The Upper West Side's 107 West is noted for its good food, good music and good people. Pop by for brunch over the weekend at this metropolitan seafood oasis or go with friends to enjoy the live jazz every Saturday night. Sample the Southern Fried Chicken or treat yourself to the Macadamia Apple Crisp, but if you do nothing else, make sure you enjoy the seafood dishes like the Jambalaya and the Atlantic Salmon at 107 West. This swanky restaurant prides its self on having the freshest and most deliciously prepared seafood dishes in the New York and they can't wait until you come by to tell them they are right. From half price bottled wine on Thursdays to the bar that is open late, 107 West welcomes you in for a delicious yet affordable drink to compliment your meal or good conversation with friends.

Dish price range: $10.50-$18

A warm, unpretentious Italian restaurant, the specialties here are wholesome, uncomplicated dishes at reasonable prices and as with many "family style" Italian restaurants enormous portions. Arte Café is located in a landmark brownstone in the upper west side, features a large outdoor garden with a water fountain. Just steps away from Central Park, Chef Camillo Bassani, presents pan-Italian cuisine with homemade pastas, fresh meats, fish, pizza from a brick-oven and sumptuous desserts. Private rooms are available for all events and budgets.

Dish price range: $10-$22

Monday through Friday:

Breakfast 7:00 am - 10:30 am
Lunch 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dinner 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Saturday amd Sunday:

Breakfast 7:00 am - 10:30 am
Brunch 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Saturday Dinner 6:00 pm -10:00 pm
Sunday Dinner 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

As Manhattan's favorite celebration destination, restaurant Asiate elevates guests' dining experiences to new heights with gracious service, inventive cuisine, an award-winning wine collection and stylish design that is only surpassed by the stunning floor-to-ceiling views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Chef de Cuisine Brandon Kida artistically crafts his contemporary cuisine with international influences from his travels and his Asian-American background. The changing seasons showcased in Asiate's Central Park views are also reflected in Chef Kida's seasonal menu featuring dishes made with fresh, local ingredients brought together in a balance and harmony inherent in every aspect of Mandarin Oriental. Renown designer Tony Chi used Asiate's 35th floor Central Park views as his inspiration for the restaurant's design. The interior is crowned by a glittering tree-branch sculpture hanging from the ceiling that symbolize the trees of Central Park in winter and a dramatic wall of wine that houses over 1,300 bottles of the restaurant's collection.

Lunch dish price range: $16-$28
Lunch prix fixe: $24.08
Dinner prix fixe: $85

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BarBao teams the owners of the restaurant Rain whose space has been redesigned in a classier vein with the chef Michael Bao Huynh, who ran the kitchens at Bao 111, in the East Village, and Mai House, in TriBeCa. The food at BarBao reflects Mr. Huynh's gift for refracting Asian conceits and ingredients through a contemporary prism. The duck hash, combining cubes of rice cake with shredded duck confit and a poached egg, has one foot in the Far East and the other in fatty, gut-busting Momofuku Manhattan. The cuttlefish defers cunningly to many New York diners' Mediterranean sensibilities by coming up with a version of salsa verde that adds Vietnamese mint, Thai basil and yuzu to anchovy. (New York Times)

Dish price range: $8-$24

Calle Ocho gets its name from the bustling thoroughfare of Miami's Little Havana, where old Cuba and contemporary America converge. Calle Ocho is a world all its own, where you are immersed in bright lights, big flavors, samba music, mojitos, and caipirinhas. An evening here might begin in the lounge, where intimate banquettes, specialty cocktails, and a selection of cool, refreshing ceviches set the mood and whet the appetite. Next stop is the high-ceilinged dining room where the city's finest Nuevo Latino menu features dishes such as Rum Glazed Shrimp, Tuna Tiradito, and Crispy Cuban Pork. Finish the evening with one of our signature desserts, freshly ground South American coffee, or an aged tequila. Americans have fallen in love with Latin food, music, and culture. Calle Ocho has them all under one roof, offering a singularly authentic and charming escape to it's own Little Havana on Columbus Avenue.

Dish price range: $21-$29

The restaurant is open for lunch, brunch, dinner and late night with menus featuring new interpretations of traditional Italian dishes. Try the Arancini, Egg Yolk Raviolo, Fried Green Tomato Caprese or Forest Mushroom Pappardelle, a few of Campo's most popular items, but be sure to leave room for the chef's signature Thin Crust Grilled Pizzas - a staple at almost every meal. Locally-sourced and all-natural ingredients are used whenever possible, and healthy alternatives such as whole wheat pasta are always available. In addition to the warm atmosphere and comforting cuisine, Campo is also a great place to enjoy a cocktail. The talented and friendly bartenders are at your service with afternoon and late night happy hours and an artfully-crafted menu offering both classic drinks and signature concoctions, including the aptly named Barnard and Julliard Daiquiri - the restaurant's homage to the neighborhood.

Dish price range: $10-$18
Columbia Prix-Fixe: $18.90

Compass Restaurant features the freshest seafood on the Upper West Side prepared in a contemporary style, complemented by an award winning wine list and the best Lobster prices outside of Maine. Reserve a private room for your graduation party and you will receive a complimentary celebration cake and a half hour cocktail reception. Email dominique@compassrestaurant.com for room and menu information.

Prix-fixe three course dinner menu: $35
Dish price range: $22-$45

Tucked into a townhouse on a quiet, leafy street just steps from the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park and Lincoln Center, Dovetail offers an intimate dining experience showcasing chef/owner John Fraser's passion for local ingredients and classical European training. Shortly after Dovetail's fall 2007 opening, the restaurant earned three star reviews from the New York Times and New York magazine, and was recently included on both publications' top ten new restaurant lists for 2008. Dovetail is open for dinner nightly, lunch service Wednesday through Friday, and brunch on the weekends. On Sunday evenings, a $38 two-course Sunday Suppa is served.

