Pizza in NoLita — 4.7 on Resy across 23,313 diner reviews
📍 187 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
The best restaurants in NoLita, New York City — 11 ranked picks with ratings, must-try dishes and live table availability.
11 picksNoLita has 11 restaurants worth the trip, and this is the ranked list. Pasquale Jones leads it at 4.7 stars, with The Musket Room close behind. Prices run the whole way from $ counters to $$$$ rooms, and the strongest showings are Italian, Pizza and New American. If you only order one thing, make it the tasting menu at The Musket Room. 5 of the 11 take online reservations, and the live availability badge on each card shows what is actually open tonight.
NoLita packs a lot of good cooking into a handful of blocks, and most of it is in rooms small enough to make reservations worth it.
Pizza in NoLita — 4.7 on Resy across 23,313 diner reviews
📍 187 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
Southern in NoLita — 4.6 on Resy across 5,358 diner reviews
Must-try: Tasting menu
📍 265 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012
The tissue-thin vodka pie that defined a decade of NoLita — Staten Island recipe, Mulberry Street room
Must-try: Tie-dye pie (vodka and pesto), Classic thin-crust pie, Fried artichokes
📍 235 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
NoLita's iconic Sicilian square slice shop — the Spicy Spring pepperoni cup turned a classic format into a social media phenomenon
Must-try: Spicy Spring (spicy pepperoni + fra diavolo), Mercer Street Margherita, Grandma slice
📍 27 Prince St, New York, NY 10012
a tiny Portuguese room that is somehow only open on Thursdays
Must-try: House martini, Salt cod fritters, Communal tables
📍 151 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012
Thai-American all-day cooking on the corner of Mott and Kenmare — the tom yum fried rice, the Thai disco fries, the pancakes
Must-try: Tom yum fried rice, Thai disco fries, Roti and coconut custard for breakfast
📍 186 Mott St, New York, NY 10012
The Houston Street red-sauce room with the famously selective door — old New York, still holding the line
Must-try: Rigatoni alla vodka, Veal Milanese, Linguine with clams
📍 55 E Houston St, New York, NY 10012
Italian-American fine dining inside the Puck Building — Rich Torrisi's most ambitious room, and the hardest table in NoLita
Must-try: Beef and pork ragù rigatoni, Caviar service with the house bread, Whole fish for the table
📍 275 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
A NoLita corner restaurant doing precise New American cooking in a room built for lingering
Must-try: Seasonal pasta, Whole fish, Martini
📍 174 Mott St, New York, NY 10012
America's first pizzeria, licensed in 1905 — coal-fired Neapolitan-American pies in NoLita
Must-try: Original Margherita, Clam pie, Pie with fresh sausage
📍 32 Spring St, New York, NY 10012
A second-floor wine bar on Houston that changed how New York restaurants cook — endive with walnut and anchovy, still
Must-try: Endive salad with walnuts and ubriaco rosso, Beef tartare with sunchoke, Ricotta dumplings with mushroom and pecorino
📍 47 E Houston St, New York, NY 10012
Pasquale Jones — 4.7 stars across 23,313 reviews, the highest on this list. Pizza in NoLita — 4.7 on Resy across 23,313 diner reviews.
5 of the 11 book online — Pasquale Jones, The Musket Room and Rubirosa among them. The rest are walk-in or phone-only. Each card here shows live availability for tonight where the restaurant publishes it.
The tasting menu at The Musket Room, the tie-dye pie (vodka and pesto) at Rubirosa and the spicy spring (spicy pepperoni + fra diavolo) at Prince Street Pizza. Those are the dishes regulars point to first.
Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 9 of the 11 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.