America's Great Restaurants
Le Bernardin
New York, NY 10019 / 212.554.1515
Le Bernardin
"The city is full of ornate restaurants, but none of them manages to exude the glamour and class of Manhattan the way this one does, without any overweening glitz. The impeccable French service is the best in the city. The wood-paneled room is grand, but in an oddly soothing way. And then there's the chef, Eric Ripert, who, unlike most super-chefs in town, tends to stay in his kitchen and cook. Go at dinner (when the room fills with suits at lunchtime, it looks like a corporate cafeteria). All the food is excellent, and come at dinner." — Adam Platt, New York Magazine The prix-fixe dinner (four courses) is $109.00 and an experience that is basically as good as it gets. This is one of the best restaurants in the entire world, and there will always be an audience for a chef this talented and food and service this good. Most people agree that New York is the restaurant capital of the world, and that's not because the City has some 20,000 restaurants. It's because New York is the home of Le Bernardin, and a host of other establishments of this quality. It is what it is, and if you could have just one meal in any restaurant of your choice, Le Bernardin would be a perfect way to go. What more can we say?