Restaurants & Dining Reviews

Greek Seafood

New York, USA

Estiatorio Milos

$$$$$

SeafoodGreekHudson Yards

Costas Spiliadis has spent four decades perfecting the art of the Greek table, and his Hudson Yards outpost is the most spectacular expression of that vision yet. The fish — flown in daily from the Aegean and the Mediterranean — is presented whole on ice, priced by weight, and cooked with a simplicity that borders on the sacred. This is not a restaurant that hides behind sauces. It trusts the sea.

Highlight: The whole branzino, grilled over charcoal and finished with nothing but lemon and olive oil — a lesson in restraint that every chef in New York should study.

Must order: The whole fish of the day — ask what arrived that morning and trust the recommendation.

Alyssa Ross · June 2026

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Contemporary Italian

Modena, Italy

Osteria Francescana

$$$$$

★★★Michelin Three-Star

Tasting MenuPastaArt-Inspired

Massimo Bottura's three-Michelin-starred temple in Modena is a love letter to Italian culinary tradition — and a radical reimagining of it. Every dish tells a story, from the deconstructed tortellini to the iconic "Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart."

Highlight: "Five Ages of Parmigiano Reggiano" — five textures, five temperatures, one transcendent cheese.

Must order: Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart — the most famous dessert in Italy.

TastesOf Contributors · April 2026

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Innovative Satoyama

Tokyo, Japan

Narisawa

$$$$$

★★Michelin Two-Star

Tasting MenuNature-InspiredSeasonal

Yoshihiro Narisawa calls his cuisine "Innovative Satoyama" — a philosophy rooted in the Japanese countryside and its ecosystems. The result is food of extraordinary beauty and depth, where a single dish might contain ingredients from a dozen different prefectures.

Highlight: Bread of the Forest — a sourdough baked tableside in a cast-iron pot, perfumed with pine and earth.

Must order: The "Satoyama Scenery" — a landscape of Japan rendered in edible form.

TastesOf Contributors · March 2026

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French Seafood

New York, USA

Le Bernardin

$$$$$

★★★Michelin Three-Star

SeafoodFrenchClassic

For four decades, Le Bernardin has set the standard for seafood dining in America. Eric Ripert's kitchen treats fish with a reverence bordering on the sacred — barely cooked, impeccably sourced, and plated with a restraint that lets the ocean speak for itself.

Highlight: Barely Cooked Salmon — a dish so simple it seems impossible, yet so perfect it silences the room.

Must order: The tasting menu — every course a masterclass in restraint and precision.

TastesOf Contributors · February 2026

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Peruvian

Lima, Peru

Central

$$$$

Tasting MenuAltitudeBiodiversity

Virgilio Martínez and Pía León's Central is the most thrilling restaurant in the world right now. Each course is named for an altitude — from the ocean floor to the high Andes — and the ingredients are sourced from ecosystems most diners have never heard of.

Highlight: "High Jungle 2,800m" — a dish of cacao, coca leaf, and wild herbs that tastes like altitude itself.

Must order: "Extreme Stems 400m" — the most complex vegetable dish you will ever eat.

TastesOf Contributors · January 2026

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New Nordic

Copenhagen, Denmark

Geranium

$$$$$

★★★Michelin Three-Star

Tasting MenuVegetable-ForwardViews

Rasmus Kofoed's Geranium sits on the eighth floor of Copenhagen's national football stadium, with views over Fælledparken and a menu that has made it one of the world's most celebrated restaurants. The cooking is precise, poetic, and almost entirely plant-based.

Highlight: The "Universe" tasting menu — sixteen courses that feel like a complete world unto themselves.

Must order: The smoked cream with caviar — a spoonful of pure luxury.

TastesOf Contributors · December 2025

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