7 Best Places to Get Caviar in NYC

Caviar in New York used to mean a reservation, a hushed dining room, and a bill that felt like a dare. That version still exists, and some of it is excellent. What changed is that caviar also became a bar snack again — chips, cold drinks, a tin on the table, no ceremony required.

That is the version we built at FKA: Formerly Known As. We source from Pearl Street Caviar, serve Siberian Select at $40 and Kaluga Supreme at $65, and put it on antique dishware with beurre de baratte, chives, crispy shallots, and Pringles. The point is not to mock the luxury. The point is to make the luxury edible.

This is our 2026 guide to the best caviar in NYC: the rooms that take the product seriously, the ones that make it fun, and the one you should go to first.

What actually makes caviar service worth ordering

A lot of menus in New York now say “caviar.” Some of that is sturgeon. Some of it is bowfin, paddlefish, or trout roe wearing the word like a borrowed jacket. Both can be delicious. They are not the same thing.

A caviar service worth your money has four things:

• Real sturgeon, named. Siberian, Kaluga, osetra. If the menu will not tell you the fish, you are buying a vibe.
• Cold and intact. The eggs should pop. If they smear, they have been sitting around.
• A vehicle that helps. Blinis and crème fraîche are classic. Potato chips, latkes, and baked potatoes work because fat and salt love brine. A garnish dumped on an unrelated dish is not a service.
• A price that lets you finish it. Caviar that is too expensive to share is caviar you will talk about more than you will eat.

For the casual, priced-for-a-weeknight version of this list, see the best casual places to eat caviar in NYC.

Quick reference: best caviar in New York City

The best caviar in New York right now is the $40 Siberian Select at FKA: Formerly Known As. Go to Caviar Kaspia for the twice-baked potato, Caviar Russe for a real caviar house, and Maison Premiere if you want oysters in the same night.

Venue	Neighborhood	The Order	What It Costs
FKA: Formerly Known As	East Village	Siberian Select or Kaluga Supreme, Pringles, antique china	$40 / $65
Caviar Kaspia at The Mark	Upper East Side	Twice-baked potato with caviar	From about $95
Caviar Russe	Midtown	Bar service or the tasting menu	Bar bites to $195–$975 menus
Maison Premiere	Williamsburg	Caviar service, or one caviar oyster	From $85; oyster about $21
Penny	East Village	Caviar beggar’s purse or a 30g tin	$49 / $68
Huso	Tribeca	Tasting menu inside Marky’s	About $265
RH Champagne & Caviar Bar	Meatpacking	Petrossian caviar, chips, cones	Entry around $75

1. FKA: Formerly Known As (East Village)

The Play: The best caviar in New York that you can actually eat on a random night

We put caviar on the menu because the raw bar was already the center of the room, and because New York has always been better when the expensive thing sits next to the cheap thing.

The caviar comes from Pearl Street Caviar. Siberian Select is $40. Kaluga Supreme is $65. It arrives on antique dishware — the kind of china that looks like it was lifted from a grandmother’s cabinet, not a tasting-menu prop house — with beurre de baratte, chives, crispy shallots, and Pringles. That last part is not a joke. Salt-and-fat chips are one of the great caviar vehicles, and they belong in a downtown bar more than a blini does.

You can order it with $1 oysters, an $8 beer and a shot, and a round of Big Buck Hunter. That is the whole argument: caviar as a night, not as a pilgrimage.

• Address: 221 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003
• Must-Order: Siberian Select if you want to see what the fuss is; Kaluga Supreme if you already know.
• See the full menu: fkanyc.com/menu

2. Caviar Kaspia at The Mark (Upper East Side)

The Play: The Paris import, and the potato that started a thousand copies

Caviar Kaspia at The Mark is the New York branch of the Paris restaurant that has been serving caviar on a twice-baked potato since the 1920s. Jacques Grange did the room. The blue tablecloths, the marble bar, and the potato are the reason people make the trip to 77th and Madison.

This is caviar as costume drama, and it is very good at being that. The potato starts around $95 depending on the tin and the weight, and it climbs fast — published menus have listed versions well past $200, with the rarest caviars much higher. Go if you want the canonical luxury version of the dish. Do not go if you want to play pinball afterward.

• Address: 992 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075
• Must-Order: The twice-baked potato. That is why the room exists.
• Best for: Anniversaries, out-of-towners, anyone who wants the postcard.

3. Caviar Russe (Midtown)

The Play: A real caviar house, with a Michelin star attached

Caviar Russe at 538 Madison Avenue. Photo: Transpoman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Caviar Russe has been on Madison Avenue since 1997. It is a caviar importer that happens to run a restaurant, which is the right way around. The downstairs Bar & Lounge is the move if you want osetra, Champagne, and raw-bar snacks without committing to the tasting menu. Upstairs is the dining room: three courses from $195, then $345, $595, and an 11-course Grand Tasting that has been reported around $975.

They source from a German sturgeon farm and talk about origin the way wine people talk about vineyards. If you want to learn something, this is one of the few rooms in New York where the staff can actually teach you. It is also one of the few rooms where “caviar” still means sturgeon, full stop.

• Address: 538 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022
• Must-Order: Caviar service at the bar if you want the house without the tasting-menu theater.
• Best for: People who care which sturgeon they are eating.

