2580 Coney Island Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11223 : 718-339-8371
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 Don't be discouraged by the unprepossessing exterior, which looks like your typical Brooklyn bodega. The place is actually an ambitious Peruvian restaurant with a full menu. Sure you can get the usual spice-rubbed rotisserie chicken (damn good!), but why not explore the menu, which has a... More >> |
| Brooklyn |
Peruvian |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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61 Delancey St. : New York, NY 10002 : 212-925-5220
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 What this diminutive new soba restaurant lacks in size, it makes up for in flavor. The menu is divided into cold and hot soba and lists the health benefits of each dish (as in "For that groggy hangover, freshen up with the natto soba"). Among the hot choices, try the stamina soba, showered... More >> |
| Lower East Side |
Japanese, Noodle Shop |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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1436 Flatbush Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11210 : 718-484-2424
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 Successor to Park Slope's Corn Bread Café, this modern diner was founded in Flatbush by North Carolinians, and the best items on the menu often highlight that heritage. There's an amazing chicken and dumplings - tender pieces of skin-on chicken in a saline broth with small fluffy dumplings, shot w... More >> |
| Brooklyn |
Diner, Soul Food |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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637 Hudson St. : New York, NY 10014 : 212-242-3093
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 This laid-back spot just south of the Meatpacking District is one of the best Italian restaurants in the Village. Descended from 'ino and 'inoteca, the restaurant?s menu highlights crostini (toasts with toppings like dandelion greens and blue cheese, olive tapenade, or brussel sprouts and... More >> |
| West Village |
Italian |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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1182 E. Gunhill Road : Bronx, NY 10469 : 718-231-6560
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 The eponymous jerk chicken is excellent - cooked over charcoal and thickly annealed with jerk spices, which turn the crisp-skinned poultry gobbets a deep deep shade of red, redolent of allspice and herbs. Smother it in scotch bonnet jerk sauce for added (and nearly mind-boggling) heat. But this... More >> |
| Bronx |
Jamaican |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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485 Court St. : Brooklyn, NY 11231 : 718-722-7229
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 Shops hawking artisanally crafted foodstuffs are a dime a dozen these days, especially in Brooklyn. However, Court Street Grocers stands apart from the pack, given its extremely well-curated selection of grocery goods (think Cheerwine soda, Brooklyn Brine pickles, farm-fresh eggs, fancy farro,... More >> |
| Carroll Gardens |
American |
Takeout |
$ |
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214 E. 10th St. : New York, NY 10003 : 866-602-8779
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 Curry-ya takes the most plebian of Japanese dishes and elevates it by gentle tweaking. Every order consists of a ring of rice, curry gravy, meat or chicken, and a selection of four substances to be strewn on top: pickled green-onion bulbs, daikon dyed red, raisins, and flakes of dehydrated... More >> |
| East Village |
Japanese |
Delivery, Takeout |
$$ |
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83 N. Seventh St. : Brooklyn, NY 11211 : 718-963-1925
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 And you thought one Sardinian wine bar was enough? D.O.C.-the letters indicate controlled production zones of products like Chianti and Parmesan-is situated in a Williamsburg backwater, and its warm interior might be mistaken for a chalet. Wine is king, the rudimentary snacks obedient vassals. More >> |
| Brooklyn |
Italian |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party |
$$ |
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285 Grand Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11238 : 718-398-8900
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 More night club than restaurant, this Clinton Hill Senegalese regales you with African high life or American jazz while you eat in a room that can barely contain the band and six tables. The other evening we enjoyed a Cameroonian ensemble as we downed big plates of food barely reconstructed... More >> |
| Brooklyn |
African |
Catering, Delivery, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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346 W. 52nd St. : New York, NY 10019 : 212-586-2880
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 This new Hell"s Kitchen Korean restaurant helmed by Hooni Kim, formerly of Masa and Daniel, is a 36-seat jewel box that maximizes every inch of space. Cleverly hidden in drawers under the tables, you"ll find two menus-one featuring traditional dishes like poached sablefish and a delicious... More >> |
| West 50s |
Dessert, Korean |
Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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533 Nostrand Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11216 : 718-789-1155
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 Only in New York: An ancient Jewish deli in Bed-Stuy is taken over by Muslim owners, who keep the traditions alive. David's was a long running deli specializing in permutations of brisket that closed for nearly a year not too long ago, and we thought the place was doomed. Now it's reopened, and... More >> |
| Bedford Stuyvesant |
Jewish |
Delivery, Kid Friendly, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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299 Bowery : New York, NY 10003 : 212-933-5300
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 Daniel Boulud's most populist restaurant yet is dedicated to homemade sausages and beer. And what sausages! There's boudin Basque, crafted from pork blood and pig's head that forms a black, sticky round on the plate and tastes completely wonderful; the Parisienne is composed of pale, plump... More >> |
| East Village |
American, French, German |
Private Party, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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755 Dean St. : Brooklyn, NY 11238 : 718-783-3326
