By: Maren Beverly By: Maren Beverly | February 4, 2022 | Food & Drink,
It’s officially the year of the Tiger.
New York City is typically known as a melting pot of cultures, which means it’s also a melting pot of really good food.
Various Asian cultures have different ways of celebrating this holiday. Across the city, restaurants of the Asian diaspora have created their own special menus honoring the Lunar New Year.
Whether you’re in the mood to brave the chilly streets for a warm meal, or prefer an at-home meal kit, we’ve rounded up the best places to ring in Lunar New Year.
50 Bowery, Manhattan/Website
Floating above Chinatown and nestled in the 50 Bowery hotel, The Crown is an alluring rooftop bar and lounge with even more alluring Lunar New Year offerings. They currently have a special menu featuring Lychee martinis, longevity noodles, spring rolls, and $1 dumplings. Head there (or rather, up into the clouds), before the special ends February 15h.
40 Kenmare St, Manhattan/Website
A Japanese-Italian fusion restaurant, Kimika offers unique dishes that you quite literally can't get anywhere else— like their matcha mochi french toast. As if we weren't already dying to get there, in honor of Lunar New Year, they recently transformed their outdoor patio into a Shabu Shabu experience. You can book the experience for your group on their Resy.
See Also: Where To Celebrate Lunar New Year In NYC
42 E Broadway, Manhattan/Website
For a luxurious and modern dining experience, Hwa Yuan Szechuan restaurant serves authentic Szechuan cuisine with a side of important history. The restaurant first opened in the 1980s and was led by the legendary chef Shorty Tang. Thirty years later, his son reopened the restaurant with an “authentic cooking philosophy,” and to demonstrate that there are, “modern luxury fine-dining Chinese restaurants in Chinatown,” per the restaurant’s website.
5 Doyers St, Manhattan/Website
Once the space of New York City’s first Chinese theater, Chinese Tuxedo is a dynamic and inventive traditional Chinese restaurant. They are currently offering a Lunar New Year $88 banquet menu for groups of 8 or more. Featuring roast duck breast with Cantonese mandarin sauce, Singaporean chili crab fried rice, and SO much more, our mouth is watering as we type this.
380 Amsterdam Ave, Manhattan/Website
Jing Fong is serving up 43+ years of authentic Cantonese-Style dishes. For an at-home Dim Sum experience, they are offering a DIY Dim Sum kit. “Our restaurant hand pinches hundreds of thousands of dumplings for Lunar New Year’s annually, hoping to bless everyone with a prosperous year,” reads their site. The package, which includes a variety of frozen dumplings and noodles, is intended to be cooked at home and is available for order until February 28th.
731 Lexington Ave, Manhattan/Website
This contemporary Chinese restaurant focusing on Northern Chinese cuisine and artisanal Dim Sum is offering some luxuriously delicious Chinese New Year specials. Sichuan lobster and Kung Po scallops are on the menu and we can’t wait to make our reservation.
13 Doyers St, Manhattan; Nolita Location: 10 Kenmare St, Manhattan/Website
A Doyer Street staple for decades, Nom Wah Tea Parlor is the place to go if you’re in the mood for classic Dim Sum. Warm soup dumplings are the only cure for a cold NYC day. Their Doyer Street location will be closed until February 6th, but if you can’t wait any longer, their Nolita location remains open.
Photography by: Jason Leung