Delicious Decisions: Michelin Guide Adds 4 UES Restaurants

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY – From French to Cambodian to Indian, four Upper East Side restaurants were added to Michelin New York's ever-growing list of over 400 recommended purveyors of the delectable and the divine.

Bayon, at 408 East 64th Street near 1st Avenue, transports diners to Cambodia “by the aromas of lemongrass, galangal, and an array of exotic spices that infuse each meticulously crafted meal,” according to its website. I'm sold. Are you?

The restaurant, which opened earlier this year, serves lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Nearby, the recently refreshed Le Veau D’Or, reportedly the city’s oldest surviving French restaurant – it opened in 1937 – does dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday, at 129 East 60th Street near Lexington Avenue.

They're coy about the menu, but expect escargot and save room for an île flottante. What happens in between is up to you.

A few blocks away, Café Boulud, at 100 East 63rd Street, is an unsurprising addition to Michelin’s list.

It’s not exactly a new restaurant, but an old favorite, and a previous incarnation operated for more than 20 years at the recently reopened Surrey Hotel on East 76th Street. The new Boulud is open every day for dinner, for lunch during the week, and for brunch on the weekend. The food is beautifully plated; the idea is to eat it.

Last but not least, Lungi – which “blends the cooking styles of South India and Sri Lanka” at 1136 1st Avenue, between East 62nd and 63rd Streets – offers East Siders (and the rest of us) another tantalizing option in the East 60s.

Closed on Tuesday but open the rest of the week for lunch and dinner, Lungi encourages guests to consider a set menu served on a banana leaf. And why not? They're supposedly full of antioxidants.

More information about the rest of Michelin’s latest New York additions is available here.