A Traveler\'s Guide to Discovering Neighborhood Restaurants

A Traveler’s Guide to Discovering Neighborhood Restaurants

From a New York trattoria to a Hong Kong hole-in-the-wall, we celebrate unsung local haunts, with picks from nine Michelin-star chefs. Plus: How to find a great one wherever you are

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A BOOTH in a Midtown Manhattan restaurant has a small plaque with my grandmother’s name on it, just a few feet beneath a giant plaster breast. For more than a quarter-century, my grandmother, my mother, and I had our regular Sunday lunches at Trattoria Dell’Arte, the 30-year-old Italian restaurant—known for its larger-than-life artistic renderings of various body parts—just across the street from Carnegie Hall.

I became a regular at a young age. When my mother was pregnant with me, my grandmother would bring her heaping takeout...