Where Taylor, Timothée and Sabrina Actually Eat: Deuxmoi’s 10 NYC Celeb-Spotting Spots
If your group chat runs on Deuxmoi screenshots and you’ve ever rerouted a NYC trip just to walk past Carbone, this list is your new vibe board. The gossip account-turned-empire just dropped its picks for the city’s top celeb-spotting restaurants in 2026, and yes — the usual downtown suspects are present and accounted for.
The rankings are sourced from reader-submitted sightings flooding into the Deuxmoi Instagram and the newer Deuxmoi World app, which tracks where stars are actually eating, drinking and lurking. From clubby West Village hideouts to literal Ralph Lauren-designed power rooms, here’s where the A-list keeps popping up.
Via Carota
The Italian darling from chefs Rita Sodi and Jody Williams is famous for keeping things deceptively simple — Meyer lemon risotto, fried rabbit, the kind of menu that has zero business being this hard to get into. It used to be walk-in only, which was its whole personality, but reservations now exist (sort of).
Spotted: Taylor Swift, Sophie Turner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Hamm, Kaia Gerber and Stephen Curry.
Polo Bar
Ralph Lauren’s 2015 American restaurant is basically a velvet rope with a kitchen attached. Reservation-required, classic dishes, the kind of place where the people-watching arguably outranks the bar bites.
Spotted: Taylor Swift (again — she’s everywhere), Travis Kelce, George Clooney, Kourtney Kardashian, Blake Lively, Jennifer Aniston and Lindsay Lohan.
The Bowery Hotel
Less a restaurant, more a Lower East Side celeb dorm. Stars actually stay here, and the on-site cocktail spot Gemma pulls them down for drinks. Casually iconic.
Spotted: Jennifer Lopez, Barry Keoghan, Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
Balthazar
The SoHo French brasserie that has somehow stayed cool through multiple cultural eras. Best for oysters and fries, brunch hangs and acting like you’re not staring.
Spotted: Anna Wintour (which is its own sighting tier), Florence Pugh, Emma Stone, Chris Rock and Matthew Gray Gubler.
Pastis NYC
The Meatpacking District French bistro that basically defines “downtown cool.” If a celeb wants to be photographed-but-make-it-casual, they end up here.
Spotted: Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Ethan Hawke and James Marsden.
The Waverly Inn
Clubby West Village energy, high-end American comfort food and cocktails that go down too easy. The vibes are “regulars only,” which is exactly why everyone wants in.
Spotted: Timothée Chalamet, Sabrina Carpenter, Zoë Kravitz, Adam Sandler, Gigi Hadid, Drew Barrymore and — yes — Taylor Swift.
Carbone
The Greenwich Village Italian-American institution that you’ve heard about a thousand times, mostly because Beyoncé and Jay-Z have basically endorsed it. The spicy rigatoni vodka has its own fan base. So does the tableside theatrics.
Spotted: Hailey Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Bad Bunny and Ed Sheeran.
Bar Pitti
Cash-only, Tuscan, sidewalk-table chaos. Open since 1992, and it has perfected the “see-and-be-seen” patio scene better than almost anywhere in the city. The pasta is real. The people-watching is unreal.
Spotted: Jacob Elordi (who is having a moment at multiple spots on this list), Olivia Rodrigo, Camila Cabello, Dakota Fanning and Dave Chappelle.
The Odeon
Tribeca French, but make it 1980s NYC mythology. This is where Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert De Niro used to hang. Decades later, the heavy hitters still pull up.
Spotted: Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Demi Moore and Marcello Hernández.
Ray’s
The “upscale dive bar” of your dreams: disco ball, pool table, beer, craft cocktails and a roster of regulars that reads like a casting call. If you’ve been doomscrolling Deuxmoi posts wondering where Jacob Elordi is tonight, statistically — it’s here.
Spotted: Dua Lipa, Chase Stokes, Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi.
A few patterns worth noting if you’re planning a strategic NYC dinner reservation: Taylor Swift is on this list three separate times, Jacob Elordi appears to be powering at least 30 percent of the city’s downtown sightings on his own, and the West Village/Meatpacking/SoHo/Tribeca corridor remains the only zip code that matters. Greenwich Village alone is responsible for Carbone, Bar Pitti and Via Carota, which is genuinely insane density for a few blocks of real estate.
The bigger takeaway from Deuxmoi’s ranking: the celeb dining map hasn’t really shifted — it’s hardened. These are the rooms. If you want a shot at brushing past Sabrina Carpenter on her way to the bathroom or clocking Timothée at a corner banquette, you already know where to go. Now you just need a reservation. And, ideally, the patience of someone who is fully prepared to pretend they aren’t looking.
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