mega swerte Where to Eat When You Want to Stay In

Updated:2025-01-18 07:19    Views:129

How was your holiday season? I hope you ate plenty of pigs-in-blankets, and toasted to the end of the year. Mine was lovely, but I’ll admit that I overdid it with a few too many nights of “Let’s get dinner somewhere festive before we all leave town!” The antidote to a hedonistic season of life, for memega swerte, is recommitting to nights on my couch, cutting back on restaurant meals and cooking more often than not.

During months like these, the restaurants I do end up at need to meet a few qualifications: casual and easy to walk into, with food that feels more homey than restaurant-y. At the following restaurants, you won’t find any plating that requires tweezers or reservations being sold for hundreds of dollars — just comfortable, excellent food.

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ImageThe pop-ups Banchan By Sunny now have a home in Chinatown, and the small menu is full of treasures.Credit...Heather Willensky for The New York TimesA restaurant that feel like someone’s apartment

Sunn’s opened in Chinatown just before the new year, and is a permanent home for the chef Sunny Lee’s cooking after her many popular pop-ups. It’s tiny, with only 24 seats including the bar, dimly candlelit and warm, basically how I want my home to feel all the time. The rotating spread of banchan (which, when I went, included cabbage kimchi, show-stealing potato salad, eggplant namul and acorn jelly), served with steamed rice, would be a perfect meal on its own. But it’s even better with whatever stew Sunny has roiling behind the bar (for me: hobak chigae rich with beef short rib), a meal guaranteed to nourish.

139 Division Street (Canal Street)

ImageGem Home is part home store, part prepared food market and part cafe.Credit...Heather Willensky for The New York Times… Someone’s really, really fancy apartment

Welcome to Gem Home, a place that sells covetable $190 soap dispensers, minimalist table lamps and, in multihyphenate fashion, a rotating list of sandwiches and salads. Lunch here might be an herby smoked trout sandwich on thin slices of focaccia, a bowl of savory mushroom porridge, or a bright scoop of celery and citrus salad. And in the back is an oops-all-neutrals dining room that’s home to long communal tables, with exponentially more seating than the average NoLIta cafe, studded with dramatic taper candles and flanked by art you wish you could afford.

181 Mott Street (Kenmare Street)

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