Chelsea Market

"An always-crowded food market that opened in the late 1990s." - Melissa McCart

"Historic Chelsea Market never fully shut down during the pandemic — grocers on its lower level, including Manhattan Fruit Market and butchery Dickson’s Farmstand, remained open — but over the summer, more than a dozen food vendors have reopened one-by-one for takeout, delivery, and outdoor dining at over 100 tables around the hall. The market has a helpful online directory of all the spots that are currently open, including hand-pulled noodle experts Very Fresh Noodles, crowd-favorite taqueria Los Tacos No. 1, and popular Israeli street food spot Miznon, plus notes on where to pick up food and links to various delivery platforms to place orders with each vendor." - Erika Adams, Tanay Warerkar

"Chelsea Market is home to a wide array of shops and services. The building was once home to the National Biscuit Company (a.k.a. Nabisco) and you can find artifacts and artwork from its time as a baking facility. While the options of food are varied here, one of the reasons I like it is because of its variety of typography. Since it is also tourist location, you can also pick up traditional tourist items with the Chelsea Market logo on it." - Alisha Austin

"Chelsea Market gets a bad reputation for being kind of touristy, but if you’re on the High Line, there’s at least a 50% chance you’re with a tourist, so just embrace it. There are multiple floors of good food here that will impress both out-of-towners (the pasta omakase at La Devozione) and native New Yorkers (Alf Bakery). You might have to deal with some people who don’t understand the rules of walking down a busy corridor, but it’s worth it." - bryan kim, carina finn koeppicus

"There’s a high concentration of good-to-great food at Chelsea Market, and knowing exactly where to find it in the multistory sprawl is a pro-level NYC skill. Want to impress your cousins who are visiting from Nebraska with Italian food after a jaunt through the Whitney? Book the Oval counter at La Devozione for pasta omakase. Running late to an after-work dinner party? Get a loaf of sourdough and some bonus pastries from Alf Bakery. You can also grab reliable tacos for lunch from Los Tacos No. 1, or nurse a hangover with the very good green juice at Manhattan Fruit Market. You might have to deal with some people who don’t understand the rules of walking down a busy corridor, but it’s worth it." - Carina Finn