![]() Restaurants: Balthazar, Balthazar Bakery, Schiller's Liquor Bar, Minetta Tavern, Morandi Get even beefier with the bistecca per due at McNally's rustic Italian Morandi for $95. The beneficiary of your largesse can dive face-first into a seafood plateau there or perhaps get a baller burger fix ($20 for the Minetta $28 for the dry-aged, onion-topped Black Label) at the legendary Minetta Tavern. Since 1997, Keith McNally's Balthazar has effectively operated as Soho's commissary, serving artful French bistro standards from early morning through the witching hours. À la carte: These restaurant groups require separate purchases of cards for various locales but offer one-stop shopping websites. Restaurants: Hearth, all Terroir locations except the seasonal High Line pop-up Since this thoughtful card spans both Marco Canora's Hearth restaurant and Paul Grieco's offshoot Terroir wine bars with locations scattered all over the island (the duo will split the empire starting January 1), your enviable recipient need not fret-just sink into a glass of Riesling and a bowl of gnocchi and swim to safety. Sometimes they need only to guzzle them down. Sometimes a person needs to eat their feelings. Restaurants: Craft, Craftbar, Colicchio & Sons Your lucky diner can go schmancy at the original Gramercy Park location, bop around the corner to the still-cheffy but lower-key Craftbar or pack an appetite and go west to the casual Tap Room or haute-American main dining room of his namesake Colicchio & Sons. Tom Colicchio made a splash with his flagship purveyor-centric Craft restaurant in 2001, and lo this decade-plus later, the ripple effect still feels fresh. Restaurants: Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5, Maialino, Untitled, North End Grill, Marta Note: The card doesn't cover Shake Shack, but you can delight the burger lover in your life with one made specifically for the chain. A little something from USHG is also the perfect kick in the pants for diners who want to experience the landmark Union Square Cafe before it closes at the end of 2015 (due to a rent hike). NYC hospitality OG Danny Meyer has every customer covered, from barbecue mavens ( Blue Smoke) and pizza connoisseurs ( Marta) to music fans ( Jazz Standard) and lovers of farm-to-table finesse ( Gramercy Tavern). Roman pizza at Marta | Photo: Dave Katz/Tasting Table Restaurants: Noodle Bar, Ssäm Bar, Booker and Dax, Ko, Má Pêche, Milk Bar These gift cards are handy at Midtown's Má Pêche as well, but your giftee is free to embrace the spirit of adventure and stroll into Chang's other outposts on a whim-even in the wee hours of Friday and Saturday, when both Noodle Bar and Ssäm Bar's kitchens stay open until 1 a.m. A Ko reservation is a little bit easier to come by now, thanks to a recent move to a larger space. Give the gift of ham, ramen, creative cocktails, a fried chicken feast or a big ol' bo ssäm with a monetary entrée to David Chang's planet of restaurants. Restaurants: Daniel, Café Boulud, Bar Pleiades, DB Bistro Moderne, Bar Boulud, DBGB Kitchen and Bar, Boulud Sud, Épicerie Boulud Restaurants: Marea, Ai Fiori, Costata, Ristorante Morini, Osteria Morini, Nicoletta, The ButterflyĮvery food lover could use a soupçon of Daniel Boulud in their dining life, non? They could blow the whole bundle (and then some) on a $125 prix fixe dinner at the chef's flagship Daniel, dole it out on daily croissants at Épicerie Boulud or even go whole hog on a suckling pig dinner ($525) for a group at DBGB. A luxurious prix fixe Marea lunch will set your fortunate diner (or you) back $47 before booze, or your giftee might just choose to sip it up in the form of re-engineered Grasshoppers, smoked Coke highballs or Indian-spiced mai tais at The Butterfly. Michael White's fans are legion and for good reason-his playful, elegant renditions and reinventions of Italian classics have earned him a bazillion James Beard Best Chef NYC nominations (okay, five) and Michelin stars (three), as well as a near-religious devotion to his uni pasta and risotto.
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