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Masa vs Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca
Both restaurants are highly recommended by travel writers. Overall, Babbo scores slightly better than Masa. Babbo is ranked #15 in New York City with praise from 18 publications such as Lonely Planet, New York Magazine and Travel + Leisure.
Masa
Concierge
Travel + Leisure
Zagat
DK Eyewitness
Gayot
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10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
From $0 /night
Concierge
"The tasting menu costs $400 before you take a sip of sake, but for fans, that's simply the price of perfection: Masa has been known to jet over to Japan to choose his impeccable fish."
Travel + Leisure
"Patience grasshopper, there are some restaurants where experience trumps food."
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Zagat
4.5
"Chef Masayoshi Takayama’s “transcendent” skills yield “superlative sushi” worthy of a “last meal” at this “tranquil” Time Warner Center Japanese."
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DK Eyewitness
"Chef Masayoshi Takayama, of the famed LA Ginza Sushi-ko, has moved to New York to break the record of most expensive meal ever."
Gayot
18.0
"If money is no object, you must go to Masa."
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Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca
Concierge
Fodor's
Travel + Leisure
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110 Waverly Place, New York City, NY 10011
From $41 /night
Concierge
"It was one of the first restaurants in New York to offer such an inventive and sophisticated take on Italian cuisine—with a voluminous wine list to match."
Fodor's
"It shouldn't take more than one bite of tender barbecue squab to understand why it's so hard to get a reservation at this casually elegant restaurant, whose menu strays widely from..."
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But be forewarned: if anyone in your party is hard of hearing, or bothered by loud rock music, choose someplace more sedate.
Travel + Leisure
"If you can though, it’s worth waiting for Batali’s Hudson Valley version of Italian classics including black spaghetti with rock shrimp."
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Zagat
""Year after year", the Batali-Bastianich team's Village "standard-bearer" for "elevated Italian" cooking "lives up to its rep" with a "daring and fulfilling" menu."
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BlackBook
"Leave your gustatory inhibitions at the door and gorge on beef cheek ravioli and warm lamb's tongue, Tuscan doughnuts and saffron panna cotta for dessert, killer Italian wines."
