Elea

On our list of the best special-occasion restaurants in New York.

Reno Christou, who also runs Kyma nearby, opened this Greek restaurant on the Upper West Side in 2018 with chef David Perez running the kitchen. The building holds two distinct rooms, a bar upstairs and a bigger dining room down in the basement, both done up in traditional Grecian style under warm light. Dinner runs through spreads like hummus before mains such as double-cut lamb chops with Greek fries or a whole grilled seabass, and reservations are rarely hard to land even on a weekend.