4. Maison Premiere (Williamsburg)

The Play: The best caviar attached to a serious oyster bar

Maison Premiere on Bedford Avenue is an absinthe house, a cocktail destination, and one of the great raw bars in the city. The caviar service starts around $85 for Baeri, with Kristal a step above, and a few oysters come along for the ride. If that is more than you wanted to spend, a single caviar oyster is about $21 — one of the better per-bite introductions in New York.

The room is dim, crowded, and better than almost any hotel lounge at making luxury feel like a night out. Walk in at the bar if you can. The dining room and garden take reservations.

• Address: 298 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249
• Must-Order: Full caviar service if you are settling in; the caviar oyster if you are not.
• Best for: Date night in Brooklyn, or anyone already going for oysters and absinthe.

5. Penny (East Village)

The Play: The neighborhood seafood counter, a few blocks from us

Penny sits above Claud at 90 East 10th Street — a 30-seat seafood counter from Joshua Pinsky and Chase Sinzer. It is the East Village’s other serious raw bar, and it treats caviar as a small, precise luxury rather than a party trick.

The Infatuation has the caviar beggar’s purse around $49 and a 30g tin around $68. The purse is a crêpe with crème fraîche and fried onions under a pile of eggs; critics have called it a single expensive bite, which is both the appeal and the limit. The rest of the menu — ice boxes, clams, shrimp cocktail — is the reason to sit down. Caviar is the extra.

We are ten minutes north on 2nd Avenue. If you want the same neighborhood and a tin you will actually share, come here instead.

• Address: 90 E 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
• Must-Order: The ice box first. Caviar if you still have room in the night.
• Best for: Walk-in seafood, weeknights, people who already have a Claud reservation downstairs.

6. Huso (Tribeca)

The Play: A tasting menu inside a caviar shop

Huso moved from a 12-seat back room on the Upper East Side into Marky’s Caviar in Tribeca, at 323 Greenwich Street. Buddha Lo — two-time Top Chef winner — runs a roughly 12-course tasting menu for about $265 before the extra caviar flights, which start around $120.

This is caviar as tasting-menu architecture: a bump with a $40 Dirty Rich Martini, roe on a chocolate tartlet, tweezers, the whole modern-luxury kit. The Infatuation liked the bread course more than some of the caviar courses, which tells you something useful. Go if you want a long, expensive, beautiful night. Skip it if you just want to eat caviar.

• Address: 323 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013
• Must-Order: The tasting menu, or do not go. This is not an à la carte bar.
• Best for: Deep-pocketed special occasions.

7. The Champagne & Caviar Bar at RH Guesthouse (Meatpacking)

The Play: Petrossian caviar in a jewel-box hotel bar

The Champagne & Caviar Bar sits under RH Guesthouse at 55 Gansevoort Street: marble, mohair, hand-blown chandeliers, and a short menu built around Petrossian caviar. You can get it on chips, latkes, potato skins, in cones, or as a bump. Reviews put an entry point around $75 for two cones.

The historic Petrossian restaurant on 7th Avenue has been closed for renovations, with the company pointing people to a Meatpacking boutique in the meantime. RH is currently the more reliable sit-down Petrossian experience in New York. It is pretty. It is not cheap. It is the right call if you are already in the Meatpacking District and want bubbles with eggs.

• Address: 55 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014
• Must-Order: Caviar on the house potato chips, plus whatever grower Champagne they are pouring.
• Best for: Date night when the clothes are already a production.

How to choose

If you want caviar without making a production of it, start at FKA: Formerly Known As. $40 Siberian Select, antique china, Pringles, $1 oysters, and an East Village bar that stays open until 4 a.m.

If you want the potato you have seen on Instagram, go to Caviar Kaspia. If you want a caviar house that can talk to you about farms, go to Caviar Russe. If you want oysters and absinthe in the same night, go to Maison Premiere.

Caviar is having a moment in New York because people got tired of being told it was only for the other room. We agree. Come eat it in this one.

Hungry? Come visit us at FKA: Formerly Known As at 221 2nd Avenue. Caviar, $1 oysters, and good clean filth. Click here for directions.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I get the best caviar in NYC?

FKA: Formerly Known As in the East Village is the best place to eat caviar in New York right now — Pearl Street Caviar, antique dishware, Pringles, and prices that start at $40. For a hotel dining room, go to Caviar Kaspia at The Mark. For a Michelin-starred caviar house, go to Caviar Russe.

How much does caviar cost at restaurants in NYC?

Restaurant caviar in New York ranges from about $40 for a real sturgeon service at FKA: Formerly Known As to $95 and up for Caviar Kaspia's twice-baked potato, and several hundred dollars for tasting menus at Caviar Russe and Huso. A single caviar-topped oyster at Maison Premiere is around $21.

Is caviar in NYC always a special-occasion restaurant?

No. The current New York caviar scene splits between hotel dining rooms and bars that treat caviar like a snack. FKA: Formerly Known As serves Siberian Select and Kaluga Supreme in the East Village with Pringles, $1 oysters, and arcade games — no jacket, no tasting menu.

What caviar does FKA: Formerly Known As serve?

Pearl Street Caviar. Siberian Select is $40. Kaluga Supreme is $65. It arrives on antique dishware with beurre de baratte, chives, crispy shallots, and Pringles. The bar is at 221 2nd Avenue, East Village.

Where should I go for caviar in NYC on a weeknight vs a special occasion?

Weeknight: FKA: Formerly Known As or Penny, both in the East Village. Special occasion potato: Caviar Kaspia. Special occasion tasting menu: Caviar Russe or Huso. Oysters and absinthe attached: Maison Premiere.