My Favorite New Restaurants in New York City: Spilled Milk #54

6 new-ish spots I can't recommend enough

Well, the leftovers are long gone and December is now upon us.

So many of you reached out to tell me you are headed off to NYC and pretty psyched to check out some new restaurants. In between shopping binges, checking out the tree at Rockefeller Center, and walking through Central Park, you all say you love to go to new restaurants and get there before the tables become impossible to get into. I wish that were possible.

This is New York City. By the time the paint is dry, if a restaurant is worth a visit, enough people know about it. That being said, it’s better to go early than, say, trying to get into a restaurant like Dhamaka or Zaab Zaab now. I feel you.

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Here are six newish New York restaurants that deserve your attention:

Le Rock - West 50th, Midtown

Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, who I feel are two of the best chefs on planet earth when it comes to delivering precision guided bombs of elegance, technique, and deliciousness without pretense or superfluous pyrotechnics. The duo opened Le Rock in the Rockefeller Center complex this last September. They also own and operate