726 65th St. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-765-0098
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 Dim sum has made a spectacular comeback in the city, and East Harbor is in the forefront. The dining room is the size of a football field, and every day from morning till around 1:30 in the afternoon, carts propel around the room steered by their smartly uniformed attendants. From around 30... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Dim Sum |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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6008 Seventh Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-492-3253
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 Like it's smaller sibling, Than Da II, this spic-and-span restaurant produces excellent banh mi. At this larger outpost, the real draws are the noodle soups and sundry Vietnamese dishes, which are more vibrant than any in the area. Bun bo Hue, spicy beef noodle soup from the city of Hue, boasts... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Vietnamese |
Takeout |
$ |
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4501 Fifth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-435-7600
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 Xochimilco ("Place Where Flowers Grow") is a wonderful Sunset Park taqueria with Mexico City pretensions, but principally excelling in the cuisine of Puebla and adjacent southern states. The freshly made masa products?huaraches, sopes, gorditas, etc.??are particularly fine, whether topped with... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Mexican, Vegetarian |
Delivery, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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774 49th St. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-633-3090
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 There's been a Chinese noodle explosion in the last couple of years, with many new styles introduced to Gotham for the first time. Enter Yun Nan, serving three types of noodles from—you guessed it—Yunnan, a southern province that abuts Myanmar and Vietnam. Rice noodles, something like... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese |
Takeout |
$ |
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5017 Eighth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-853-3385
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 The lump of dough is as big as a Labrador, and sits quietly until the noodle-maker takes up a portion and slams it on the table"Bang!"to break down the gluten. Then he stretches and twists the dough back and forth like taffy until he holds a cat's cradle of noodles. Those hand-pulled noodles are... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese, Fujianese, Noodle Shop |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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484 Bay Ridge Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-680-8135
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 This Egyptian fish market allows you to make a whole-fish selection, and then see it borne to the grill or deep fryer—all for a fraction of what you get charged at the Greek joints. French fries, baba ghanoush laced with pickle juice, and the merguez sandwich are also enthusiastically... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Egyptian, Seafood |
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679 Fourth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11232 : 718-499-3430
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 A talented Punjabi shopkeeper who was whipping up simple, home-style dishes and selling them to-go out of her health food shop/bodega has expanded into a proper café: Cafe Barakah offers the homemade aloo ghobi (potato-cauliflower stew), channa masala, daal, biryani, and chapli kebab, among other S... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
American, Indian, Pakistani |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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6007 Fifth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-439-3502
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 Lourdes Pena was a famed food vendor at one of the Red Hook baseball (not soccer) fields, and now she and her husband have opened their own upscale Mexican restaurant. The menu is long, and combines Mexican classics with more American dishes, like grilled rack of lamb with potatoes and... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Mexican |
Takeout |
$$ |
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4610 Eighth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-851-3868
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 This spiffy new southern Chinese lunch counter turns out incredible congee. Our favorite is the heavily gingered "congee with sliced beef." The beef is crumbled rather than sliced, but who cares? Daky also functions as a dumpling stall: The chive-and-shrimp variety are perfect in every way. Also... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese |
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$ |
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4703 Fourth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-492-7443
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 Step into Don Paco Lopez Panaderia and the warm smell of sugar and butter envelops you. The bakery specializes in dozens of different sorts of Mexican sweet rolls and cakes, and there's a small selection of Mexican candies. But on the other side of the store, a small counter dishes out savories.... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Bakery, Mexican |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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4523 Fifth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-686-0079
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 This gleaming Puerto Rican eatery advertises itself as a lechonera ?? a roast pig specialist ?? and indeed, hefty hunks of burnished pork sit in the window, alongside blood sausage, pastelitos (similar to empanadas) and fried potato fritters. The lady behind the counter will whack a great hunk... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Dominican, Puerto Rican |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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4711 Fifth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-438-3060
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 El Comal is a spacious, shiny taqueria and jugueria with one long kitchen open to the room, where a woman is stationed at the grill, patting out all manner of antojitos. She reaches into her huge vat of masa dough to fashion a steady stream of sopes, picaditas (similar to sopes, in that they are... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Mexican |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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805 60th St. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-633-3535
