The proprietor of The Spotted Pig classes up the Ace Hotel with the Breslin, a gastropub that was one of the most anticipated restaurant openings of 2009. The menu is unabashedly British, and the decor—Sam Sifton of the Times calls it "Hogwarts for hipsters," a good play on words for a restaurant so in love with pig—is the kind of faux-worn interior that seems to have become de rigeur for upscale restaurants over the years. Like most British gastropubs, this one is going to give your system a good working-over as the dishes, which range from things like smoked pork belly to Caesar salad, seem designed to slowly work diners into severe arteriosclerosis. The menu, like the interior of the restaurant, is inviting and delicious, but the spectre of the fat content looms behind the walls of each dish like a culinary black mold. However, as it is with the most deadly things, the Breslin's beguiling, Medusa-like hypnotic effect is nigh irresistible, a narcotic for the nose, tongue, and eyes. The Breslin also handles room service for its landlord and host, the Ace Hotel.

A more full-fledged restaurant from the proprietors of Snack's original Soho location with a selection of Greek wine and dishes.

This constantly growing chain of boutique beaneries does coffee the way New Yorkers like it, with an especially attractive collection of espressos. Multiple locations around NYC.

Formerly Una Pizza Napoletana, the keys fell to popular Brooklyn pizzeria Motorino for a first foray into the East Village.

Although it's not as cavernous or colossal as Balducci's, you'll find the best Spanish and other imports at this SoHo branch of the great Despaña empire. This location, however, added cafe service in 2009, expanding into the old Calypso space.

The Lambs Club offers Chef Geoffrey Zakarian's modern approach to American cuisine with distinct ingredients, highly seasonal menus and a signature approach to hospitality. Located off of the lobby of The Chatwal Hotel, this luxe but comfortable room serves breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner and seats 80 comfortably among spacious red leather banquets and an oversized 18th Century French fireplace. Executive Chef Eric Haugen, who works closely with Zakarian on menu development, was named Zagat's 30 Under 30 in New York City and noted as one of the "culinary world's major up-and-comers". Head Sommelier Aj Ojeda Pons recently earned The Lambs Club the prestigious Two Glass award from Wine Spectator, noting The Lambs Club as having one of the best wine lists in the United States. As The Lambs Club is one half block from Times Square, the restaurant features both Pre and Post theater menus and Live Jazz every Sunday during brunch. Before becoming The Chatwal New York and The Lambs Club Restaurant and Bar, this iconic Stanford White-designed building was the epicenter of American for the 20th century. The building originally opened in 1905 as home to the prestigious Lambs, America's first professional theatrical club. Organized in 1874 by a group of actors and enthusiasts, The Lambs occupied a series of rented quarters before settling at 44th Street. The American club took their name from a similar group in London, which flourished from 1869-1879, in the name of drama critic and essayist Charles Lamb. Stanford White, a partner at prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, was the original architect of The Lambs clubhouse. His design principles embodied the "American Renaissance," as seen in his work on summer homes for the Astor and Vanderbilt families and such formidable structures as The Washington Square Arch, Madison Square Garden and the New York Herald Building. For The Lambs, he designed a six-story, neo-Georgian brick building featuring a facade ornamented with ram heads. A boisterous grill room and billiard room were on the first floor, a banquet hall on the second floor and a theater on the third floor. The top floors provided space for offices and sleeping quarters, often utilized by members traveling to The Great White Way from Hollywood. The size of the building was doubled in 1915 when an addition was constructed on the west end of the building, a virtual copy of the original. In 1974, the building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks and Preservation Commission. Since the club's founding, there have been more than 6,000 Lambs, with an elite roster reading like a Who's Who of American theater and film: Maurice, Lionel and John Barrymore, Irving Berlin, Cecil B. DeMille, David Belasco, Charlie Chaplin, George M. Cohan, Douglas Fairbanks, John Wayne, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire, who was famously quoted as stating, "When I was made a Lamb, I felt I had been knighted."