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Restaurants NYC

Shelly Stars

Over-rated, you can do better
Good, not worth repeat calories
Great noms, don’t miss out
Absolutely amazing, eat ASAP!
My favorites

So you wanna eat good food eh? Well you’ve come to the right place! Here’s my list of restaurants that I think is worth checking out.

Most of them are 3 and 4 stars, those are the ones I think they’re worth your time, money and stomach space. I’ve sprinkled a few reviews here and there where I think it’s popular in NYC, but less worthwhile, so you’ve been warned!

I’ve already done the hard part of doing all the research of only eating at the best of the best places for you. I hope these posts saves you from Food FOMO. The last thing you should be thinking when you dine out is “Crap, I should have gotten that instead!! *RAGE*”

I’ve separated these into two different lists: Everyday Eats and Special Occasions.

Click on the restaurant’s name to see my review. Right now these are sorted by star rating, but you can also click the headers such as Neighborhood to sort the table. Please let me know in the comments below if you have any fave restaurants I should check out ASAP!


Caveat: the sortable table below might not work in older browsers. Sorry!





Everyday Eats

Restaurant Neighborhood Cuisine Shelly Stars
Angelica Kitchen Lower East Side Vegan/Raw
Beyond Sushi  Gramercy Vegan/Japanese
Clinton Street Baking Co. Lower East Side Brunch
Desnuda Williamsburg Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Seafood/Peruvian
Doughnut Plant Lower East Side Dessert & Pastry
Ducks Eatery East Village Gastropub
Hakata TonTon West Village Japanese
Han Dynasty East Village Chinese
Ippudo East Village Japanese
Ippudo Westside Hell’s Kitchen Japanese
Maharlika East Village Filipino
Minetta Tavern West Village American
Mission Chinese Food Lower East Side Chinese
Momofuku Mรก Pรชche Midtown West Asian Fusion
Momofuku Noodle Bar East Village Asian Fusion
Momofuku Ssรคm Bar East Village Korean
Morimoto Meatpacking Japanese
One if by Land, Two if by Sea West Village American (New)
Park Avenue Summer Upper East Side American (New)
Penelope Flatiron / Murray Hill American
Pub 199 New Jersey Seafood
Quintessence Lower East Side Vegan/Raw
Red Rooster Harlem Soul Food
Sake Bar Hagi Times Square Japanese
Sushi Abazu TriBeCa Japanese
Sushi Dojo East Village Japanese
Sushi Yasaka Upper West Side Japanese
Totto Ramen Midtown West Japanese
Yakitori Totto Midtown West Japanese

Special Occasions

Restaurant Neighborhood Cuisine Shelly Stars
Ai Fiori Midtown West Italian
Atera TriBeCa American (New)
Blue Hill at Stone Barns Upstate NY American (New)
Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare Williamsburg (Brooklyn) American (New)
Eleven Madison Park Flatiron American (New)
Gramercy Tavern Flatiron American (New)
Marea, Nov ’13 Update   Midtown West Seafood
The Mermaid Inn East Village Seafood
The NoMad, Oct ’13 Update Flatiron American (New)
Per Se Midtown West French
Peter Luger Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Steakhouse
Sushi Nakazawa West Village Japanese
Telepan Upper West Side American (New)
The Capital Grille Midtown West Steakhouse

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Today is my 15th Googleversary. ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป I spent some Today is my 15th Googleversary. ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

I spent some time reflecting on what Iโ€™d tell 24-year-old Shelly if I could. Hereโ€™s 15 lessons from 15 years at Google. 

Which one of these hit closest to home? And whatโ€™s the best career advice you got in your 20s? 

#googler #womenintech #adhdwomen #careertips #corporatelife
๐Ÿ‘พ being hangry between meals isnโ€™t normal. but it ๐Ÿ‘พ being hangry between meals isnโ€™t normal. but it is fixable.

your body has two fuel sources: glucose and fat.

when glucose drops, your hangry beast panics. it canโ€™t switch to fat. so you crash, you canโ€™t focus, and you need to eat again.

thatโ€™s not weakness. thatโ€™s an untrained hangry beast.

training it to switch fuels is what metabolic flexibility actually means. and itโ€™s the shift iโ€™ve been making for the past few years.

i put everything together in a free guide โ€” how to feed your brain. itโ€™s your starting point for better focus, energy, and fewer hangry moments. link in bio ๐Ÿง 

#intermittentfasting #insulinresistance #metabolichealth #fatburning #metabolicflexibility
๐๐จ. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ๐ฑ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐“๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐š๐›๐ฒ ๐“ โœ… ๐๐จ. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ๐ฑ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ
๐“๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐š๐›๐ฒ ๐“ โœ…

The best piece of advice that I got from someone I truly admire is to never let anyone (parents, in-laws, friends, etc.) pressure you into having kids when youโ€™re not ready.

