When you look intently at Taylor Swift’s current paparazzi photographs—previous the stylish outfits, Travis Kelce, and, nicely, the magnetic drive discipline that’s Swift herself—you’ll discover one thing: They’re nearly all the time taken exterior the identical New York Metropolis eating places. It’s each a shocking phenomenon (demigod Swift, frequenting a spot that we are able to all hypothetically go to too?) and an unsurprising one. New York, in any case, is a spot the place “going out to dinner” is the dominant social exercise. In fact Swift—a Gothamite so devoted, that she as soon as crooned “the lights are so brilliant, however they by no means blind me”—is a frequent patron on the very culinary haunts that make town so nice.

However what are these Taylor-approved haunts, precisely? Vogue breaks them down, beneath. (And sure—a couple of is inside strolling distance of Cornelia Avenue.)

By way of Carota

Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner took that viral paparazzi shot exterior the critically acclaimed West Village restaurant By way of Carota, a Tuscan-inspired restaurant by Jody Williams and Rita Sodi. Since opening in 2014, it’s been one of many hottest tables on the town; apart from Swift, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence, and Andy Cohen are additionally regulars. (In truth, the primary public photographs of Swift after her breakup with Joe Alwyn have been taken in entrance of By way of Carota.)

You possibly can’t go incorrect with something on the menu, which modifications seasonally. However their most well-known dishes? The cacio e pepe and insalata verde.

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