1,624 restaurants in New York that pay Upside

Upside pays cash back at these restaurants on top of whatever your card earns. Join once, link a card, and pay with it — values below are what each card earns here. Top neighborhoods: Queens (98), Bergen (77), and Essex (63).

1,624 restaurants

  • Australian · $ · Tribeca

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    Resy creditinKind20%Rakuten Dining5%+1 more
  • Australian · $ · Williamsburg

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    Resy creditinKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
  • Peruvian · $$ · Upper East Side

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    Resy creditinKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8x+12 more
  • American · $$$ · Flushing

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more
  • Agenda

    up to20%

    Latin · $$$$ · Astoria

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside10%Hilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
  • Italian · $$ · Morris

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more
  • Ambo

    up to20%

    Indian · $$ · Greenwich Village

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside8%Rakuten Dining5%+1 more
  • Argentine · $$$ · Midtown West

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+8 more
  • Baodega

    up to20%

    Asian · $$$$ · The Flatiron District

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Upside14%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more
  • American · $$ · Stuyvesant Heights

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside13%Hilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
  • Seafood · $$$ · Lower East Side

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Upside14%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more
  • Battery Park City

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside2%
  • Blend LIC

    up to20%

    Latin American · $$ · Hunters Point

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside8%Rakuten Dining5%+1 more
  • Latin · $$$ · Williamsburg

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more
  • Barbecue · $$ · Hudson

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside11%Hilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
  • Brewr

    up to20%

    American · $$ · Rose Hill

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Upside11%Hilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
  • Chinese · $$ · Theater District

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more
  • Mediterranean · $$$ · Westchester

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more
Restaurants
1,624
Neighborhoods
250
Cuisines
132
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
277

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. Upside (1,624 restaurants) and Bilt Dining (1,261) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 1,624 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

All the best cards for dining

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.

132 cuisines in New York

419 neighborhoods in New York

398 more cities and towns in New York

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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