New York Times 3 & 4-Star Restaurants

This is a list of New York City restaurants currently open, that:
(1) Have now, or have ever had, at least one Michelin star; or,
(2) Have now, or have ever had, three or four New York Times stars.

For both Michelin and The Times, the list shows the maximum number of stars it has ever had (“Max”), and the current number of stars it has (“Curr.”)

The two rating systems are somewhat correlated. Most restaurants with at least one Michelin star have three NYT stars, or did at one time, and vice versa. Where this is not the case, it could mean that one service or the other has over- or under-rated the restaurant.

Unlike The Times, the Michelin ratings are anonymous (you don’t know who came up with them) and are published without explanation. But the Michelin ratings are updated annually, and are often reflect changes (for good or bad) that The Times fails to react to.

So you could think of this list as the set of restaurants that are plausible candidates for three or four NYT stars, or were at one time, whether or not they are now.

Restaurant	Michelin		New York Times
	Max.	Curr.	Max.	Curr.	Critic	Date
15 East	*	*	**	**	Bruni	7-11-07
Ai Fiori	*	*	***	***	Sifton	4-23-11
Aldea	*	*	**	**	Bruni	4-7-09
Annisa	*	*	**	**	Sifton	6-23-10
Aquavit	*	*	***	**	Sifton	7-21-10
Atera	**	**	***	***	Wells	7-18-12
Aureole	*	*	***	*	Sifton	11-11-09
A Voce Columbus	*	*	**	**	Sifton	11-25-09
A Voce Madison	*	*	***	***	Bruni	5-10-06
Babbo	*	–	***	***	Bruni	6-9-05
Blanca	*	*	**	**	Wells	10-16-12
BLT Fish	*	–	***	***	Bruni	4-20-05
Blue Hill	*	*	***	***	Bruni	8-2-06
Blue Hill at Stone Barns	–	–	***	***	Bruni	7/28/04
Bouley	**	*	***	***	Bruni	3-25-09
Breslin, The	*	*	*	*	Sifton	1-12-10
Brooklyn Fare	***	***	***	***	Sifton	4-27-11
Brushstroke	*	*	**	**	Sifton	7-13-11
Brushstroke (Ichimura)			***	***	Wells	9-26-12
Café Boulud	*	*	***	***	Bruni	8-15-07
Café China	*	*	**	**	Wells	5-2-13
Carbone	–	–	***	***	Wells	6-5-13
Casa Mono	*	*	**	**	Burros	1-28-04
Colicchio & Sons	–	–	***	***	Sifton	3/17/10
Corton	**	**	***	***	Bruni	12-10-08
Craft	*	–	***	***	Sifton	9-7-11
Daniel	***	***	****	****	Bruni	1/21/09
Danji	*	*	*	*	Sifton	8-17-11
Danny Brown	*	*	–	–	NEVER	NEVER
Del Posto	**	*	****	****	Sifton	9/29/10
Dévi	*	–	**	**	Bruni	11/17/04
Dovetail	*	*	***	***	Bruni	2/20/08
Dressler	*	*	**	**	Bruni	6/7/07
Eleven Madison Park	***	***	****	****	Bruni	8/12/09
Esca	–	–	***	***	Bruni	4/18/07
Felidia	–	–	***	***	Bruni	8/30/06
Four Seasons, The	–	–	***	**	Bruni	4/4/07
Gilt	**	**	**	**	Bruni	2/8/06
Gotham Bar & Grill	*	*	***	***	Sifton	5-17-11
Gordon Ramsay	**	**	**	**	Bruni	1/31/07
Gramercy Tavern	*	*	***	***	Bruni	6/6/07
Hakkasan	*	*	*	*	Wells	6-12-12
Il Buco A&V	–	–	***	***	Wells	3/14/12
Jean Georges	***	***	****	****	Bruni	4/19/06
Jewel Bako	*	*	*	*	Bruni	6/21/06
JoJo	*	–	***	***	Grimes	4/17/02
Jungsik	*	*	**	**	Wells	2-28-12
Junoon	*	*	**	**	Sifton	3-30-11
Kajitsu	**	*	**	**	Wells	6-18-03
Kyo Ya	*	*	***	***	Wells	4/11/12
Kurumazushi	*	–	***	***	Reichl	10/6/95
Lan Sheng	*	*	–	–	–	–
Laut	*	–	–	DB	Moskin	7/29/09
La Grenouille	–	–	****	***	Sifton	12/23/09
Le Bernardin	***	***	****	****	Wells	5/23/05
Le Cirque	–	–	****	**	Wells	9/19/12
Le Périgord	–	–	***	**	Grimes	10/11/00
Marc Forgione	*	–	**	**	Sifton	10/6/10
Marea	**	**	***	***	Sifton	10/21/09
Masa	***	***	****	***	Sifton	6-15-11
Minetta Tavern	*	*	***	***	Bruni	5/20/09
Modern, The (Bar Rm.)	–	–	***	***	Bruni	1/10/07
Modern, The (Dine. Rm.)	*	*	***	***	Wells	3-26-13
Molyvos	–	–	***	**	Asimov	7/17/02
Momofuku Ko	**	**	***	***	Bruni	5/7/08
Momofuku Ssäm Bar	–	–	***	***	Bruni	12/3/08
Nobu	*	–	***	***	Reichl	9/8/95
Nobu 57	–	–	***	***	Bruni	9/28/05
Nobu, Next Door	–	–	***	***	Reichl	12/23/98
NoMad, The	*	*	***	***	Wells	6/20/12
Oceana	*	*	***	**	Sifton	11/18/09
Palm & Palm Too	–	–	***	*	Sifton	7-27-11
Patroon	–	–	***	**	Asimov	7/10/02
Perry St.	*	–	***	***	Bruni	9/7/05
Per Se	***	***	****	****	Sifton	10-12-11
Peter Luger	*	*	***	**	Bruni	9/19/07
Picholine	**	*	***	***	Bruni	11/8/06
Public	*	*	**	**	Grimes	12/17/03
River Café	*	*	***	**	Grimes	2/13/02
Rosanjin	*	*	**	**	Bruni	3/28/07
Rouge Tomate	*	*	*	*	Bruni	1/7/09
Sammy’s Roumanian	–	–	***	***	Sheraton	5/21/82
Saul	*	*	**	**	Wells	10/7/09
Scalini Fedeli	*	–	*	*	Grimes	10/13/99
Scarpetta	–	–	***	***	Bruni	7/30/08
Seäsonal	*	*	**	**	Asimov	2/25/09
Shalezeh	*	–	–	–	NEVER	NEVER
Soto	**	**	**	**	Bruni	9/5/07
Spice Market	–	–	***	*	Bruni	6/24/09
Spotted Pig, The	*	*	*	*	Bruni	1/25/06
Sugiyama	–	–	***	***	Reichl	3/17/99
Sushi Azabu	*	*	*	*	Bruni	10/29/08
Sushi of Gari	*	*	**	**	Bruni(1)	3/2/05
Sushi Yasuda	–	–	***	***	Asimov	11-16-11
Tamarind Tribeca	*	*	**	**	Sifton	8/4/10
Tori Shin	*	*	–	–	NEVER	NEVER
Torrisi Italian Specialties	*	*	**	**	Sifton	6-8-10
Tulsi	*	*	*	*	Sifton	3-30-11
Union Square Cafe	–	–	***	**	Bruni	8/5/09
Veritas	*	–	***	***	Sifton	3-16-11
Wallsé	*	*	**	**	Hesser	5/5/04
WD~50	*	*	***	***	Bruni	3/5/08

