The 10 best restaurants in Hell's Kitchen

Hell’s Kitchen starts somewhere west of Times Square and ends when it plunges into the Hudson River, running from around 36th Street on its south end to 56th Street on its north. The neighborhood’s borders are elastic and overlap with the Theater District

How did the neighborhood get its evocative name? The powers that be have tried to change it to the dull-sounding “Clinton,” but have had no luck making it stick.

Some say Hell’s Kitchen was the name of a 19th century gang; others that it was named by the press for the squalid conditions of its tenements as early as 1881; and still others espouse the obscure theory that the kitchens that prepared food for cruise ships that docked along the river were located there. Nowadays, as areas all around it gentrify, there is still something hards