Exclusive | Meet the taste tourists flying to NYC simply for a bite to eat: Let me just make a day trip of it

Eats, shoots and leaves?Big Apple taste tourists are making the natives look lazy.While New Yorkers are debating whether to walk four blocks to a restaurant or order DoorDash, a growing number of out-of-towners are flying here to devour a meal — even just a single dish — at one eatery and heading back out, sometimes on the same day and even from other countries.And they don’t care if it costs big bucks to do it.Mikaela Ian Pearman dropped $350 to fly in from her home in Bermuda to try “Top Chef” alum Kwame Onwuachi’s impossible-to-reserve spot Tatiana before jetting to Colombia the next morning — like an epicurean hitwoman.“It was perfection,” Pearman, who works in public relations, told The Post when asked whether the jaunt was worth it.

But these eat and runs aren’t just undertaken by online clout-seekers with cash to burn.For some foodfluencers, the allure of gourmet getaways lies in the restaurant’s exclusivity.Jada Durden flew in from New Orleans, Louisiana, to have lunch at exclusive Bowery hotspot Ramen By Ra via a dirt-cheap, round-trip flight on Spirit, detailing the experience in a viral video.“When I saw [a TikTok] about Ramen by Ra, I was, like, ‘I have to go eat there.I want to taste their food,’” Durden, 43, told The Post.

“[I] was randomly looking at flights one day and saw that a day trip to New York was only $55 so that I could be back home the same day.So I was, like, ‘Well, let me just make a day trip of it.’”Pearman and two friends, meanwhile, chowed down on an array of food at Tatiana including crispy okra, cornbread with curry butter, oxtail, crab ragoon, chicken shawarma, branzino and more.“The vibe was great.

The drinks were great.The food was 10 out of 10, the service was great — everything was perfect,” Pearman, 39, said of the long journey’s final destination.Durden was able to nab an opening a month in advance even though bookings at the popular, reservations-only spot — which has only f...