About — listedeville

Tony Abraham

Technology entrepreneur. New Yorker. A passionate home cook who learned that the best way to understand a dish is to try to recreate it the next morning.

Honestly Speaking is written from a simple conviction: that the food itself — its taste, its texture, its quiet decisions — deserves a more careful kind of attention than it usually gets. The plate, not the room. The dish, not the hype.

Based in New York, with field notes from all around. listedeville / New York is the first published edition of the city guides — a running list of the places worth an evening, kept the way a New Yorker keeps one: revised, argued over, and never quite finished.

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Notes & sources

How the list is made

Every place is cross-referenced against Yelp, Google, The New York Times, OpenTable, Resy, The Infatuation, Eater, Time Out and the Michelin Guide, then argued down to the best of the best — must-visit, unique, a rockstar in its own right. Each list runs to at least fifty places; restaurants and bars to well over a hundred. First compiled four years ago and rebuilt for Fall/Winter 2026.

What the marks mean

★ Michelin starBib Bib Gourmand50 Best №1 North America's 50 Best Bars 2026NYT №1 NYT 100 Best Restaurants 2026new since the last editionclosedverify check before you gobeen Tony's beenJBF 2026 James Beard Award 2026 nominee$–$$$$ rough spend per person: under $20 / $20–60 / $60–150 / $150+, food and a drink before tax and tipRomanticDate night occasion, from the companion Guide by Occasion

Michelin marks reflect the 2025 New York selection, announced November 2025 — the most recent at time of publishing. Only stars and Bib Gourmands are shown; Michelin "recommended" listings are not. Bar rankings are from North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 (April 2026). Restaurant rankings are from The New York Times' "100 Best Restaurants in New York City, 2026" (May 2026).

Booking and the Amex Resy credit

Each place carries a booking platform — Resy, Tock, OpenTable, SevenRooms or Walk-in — as best known at time of publishing. Platforms change; the app is the source of truth.

Amex ✓ marks places where the American Express Resy dining credit should apply: the Platinum Card earns up to $100 back each quarter and the Gold Card up to $50 twice a year at U.S. Resy restaurants, paid with an enrolled card — no booking through Resy required. Since August 1, 2026, eligible venues carry a "Resy Credit eligible" badge in the Resy app, and Tock venues join the credit from September 15, 2026 as Tock folds into Resy. Check the badge before you commit a credit.

Occasions and James Beard

Occasion chips — Romantic, Date night, Casual, Group / lively, Brunch & daytime, Late night, Coffee & sweets — come from the companion Honestly Speaking — New York Guide by Occasion (Fall/Winter 2026), which sorts the guide's open venues by how you'd use them. James Beard marks are the 2026 nominations for New York: Corima, Meju, Shukette, Claud and Carnitas Ramírez for Best Chef; The Four Horsemen for Outstanding Restaurant; Lei for Best New Restaurant; Clemente Bar for Best New Bar; Ramen by Rā (Emerging Chef); Chambers (wine); Borgo and Whoopsie Daisy for beverage and cocktail service.

Honestly Speaking

These guides are published under Honestly Speaking, which is also an independent, unsponsored restaurant review site — the full reviews, with the plate-first criticism the city lists don't have room for, are at honestlyspeaking.xyz.

Say hi

For feedback — a question, a correction, a place we missed, or just to say hi — write to hello@listedeville.com.

Verify before you go

Anything marked verify is a place whose current status couldn't be confirmed for this edition, or that has been reported closed, relocated or renamed. A quick check on Resy or Google before planning an evening around it is worth the thirty seconds.

Photography

Via Pexels, royalty-free.