NYC Restaurant Week is back for summer 2026. It’s one of the most reliable ways to get into the best restaurants across the five boroughs of NYC without a reservation months out. From July 20 through August 16, kitchens across the city offer prix-fixe meals at $30, $45, or $60 a head. Reservations are now open, and the official participant list from NYC Tourism is live.

This is no longer a guessing game: you can see exactly who's in, what they're serving, and which meal periods they're offering before you book. A few entries have appeared in past editions. Others are high-demand spots where participation is more notable. What follows is a curated shortlist of the restaurants worth booking this NYC Restaurant Week, and a few highlights of the dishes featured on their Restaurant Week menu. Below that: how the pricing works, how to book without getting burned, and how to navigate the full list yourself.

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NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026: The Details

NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 runs July 20 to August 16. Despite the name, it lasts nearly a month, and some restaurants extend their menus into the following weeks.

Pricing is simple. Lunch is a two-course meal at $30, $45, or $60. Dinner is three courses at the same price points. Each restaurant picks its own tier and decides whether to offer lunch, dinner, or both. Prices cover food only: tax, drinks, and gratuity are extra. A few spots build a mandatory gratuity into the listed price.

Timing matters. Every participating restaurant runs the program Monday through Friday. Saturdays are excluded across the board, and Sunday participation is optional, so check the individual listing if you want a weekend seat. Reservations opened July 14 through the official NYC Tourism site.

The Best Restaurants to Book for NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026

Every restaurant below is confirmed on the official Summer 2026 roster. Menus and meal periods can shift, so confirm on the official listing before you book.

1. Le Rock

Midtown West | 45 Rockefeller Plaza

Le Rock is the elevated French brasserie at the heart of Rockefeller Center from Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, the team behind Frenchette. Set in a landmark Art Deco space, it's one of Rockefeller Center's Restaurant Week mainstays and clearest bets, and the special prix-fixe is not to be missed.

What to eat: If you have been waiting for a reason to try Le Rock, Restaurant Week is the obvious moment to check. Lunch and dinner menus open with chilled corn soup and jumbo lump crab, a petite Niçoise salad with tuna and anchovy, or agnolotti with sungold tomato. Mains range from skate wing grenobloise, steak haché, and poulet vinaigre with chanterelles. Finish with the raspberry tart or the profiterole with buckwheat honey fudge.

2. NARO

Midtown West | 610 Fifth Ave., Rink Level

NARO is the modern Korean restaurant at Rockefeller Center from the team behind Atomix and Atoboy. The restaurant reimagines Korean flavors through a contemporary lens, with a menu built for everything from lunch and afterwork drinks to a more polished dinner on the Rink Level. NARO is one of the few running a Sunday lunch and dinner too.

What to eat: It's one of the more ambitious Korean menus in the program. The three-course menu moves from beef tartare with egg yolk and Asian pear, king crab with pine-nut dressing, and NARO's soy-marinated salmon to mains like beef tenderloin with black garlic, black cod with doenjang and hen-of-the-woods, and a bluefin tuna bibimbap at lunch. Dessert is the hojicha pudding cake. Optional add-ons include a truffle pork dumpling and Kaluga caviar.

3. The Bar Room at The Modern

Midtown West | 9 W. 53rd St.

The Bar Room is the more relaxed, à la carte side of The Modern, the Michelin-starred dining room attached to MoMA. Put together by chef Tom Allan's seasonal contemporary cooking, it's one of the few restaurants of this caliber that puts a Restaurant Week menu on the table.

What to eat: The two-course and three-course lunches, served exclusively in the Bar Room, include wagyu steak tartare with crispy potatoes, an heirloom tomato flatbread, summer squash with smoked trout and almonds, seabass in clam broth, and confit duck leg with cucumbers and roasted plums. The chili crab fusilli is available as a supplement. Save room for the banoffee pudding or the blueberry cobbler sundae.

4. Le Pavillon

Midtown East | 1 Vanderbilt Ave.

Le Pavillon catches attention without abandoning subtlety. Inside, high ceilings stretch above leafy plants, framing glimpses of the city just beyond Grand Central. Daniel Boulud runs this spot, where fish and garden ingredients take center stage. The food is refined without being stiff. Its regular pricing runs well above prix-fixe territory, which is what makes the lunch worth booking.

What to eat: Lunch is two courses for $60 or three for $78. Highlights include a duo of Atlantic salmon with wasabi and sorrel, black bass with wild leek pistou, an Argentine red prawn salad, and paccheri with basil and charred tomato. Dessert is the profiteroles with salted caramel or the cookie plate.

