There are only a few ways to get into a trendy NYC restaurant. You can stay up all night waiting for a reservation, open your own place and hope it becomes cool, or show up to a trendy spot, put your name in, then slowly adjust to your new life in walk-in purgatory. If none of those strategies sound appealing, here’s a fourth: Go to a place on this list.

These restaurants are all trendy in the sense that they have great food and fun atmospheres—and some of them also happen to be new. They’re perfect for dates you forgot to plan or dinners with friends you need to impress, and they all seem like they’re hard to get into. But they aren’t. And that’s why they’re on this guide.