Westchester Michelin Bib Gourmand Restaurants

One of the highest achievements a restaurant can have is a Michelin Star, as this indicates that it is a restaurant worth going out of your way to visit. The reason why I am bringing this up is because the guide also has a feature called the Michelin Bib Gourmand, which are restaurants that offer exceptionally good food at moderate prices, and in November of last year, they shared the names of the restaurants that they added, and fourteen of them are in Westchester! In this post, I will discuss all the restaurants that they recommended, and hopefully it will convince you to go to some or all of them.

The first restaurant that they recommended is right here in Mount Kisco. It is a Georgian restaurant called Badageoni. They have a great menu that consists of soups, stews, salads, pan-fried Cornish hens, cold plates, hot plates, salmon dishes, stir fry, baked breads, Georgian dumplings, and charcoal grilled meat. The foods that sound the most interesting to me are the Pkhali, which are spinach, beet, and carrot patties, the Megruli, which is a round double-cheese bread, the Khinkali, which are Georgian soup dumplings, and the Chashushuli, which is a beef stew slow-cooked with tomatoes, pickles & cilantro, served with bread. The Michelin Bib Gourmand this restaurant got seems to have worked, as my dad commented on how packed it was one night.

The next restaurant that they recommended is a European-style taverna in Hastings-on-Hudson called Boro6 Wine Bar. Their food menu is rather small, but there are still some items that are intriguing to me, such as the arancini, which is a fried risotto ball, the crispy chicken Milanese, and the B6 Burger.

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Italian restaurant in Eastchester called Burrata. When I looked at the menu, I saw a ton of foods that sounded intriguing to me. These included arancini, polpettine, which are veal meatballs, pastas like agnolotti, gnochetti, ravioli, and rigatoni, margherita pizza, and desserts like cannolo, Nutella pizza, and zeppole. 

The next restaurant that they recommended is another Italian restaurant in Scarsdale called Café Alaia. The items on the menu that seemed most intriguing to me were the ravioli, tortellini in brodo, which is a broth, frittura mista, which is fried calamari and zucchini, polpette al sugo, zucchini parmesan, rigatoni al pomodoro, gnocchi al pesto, sirloin steak, grilled rack of lamb, chocolate lava cake, and cheesecake.

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Indian restaurant in Irvington called Chutney Masala. Though I have never had Indian food, there are some foods on the menu that seemed intriguing to me, such as the samosas, which are turnovers filled with vegetables and ground lamb, eggplant fritters, pan fried patties of spinach and homemade cheese, kati rolls, fry bread tacos, and naan bread.

The next restaurant that they recommended is a Croatian restaurant in New Rochelle called Dubrovnik. There are some items on their menu that seemed intriguing to me, such as the grilled jumbo shrimp, the Adriatic cuttlefish risotto, the vegetable soup, the veal ragout with homemade gnocchi, the lamb chops, the rib eye steak, and the filet mignon.

The next restaurant that they recommended is another restaurant in New Rochelle, an Italian restaurant called Maria Restaurant. The most intriguing foods on the menu to me are the meatballs, the eggplant fries, the cauliflower fritters, the spinach gnocchi, the wild mushroom ravioli, the rigatoni al forno, the lasagna del giorno, the maccheroni in Sunday sauce, the penne rigate in white veal Bolognese, and the chicken parmigiana.

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Indian restaurant in Elmsford called RaaSa Indian Cuisine. The foods on the menu that intrigued me the most were the vegetarian samosas, the spinach and onion fritters, the cauliflower crisps, the crispy eggplant, the chicken tikka masala, the butter chicken, and the naan bread.

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Italian restaurant in Rye called Rafele Rye. They have a ton of food that seems intriguing to me, such as gnocco fritto, which is fried dough, arancini, melanzana, which is eggplant, cheese, and tomato sauce, polpettine, fritto misto, house-made sausage, margherita pizza, gnocchi, ravioli, New York strip, zuppa di pesce, veal Milanese, Italian style cheesecake, tiramisu, caramel panna cotta, and a chocolate souffle with vanilla ice cream.

The next restaurant that they recommended is a southern restaurant in Pleasantville called Southern Table Kitchen & Bar. The foods on the menu that seemed the most intriguing to me were the fried green tomatoes, grilled steak tacos, buttermilk fried chicken, biscuits, cornbread, steak, shrimp & grits, lobster roll, and mac & cheese.

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Italian restaurant in Dobbs Ferry called The Cookery. The foods on their menu that I found the most intriguing were the heirloom meatballs, the radiatore pasta, the cauliflower ravioli, the rigatoni, the market steak, the chocolate polenta that comes with roasted house marshmallow and salted cannoli shell, and the cookie tray for two a la mode. 

The next restaurant that they recommended is an Italian restaurant in Bronxville called Tredici Social. They have a ton of foods on their menu that seem intriguing to me, such as their “inside out” meatballs, Kobe beef ravioli, gnocchi Verde, spicy rigatoni, hanger steak, fish & chips, veal chop parmigiana, truffle fries, tiramisu, s’mores lava cake, cookies & cream, and Nutella cannolis. 

The last restaurant that they recommended is an Italian restaurant in White Plains called TVB by Pax Romana. They also have several foods that sound intriguing to me, such as risotto balls, meatballs, fried calamari, maccheroni with homemade sausage ragu, penne alla vodka, gnocchi sorrentina, ravioli, margherita pizza, eggplant parmigiana, chicken parmigiana, sirloin steak, tiramisu, cheesecake, and a cookie skillet.

Overall, these restaurants all have amazing menus, and I am amazed that they got recognized by the Michelin Guide. So, go ahead and get dinner from any or all of these amazing restaurants!