Italian panini counter · $
Two minutes down Nassau Street, a counter making some 35 numbered panini on bread delivered daily from a Bensonhurst bakery, filled with imported Italian cold cuts: prosciutto di Parma, porchetta, speck, coppa and mortadella, with fresh, smoked or buffalo mozzarella. Most cost $16.90 to $17.90; the house Pisillo stacks prosciutto, porchetta, buffalo mozzarella and roasted peppers for $18.90. It opens at 11am every day and closes at 8pm on weekdays and 6pm at weekends, so treat it as lunch rather than dinner.
Walk in97 Nassau Street
Bagels and smoked fish, from 6:30am · $
Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled bagels baked in the shop, and a smoked-fish counter that runs from Nova Scotia salmon and belly lox to sable, smoked trout and whitefish salad. Order the Zucker's Traditional, Nova with plain cream cheese, tomato, red onion and capers, or The Leo, eggs with Nova and sautéed onions: the New York breakfast, done properly. It opens at 6:30am every day and closes at 5:30pm on weekdays and 2:30pm at weekends, three minutes from the hotel door.
Walk in125 Fulton Street
New York slice shop · $
The Fulton Street branch of the slice shop Joe Pozzuoli, who came from Naples, opened in Greenwich Village in 1975. Order the plain cheese slice: thin, wide and folded down the middle to eat, the classic New York street slice the original has been selling for half a century. It sits across Fulton Street from Zucker's, three minutes from the hotel, and there is nothing to book and nothing to dress for, which is the point of it.
Walk in124 Fulton Street
Xi'an noodles, counter service · $
A New York chain that began in 2005 as a stall in the basement food court of the Golden Shopping Mall in Flushing, Queens, cooking the food of Xi'an from family recipes. Order N1, the spicy cumin lamb hand-ripped noodles: wide, chewy biang-biang noodles pulled by hand, with cumin and chilli lamb and a soy and vinegar sauce. The spicy cumin lamb burger in a crisp house flatbread is the second order. This branch, on the short street between Liberty Street and Maiden Lane, is open every day from 11am to 8:30pm.
Walk in8 Liberty Place
Neapolitan pizzeria · $$
Naples rather than New York: Roberto Caporuscio, president of the APN, the Neapolitan pizza makers' association, sells 11-inch pies on long-fermented dough with fresh or buffalo mozzarella: a margherita is $19.20 and the Regina Margherita, with buffalo mozzarella and grape tomatoes, $22.90, and there are fried montanara and pizza fritta too. Gluten-free dough is made in a separate space. On weekdays from 11am to 3:30pm there are 8-inch lunch pies. It opens daily from 11am to 10pm, to 10:30pm on Friday and Saturday, and takes reservations.
Reserve ahead77 Fulton Street
Bar and restaurant on the 60th floor · $$$
Sixty floors up 28 Liberty Street, in a room the MICHELIN Guide lists among the city's restaurants with a view. The dining room serves a seasonal multi-course dinner and a prix fixe lunch and takes bookings, but the reason to go from here is the bar: open daily from 11:30am, walk-ins welcome, with $22 cocktails named for the boroughs and neighbourhoods and a bar menu with a $22 lobster roll and a $29 dry-aged burger. Go before dinner, while it is still light.
Walk in28 Liberty Street, 60th floor
Contemporary American, one MICHELIN star · $$$
On the ground floor of 70 Pine Street, an Art Deco tower, with soaring ceilings, marble floors and a long bar. Crown Shy has held one MICHELIN star since 2019 and cooks a la carte: start with the Gruyère fritters with chilli and lime at $18, then the grilled citrus-marinated chicken with the house hot sauce at $49, and finish with the sticky toffee pudding for two. Lunch is Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 2pm and dinner every night from 5pm; book. Saga, with two stars, is on the 63rd floor of the same building.
Reserve ahead70 Pine Street
The Bar Room serves breakfast every day from 7am to noon on the floor of the atrium. A continental breakfast of juice, drip coffee or tea, and pastries with fruit or a yogurt parfait is $23; the Beekman Breakfast, two eggs with home fries, toast, bacon or sausage, juice and coffee, is $34; and omelettes, a smoked whitefish benedict and brioche French toast run $25 to $27. At weekends it gives way at noon to the jazz brunch, which runs to 3pm. Rates are room only as standard, so check what yours includes. Every guest gets morning coffee in the lobby, paid for by the destination fee, and in-room dining runs 24 hours. If you would rather walk, Zucker's on Fulton Street opens at 6:30am, three minutes away.
