French restaurants in New York City
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Artisanal
For those who live, love and dream fromage, Artisanal is a must-eat. More than 250 varieties of cheese, from stinky to sweet, are on the menu. Along with classic French mains like steak au poivre, you can sample four types of fondue (including chocolate) and gougères (little servings) of everything from Brie to Ossau-Iraty.
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Daniel
This chichi French palace features floral arrangements and wide-eyed foodies who gawk over plates of peekytoe crab and celery-root salad, foie gras terrine with gala apples and black truffle-crusted lobster - and that's just the first course. There's an all-veggie menu, too.
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Jo Jo
Part of the ever-thriving Jean-Georges empire, here is a place where you really can’t go wrong. French standards get the Midas touch with the addition of a little something special. Foie gras is fashioned into crème brûlée, venison cubes are tossed with pomegranate seeds, striped bass gets simply pan roasted with fennel and lemon. The warm and gooey chocolate Valrhona cake is widely praised as the best in the city – if not the world. And it’s all turned out into a dining room that, following a recent renovation, feels so hushed, lush and intimate, you feel as if you’ve been invited into an old-school, squeaky-clean bordello.
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Cru
A big hit with the Euro crowd, Cru has more than 150,000 bottles of wine and happily helps you make a good match to dishes like cod with Castelluccio lentils, roasted broccoli ribbons and sautéed cauliflower in lingonberry–red wine jus, and roasted duck-breast braised Romanesco, duck pancetta, maitake mushroom and sweet-potato puree port wine–natural jus. A quick tip: the handsome mahogany bar out front has the same wines and better views to the street, and lets you order à la carte off the menu.
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Brasserie
This stunningly sleek temple of classics – including onion soup, wine-laden mussels, duck confit and chocolate beignets – is actually most impressive because of its ultramodern design, courtesy of NYC starchitects Diller + Scofidio, carved into the ground floor of the historic Seagram Building. To get just a taste of the high-class action, perch thyself at the elegant backlit bar, where you can enjoy a plate of mini-burger or lobster-salad sliders with a bracing cucumber gimlet.
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Town
There are just so many choices at Town! Start your day with creamy eggs benedict, balanced with wobbly perfection on lobster hash, or drop in for a midday snack of diver scallops with sausage and ginger lettuce. And then there's dinner - quail with citrus arugula and foie gras fritters, duck steak with endive and soba buckwheat pilaf, a bounty of rich risottos and beautiful chocolate beignets for dessert.
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Eleven Madison Park
An art deco wonder often overlooked in this star-studded town, Eleven Madison Park is welcoming enough to bring children into fine dining, and delicious enough to please even the most discerning diner. Dishes include muscovy duck with honey sauce, wild salmon with horseradish crust and fennel risotto, halibut mi-cuit with carrots, and seasonal surprises.
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Zucco: Le French Diner
Swing by to grab a fresh, crispy sandwich pressed just right, served with white napkins and tiny wineglasses, or savor the deep, meaty flavor of the North African Merguez lamb sausage. Other French classics, along with the tin-pressed ceiling, include moules marinières, and grilled tuna à la Provençale.
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Market Café
An oldie but a goodie, Market Café is still a favorite local choice for the far west side. Its plain Formica tables and plastic booths don't exactly scream high-end, but stick around for the warm service, cool music and grilled gravlax, Atlantic cod, steak frites and pizzas and you'll see why it's a hipster hangout.
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Db Bistro Moderne
A sophisticated standout in neon-filled Times Sq, sleek and modern DB Moderne saves its flashiness for the food - chilled fennel velouté, bacon-veiled salmon, snail fricassee, coq au vin and of course, the DB Burger, stuffed with truffles, foie gras and braised short ribs.
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