JAMES PERSE

15 Great NYC Neighborhood Restaurants - New York - The Infatuation

"You know that game where you walk past beautiful Brooklyn brownstones and creepily stare too long in the windows trying to imagine who lives in these places with the fancy chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and crown molding? You can make a whole afternoon of it and then head to James before getting too depressed about your own prospects of owning such an apartment. This is a semi-hidden restaurant on the corner of a brownstone block in Prospect Heights that you could easily pass without realizing it’s a restaurant and not a place where people live. The food is all super familiar American stuff - scallops, risotto, steak, salads, and an absolutely killer burger - but executed better than most." - katherine lewin, hillary reinsberg