Red Rooster

Description
Winter's the best time to duck into this tiny, cozy bistro, whose side-street entrance is tough to spot. Sure, this Café Bernard sibling is open year-round, but there's nothing like warming up with tender beef bourguignonne on a bed of egg noodles or duck confit ladled with berry sauce when it's extremity-numbing cold outside. Candles provide nearly all the light, but luckily you don't need to see the meaty snails in bubbling garlic butter to know they're incredible. However, you will wish you had a flashlight for the shockingly inexpensive wine list—many bottles are $29 or less.