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148 restaurants in Upper East Side, New York that earn more on your cards

Upper East Side has 148 restaurants in our New York listings: 68 take a dining program and 98 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top cuisines: American (22), Italian (21), and French (14).

148 restaurants

Restaurants
148
Neighborhoods
1
Cuisines
44
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
98

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Upper East Side

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 (44 restaurants) and Upside (26) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 148 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 Upper East Side

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

44 cuisines in Upper East Side

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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

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