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150 Cafés in New York that earn more on your cards

New York has 150 Cafés in our listings: 146 take a dining program and 5 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: Midtown East (11), Chelsea (9), and Williamsburg (8).

150 restaurants

Restaurants
150
Neighborhoods
70
Cuisines
25
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
5

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in New York

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. inKind (96 restaurants) and AAdvantage Dining (73) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 150 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in New York

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

24 cuisines in New York

Café in 70 New York neighborhoods

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

Editorial disclosure: CardRewards.ai is an independent comparison service. Card data comes from issuers' published terms; catalog last published October 12, 2026, and each card page shows when its terms were last checked. Card issuers do not influence our rankings or content.