178 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

The cash-only Brooklyn institution. Taleb has praised it as one of the few restaurants that has survived precisely by refusing to modernise — a real-world Black Swan survivor.

113 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012

Greenwich Village bistro he has mentioned in the context of conviviality and unhurried eating — the kind of antifragile institution that outlasts trends.

172 Bd Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris

The Saint-Germain institution. As a Lebanese intellectual fluent in French, Taleb is a regular visitor to Left Bank Paris, where much of his philosophical framework was formed.

42 Grove St, New York, NY 10014

West Village French gastrotheque. Consistent with his preference for small, owner-operated places he has described as the proper format for restaurants.