Best Holiday Views: Top 12 Restaurants Near Rockefeller Center

For years, Rockefeller Center has been a tourist destination and an inevitable hub for local office workers. New Yorkers came to see the Christmas tree, the Rocketts, or just buy a salad for their dinner table, reports Time-out.

However, in recent times, this place has become a hotbed of trends. These classic and new places are really worth visiting.

1. Rock

A new jewel in the crown of glittering Rockefeller Center brings together the team behind New York's beloved franchise, a few dozen blocks from downtown. The XNUMX-star Time Out is beautiful and spacious. There is an extensive menu, delicious chicken liver and snail mousse, amazing pasta and amazing duck.

2. The modern

Aesthetics plays a key role two blocks north of RC in The Modern. There, tables overlook the MoMA sculpture garden. The menu, prepared in advance, is carefully selected. It is as inspiring and delicious as the decor and price tag demands. The tasting menu is $250 per person. However, at the Modern's Bar Room, you can drop in and book a table for lunch and dinner. And the cost of most main dishes varies from 30 to 40 dollars.

3. Lodi

The recently opened Lodi restaurant is decorated in the style of Italian cafes. Stop by for delicious pastries, a wide selection of cured meats and cheeses, other snacks like marinated mussels, and big platters like beef stew with mashed potatoes and gremolata.

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4. Hatsuhana

This classic downtown restaurant has been serving sushi and sashimi for over 45 years. It is a stone's throw from Rockefeller Center itself, east of 5th Avenue. Here you can buy lunch sets ranging from $25 to $50 and the $53 Dream Box, a popular dinner menu item, beautifully presented in nine compartments in a lacquered box.

5. Fieldtrip

Field Trip, famous for its rice bowls, has two locations in New York: in Harlem and at Rockefeller Center. Try crispy fish with rice, cilantro and lime, as well as cod in cornmeal, fried chicken with rice, vegetables with jollof basmati rice.

6. Black Seed

This has been one of the best bagel establishments in NYC since relatively recent 2014. And in Rockefeller Center they opened five years later. In the store from morning to evening you can order bagels with different flavors. There are good breakfast options with egg and cheese, sandwiches for lunch and pizza rolls.

7. City winery

The garden at the City Winery is open all year round. It has festive heated domes overlooking the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. In terms of price, 90-minute slots from 13:00 to 15:45 require a minimum spend of $150, and after 16:00 they increase to $250. Invite your friends over and split the price on cold cuts, cold cuts, hot drinks and, of course, wine.

8. Bill's Bar and Burger

As a chain of five locations, Bill's Bar and Burger became a big deal when it opened at the Rock Center back in 2010. Its vast space is designed in warm kitsch colors. Bill's can be a friend for both the tourist and the weary guide for a cheap bite to eat.

9. Frog

For a little French flair, head to La Grenouille, which first opened in 1962. Today, its menu includes chilled foie gras terrine, pancakes with caviar, baked chicken, filet mignon, duck confit and all kinds of desserts.

10. Liman

In the city center - prodigal at night (Dover hodgepodge for $63 and chicken for $40), Limani has a prix fixe lunch with a large selection for $37,50. Scallops, salmon, saganaki shrimp, tuna burgers and chicken are all among the options.

11. Del frisco's grille

Entry-level spending destination Del Frisco's Grille is a small eaglet hatched from the Double Eagle steakhouse in Del Frisco, located nearby. This establishment still boasts hundreds of bottles of wine and a long, mostly meat menu that includes a decent selection of steaks.

12. Oceana

Although Oceana actually moved to this place in 2009, the atmosphere of the 1990s reigns here. You can choose from the usual options as well as a variety of seafood starters. Squid and lobster are also part of the pasta.