โ€œ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ชโ€™๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™š ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™™๐™ฎ!โ€ - ๐Ÿ™ƒ the other piece of advice that I heard the most.

Being ready looks different for everyone. For me, Iโ€™m glad I was able to spend my 30s learning ways to cope with ADHD.

Before I was diagnosed, I never really understood why some of the most basic adult tasks felt so daunting to me. I was scared to have a kid because the thought of having to get them ready for school in the morning and then managing my own start of the day was scary as hell.

How am I supposed to get them to school on time?

I know I seem Type-A as hell, so it is confusing when managing appointments and schedules feel like the hardest thing in the world.

Now I know that time blindness (inability to gauge passing time) and executive dysfunction (poor planning/prioritization) are issues ADHDers deal with.

Now I can actually build systems around my weak spots instead of just feeling like something is wrong with me. 

Donโ€™t get me wrong, I still hate packing with a passion (and having to pack for Baby T on top of it is ๐Ÿ˜ฌ), but knowing these are my weak spots helps so much with my mental health when Iโ€™m in the thick of it.

Huge thanks to Auntie Gemini for being my executive function on this trip. Nap schedules, feeding windows, jet lag logic, all of it - so I could actually just be present and have fun.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

#adhdmom #travellingwithbaby #adhdwomen
this one mindset shift about intermittent fasting this one mindset shift about intermittent fasting helped me lose 15 pounds in 3 months.

i stopped thinking about fasting as a way to eat less calories, and started thinking about it as a way to drop my insulin so my body could actually burn fat. 

thatโ€™s the key insight in lesson 3. 

before this mental shift, i was counting down to my next meal the whole time. the moment my 16 hours was up, i thought: โ€œgreat! i can finally eat again.โ€

now i sometimes hit 16 hours and donโ€™t even feel hungry. so i keep fasting. not because Iโ€™m forcing it, but because i know my body is burning fat for energy. 

follow so you donโ€™t miss lesson 4, where I introduce you to your hangry beast and show you how to train it.

#intermittentfastingresults #insulinresistance #metabolichealth #fatburning #metabolicflexibility
Iโ€™ve been growing this fiddle leaf fig for almost Iโ€™ve been growing this fiddle leaf fig for almost 10 years. Itโ€™s hitting the ceiling, tipping over, and desperately needs to be turned into a tree.

Iโ€™ve wanted to do this for years. But cutting the entire top off a plant Iโ€™ve kept alive for a decade feels... irreversible. Like once you do it, thereโ€™s no going back.

Then I spent way too long watching plant people on Instagram do it and finally hyped myself up enough to try.

This is No. 23 on my 40x40 list: do something that scares me. Not because the stakes are high, but because Iโ€™ve been overthinking a decision that isnโ€™t actually that serious.

Some things feel like a one-way door when theyโ€™re really a two-way door. Worst case? I buy another plant.
Did it work? Still waiting to find out. ๐ŸŒฟ

#fiddleleaffig #40by40 #becomingforty #houseplantsmakemehappy #plantmom
๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ is it better to eat two small meals separate ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ is it better to eat two small meals separately, or one large one?

if you want to prioritize fat burn, consolidate your calories into larger meals and cut back on snacking.

๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒโ€™๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ:

โ€ข every time you eat, insulin spikes ๐Ÿ“ˆ
โ€ข more eating windows = more insulin events
โ€ข your body can only burn fat when insulin is low ๐Ÿ”ฅ
โ€ข same food, same calories โ€” but timing changes everything
โ€ข fewer eating windows = more recovery time for your body โœ…

note: the research on meal frequency vs. spike height is still evolving โ€” the clearest benefit of fewer eating windows is giving your body more time to clear and recover between insulin responses.

lesson 3 coming soon: why intermittent fasting works for a completely different reason than most people think ๐Ÿ‘€

๐Ÿ“ฒ send this to someone who thinks eating six small meals a day is boosting their metabolism.

#insulinresistance #metabolichealth #bloodsugarbalance #fatburningmode
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