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 On the northern edge of Sunset Park's Chinatown, right next door to the city's largest Turkish grocery, stands Elite, a Turkish tea house trying very hard to be a full-blown restaurant. That means not everything on the menu is always available: On our evening visit, the doner kebab, all the... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Turkish |
Delivery, Vegetarian Friendly |
$$ |
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4810 Fourth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-633-2272
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 None of the Vietnamese restaurants in Sunset Park?s Chinatown are
extraordinary, but this is decidedly the best of the bunch. It?s mainly run by folks who are ethnically Chinese, but that, of course, doesn?t mean that they can?t cook Vietnamese food. The menu is lengthy, and includes several... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Vietnamese |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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6124 Seventh Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 646-708-4368
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 Some of the best Fujianese fish balls in the city can be found at this squeaky clean, spare establishment. There's no menu, and the proprietors don't speak much English, so a friendly charade game of point-and-smile is in order. Indicate that you?d like the fish balls, and a giant bowl of salty... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese, Fujianese |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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948 Fourth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-788-0594
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 Don't let the painfully Technicolor cakes in the window dissuade you from entering what looks like a normal Sunset Park Mexican bakery. Inside are featured plenty of great cheap meals, including homemade tamales; pressed torta sandwiches made with cecina (dried beef), milanesa (breaded chicken... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Bakery, Mexican |
Delivery, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$ |
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4801 8th Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-437-3542
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 Hand over a buck, and soon you?ll find four pork-leek dumplings in your hot little hands; dumplings that have been freshly scraped out of the enormous wok in which they?ve been sizzling. One side of the wrapper is blistered and crunchy, the other two sides chewy and soft. Bite through the skin... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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4920 Fifth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 212-228-3498
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 New York has scores of cuchifrito spots: down-home restaurants generally serving large Puerto Rican communities that specialize in fried bits of pig and other good things sizzled in oil. La Isla proudly displays fried tongue, pork ear, pork tripe, and blood sausage in its large window facing the... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Latin American, Puerto Rican |
Delivery, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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4413 Fourth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-438-1994
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 You can't beat the sofrito-rubbed rotisserie chicken, prominently displayed in the front window, either for flavor or price. This Dominican lunch counter fills out its menu with sancocho, sopa de gallina, steak and onions, rice with pigeon peas, and traditional breakfast choices like green... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Dominican |
Delivery, Takeout |
$ |
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7205 Third Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-623-9152
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 A long time ago, Los Pollitos brought Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken and its dark mystery coating to Sunset Park, and it was damn good. But with a weird twist—the balance of the menu is Mexican fare of a type that suggests bar food, but plenty edible nonetheless. More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Fast Food, Peruvian |
Delivery, Takeout |
$$ |
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4618 Eighth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-438-3413
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 The only Thai restaurant in Brooklyn’s Chinatown doesn’t rise to Sripraphai levels of greatness, but it is certainly a worthy addition to an already delicious neighborhood. Som tum (green papaya salad), strewn with baby dried shrimp and doused in fish sauce-lime-chile dressing, is... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Thai |
Delivery, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout |
$ |
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4915 Eighth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-686-1633
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New Shine is, in fact, a shiny sort of place??squeaky clean and staffed by young people with cool haircuts. The place touts its Sichuan hot pot and noodle soups on a large menu board, but it also offers Sichuan standards like double-cooked pork, fish in hot chili oil, pork lung in chili sauce,... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese, Noodle Shop |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$ |
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5224 Eighth Ave. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-853-8588
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 This glitzy Hong Kong-style spot, decorated with wildly colored plastic furniture, serves triple duty as a bakery, café, and noodle shop. While the dumplings are steamed-only, they’re quite good, and there are pastries, dim sum, and bubble tea, too. Toast sandwiches are a specialty,... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese, Noodle Shop |
Delivery, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$ |
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813 55th St. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-871-2880
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 What may be the city's best and most ambitious Cantonese restaurant occupies a sprawling, second-floor space. Morning and lunchtime dim sum is among the top five in the city, but go instead for dinner, when a humongous menu roams the landscape for dishes not on the core South Chinese menu. There... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese |
Catering, Delivery, Takeout |
$$$ |
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801 66th St. : Brooklyn, NY 11220 : 718-833-1688
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 The elegant L-shaped dining room adjacent to Leiv Eriksson Park was formerly oddball fast-food emporium Zeke's Roast Beef. The Cantonese menu is done with greater panache than at some of the marble-clad Sunset Park palaces to the north. On a first visit, we particularly enjoyed the spinach with... More >> |
| Sunset Park |
Chinese |
Delivery, Takeout |
$$ |
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