RestaurantLower East Side
Betty
One of the few (good) places you can actually get a seat on a weekend. Fill up on French Onion Soup, Grilled Cheese or a really good cheeseburger. Stay for happy hour.
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In The Area
GalleryLower East Side
Reena Spaulings Fine Art
One of the Lower East Side’s most influential and unruly galleries. Run by artists, two decades in, and the reason a lot of other galleries are here. Art here breaks the rules with intelligence and lashings of style. Essential viewing.
GalleryLower East Side
Ramiken
Dart down a side alley off Grand Street, through a door, past mirrored windows you can't see through to find exhibitions that remind you contemporary art can still feel dangerous, weird, and genuinely unpredictable.
GalleryLower East Side
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this basement gallery, which champions younger local and international artists.
RestaurantLower East Side
Little Canal
Catch a little whiff of California in the center of Dimes Square. Locals flock to this corner spot for coffee, cocktails, and Hangover Wraps before (or after) hitting the galleries of Henry Street.