"Dinner at Double doubles as theater, and you’ll need to get here early to snag the best seats: Just half of the 12 chairs in this vibey micro-restaurant overlook the open kitchen, granting you the perfect view of the solo chef preparing the eight-course prix fixe dinner. The dishes inflected with Japanese and Italian influences are meant for sharing and occasionally easy to divide, like the pair of steak tartare tartlets topped with bottarga, and individually portioned roasted artichoke crowned with bright, bitter dried grapefruit and doused in lobster bisque. But when it comes to the housemade pastas, it’s every man for himself. You’ll be fighting over every delicious bite of spaghetti alla chitarra with poached oyster and dashi butter, so bring someone you know well enough to toss demureness out the window." - emily monaco