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 This perfect gastropub moved into an obscurely located corner bar in Prospect Heights. The front room retains its old-Brooklyn feel (and jukebox), while the back room has been transformed into a sunny cafe. True to its gastropub nature, the food is mainly for the sake of comfort, with a few... More >> |
| Prospect Heights |
Gastropub, New American |
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$$$ |
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379 Columbia St. : Brooklyn, NY 11231 : 718-625-8052
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 This over 80 year old dispenser of heros, hidden deep inside Red Hook, concocted its own take on the Italo-Kings County roast-beef hero. Called Nick's Special, it marries meat, mozzarella, and fried eggplant with a fiery vegetable relish that may be ordered separately as a salad. Scrumptious! More >> |
| Red Hook |
Italian, Sandwiches |
Delivery, Takeout |
$ |
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239 E. Fifth St. : New York, NY 10003 : 212-979-1012
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 The 15-item menu of small plates touches on the tropes of molecular gastronomy. Three or four make a meal. There's an egg cooked at 147 degrees (the temperature at which albumen coagulates), a squid body stuffed with lentils and chorizo, and a savory mussel broth topped with celery foam... More >> |
| East Village |
French, Spanish |
Private Party |
$$$ |
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85 Tenth Ave. : New York, NY 10011 : 212-497-8090
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 This Batali spawn outdoes Babbo in several significant ways. In size, certainly, though the effect of the hulking space is to increase the serenity level rather than reduce it. As a piano tinkled in the background, we sprawled in our seats -- surrounded by wealthy Westchester parents taking... More >> |
| West Village |
Italian |
Business Dining, Private Party |
$$$$ |
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37-66 74th St. : Flushing, NY 11379 : 718-507-1111
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 Reviving a moribund restaurant scene in Jackson Heights, Delhi Heights adds a bit of glitz to a menu that features northern Indian, southern Indian, and Indian-Chinese. While the southern Indian standards of dosa and uttapam are not recommended, the northern Indian fare features plenty of dash,... More >> |
| Flushing |
Indian |
Catering, Delivery, Takeout |
$$$ |
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122 E. Seventh St. : New York, NY 10009 : 212-254-3515
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 Desnuda looks like a typical upscale wine bar, but feels like a night in your stoner friend's basement -- a friend who just happens to have a cooler full of fish, a rack of nice wine, and a head full of good ideas. The place specializes in South American wines and "new world ceviche" which... More >> |
| East Village |
Seafood, South American |
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$$$ |
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1424 Ave. J : Brooklyn, NY 11230 : 718-258-1367
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 Domenico DeMarco has been elevated to sainthood by the city's favorite foodie website (chowhound.com), and devotees dote on his every move as he fiddles with each pie, shaking on cheeses and artistically arranging the elements. Sometimes his artichoke slice is "on," sometimes not, but the... More >> |
| Midwood |
Pizza |
Family Style, Kid Friendly, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$ |
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231 W. 116th St. : New York, NY 10026 : 212-663-0717
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 Among the dozen or so Senegalese restaurants in the city, this one is unique, concentrating on charcoal-grilled tidbits of lamb leg known as dibi (other places substitute lamb chops). In the modern manner, dinner features French-leaning West African specialties, while lunch is reserved for... More >> |
| Harlem |
Senegalese |
Takeout |
$$ |
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430 E. Ninth St. : New York, NY 10009 : 212-228-7732
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 The room looks a Pinkberry crossed with a submarine. The jalapeño hush puppies are marvelously well fried, the fried trumpet mushrooms on the Greek salad look like onion rings, and the carrot risotto is a shocking shade of orange - like carrot distilled to its essence. It"s all a bit trippy,... More >> |
| East Village |
New American, Vegetarian |
Vegetarian Friendly |
$$, $$$ |
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184 Eighth Ave. : New York, NY 10011 : 212-493-5150
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 After multiple fizzled relationships with chefs, starting in 1998, Donatella Arpaia has finally seized the reins herself--and the food is fantastic. This is not just a Naples-style pizzeria, but a full-blown Italian restaurant, with the scope of the menu similar to what you might find in an... More >> |
| Chelsea |
Italian, Pizza, Vegetarian |
Private Party, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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189 Bedford Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11211 : 718-218-7900
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 This splendid new fast food spot in Williamsburg specializes in doner, aka schwarma or gyro, and two varieties spin in the window's upright rotisseries: chicken and lamb. Paradoxically, the chicken is better, big jagged pieces stuck together with spices, delivering the merest burn to the lips.... More >> |
| Williamsburg |
Turkish |
Delivery, Takeout |
$ |
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323 Victory Blvd. : Staten Island, NY 10301 : 718-420-0919
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 Directly across the street from two Sri Lankan cafes, and on the same block as the towering Albanian mosque, Dosa Garden is the first south Indian restaurant in Staten Island. Not only does it dispense vegetarian dosas, iddlies, and utthapams, it supplements these with flesh-bearing dishes from... More >> |
| Staten Island |
Indian |
Delivery, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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777 Newark Ave. : Jersey City, NJ 07306 : 201-420-6660
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 Not to be confused with establishments featuring various spellings of the same name, Jersey's Dosa Hut is a yellow-hued greasy spoon with cheap, excellent, and strictly vegetarian South Indian fare. The list of 30 different dosas makes for interesting reading, but the butter masala dosa is a... More >> |
| Jersey City |
Indian, Pakistani |
Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$ |
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