Photo by: Esquire

New York

Midtown

The Grill Room at the Four Seasons is the pinnacle, but if the point is not to be seen by the glad-handing hordes, make a reservation at Seasonal, a sleek Austrian restaurant where you can order the transcendent Wiener schnitzel and get on with it.

Where to sit: Front room, back-corner booth.

132 West 58th Street; 212-957-5550; seasonalnyc.com

Downtown

Pssst! The NoMad, with

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Photo by: Esquire

New York

Midtown

The Grill Room at the Four Seasons is the pinnacle, but if the point is not to be seen by the glad-handing hordes, make a reservation at Seasonal, a sleek Austrian restaurant where you can order the transcendent Wiener schnitzel and get on with it.

Where to sit: Front room, back-corner booth.

132 West 58th Street; 212-957-5550; seasonalnyc.com

Downtown

Pssst! The NoMad, with French-American cuisine overseen by master chef Daniel Humm, hasn't yet been discovered as a business-breakfast place. Be among the first to claim a table under the glass atrium that catches the morning sun like few other spots in Manhattan.

Where to sit: At one of the back tables by the bar.

1170 Broadway; 212-796-1500;

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