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Six restaurants in the West Village and Greenwich Village made OpenTable’s list of the top 100 restaurants in the country this year, and three of them belong to the same restaurant group.
Gabriel Stulman’s Happy Cooking Hospitality got Joseph Leonard, Jeffrey’s Grocery and Fairfax onto the 2026 list. Joseph Leonard, on the corner of Grove Street and Waverly Place, was the group’s first restaurant. Jeffrey’s Grocery came next, across the street at 172 Waverly Place. According to Happy Cooking, it started as a mix of food market and lunch counter before becoming a full-service, all-day seafood restaurant. Fairfax, at 234 West 4th Street, calls itself an all-day neighborhood restaurant. A fourth Happy Cooking restaurant, Sailor in Brooklyn, is on the list too.
Joseph Leonard had a 4.9-star diner rating, the highest of the six. Graciela, an Argentine restaurant at 81 Greenwich Avenue, also had a 4.9, with more than twice as many reviews. Its OpenTable listing says the menu includes a New York strip milanesa, empanadas, meats cooked over an open flame, and housemade charcuterie and gelato.
The other two Village picks are Italian. Don Angie, at 103 Greenwich Avenue, is wife-and-husband team Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli’s Italian-American restaurant, known for its rolled lasagna. Palma, at 28 Cornelia Street, has a garden and a 200-year-old carriage house it uses for private dining.
Four of the six Village restaurants are new to the list this year. Don Angie and Palma are the only ones that also made OpenTable’s 2025 top 100.
OpenTable says it built the list from more than 11 million reviews by verified diners between September 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026. It weighed diner ratings, the share of five-star reviews, how many diners set alerts for open tables, how often people booked in advance, how full each restaurant was, and how often people searched for it directly. The list is alphabetical, so the restaurants aren’t ranked against each other.
New York City had 14 restaurants on the list, up from 10 last year, and overtook Chicago, which led in 2025 but had 12 this time. Besides the six Village restaurants and Sailor, the NYC picks were Chambers, Gallaghers Steakhouse, Kabawa, The Odeon, The Tavern at Gramercy Tavern and Una Pizza Napoletana in Manhattan, and Red Hook Tavern in Brooklyn.