Dish price range: $28-$36

Chefs Durga Prasad and Alexander Paul Xalxo deliver a superior selection of unusual and generously portioned offerings. In addition to entrée mainstays like vindaloo and tikka masala, they prepare a wonderfully fiery fish masala, featuring an intriguing sauce seasoned with fresh curry leaves, ginger, coconut and kokum (a sour medicinal fruit native to western India). Among the many esoteric vegetarian offerings is a complex chickpea dish made with ginger, green chilies, pomegranate seeds and dried mango.

Dish price range: $5-$25

Firehouse is a low key neighborhood bar and restaurant with casual food. It serves a relaxed crowd American bar standards: burgers, burritos, chili, and wings.

Dish price range: $3-$14

Upper Westsiders are all aglow about the "fascinating spicing" at this "top-shelf" Indian, where the "fresh" dishes are "cooked to your palate"; the "charming" staff and "modest prices" more than compensate for its "small" space; P.S. the $12.95 lunch prix fixe is "unbeatable." (Zagat)

 Dish price range: $5-21

Join Isabella's for a Mediterranean-inspired menu on the Upper West Side which is a destination synonymous with celebrities, neighborhood families, and friends. The restaurant has been hailed as an "Upper West Side institution" by neighborhood regulars and serious diners alike, and celebrates its 20th birthday this year! The outdoor café is extremely popular and great for people watching, especially for Sunday brunch.

Dish price range: $16.50-$28
Columbia Prix-Fixe Lunch: $24.07
Columbia Prix-Fixe Dinner: $35

Students from nearby Columbia University, uptown church ladies, savvy New Yorkers, and VIP's (like former President Clinton) all feel at home in this inexpensive, soul-food restaurant. Owner, Caterer and former Wilhemina model, Norma Jean Darden, serves comfort food based on family recipes from Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine, the best-selling cookbook she wrote with her sister, Carole. The bright and cozy dining room with its red and white checkerboard tile floor and ruffled strawberry curtains is modeled after their mother, Miss Mamie Jean Sampson Darden's, Alabama kitchen.

Dish price range: $12.95-$17.95

Veteran chef Andy D'Amico strikes a popular chord with a multitude of Riviera-inspired hors d'oeuvre like pissaladiere and panisses, and continues the bold, garlic-imbued theme with soupe au pistou, fennel-cured mackerel, and roast cod with ratatouille nicoise and anchoiade. In true Upper West and French Riviera fashion, warm-weather sidewalk seating abounds.

Dish price range: $16.75-$25.75
Prix-Fixe: $35

Unless you grew up Italian with a grandma who dedicated Sundays to stirring gravy and stuffing relatives, Nonna's feast might seem excessive. The relentless red-sauce attack starts with steamy mozzarella-stuffed arancini and moves on to a crisp Caesar salad served family-style, succulent eggplant involtini. But don't surrender yet. The best is yet to come: a fluffy, fragrant amaretto-spiked zeppole and honey to dip it in. (NY Mag)

Dish price range: $14-$22

Conveniently located across from the Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side, Ocean Grill's elegant 160-seat dining room is reminiscent of a luxury liner, with graceful details found both in the dining room and on the menu of fresh seafood offerings, daily Raw Bar selections and a creative sushi menu ensuring smooth sailing for guests.

Dish price range: $20-$30
Columbia Prix-Fixe Lunch: $24.07
Columbia Prix-Fixe Dinner: $35

Since its opening in 2001 to great acclaim, Ouest Restaurant has largely been considered a beacon for fine dining on New York City's Upper West Side. It is listed as one of New York's top restaurants by New York Magazine and Zagats. Chef and owner Tom Valenti, hailed as by Ed Levine as the "Flavor King of New York", continues to offer a delicious new twist on Nouveau American cuisine.

Columbia Prix-Fixe: $50
Dish price range: $26-$40

Michael Lomonaco, formerly of ‘21' and Windows on the World, has been delivering the epitome of great American flavors and ingredients since opening Porter House New York in the fall of 2006. Joining the prestigious Restaurant Collection in the Time Warner Center, Porter House New York is Lomonaco's take on a traditional steakhouse: big succulent meats in tandem with a premium seafood program. Since its opening, Porter House New York has been named one of the "Best Restaurants of 2007" by John Mariani of Esquire Magazine. The 2008 Zagat Survey praises the restaurant for "meats perfectly prepared, sides that live up to the main event and attentive service without airs" and the 2008 Michelin Guide New York City sites the restaurant's "menu for raising the stakes for meat lovers taking the concept of a classic steakhouse and honing it with a modern edge."

Dish price range: $28-$46

Sezz Medi provides an array of tantalizing dishes featuring the finest seafood, meats and vegetable available. Chef Angelo Sessa and his team take great care in the preparation of each item. Featured dishes include mouth-watering warm shrimp appetizer, crisp endive and pecorino salad, wood fired brick oven pizza's and a sinful Sezz Chocolate cake.

Dish price range: $10-$27

This fetching tapas spot on the Upper West Side is the real deal: it serves 31 Spanish small plates and 50 Spanish wines, no international fusion experiments here. Featuring the best authentic Iberian cuisine in New York, their range of salads, fish, chicken, sausages, vegetarian and steak tapas will satisfy all tastes. Try the mocha flan or house dessert for some of the best desserts in the city.

Dish price range: $7-$23