Back in February, Adams joined Bronx elected officials for a meal at Mario’s — the 102-year-old red sauce anchor on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx — which a spokesperson confirmed consisted of escarole and beans, pasta primavera, and pasta marinara. He talked about supporting hospitality workers at the meal, according to Norwood News. It was around this time that he’d been seen eating fish, despite claiming he’s vegan. “I am perfectly imperfect and have occasionally eaten fish,” Adams admitted, according to NY1.

The self-described conservative Republican until he turned Democrat was spotted dining at Harlem’s storied Rao’s with Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor. (Catsimatidis’s daughter has been the chair of the Manhattan Republican party since 2017.) “They sat at the table of another former cop, Richard “Bo” Dietl, who invited Adams,” the New York Post reported. Deitl has apparently owned his Rao’s table since 1977 — and that’s in part what makes the restaurant so hard to get into: You have to know someone who has a table. The Rao’s visit is where the Post reported that Adams ate broiled fish while a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said he ordered eggplant parm without cheese.

It’s no secret that Osteria La Baia, which opened in 2021, is the ostensibly vegan mayor’s favorite restaurant, where his usual order is a $55 plate of branzino with wood-roasted sweet peppers, smoked tomato, and capers. The restaurant is owned by “Robert and Zhan Petrosyants — twin brothers whose businesses Mr. Adams has supported despite the brothers’ past felony convictions, outstanding tax debts, and a trail of legal troubles,” the New York Times reports. Adams reportedly visited the restaurant 14 times in June; the Times said reporters never saw the mayor pay a bill, but the mayor’s office says he pays the bill monthly — without providing receipts.

In early 2022, Page Six reported that Adams dined with ex-governor Andrew Cuomo at Daniel Boulud’s French destination in Midtown. It wasn’t a straight table-for-two: Cuomo arrived to join Adams’s chief of staff, the deep-pocketed Frank Carone, and PR spokesperson Ken Sunshine, who was chief of staff for Mayor David Dinkins. Adams came in later and met the table, with Adams, Cuomo, and Carone retreating to a private room, according to Page Six. The two met another time at Osteria La Baia.

Adams flubbed a toast at the London import of the scene-y Japanese restaurant Zuma during a party for Jeffrey Wright, who was on the cover of Haute Living, according to Page Six. “I keep telling people, you bet on New York, you’re going to lose all your money,” Adams reportedly said at the event. A spokesperson responded to a Page Six inquiry, “as he has said hundreds (thousands?) of times, he meant to say ... ‘you bet against New York.’” Founded by Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney in 2002, the Japanese restaurant has more than 12 locations around the world and seven seasonal locations.

Adams kicked off his term with an election party at members-only Zero Bond, one of many visits, with this stop among high-profile guests such as Ja Rule and Eric Schmidt. It’s become routine for him to visit the club after visits to Osteria La Baia, also on this list, prompting the New York Times to point out, “The mayor’s pattern also raises questions about who gets access to him.” For people over age 45, membership at Zero Bond requires a $5,000 initiation fee and a $4,000 annual payment. Food and drink are separate costs.

Adams was supposed to visit this Chinese vegan restaurant on the Lower East Side late summer of 2022 — but the Department of Transportation beat him to it. The city agency handed the restaurant a cease-and-desist order over its outdoor setup, Lee told Eater, and Adams never showed. “The DOT guys did say how would it look if he ate at our outdoor tables if they weren’t up to code?” says owner Justin Lee, who now has to bring in a contractor “and pay at least $1000” to address the violations. It’s one of the least expensive and only vegan restaurant on the list — that Adams never visited.

This Brooklyn bodega has a vegan breakfast wrap named after the mayor, an homage to Eric Adams’s visit to the place after he cinched the mayoral election in 2021. “Heard @eatplantega was on a mission to bring healthy foods to more NYC communities and that they created a wrap in my honor,” Adams tweeted before arriving. It also was fortuitous for Plantega, a vegan-sandwich company whose menu is currently offered in over 20 bodegas around town. The sandwich is stuffed with spinach, red onion, avocado, egg substitute, and a vegan queso sauce in a tortilla.