Cool Places to Eat & Drink in Manhattan

36 places you must eat and drink at in Manhattan.

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Lexington Candy Shop

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

Celebrate Thanksgiving with pumpkin pie ice cream.

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Goldbar

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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Tom's Restaurant

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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Campbell Apartment

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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Patent Pending

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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Bemelmans Bar

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

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El Sabroso

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

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Fraunces Tavern

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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Burger Joint

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

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Cafe at the Swedish Church of New York

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

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Grand Central Oyster Bar

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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Sakagura

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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Russian and Turkish Baths Cafe

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.