Best Girls Night Out Approved Restaurants in Midtown South

The Flatiron Room’s Murray Hill location pairs a deep whiskey list and nightly live music with a polished menu of share plates and tasting-menu dishes. It’s used for dates, client drinks, and special occasions where you want a loungey setting and serious spirits.

CHILI dresses Chinese cooking in a 1930s-inspired room, pairing dim sum and shareable plates with cocktails and a buzzy Midtown East crowd. It reads more like a modern supper club than a takeout joint, with polished service and dishes that lean bold and spicy.

Zuma brings a glitzy, multi-level Japanese izakaya experience to Midtown East, combining an open robata grill, sushi counter, and cocktail bar under one high-ceilinged roof. It’s where corporate cards, celebrations, and stylish groups converge for shared plates, sashimi, and smoky skewers in a high-energy room.

Margaux by La Sirène brings the La Sirène team’s long-running downtown French cooking to a more polished Murray Hill townhouse space. A multi-course, sauce-driven menu leans into escargots, cassoulet, and foie gras with serious attention to technique, making it a choice for long dinners and occasions where you want classic French richness.

Nogari brings Seoul’s Euljiro pocha alleyways to Midtown with neon-lit interiors, soju-friendly smoked meats, and late-night Korean bar snacks. It functions more like a Korean izakaya than a traditional BBQ joint, with sharing plates and drinks driving the experience.

A stylish cocktail-forward room that doubles as a small-plates dinner stop, with oysters and seafood-leaning bites that work well alongside drinks. It shines most as a late-evening hang: order the raw-bar items, a rich shareable pasta, and treat mains as optional.

A lively pocha with Korean fried wings that skew sweet-spicy and pair naturally with soju, corn cheese, and late-night snacks. The room leans party-casual—great for groups—though execution can vary by peak hour. Go for the wings-and-drinks combo rather than a quiet sit-down meal.

A pocha-style gastropub with a late-night crowd and a menu that leans fried, spicy, and beer-friendly. Best for casual grazing—wings, pancakes, and rice dishes—rather than delicate technique. The room is loud and social, built to keep groups fed while they drink.