NYC Restaurant Week 2026 Map: Shortlist 607 Restaurants

A Reddit user posting as anacolyte has mapped all 607 restaurants in NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 onto a single Google Map, color-coded by Google rating, with every pin carrying the prix-fixe prices, the weeks that restaurant participates, and a direct link to its menu PDF. It is the fastest way to browse the program that exists right now, and it is free. The map went up on r/FoodNYC on July 15, 2026, and you can open it directly on Google My Maps.

The top comment on that thread names the real problem: "theres so many to go through lol." A map of 607 restaurants is still 607 restaurants. So we pulled the map's public data export and counted what is actually in it, which is what the rest of this post is. Every number below comes from DinnerElite's analysis of that export, observed July 17, 2026.

What is the NYC Restaurant Week 2026 map?

It is a community-built Google My Map with one pin per participating restaurant. A Reddit user built it, not NYC Tourism, whose official Restaurant Week site lists participants but does not map them. Google rating sets each pin's color: yellow for 4.0 to 4.4, light green for 4.5 to 4.6, dark green for 4.7 to 5.0. Click any pin and you get the restaurant's cuisine, neighborhood, borough, a description, its phone and website, and the two things that matter most for planning, which are the exact weeks it runs and its menu PDF. Its layer name comes from a July 2026 staging file, so it reflects the program as of mid-July. One caveat worth knowing: it is a snapshot, and restaurants kept joining the program after it went up, so treat the pin count as a floor rather than a final list.

What does the map data actually show?

607 pins, and they are not spread evenly. Manhattan holds 519 of them, Brooklyn 50, Queens 28, Staten Island 4, and the Bronx 2, which means Restaurant Week is functionally a Manhattan program with outer-borough guests. Italian is the single biggest cuisine at 127 restaurants, followed by American (New) at 89, Japanese and sushi at 49, French at 48, and steakhouses at 45. Together those five cover just under two-thirds of the map. The ratings skew high but not uniformly: the mean Google rating across 605 rated pins is 4.49, with 132 restaurants at 4.7 or above and only 9 sitting below 4.0. That last number is the useful one. The map's dark-green tier is a shortlist of 132, not 607, and filtering to it turns an unusable list into an evening's reading.

Why is lunch the better Restaurant Week bet?

Because the cheap tier lives at lunch and the expensive tier lives at dinner. Of the 607 restaurants, 396 offer a weekday lunch and 556 offer a weekday dinner, but the price mix inverts between them. At weekday lunch, 231 restaurants charge $30, 129 charge $45, and only 36 charge $60. At weekday dinner, 324 charge $60, 213 charge $45, and just 19 charge $30. So the $30 menu is overwhelmingly a lunch product, and if you book dinner you are most likely paying the top tier. There is a second reason lunch wins, which is competition. 210 restaurants serve Restaurant Week at dinner only and 50 at lunch only, with 346 doing both, and the demand piles onto dinner. An early weekday lunch at a $30 room is the highest-value, highest-probability booking on the map. Our Restaurant Week guide covers the participating rooms worth that trip.

Which weeks should you book?

Book weeks one through four if you have a choice, because the program thins by a third after that. Restaurant Week runs July 20 through August 16, with optional extensions reaching August 31 and a short final window from September 1 to 6, and the map shows exactly how many restaurants take each one: 579 restaurants run week one, 581 week two, 579 week three, and 570 week four, then it drops to 405 in week five (August 17 to 23) and 399 in week six (August 24 to 31). Only 83 run that September window. That is 172 restaurants leaving the moment the core four weeks end, and roughly seven in eight gone by September. The extensions are real and genuinely less crowded, so they are a decent play if your target restaurant is one of the few that stays. Check the pin before you plan around it, because roughly one in three will not be there. Restaurant Week excludes Saturdays program-wide, and Sundays stay optional, with 230 restaurants offering a Sunday lunch or brunch and 424 offering Sunday dinner.

Which hard-to-book restaurants are on the map?

22 of them, out of the 224 hardest-to-book NYC restaurants DinnerElite tracks. That is 9.8%, and it is the honest headline: Restaurant Week is a wide program, not a deep one, and the rooms you cannot normally get into mostly sit it out. The 22 that do participate include Crown Shy, the Michelin-starred room at 70 Pine, at $45 lunch and $60 dinner, Coqodaq at $60 lunch with no dinner, Manhatta at $60 lunch, and Gramercy Tavern's dining room at $60 lunch. Notice the pattern: the hardest rooms concentrate their generosity at lunch, which is the same conclusion the price data reaches from the other direction. Also on the map are Atoboy, Naks, Noreetuh, Mokyo, Little Maven, Wayan, Maison Passerelle, Carlotto, The Noortwyck, Rosemary's, Raf's, and Leon's. The other 202 rooms we track, Carbone and 4 Charles and Le Bernardin among them, are not on it.

Frequently asked questions

Does the map show tasting menus?

Not in the fine-dining sense, despite the Reddit post's wording. Restaurant Week menus are prix-fixe: a two-course lunch or a three-course dinner at $30, $45, or $60. A tasting menu is a longer chef-directed sequence, usually 7 to 20 courses, and those are a different category at a different price. If that is what you want, the two overlap almost nowhere, and you should start from the restaurants that run real tasting menus year-round instead.

Is the Restaurant Week map official?

No. NYC Tourism runs the program and publishes the participant list, and the map is a community project a Reddit user built on top of it. That is why it is better designed than the official listing and also why it can go stale. Cross-check any pin against the restaurant's official Restaurant Week listing before you build a night around it.

How many restaurants are in NYC Restaurant Week 2026?

The map carries 607 pins as of July 17, 2026. The program had roughly 423 restaurants filed on its July 14 opening day and kept adding through late July, so the number has moved and will keep moving. Treat any single count, including this one, as a snapshot with a date attached.

Can I book Restaurant Week through the map?

No. The pins link each restaurant's website and menu PDF, not a booking flow. You book through the restaurant's page on nyctourism.com or through whatever platform the restaurant normally uses. The map's job is the shortlist, and the menu PDF on each pin is the part worth using, because it lets you see exactly what the prix fixe includes before you spend a reservation on it.

What if the restaurant I want is not participating?

That is the situation for 202 of the 224 hard-to-book rooms we track, and it is what alerts are for. DinnerElite watches Resy and OpenTable across those restaurants and emails you the moment a table opens, Restaurant Week or not. Start with the free plan, or see when each restaurant releases tables.

The map is the best free tool for this Restaurant Week, and the data inside it says to book an early weekday lunch, in the first four weeks, at one of the 132 restaurants rated 4.7 or better. For the other 46 weeks of the year, see the full ranking of NYC's hardest reservations or the numbers behind our catalog.