Bookable restaurants (hot last fall)

RESTAURANTS • The Nines

• Nōksu (Herald Square), Korean tasting counter inside subway station, reserve (Intel here)

• Café Carmellini (Nomad), chef Andrew Carmellini’s fine dining in Fifth Avenue Hotel, reserve (Intel here)

• Foxface Natural (East Village, above), gutsy, unclassifiable, delicious cooking in narrow digs, reserve (Intel here)

• Jazba (East Village), Indian hawker street food from Junoon team, reserve (Intel here)

• Figure Eight (Greenwich Village), Chinese cooking meets the American South, reserve (Intel here)

• Sushi Oku (Lower East Side), omakase in former Scarr’s space, reserve

• Bar Miller (East Village), omakase from Rosella team, reserve

• Delmonico’s (Wall Street), O.G. steakhouse reborn, reserve

• Swoony’s (Columbia Street Waterfront), Cafe Spaghetti’s sister American bistro, reserve (Intel here)