5. Nougatine at Jean-Georges

Upper West Side | 1 Central Park West

Nougatine is the more accessible room attached to Jean-Georges Vongerichten's flagship on Central Park West: the same kitchen sensibility, a fraction of the commitment. It's the low-key way to eat Jean-Georges cooking without the tasting-menu price.

What to eat: Restaurant Week here is $60 at both lunch and dinner, including Sunday. The full prix-fixe posts on the official listing closer to your date, so check it before booking and expect the kitchen's seasonal French-New American signatures.

6. Dhamaka

Lower East Side | 119 Delancey St., Essex Market, Store #34

Dhamaka, from Unapologetic Foods, cooks the bold, regional Indian food rarely seen outside home kitchens and roadside stalls: sharp, hot, and specific. It's inside Essex Market at 119 Delancey (Store #34), not the 88 Essex St. address that sometimes shows up. Bold flavors take center stage here, far from typical offerings elsewhere.

What to eat: Dhamaka skips formal presentation. The restaurant appeared among Lower East Side Summer 2025 Restaurant Week participants, and Michelin listed it as a Winter 2026 Bib Gourmand participant with a $60 dinner menu. Planning to go with a group? Review spice levels and menu choices first. This is not a "something for everyone" pick unless everyone is comfortable with bold flavors.

7. Red Rooster Harlem

Harlem | 310 Lenox Ave.

Red Rooster Harlem remains one of the city's most recognizable neighborhood restaurants: part dining room, part music venue, part cultural gathering place. Chef Marcus Samuelsson draws from family recipes and Harlem's culinary history, with immigrant traditions running through every dish. Few restaurants feel this connected to their block.

What to eat: Restaurant Week is a $30 two-course lunch, Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Start with the sweet potato coconut soup, a grilled Caesar with shrimp ceviche, or the Farmer's Remix salad. Then the Yardbird fried chicken with garlic mash and collards, fried catfish with black-eyed peas, roasted cauliflower with chermoula, or the seafood chowder.

8. Junoon

Flatiron | 19 W. 24th St.

Junoon is the long-running, refined Indian restaurant in the Flatiron, where regional cooking gets a seasonal, upscale treatment. The Restaurant Week menu is a genuine cross-section of the kitchen, not a stripped-down preview.

What to eat: Lunch is two courses for $45, dinner is three for $60, served with naan and pulao rice. Small plates include squash blossom pakora, tuna puchka, and vindaloo smoked chicken tikka. Large plates run to shrimp moilee in coconut-turmeric sauce, chicken gassi, and a summer korma. Finish with Ma's rice pudding or the Mumbai bar with jamun plum sorbet.

9. Ci Siamo

Manhattan West | 440 W. 33rd St.

A solid choice for a Restaurant Week visit that still feels tied to the restaurant's identity. Hillary Sterling's kitchen runs on live-fire cooking, and each plate draws from housemade pasta. The space breathes ease: tall ceilings, steady light, not too stiff for a business meal, not too loose for a date. The Restaurant Week lunch leans into her Sardinian-inflected menu.

What to eat: The $45 two-course lunch pairs one antipasti and one secondi. Antipasti include pane frattau with egg and braised lamb, marinated shrimp with shelling beans, and roasted eggplant with fiore sardo. Secondi run to clams with fregula and corn, potato ravioli with bottarga, and zuppa gallurese. Seadas, the fried Sardinian cheese pastry with honey, is the one to end on.

10. Crown Shy

Financial District | 70 Pine St.

Crown Shy is the ground-floor dining room inside a landmark Art Deco tower downtown, from the team that turned it into one of the harder FiDi reservations. The kitchen uses the prix-fixe to show range, not to coast.

What to eat: Lunch is $45 and dinner is $60, both three courses, and both start with the pull-apart pistachio pesto bread. Dinner moves through kibbeh nayah, a tomato-peach-parmesan salad, ricotta ravioli, and monkfish, with a citrus chicken or pork katsu supplement. Lunch adds a spiced shrimp cocktail, short rib kulcha, and Ora King salmon with mole rojo. Dessert is the satsuma with toasted marshmallow or mango sorbet with sticky rice.

11. Gage & Tollner

Downtown Brooklyn | 372 Fulton St.

Gage & Tollner opened in 1879 and reopened, meticulously restored, in 2021: arched mirrors, working gas lamps, and a kind of old-Brooklyn formality few rooms still carry. Restaurant Week works especially well at a classic chop house like this.

