Clean Plates Manhattan 2014: A Guide to the Healthiest Tastiest and Most Sustainable Restaurants for Vegetarians and Carnivores

Too often, healthy eating is linked with images of sacrifice - a pile of sprouts, or a single pea resting on a plate. It can be difficult to find a restaurant serving mouthwatering, delicious food that is also good for you. Not anymore. A nutritionist along with a few food critics, scoured the town together to select over 100 of the healthiest, tastiest and most sustainable restaurants in Manhattan. From fine dining to fast food,Clean Plates Manhattan offers selections for any budget, diet and lifestyle so you won't have to sacrifice taste for nutrition. Just toss this guide in your bag and flip through it whenever you're craving an Italian trattoria, grass-fed steak, gourmet vegetarian dinner, organic burrito or juicy burger free of hormones and antibiotics. Carnivore? Locavore? Vegan?Clean Plates is for you.

Jared Koch graduated premed from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a nutritional consultant and health coach certified by the Teachers College of Columbia University, the Global Institute for Alternative Medicine and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. He lives in Fort Lee, NJ.

Alex Van Buren, a former staff food writer and restaurant reviewer for Time Out New York, has also written for Martha Stewart Living, New York Magazine, Gourmet.com, In style andEveryday Food. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.