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Hudson Yards
Restaurants
Fifteen places in and around the complex, ranked honestly — including which mall restaurants are worth it and which are not. Verified against each restaurant’s own site.
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The best restaurants near Hudson Yards right now are Greywind for the $35 lunch prix fixe at street level, Locanda Verde for $34 ravioli and 7:30am weekday breakfast, Papa San for the district’s only daily happy hour at 4pm, Los Tacos No. 1 for $5.95 tacos from 8am, and Empanada Mama for the one kitchen around here that never closes. Here is the thing nobody writing about this neighbourhood says plainly: the mall’s restaurant programme has not worked. Thomas Keller’s TAK Room, David Chang’s Momofuku Kawi, Wild Ink, Belcampo and Hudson Yards Grill have all closed, and in 2023 the landlord converted 445,000 square feet of retail into Wells Fargo offices. So this guide covers what is actually good in the complex — and where to walk when it is not.
The short version
- Best overallGreywind — street level, not the mall, and a $35 lunch prix fixe.
- Best in the complexLocanda Verde — $34 ravioli, and breakfast from 7:30am on weekdays.
- Only real dealPapa San — happy hour every day, 4 to 6pm.
- Best cheapLos Tacos No. 1 — $5.95 carne asada, open 8am weekdays.
- Open at 4amEmpanada Mama — 24 hours, seven days. Nothing else here is.
At a glance
Prices are from each restaurant’s own current menu. Where it says unpublished, the restaurant genuinely does not post one — which happens a lot in this district.
| Restaurant | Known for | Best for | Hours | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greywind | $35 lunch prix fixe | The one to book | Mon–Fri 11:30am–2:30pm and 5–9pm (bar from 4pm) · Sat 5–9pm · closed Sun | $$$ |
| Locanda Verde | My Grandmother’s Ravioli, $34 | Weekday breakfast at 7:30am | Mon–Fri breakfast 7:30–11am, lunch 11:30am–3pm, dinner 5–10pm · Sat 5–11pm · Sun 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Papa San | Daily happy hour, 4–6pm | The one deal in the district | Lunch Mon–Fri 11:30am–2:30pm · dinner daily 5–9:30pm · happy hour daily 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Estiatorio Milos | Whole grilled fish, market price | An expense account and a fish display | Lunch Mon–Fri 11:30am–4pm, Sat–Sun noon–4pm · dinner from 4pm/4:30pm to 11:30pm | $$$ |
| Los Tacos No. 1 | Carne asada taco, $5.95 | Twenty minutes and under $20 | Mon–Fri from 8am to 10pm · Sat 11am–10pm · Sun 11am–9pm | $$$ |
| Russ & Daughters | Bagel with lox | Before a train, and only before 4pm | Open daily 8am–4pm | $$$ |
| Mercado Little Spain | Counters plus two sit-down rooms | A group that cannot agree | Open daily 11am–10pm | $$$ |
| Miznon | Whole roasted baby cauliflower | Lunch, and only lunch | Open daily 11am–8pm | $$$ |
| Ci Siamo | Italian cooked over open flame | A proper dinner five minutes east | Hours are not published on the restaurant’s own site — call (212) 219-6559 | $$$ |
| Zou Zou’s | Mezze and dips | A group, booked ahead | Hours are not published on the restaurant’s own site — book on OpenTable | $$$ |
| Limusina | Lobster al pastor | Sit-down Mexican you cannot get in the complex | Hours are not published on the restaurant’s own site — book on OpenTable | $$$ |
| Kochi | Eight-course skewer tasting | The dinner you plan a week around | Mon–Thu and Sun 5–9:30pm · Fri–Sat 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Mari | Seasonal hand-roll tasting | Two people at the counter | Mon–Thu and Sun 5–9:30pm · Fri–Sat 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Cubby’s | Chacho’s Chopped Cheese | Thirteen minutes north and half the money | Mon–Thu 11am–10pm · Fri–Sun 11am–11pm | $$$ |
| Empanada Mama | Empanadas, fried and baked | 4am, or a 6am train | Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week | $$$ |
Map: where these 15 restaurants are
The complex sits at 34th and Tenth. Manhattan West is one block east, Hell’s Kitchen starts around 40th. The 7 train at 34th–Hudson Yards is the only subway inside it.
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Inside Hudson Yards — the four worth it
Four restaurants in or beside the complex that a New Yorker would choose on purpose. More citywide picks in our best restaurants in NYC guide.
Greywind Open now
The verdict: the best restaurant in Hudson Yards, and it is the one that is not in the building. Dan Kluger of Loring Place put it at street level on Tenth Avenue with a bakery attached, and New York magazine put its burger on the city’s best list. The local move: the $35 lunch prix fixe, which is the only genuinely good value in this postcode and which nobody in the office towers seems to know about. The honest caveat: it is closed Sundays and the kitchen shuts at 9pm every night, which catches people out after an event at the Shed.
