Spring is almost upon NYC, so, foodies, step aside, Wall Street will be coming out in full force.
Prepare for a deluge as the luckiest of them depart Miami and return home to the city that never sleeps.
And those who had to stay up north will finally be ending their hibernation, just like the rest of us.
To welcome them, Business Insider put together a list of 12 restaurants Wall Streeters must check out in order to refamiliarize themselves with these snow-free city streets.
Some are date spots (like Navy), some are potential client spots (like Irvington), and others are just a really good time (like Belle Reve and Dirty French).
All of them have incredible food. But we've already said too much.
Irvington — W Hotel Union Square, 201 Park Ave South
Last year hospitality firm Gerber Group gave Wall Street a gift — The Roof at the Viceroy Hotel.
This year, they're bringing the magic to the first floor of the W Hotel Union Square with Irvington, a New American bar and restaurant with Mediterranean-influences, highlighting locally-sourced ingredients from the neighboring Union Square Greenmarket, and freshly rotisserie roasted meats.
Bowery Meat Company — 9 East 1st Street
It's a chic house of meat (which is a sentence I've always dreamed of typing).
Bowery Meat Club was started by a bunch of guys who wanted to build a palace to all things steak, pork and fowl.
What say you, Wall Street?
Dirty French — 180 Ludlow Street
Dirty French was one of the hottest openings of 2014 and its popularity has not abated. If you do manage to get a reservation, you'll enter a restaurant that has optimized opulence.
After all, it's a Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi project.
As Eater genius reviewer Ryan Sutton pointed out, two tables had to be pushed together so waiters could set down his steak. The fish ain't little either.
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