New York Eats: the statewide slice & bagel guide for iPhone and iPad
61,100 New York restaurants, from a Brooklyn slice to Buffalo wings
Montauk to Niagara Falls, the five boroughs to the North Country: New York Eats puts 61,100 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in one free app, with New York City's official letter grades. The short lists are ours, checked by hand: slice counters, bagel bakeries that still boil before they bake, Buffalo's wings and beef on weck, Rochester white hots, Utica riggies and Sunday dim sum in Flushing.
- 185hand-checked classics
- 22,738NYC places with an official A, B or C
- 10regions, Long Island to Buffalo
- 61,100restaurants statewide
Built on the orders New Yorkers travel for
A star count can't tell a white hot from a red hot, or a Utica tomato pie from a Sicilian square, so New York Eats leaves stars out and starts from the order itself: a plain slice at the counter, an everything bagel with a schmear, pastrami on rye, wings in Buffalo, a michigan in Plattsburgh, riggies in Utica, spiedies in Binghamton, and dim sum from Chinatown to Flushing. Every place on those lists was checked open in October 2026 against a 2025 or 2026 source. Hours and photos come from Apple Maps' live card for each place.
From craving to counter
Choose a list.
Slices & Pizza Styles, Bagels, Delis & Appetizing, Wings & Beef on Weck, Hots & Plates, Utica & Binghamton Classics, Dim Sum, New York Icons or Oldest Places, or look up any of 61,100 restaurants by name, neighborhood, town or street.
Narrow it down.
Closest first, or by region, town or kind of food; the map shows the same places as dots.
Head out.
Hours and photos are on Apple Maps' live card. Call the counter, get directions, or keep it for a Saturday drive up the Thruway.
The New York lists
Every list is on the web too, place by place, with each place's official inspection result where we matched one.
Slices & pizza styles
NYC slice shops, Buffalo pies and Utica tomato pie.
Bagels, delis & appetizing
Bagel bakeries, Jewish delis and smoked-fish counters.
Wings & beef on weck
Buffalo's wing bars and roast beef on kummelweck.
Hots & plates
Rochester white hots, Plattsburgh michigans, Texas hots.
Utica & Binghamton classics
Chicken riggies, Utica greens, half-moons and spiedies.
Dim sum
Chinatown, Flushing, Sunset Park and beyond.
New York icons
297 places with MICHELIN or James Beard honors or a century at the same address.
New York's oldest restaurants
100 places with a checked year at their current address, back to Fraunces Tavern in 1762.
By region
New York's ten economic development regions, each with its classics, its official inspection records, and what it eats.
| Region | Restaurants | Hand-checked |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 30,976 | 92 |
| Long Island | 7,686 | 17 |
| Mid-Hudson | 6,415 | 16 |
| Capital Region | 2,998 | 13 |
| Mohawk Valley | 1,322 | 17 |
| North Country | 1,194 | 9 |
| Central New York | 2,232 | 12 |
| Southern Tier | 1,636 | 6 |
| Finger Lakes | 3,133 | 14 |
| Western New York | 3,508 | 32 |
Cities and boroughs
The five boroughs and the state's biggest restaurant towns, with the classics in and near each.
Health inspections: official ones only
Each agency's results stay its own. In New York City, the Health Department's letter grade, A, B or C, posted at the door, shown with its date and labeled official; 22,738 places have one. Elsewhere there is no official grade and we don't invent one: for 13,026 places the app shows the date of the latest New York State Department of Health inspection and its counts, with the department's own disclaimer, and for 2,896 Suffolk County places the violations cited in 2025. Erie County, Buffalo included, publishes no inspection data in bulk, so there's none for its places. Nothing is ranked by any of it.
What it costs: nothing
There's nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for, and there are no ads. The 61,100 places ship inside the app, so a list opens on a subway platform with no signal.
Where you eat stays with you
The app has no account and no analytics, and sends us nothing. Location, if you allow it, puts the nearest places first on your phone and goes nowhere else. Saved places live on your phone; on this website they live in your browser, which gets no cookies and no trackers. The privacy policy has the details.
Questions
How do restaurant health grades work in New York?
Only New York City has them. The NYC Health Department gives an A, B or C after a graded inspection and makes the restaurant post it at the door; N means not yet graded, Z grade pending, and P grade pending on re-opening after a closure. We show each grade with the date it was given and never work one out from an inspection score. Elsewhere in the state there is no official grade and we don't make one: for places the New York State Department of Health inspects you get the date of the latest inspection and its counts, with NYSDOH's own words, "Any use of this data to develop a restaurant grading system is not supported or endorsed by the New York State Department of Health." Suffolk County places show the violations cited in 2025. Erie County, Buffalo included, publishes no inspection data in bulk, so its places have none.
What are a Rochester plate, a michigan and a spiedie?
Three upstate orders, all on our hand-checked lists. A Rochester plate piles a hot or a burger on home fries and macaroni salad with meat hot sauce. A michigan is Plattsburgh's hot dog under a meat sauce. A spiedie is Binghamton's marinated, grilled cubes of meat on a slice of Italian bread.
Where do the slice, bagel and wing lists come from?
From our own research in October 2026: every place on the slices, bagels and delis, wings and beef on weck, hots and plates, Utica and Binghamton, and dim sum lists has a 2025 or 2026 source, such as its own website or menu, local news, or a tourism listing. The rest of the 61,100 restaurants come from Overture Maps' open place data and from official lists: the NYC Health Department's restaurant permits, the New York State Department of Health's food service permits, Suffolk County's inspections, the City of Buffalo's restaurant licenses, and the State Liquor Authority's licenses.
What about MICHELIN stars and James Beard awards?
They're in, as facts: "1 MICHELIN Star" or "Bib Gourmand" from the MICHELIN Guide New York 2025 selection, and James Beard winners, nominees and semifinalists from 2023 to 2026, exactly as the foundation named them. They're never shown as a row of stars, and a nominee is never called a winner.
Why are there no star ratings?
No list here is ordered by ratings, and the app keeps none, ours or anyone else's. The "Ratings, hours & photos" button on a place opens Apple Maps' live card, and whatever that card shows is Apple's.
Does the app track where I am?
No. If you allow location, it's used on your iPhone or iPad (or, on this site, in your browser) to put the nearest places first, and it's never sent to us. Say no and everything but Near me still works.
Spotted a closed shop or a missing slice counter?
Write to nick@eatsranked.com with the place's name and its town or neighborhood. Fixes ship with the next data update.
Does it cost anything, and is there an Android version?
It costs nothing: no price, no subscription, no ads and no account. The app is for iPhone and iPad for now; on Android, the web search on this site has the same places and lists, and enough requests at nick@eatsranked.com will move an Android app up the list.
Find the next slice
New York Eats isn't in the App Store yet. It's free for iPhone and iPad, and you can ask to try it early.