is an Eater 2026 Best New Restaurant.
Echo Lake
357 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211, United States
A daiquiri is a good introduction to Echo Lake, the rum-focused Williamsburg bar from Chloe Frechette, former executive editor of Eater sibling site Punch, and Paul McGee of Chicago’s now-closed Lost Lake. In their two-bars-in-one-space, the couple pairs serious cocktails with dishes like oysters dressed in tepache mignonette and green coconut curry chowder. There’s also Tiny and a Tot, a lager-and-rum-shot combo to keep things simple. For a closer look at the couple’s personal rum collection, head downstairs to their basement bar, Undercurrent. Echo Lake is one of Punch’s 2026 Best New Bars.
Perk: Eater members get a free side of soft serve with the purchase of any full-price cocktail through January 31, 2027. (21+ | Terms apply)
Zoli
312 Maujer St, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, US
Ned Baldwin spent more than a decade making Houseman a great neighborhood restaurant in Hudson Square. At Zoli, next to the contemporary art center Amant in East Williamsburg, he is leading a seasonal stunner that complements the art. Surf clams with avocado and triggerfish with leeks spotlight Baldwin’s reputation for seafood. And the vegetables deserve as much attention: soy-pickled pole beans, okra skewers, and romano beans with Sungolds. There’s ambition here without fussiness in a kitchen that includes cooks from Frenchette, Wildair, and Estela. Houseman pastry chef Nicole Sheets is a sweets genius: Save room for her cheesecake.
Diljān
330 Hicks St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, US
Diljān in Brooklyn Heights, also a national Eater Award winner for Best New Bakery, comes from Little Flower Cafe’s Ali Zaman and Mohamed Ghiasi and Honduran American baker and cookbook author Bryan Ford. The trio draws on Afghan and Latin American baking traditions for items like the saffron shah(a crescent of laminated pastry filled with saffron cream), a halwa-topped sticky bun, and the samosa-pastry stuffed with halal lamb. Enormous Afghan flatbreads come topped with halal beef bacon and scallions or sour cherry cream cheese. Other pizzas feature Afghan cumin, kofta kebabs, or beef pepperoni. Desserts include flan with cardamom-laced apricots, and variations on conchas, too.
Perk: Eater members get a free Afghan chai with the purchase of any pastry through January 31, 2027. Terms apply.
Badaboom
421 Bainbridge St, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, US
Roast chicken and natural wine became one of the year’s most expensive pairings elsewhere in the city, but Badaboom found a way to bring the price back down to something reasonable. After catching heat for its $32 half bird, the wine bar held a pay-what-you-wish chicken night, then made a lasting offer: a $16 half chicken during happy hour, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The rotisserie oven greets diners at the door, its birds spinning until their skin turns mahogany brown. A half chicken arrives over quartered potatoes with roasted garlic and plenty of gravy. It’s a generous dinner at a price that leaves room for the wine.
Perk: Eater members get a free chocolate mousse with the purchase of a side and main through January 31, 2027. Terms apply.