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Locanda Verde Open now
The verdict: the Tribeca original transplanted, and the most consistently good plate of food actually inside the complex. AC’s fire-roasted garlic chicken is $42 for a half and $82 for the whole bird, My Grandmother’s Ravioli $34, hand-cut potato gnocchi with pesto genovese $33, and the 35-day dry-aged bistecca fiorentina is $195 if someone else is paying. The local move: weekday breakfast from 7:30am — the best thing to do before a train out of Moynihan, and almost nobody uses it. The honest caveat: there is no weekend lunch or brunch. Saturday and Sunday are dinner only, from 5pm.
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Papa San Open now
The verdict: Erik Ramirez of Llama Inn doing Peruvian-Japanese in The Spiral, and the most interesting cooking within five minutes of the Vessel. The local move, and this is the single most useful fact on this page: there is a happy hour every day from 4 to 6pm, and it is the only confirmed daily deal in the whole district. Come off the High Line at four. The honest caveat: brunch is currently suspended, so there is no weekend lunch — Saturday and Sunday are dinner only from 5pm — and the restaurant publishes no menu prices on its own site.
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Estiatorio Milos Open now
The verdict: the marquee restaurant inside the mall, and the fish is genuinely very good. You pick it off a bed of ice and they grill it whole. The local move: lunch , which runs to 4pm and is a far more sensible way to eat this food than the full evening production on Level 5. The honest caveat, and it is the one that matters: the whole fish is priced by the pound at market rate, which means the size of your bill is not knowable from the menu. Milos publishes no prices at all. Ask what the fish weighs and what it costs before you nod.
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Fast, cheap, or before a train
The counters. Two of them shut before dinner, which is the single most common way to get this district wrong. See also our best cheap eats in NYC guide.
Los Tacos No. 1 Open now
The verdict: the best cheap food within walking distance of the Vessel, and the only thing in this district that a New Yorker would eat twice. Tijuana-style, tortillas pressed to order. Adobada $5.65 and carne asada $5.95 on the chain’s own menu. The local move: the 8am weekday open, which makes this a real breakfast option before a train and which nothing else around here matches. The honest caveat: it is a standing counter with no seats, and the 12:30 line off the office towers is genuinely long. Go at three.
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Russ & Daughters Open now
The verdict: the 1914 Houston Street appetizing shop put an outpost in 50 Hudson Yards, and the cured fish is the same cured fish. In a district where most options are either a chain or a $200 dinner, this is the sane middle. The local move: build a bagel and walk it to Moynihan — it is a seven-minute walk and the train food problem is solved. The honest caveat: it shuts at 4pm, seven days. There is no dinner here, and people who turn up after an evening event find it dark.
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Mercado Little Spain Open now
The verdict: the best of the in-complex food halls, at street level rather than up in the mall, and the one part of José Andrés’s Hudson Yards project that has held up. Counters, kiosks and two full restaurants under one roof, open eleven hours a day, seven days. The local move: go to the counters, not the tables — the pan con tomate and the tortilla are the point and they cost a fraction of the sit-down bill. The honest caveat: the roster has thinned. Spanish Diner and Mar no longer appear in the official directory — the current sit-down rooms are La Barra and Txula Steak. Older guides will send you looking for restaurants that are not there.
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Miznon Open now
The verdict: Eyal Shani’s Tel Aviv pita counter, and the whole roasted baby cauliflower is still one of the better things you can eat for the money anywhere in Manhattan. Level 2 in the mall, which is the least depressing floor of it. The local move: the batata with run-over cream, which is the order people miss. The honest caveat: it closes at 8pm every day. If you are coming out of a show at the Shed or off the Edge deck at nine, this is not your dinner. There is a second Miznon in Chelsea Market if you are heading south.
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Manhattan West, five minutes east
Three good restaurants one block east — and not one of them publishes its hours on its own website, which tells you how this district thinks about walk-in diners. Call or check OpenTable. More in our best Italian restaurants in NYC guide.
Ci Siamo
The verdict: the Union Square Hospitality room at Manhattan West, cooking Italian over live fire, and the most serious restaurant on this page that is not called Greywind. It is a five-minute walk east from 30 Hudson Yards and a different world from the mall. The local move: ask for a seat near the hearth, which is the entire reason the room was built that way. The honest caveat: Ci Siamo publishes no hours and no prices anywhere on its own site — its booking engine is the only live signal. Call 212-219-6559 before you walk over.
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Zou Zou’s
The verdict: Eastern Mediterranean at Manhattan West and reliably the fullest dining room in this part of town, which in a district full of half-empty $200 restaurants tells you something. Mezze, dips, green tahini, kabocha squash, fattoush. The local move: book it, do not walk up — it is packed most nights and the bar is not a fallback. Its sibling cocktail lounge Chez Zou is in the same complex if you want a drink first. The honest caveat: like everything else at Manhattan West, it publishes no hours on its own site. OpenTable is the working source.
