Francie

Francie is a posh Brooklyn restaurant where you should go if you want to feel sophisticated and spend around $100 on supper. The flashy brasserie, which is located across the street from Peter Luger and Diner in a converted limestone bank on Broadway, is manned by servers in white blazers who carry around plates of dry-aged duck on beds of purple flowers. For better or worse, difficult-to-get restaurant reservations are back, and Francie is one of a few of New York City's greatest new restaurants with a dine-if-you-can policy. There are a few blue bright spots in the sea of reservation platform red in this scenario, especially if you're ready to dine at the bar a little early or late.

A long, low-profile banquette along one side, while a few wide crescent-shaped booths line the other, each large enough to seat you and a half-dozen or more friends for grown-up birthday fetes, expense account dinners, and general convivial plotting. Cocktails like the old-fashioned, sidecar, and cosmopolitan are spritzes and tipples. There's also beer and wine to be had.

Location: 134 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Website: https://www.franciebrooklyn.com