Lure
Restaurant · NoLIta
BEST EATS 🍕 ○ Lure or Momoya (sushi)
@averieelissa on tiktok
2 creator videos · 1 member save
Best Restaurants in NoLIta (2026): The Ones Locals Keep Quiet About
NoLIta is good for square pepperoni slices, red-sauce Italian and a charity bookshop, and the restaurants people save most are Lure, Momoya and Prince Street. Ranked from 8 places we track here, creator picks first.
Updated · 8 places we track in NoLIta, first recorded between March 2026 and July 2026
Nolita is a few blocks of Mulberry and Elizabeth Street and it is mostly for eating. Prince Street Pizza is the square pepperoni slice with the queue, Rubirosa does the vodka pie sitting down, and Emilio's Ballato has been open since 1956 and takes no reservations. Housing Works Bookstore is the quiet stop, with secondhand books and a cafe. Go on a weekday before noon, when the queues are still short.
How we chose
We track 8 places in NoLIta filed under restaurants. 7 of them turned up in creator videos we pulled apart. 5 places have been saved by Spillist members. Places with a creator mention, a member save or a member gem rank first, and mentions weigh most. The rest runs on a broader popularity signal from our wider place index, so the tail of this list moves less than the top does. Last added to in July 2026.
Ranked restaurants in NoLIta
Momoya
Restaurant · NoLIta
BEST EATS 🍕 ○ Lure or Momoya (sushi)
@averieelissa on tiktok
2 creator videos · 1 member save
Prince Street
Restaurant · NoLIta
2 creator videos · 1 member save
Rubirosa
Restaurant · NoLIta
2 creator videos · 1 member save
Emilio's Ballato
Restaurant · NoLIta
you need New York City Red Sauce Italian and the best is Emilio's Bellotto
@jeremyjacobowitz on tiktok
1 creator video
Forsythia
Restaurant · NoLIta
1 creator video
Sake No Hana
Restaurant · NoLIta
1 creator video
Prince Street Pizza
Restaurant · NoLIta
1 member save · 1 public list
Where this data comes from
Spillist pulls places out of TikToks and Reels and keeps track of what people save. The counts on this page cover the 8 places we hold in the NoLIta neighborhood. Spot something wrong or closed? Tell us.