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Limusina
The verdict: the closest proper sit-down Mexican to Hudson Yards, from the Zou Zou’s team, and the answer when someone in your group has decided they want tacos but not standing up. Lobster al pastor and quesabirria are the two dishes it puts forward. The local move: go for the margaritas and stay for the al pastor — it is seven minutes from 30 Hudson Yards, which is closer than most of Hell’s Kitchen. The honest caveat: it publishes an hours page that does not load and no prices. Book on OpenTable, where the real availability lives.
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Worth the walk into Hell’s Kitchen
Thirteen to nineteen minutes north, and the reason people leave the complex to eat. See our best Korean restaurants in NYC guide too.
Kochi Open now
The verdict: a Michelin star for eight courses of grilled skewers drawn from Korean royal court cooking, and a fourteen-minute walk north from the Vessel. If you are planning an evening around Hudson Yards rather than escaping one, this is the best dinner within reach. The local move: sit at the counter, which is where the skewers are actually cooked. The honest caveat: it is tasting menu only and dinner only — there is no à la carte and no lunch — and Kochi does not publish the price on its own site, so confirm it when you book.
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Mari Open now
The verdict: Kochi’s sibling, and the more fun of the two. Mari runs a counter tasting built on Korean hand rolls — amuse, a run of seasonal rolls, then a two-part dessert — and watching it get made is half of what you are paying for. The local move: book two seats, not four. This is a counter restaurant and it works best as a pair. The honest caveat: same rules as Kochi — tasting menu only, dinner only, no published price on the restaurant’s own site. It takes bookings on both OpenTable and Resy, so check both.
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Cubby’s Open now
The verdict: the burger answer, and worth the thirteen-minute walk north out of the district. Cubby’s does smashburgers and a chopped cheese in a counter room with no pretensions — Chacho’s Chopped Cheese, the Roadrunner, the Sylvester Smash, chili cheese fries, Old Bay onion rings. The local move: order ahead online and collect, because the seating is limited and the room is small. The honest caveat: it is further than it looks on a map. Thirteen minutes is a real walk in February, and there are no reservations.
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Empanada Mama Open now
The verdict: the only restaurant on this page that is open when you actually need it. Empanada Mama runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, fried and baked empanadas in every filling, and it is the answer to both the 4am problem and the 6am train problem. The local move: note the Times Square branch at 200 W 40th — not 24 hours, but open to 3am Thursday to Saturday and meaningfully closer to Penn Station if that is where you are heading. The honest caveat: it is nineteen minutes north of the Vessel on foot, so this is a cab or a bus at 2am, not a stroll.
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Hudson Yards restaurants: FAQ
What are the best restaurants near Hudson Yards?
Greywind at 451 Tenth Avenue for Dan Kluger’s cooking and a $35 lunch prix fixe — it is street level, not inside the mall. Locanda Verde at 50 Hudson Yards for Italian. Papa San in The Spiral for Peruvian-Japanese. Estiatorio Milos for whole grilled fish. Ci Siamo at Manhattan West.
Are the Hudson Yards mall restaurants worth it?
Some are. Locanda Verde, Estiatorio Milos and Mercado Little Spain hold up. But the complex has lost Thomas Keller’s TAK Room, Momofuku Kawi, Wild Ink, Belcampo and Hudson Yards Grill since 2020, and the landlord converted 445,000 square feet of retail into offices in 2023. Greywind, at street level on Tenth Avenue, is the best restaurant here and it is not in the building.
Where can I eat cheap near Hudson Yards?
Los Tacos No. 1 at 508 West 34th — adobada $5.65, carne asada $5.95, open from 8am on weekdays. Miznon on Level 2 for pita, though it closes at 8pm. Mercado Little Spain’s counters at street level. Cubby’s on Tenth Avenue for smashburgers, thirteen minutes north.
What is open late near Hudson Yards?
Empanada Mama at 765 Ninth Avenue is open 24 hours, seven days — the only verified round-the-clock kitchen in reach. Estiatorio Milos runs to 11:30pm. Cubby’s goes to 11pm Friday to Sunday. Most of the complex shuts early: Miznon at 8pm, Russ & Daughters at 4pm, Greywind at 9pm.
Is anything open on Sunday near Hudson Yards?
Greywind is closed Sundays. Locanda Verde and Papa San are dinner only on Sunday, from 5pm, with no weekend lunch. Open all Sunday: Los Tacos No. 1 (11am–9pm), Mercado Little Spain (11am–10pm), Miznon (11am–8pm), Russ & Daughters (8am–4pm) and Empanada Mama, which never closes.
Last updated: August 2026. Menus, prices and hours change – confirm with the restaurant before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
