• Hal Rubenstein's Pick

  Ruby Foo's Midtown

  1626 Broadway, 212-489-5600

  For this native Jew, Sundays with Mom and Dad mean Chinese food around a table with a lazy Susan.

• Adam Platt's Pick

  Atelier

  50 Central Park South, 212-521-6125

  It’s the Ritz, after all.

• Robin Raisfeld's Pick

  Prune

  54 East 1st Street, 212-677-6221

  As genuinely New York as Barney Greengrass, but edgier, hipper, and facilitated by an exhilarating Bloody Mary menu.

• Rob Patronite's Pick

  'ino

  21 Bedford Street, 212-989-5769

  No one (especially not Dad) really likes brunch. Italian BLTs and truffled egg toast could change his mind.

From the 2004 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine