{"id":376270,"date":"2025-11-13T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376270\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:14:14","slug":"nyc-wine-bar-lei-is-the-best-snack-and-wine-restaurant-in-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376270\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Wine Bar Lei Is the Best Snack and Wine Restaurant in Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tucked away within Chinatown is Doyers Street<\/a>, a historic alleyway<\/a> home to legacy restaurants like Nom Wah Tea Parlor<\/a>. And it\u2019s where Annie Shi, one of the restaurateurs behind King<\/a> and Jupiter<\/a>, chose to open<\/a> her Chinese American wine bar Lei<\/a> this summer. It\u2019s so picturesque that three wedding photoshoots took place outside on a late fall evening. One couple even posed in front of Lei\u2019s red-tiled entrance.<\/p>\n

The team knows their wine, so trust their glass recommendations. I enjoyed my Porfia Tinto 2024 from Spanish winery Agricola Calcarea ($19) with noodles and the Pentecoastal Block Riesling 2024 from Apollo\u2019s Praise in the Finger Lakes with dessert.<\/p>\n

Solo dinners or small group hangs where people aren\u2019t mega-hungry \u2014 most of the menu is portioned on the smaller side. It\u2019s a tiny space with good vibes and music spanning Chinese pop to R&B to jazz.<\/p>\n

At first glance, the crane wallpaper in the bathroom seems innocent enough, but take a closer look at the mayhem the birds are wreaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tucked away within Chinatown is Doyers Street, a historic alleyway home to legacy restaurants like Nom Wah Tea…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,174767,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-376270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dining-reports","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115543282144747266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}