Milk & Roses

On our list of the best cozy restaurants in New York.

Bookcase-lined walls give the dining room a library feel at this Greenpoint restaurant, which serves Southern Italian-leaning American food that changes with the season: a poached-egg polenta one visit, pasta and pigeon on the dinner menu another. A garden out back seats groups through the summer and gets decorated for winter once the weather turns. Weekend brunch runs bottomless for an hour, with unlimited mimosas alongside one entree.