Whether it scores a New York Times one star or three, Nobu remains relevant, especially when Taylor Swift pays a visit. Earlier this month, Swift and Travis Kelce stopped by Nobu 57 and ate with a handful of others in a private dining room.

Swift first visited Polo Bar a long time ago, but well before that, the Polo Bar from Ralph Lauren, had been an impossible-to-get-into restaurant for mere mortals. There’s always the bar, “and the A-list crowd is reliably entertaining,” according to New York magazine.

It’s been nearly a decade since Swift was seen leaving the sushi and sashimi restaurant that opened in 2005 connected to the Bryant Park Hotel. Today, its menu features calamari salad, lobster tacos, roast duck, and a separate sushi and sashimi menu.

Back in December 2014, Swift hit up this Abc Kitchen spinoff, Abc Cocina, following her performance at a Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Shortly before that, the restaurant from Jean-Georges Vongerichten opened, landing two stars from the New York Times for its “minimalist” plates that show off “clear and harmonious” flavors.

Swift visited the West Village speakeasy, Do Not Disturb, a couple weeks ago, where a tipster told @deuxmoi she stopped by with singer Phoebe Bridgers. The former home to the Beatrice Inn, the newish speakeasy features $20 cocktails “inspired by the lovers in our life,” according to the menu, along with bites such as beef tartare, a quinoa and kale salad, and a $28 smash burger with fries.

An essential New York restaurant, Via Carota is one of the handful of spots from Rita Sodi and Jody Williams that remains the crowd favorite for good reason, with its simple Italian dishes dressed up to perfection. Long known for being walk-in only, these days the restaurant thankfully has some tables open for reservations. There’s also a cookbook that came out last year.

Cited for its romantic vibes, this MacDougal Street restaurant hosted Swift awhile back with

Todrick Hall, when they ordered two pizzas, two double French martinis, tiramisu and gelato, the owner told People magazine. Her visit was before the duo headed downstairs to the restaurant’s sibling jazz club, Bar Next Door.

A little over a week after critic Robert Sietsema checked into Minetta Tavern, Swift visited with Phoebe Bridgers. Restaurateur Keith McNally gave the rundown of her visit, noting she had oysters, scallops to share, and Dover sole (Bridgers had the lobster). Apparently, word traveled fast, as there were allegedly about 100 people waiting to see her Minetta Lane when she left.

A day after her Minetta Tavern visit in November, Swift met Selena Gomez, Sophie Turner, Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne, and wife of a Kansas City Chief’s Patrick Mahomes, Brittany Mahomes, People reported. Open for 25 years, BondSt the Japanese-ish restaurant opened a sibling location in Hudson Yards in the fall.

Zero Bond was where Swift was seen leaving earlier this month following her beau Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the New York Jets. The members-only Zero Bond from Scott Sartiano — also behind Sartiano’s, recently opened in Soho — requires upwards of a $5,000 initiation fee and a $4,000 annual payment. Mayor Eric Adams is a fan, too.

With a menu of mashups like an everything-bagel Caesar salad, martini oysters, and disco steak fries, the Corner Store opened in what had been Dos Caminos since 2004. The 4,500-square-foot, 130-seat space comees from Tilman Fertitta, the founder of the Houston-based Landry’s, Inc, which features restaurants as disparate as the Palm — which Landry’s acquired for $45 million back in 2020 — Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., and Morton’s the Steakhouse in its portfolio. Mid-September, shortly after opening, Taylor Swift showed up here with Gigi Hadid.

Taylor Swift isn’t immune to the power of a Levain chocolate chip cookie. The first location opened on the Upper West Side in 1995; it has since sprouted locations all over the city, and spreading as far as Los Angeles.

Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones went to Temple Bar with Swift in September after dinner, according to People. The moody martini bar with its checked floor and disco ball closed in 2017, then reopened in 2021, with a very private looking entrance on Lafayette.

Swift has visited Emilio’s Ballato “more than once” over the past few weeks, a source close to the restaurant confirms. And it “100 percent” has made the line longer out in front of the restaurant at the no-reservations spot. Emilio’s is a scene, the kind of place where you’re sure to see someone famous, regardless. Start with a glass of house red or white. Make sure you try that focaccia (Emilio started as a baker). Order a plate of red peppers. Consider the tripe. Move on to linguine with white clam sauce. Share a plate of fennel sausage and broccoli rabe, or the veal Milanese.

Taylor Swift and friends ate at this spendy hotel restaurant in September, which, like its Paris location, offers dishes like steak tartare, escargot, sole meunière, and onion soup; a half-chicken is $54. A recent Vulture article described this scene: “...we are the only people in the dining room who are not rich tourists from out of state in $600 leggings and platform Dior sneakers.”

Swift and Turner visited Mulberry Bar earlier this month, the spot from Phil Meynell (VP of TSX Entertainment), Leo Jacob (partner in Bowery Hotel, Hotel Chelsea) and Justin Sievers (partner in Bar Primi). “You are either in or you’re so out,” writes Air Mail of the spot that opened in February, “so that you might as well have a slice at the nearby Upside Pizza and call it a night.”

Here’s the Freemans-adjacent spot where Taylor Swift allegedly had her 34th birthday party. While it was apparently a celebfest, Travis Kelce wasn’t there since he had to be at practice to prep for the game against the Patriots on the weekend.

Co-owned by Robert De Niro, chef Andrew Carmellini, and others, Tribeca Italian mainstay Locanda Verde has fed the likes of Harry Styles, Drew Barrymore, Savannah Guthrie, and Taylor Swift, who has been seen there multiple times, as it’s in her neighborhood.

Open since 1990, Ron Silver’s Bubby’s — known for its pancakes, pies, biscuits, and other American comfort foods — was visited by Swift at least once with Lena Dunham.

Swift spent time at wine bar Parcelle with friends such as Selena Gomez and Miles Teller, on the same night, she was seen as having dinner at the clubby Zero Bond, December 13.

In September, Swift visited Lower East Side Casino, where she ordered Cosmos, the once maligned cocktail, now, thanks to her, having a comeback. With its glam ’80s vibe, Casino is an Italian Riviera-themed party spot that attracts folks from the fashion and art worlds. Seafood anchors the menu with dishes like fritto misti, crudo, whole roasted turbot, and a lobster cioppino.

Swift cancelled her membership once other members of Casa Cipriani (who were kicked out) took photos of her with then beau, singer-songwriter, Matty Healy. For regular people who aren’t members, there’s always another Cipriani location (and its dubious reputation for how it treats people who aren’t famous).