Note 1: Frank Bruni actually reviewed Gari, the west side branch of Sushi of Gari. The latter does not appear to have ever been reviewed in The Times, but the two are quite similar.

Comments

[changeup]

This is great stuff. I forced myself to pick the top 5 from your list, and came up with:

Gilt
Jojo
Kajitsu
Modern Dining Room
Nobu/Next Door

Is the Breslin Rev="Y" a typo? Seems no reason for it that I can think of. I wouldn't have checked Scarpetta with a "Y" either.

I would put a "Y" next to Picholine myself. It's a pretty important restaurant given it's location and history, and I would love to know how it's holding up.

[Marc Shepherd]

If a restaurant has been reviewed within the past 8 years, I didn’t put a ‘Y’ in the “Rev.” column unless I know something has changed, or unless I felt pretty strongly that the rating is wrong.

In that vein, I suggested the Spotted Pig and the Breslin (both severely under-rated), and Scarpetta (the opposite; it is basically a chain now).

Picholine’s three-spot is just five years old. By current NYT standards (tending toward a decade or more between re-reviews), Wells is unlikely to go there unless there has been a pretty severe decline (which could be, but I haven’t heard that).

I probably have too many Y’s. There are 30 of them. Even assuming Wells agreed with my choices, it would probably take him several years to hit them all, given that new restaurants make up the bulk of the reviews.