What to eat: Dinner is a three-course $60 menu; there's also a $45 brunch. Dinner opens with she-crab soup, Early Girl Farm greens, or crispy hen of the woods with black garlic aioli, then a bistro steak bavette with duck-fat potatoes, tempura-fried fish n' chips, or a roasted carrot risotto. Dessert is the devil's food cake or the peach cobbler.

12. Kokomo

Williamsburg | 65 Kent Ave., Brooklyn

Kokomo slides island flavors into Williamsburg through jerk chicken, slow-braised oxtail, fried plantains, pasta, and cocktails. It earns a place on this list partly because Restaurant Week guides can skew too heavily toward Manhattan fine dining.

What to eat: Kokomo is confirmed on the roster with its menu posted on the official listing. Expect its Caribbean signatures across the prix-fixe: jerk chicken, oxtail, plantains, and Koko's island pasta. Confirm the exact meal periods on the listing, since availability can vary by day.

13. Manhatta

Financial District | 28 Liberty St., 60th Floor

High above downtown, Danny Meyer’s Manhatta serves food where the view counts as much as the plate. Sixty floors up, windows frame harbor lights, the Statue of Liberty, bridge spans threading through boroughs, and the skyline stacking toward the horizon. Aim for a table around midday when the light is best.

What to eat: Lunch only, two courses for $60 or three for $70. Openers include a fluke crudo with sungold kiwi and aji amarillo, Apulian burrata with rose and lettuce kimchi, and beef tartare (supplement). Mains run to eliche pasta with summer truffle, charcoal sea bass with mussel escabeche, Berkshire pork neck, and a dry-aged burger. Finish with the chocolate mousse or the lemon verbena semifreddo.

Booking Safely

Start on NYC Tourism's official Restaurant Week site. Booking platforms are useful, but the official listing is the better source for confirming participation, meal periods, prices, and excluded dates.

Read the menu before you reserve. A restaurant's name isn't enough. Look at what's actually on the Restaurant Week menu and ask whether you'd order those dishes at full price.

Most restaurants skip Saturday, and Sunday participation varies, so always check the individual listing.

Watch for supplements. A $60 menu stops being a deal fast once premium mains and add-ons pile on.

Don't assume dietary options. Many kitchens can accommodate vegetarian diners and some can handle vegan or gluten-free requests, but the Restaurant Week menu is often narrower than the regular one.

Tip on the full value of the meal when you can. Restaurant Week lowers the food price, not the work of the service team.

How to Navigate the Full List

The shortlist above is a starting point, not the whole roster, so search by both restaurant name and dining style. The strongest values are not always the most famous names, but the right search terms can help you spot them quickly. The official NYC Tourism site lets you filter hundreds of participating restaurants, and a few search strategies help. Review the actual menu before booking to make sure the prix-fixe includes dishes that reflect the regular experience, the dishes that made the restaurant popular, and whether the prix-fixe menu captures what makes the restaurant distinctive.

Searching by Location and Flavor Profile

Search by neighborhood, not just by restaurant name. The East Village and Nolita are among the city’s most eclectic dining neighborhoods, where casual standouts and ambitious restaurants sit side by side. Greenpoint, NoHo, and SoHo can surface strong options, especially for Taiwanese, Polish, and new-American restaurants like Francie. The Upper West Side is worth checking for Lincoln Center-area dining, including Tatiana if it appears. NoMad and nearby Koreatown continue to draw polished restaurant openings, while Staten Island can be an overlooked source of easier reservations and neighborhood value. In Manhattan, Rockefeller Center itself serves as a primary hub for high-quality dining, offering a wide variety of options from refined French brasseries to modern Korean concepts.

Search by format and cuisine. Tasting menu, omakase, raw bar, dumplings, Middle Eastern, and steakhouse are all useful filters once you know the kind of meal you want.

Prioritize lunch at the higher-end rooms. At restaurants where the regular check runs well above $60, the two-course lunch is usually where the value lives.

Frequently Asked Questions

When is NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026?

It runs July 20 through August 16, 2026, Monday through Friday, with optional Sunday participation at some restaurants. Saturdays are excluded.

How much does NYC Restaurant Week cost?

Lunch is two courses and dinner is three courses, each priced at $30, $45, or $60 depending on the restaurant. Prices cover food only. Tax, drinks, and gratuity are extra.

When did reservations open?

General reservations opened July 14, 2026, through the official NYC Tourism Restaurant Week site.

Is Restaurant Week always a good deal?

Not always. It's strongest at restaurants where the regular menu runs well above the prix-fixe, or where the Restaurant Week menu genuinely reflects what the kitchen does best. Read the menu and watch for supplements before you book.