Start at the top of the menu at this Lower East Side eatery, sticking to mostly pintxos, and you can’t go wrong. But then Ernesto’s ended up on most New York critics’ “best new restaurants” list by the end of the year. When this Basque-flavored eatery dedicated to “Don Ernesto” Hemingway first fired up its burners at the beginning of the pandemic, it went under the radar for most of the city’s fooderati. The Centro Español serves up the best croquettes in Queens. L arger groups gravitate to the slightly more formal dining room for hours-long feasts, complete with a long sobremesa : sitting around the table chatting, sipping coffee, orujo, and wine, long after the food is gone. There will likely be a fútbol match on TV, beamed in from the mother country, while some regulars sit at the bar noshing on creamy croquetas and patatas bravas. The eatery, one of the best Spanish restaurants in NYC, is open to the public and is frequented by Spain’s fairly tight-knit expat community. Photo credit: T.Tseng Centro Español de QueensĪlso known as Círculo Español, this semi-private Spanish social club is worth the journey to Astoria in Queens. Spanish-style grilled cuttlefish at Casa Mono. The restaurant serves the classics that are ubiquitous in Spanish restaurants abroad- pan con tomate, croquetas de jamón, patatas bravas -but delves deeper into dishes infrequently found outside of Iberia: bone marrow with smoked trout, oxtail-stuffed piquillo peppers, and dishes with pig ears and various offal come off and back on the menu with regularity.
Opened in 2003 in Gramercy Park, Michelin-starred Casa Mono has been consistently good for as long as it’s been frying croquetas in Spanish olive oil and slicing premium Iberian jamón y paleta. The short, curated wine list offers bottles from Oregon and the Finger Lakes region, including a lovely Albariño that’s made in California. Instead, he puts his own creative spin on things, often fusing Japanese techniques and ingredients into his Spanish-accented creations.
The chef, Ruben Rodriguez, from the region of Galicia, doesn’t necessarily cook the dishes from his home region and doesn’t necessarily stick to pan-Spanish staples. Located on First Avenue in the East Village, Emilia by Nai is an edible Oasis of Iberian creativity. Casa Dani is home to some of the best dishes that aren’t as widely known outside of Spain, such as artichoke hearts with cured ham. There is also an entire section of the menu dedicated to tuna-tuna croquettes, pan con tomate with tuna, tuna carpaccio, you get the idea-and it would be understandable for the diner to fill up just on these dishes alone. Perfectly crisp croquettes, a slice of jamón ibérico de bellota balancing on top, hide ultra-creamy porklicious béchamel. Instead, the food here is straight-up Spanish staples that happen to be executed by a master chef. He then moved back to his native Malaga and earned three Michelin stars at his eponymous restaurant there (it closed in 2019).īut at Garcia’s first New York restaurant in almost a decade, he’s doing no culinary wizardry. The chef, hailing from Andalusia, is back after a nine-year hiatus when his Manhattan eatery Manzanilla shut down New Yorkers never really warmed up to a menu that leaned toward molecular gastronomy. Lauded chef Dani Garcia’s Manhattan West restaurant opened in early 2022 to great fanfare. Here are the 10 best Spanish restaurants in NYC. The good news is this: there are a handful of Spanish restaurants in other parts of La Gran Manzana that will wow your palate. These old-school Spanish restaurants, though not necessarily known for their award-winning fare, might only knock your proverbial socks off in terms of Old World atmosphere. Within a few blocks of West 14 th Street, there are still a handful of old-school Spanish restaurants, remnants of “ Pequeña España ,” including Sevilla, Café Riazor, and El Quijote. The organization helped with immigration services and even boarded just-off-the-boat immigrants and visitors from Iberia-including Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Luis Buñuel, and Federico Garcia Lorca. There are still remnants: the Spanish Benevolent society, home to the restaurant La Nacional and founded in 1868, was a home-away-from-home for many Spaniards (and still is). On West 14 th Street (and a few blocks north and south on the Chelsea/ West Village divide), “Little Spain” was home to New York’s Spanish immigrant community for decades. You can find some seriously incredible Spanish food in New York if you know where to look.
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