This counter in Olly Olly Market offers a sushi omakase experience of 11 courses for $75, a very reasonable price since it often involves luxury ingredients like wagyu, bluefin, and caviar. The sushi often takes the form of what Ddobar calls yubu tarts — morsels of fish atop rice-stuffed envelopes of tofu skin, much like inari sushi. Especially for sushi lovers it’s a unique and unusual experience.

On the western edge of Chelsea, find Hav & Mar, another restaurant from Marcus Samuelsson. Handily merging the food of Sweden, Ethiopia, and New York, he presents an array of unlikely dishes, including Addis York, his version of Ethiopian doro wat, featuring glazed chicken drumsticks triumphantly pointing skyward. The bread basket alone is worth visiting the restaurant for, and the best dish on the menu is the cavatelli with seafood in a creamy uni sauce.

This decade-old pizza pioneer opened in Chelsea’s gallery district way before most other restaurants appeared there, with the exception of the Red Cat and a couple of other old-timers, most now long gone. The space is warehouse-like, the bar provides cocktails in addition to beer and wine, and the exemplary pizzas fly from a wood oven that casts flickering shadows on the brick walls — a perfect date spot.

Not to be confused with a more ambitious and expensive restaurant of the same name on the Upper West Side, Chelsea’s Swagat is a steam-table establishment, though a really exceptional one. The all-day special includes one meat and one vegetable dish, plus dal, rice, and a naan; lamb curry is often one of the possible choices.

The burgers here are grilled over flame and cooked to order, developing a smoky taste that elevates the output and makes this a burger destination. Multiple sauces are offered at a station in the corner, and the fries are as worthy of the toppings as the burgers. Another highlight at this corner space with a view of the High Line: a foot-long hot dog that’s actually a foot long.

A branch of the prized bakery that opened in Greenwich Village in 1994, this handsome and trim lunchroom serves pastries and egg breakfasts in the mornings before switching to sandwiches and Roman pizzas until closing. The bomboloni, either vanilla or chocolate, is worth seeking out, as are the loaves of bread and square slices of focaccia topped with ingredients like potatoes and zucchini, available all day.

Hey Yuet is one of the city’s better restaurants serving Cantonese dim sum and dishes from Hong Kong. From classic har gow to newfangled black bao adorned with a gold leaf, some of the best dim sum in town is to be found here all day and into the night.

This railroad-car diner vastly extends the diner food genre to accommodate many international dishes from a modern perspective. Sure, there are lavish breakfasts and a memorable fried chicken, but there’s also tuna tartare, rye pancakes, and Waldorf salad.

Located in one of Chelsea’s quieter sections surrounded by distinguished older buildings, Cookshop was founded with a farm-to-table ethos in 2005 and has gradually grown to be a favorite spot for a tumultuous brunch or a quiet dinner. Vegetables are emphasized — even in its inventive pizzas — and there’s a substantial commitment to seafood, while many appetizers and entrees are prepared in a wood-fired oven.

Occupying an elegant townhouse in western Chelsea, Qanoon slings distinguished Palestinian food. Many of the short dishes called mezze have rarely been produced so well in this area, including muhammara, hummus, baba ghanoush, and labneh configured as orbs for dipping. Main dishes are complete dinners, best of which is makloubeh, a lamb and eggplant casserole.

Ensconced in an ancient diner, and with a core menu of diner specials, Star on 18 has an extensive list of more modern offerings like quesadillas, grilled salmon, and fried calamari listed on a chalkboard. The club sandwich is top notch, made with freshly baked turkey breast, and oodles of bacon, and the booths are as comfortable as comfortable can be.

Once largely a Latin American neighborhood, most of Chelsea’s Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban restaurants are now long gone. And after the tragic closing of Milanes on West 25th Street, only Latin American remains, peddling pernil, Cuban sandwiches, chicken fricassee, liver and onions, and other dishes, many rotating on a weekly basis.

Memo is a Kings Highway Turkish establishment founded in 2000, which popped up here at one of Chelsea’s busiest corners. The doner kebab is fantastic (and quickly served); pick lamb and be assured you’re getting lamb and not the unsatisfying lamb-beef hybrid currently being peddled elsewhere. Plenty of salads, bread dips, pastries, and other kebabs also worth trying.

Chef Myo Moe introduced the city to Burmese food seven years ago with pop-ups in Bushwick bars, then opened her own place in Prospect Heights. Now there’s a branch in Chelsea, brightly decorated with white tiles and walls, and big windows that create a sense of airiness. For an introduction to the food of Myanmar, consider the mohinga, a noodle soup made with a strong broth flavored with crushed fish.

Founded in 2011 and inspired by high school cafeterias, this tiny tile-lined spot serves excellent coffee, all-day breakfasts, avocado toasts, soups, and pastries. The seating inside is limited, but the outdoor tables are popular with neighborhood regulars, and prices are reasonable for the location. The porchetta sandwich, a frequent special, is wonderful.

This spot excels at the most basic of Vietnamese dishes in a coffee house setting. Three kinds of pho are available, slightly better than average, plus banh mi, and green papaya salad with a large variety of add-ins, aiming to be the perfect luncheon main course. With its filled bao, the place strays into Chinese territory. The Vietnamese coffee, hot or cold, is particularly good.

This Chelsea doughnut mainstay founded in 1964 mounts a colorful display of 30 or so doughnuts in front for carryout, and a snaking lunch counter — we mean, a real old fashioned lunch counter — in back where, not only can you enjoy a doughnut and some acceptable coffee, but a catalog of sandwiches like ham, tuna salad, and the sainted BEC. And the place is open 24 hours.

As Georgian restaurants in the city have moved into Manhattan and become more sophisticated, they’ve added impressive wine lists focusing on the grapes of the region and expanded their menus of pomegranate-strewn appetizers, herby stews, and, of course, a wide variety of khachapuris, the famous cheese-stuffed bread with an egg in the middle. Chama Mama rates as one of the city’s best Georgian spots; among its better dishes are the lamb-stuffed grape leaves and game hen in garlic broth.

This quintessential sushi takeout spot moved a block up last year and got fancier in the process. Three sushi chefs are now spotlit at the counter, rapidly packaging fish for a line of delivery cyclists while the three elegant dining rooms nearby sit largely empty. The prices are better than expected for sushi of this quality, and chefs will occasionally slip customers who dine in a complimentary piece of tuna belly as part of the budget assortment.