Casa de Arepa · Hudson Heights · 20 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Try the catapones — it's a sandwich, but instead of bread, the insides (the best ones are filled with cheese, shredded chicken, or pork) are held together by two giant smashed, fried plantains.
118 Eldridge St (btwn Broome & Grand St), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Dumpling / Guioza · Lower East Side · 418 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Vanessa’s is best known for its cheap eponymous dumplings, but the sesame pancakes — warm bread stuffed with pickled vegetables and either duck, beef, chicken, or egg — are the real stars.
BuzzFeed: This truck, silly name aside, parked daily on 52nd and Park, is an oasis in midtown. An oasis in the form of fresh chorizo and hot carbohydrates with egg and cheese in the middle.
157 Avenue C (btwn E 9th & 10th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Bar · Alphabet City · 140 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Debate all you want about the best burger in town — this one is at the top of the list. Plus, it’s called the Royale With Cheese! Also on site: “bacon picklebacks” and a nice garden in the back.
189 Spring St (btwn Sullivan & Thompson St), Nova Iorque, NY
Padaria · SoHo · 747 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: The cronut turned Dominique Ansel into an international celebrity, but did you know he also makes a great little egg sandwich? And you don’t have to wait in the stupid cronut line for it.
105 Sullivan St (btwn Spring & Prince St), Nova Iorque, NY
Sanduicheria · SoHo · 230 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Alidoro’s sandwiches — which get stuffed with prosciutto, chicken, mozzarrella, eggplants, and so on — are huge without being sloppy. They’re like a refined version of an Italian deli sub.
37 Kenmare St (btwn Elizabeth & Mott St), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Macarrão Oriental · NoLita · 239 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Cocoron offers “dipping soba,” where you dip cold noodles into a hot, concentrated broth. When you’re done, you get a pot of the water used for cooking, which, combined with the broth, makes a soup.
27 Eldridge St (btwn Canal & Division St), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Macarrão Oriental · Chinatown · 24 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: The deliciously chewy, slippery peel noodles at Sheng Wang, a mostly tourist-free noodle shop on Eldridge, are hand-cut with a knife so that they end up in jagged uneven strips.
Restaurante Chinês · Chinatown · 178 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Xi’An Famous Foods indeed has a bunch of famous foods — their noodles, soups and lamb burgers are beloved by everyone with a brain who likes cheap spicy food. Now they make dumplings too.
115 Allen St (btwn Rivington & Delancey St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante de Ramen · Lower East Side · 24 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: If you’re looking for ramen on a Tuesday night at 3 a.m., meet Benkei, a late-night ramen pop-up that opens in the space of Lower East Side restaurant Hill & Dale after they close up for the night.
BuzzFeed: It’s a Chinese steamed bun, but instead of a roast pork filling, you get gooey pumpkin paste. For less than a dollar. All year round. Stand down, Starbucks Pumpkin Spice lattes
220 E 9th St (btwn Stuyvesant St & 2nd Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Japonês · East Village · 142 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Takoyaki are Japanese fried balls of savory pancake-like patter, with octopus in the middle. They’re served piping hot with gooey insides, and covered in a bunch of sauces and bonito flakes
7811 Roosevelt Ave (btwn 78th & 79th St), Jackson Heights, NY
Food Truck · 21 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Since 1990, Maria Cano has sold highly satisfying cheese-filled arepas at her Arepa Lady cart on Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights. She’s opening a restaurant nearby soon, which is great news.
18 E 16th St (btwn Union Sq W & 5th Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Padaria · 335 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Not your grandmother’s babka. Breads’ version tastes less like dried-out coffee cake and more like challah French Toast, delicately striped with super-high quality chocolate.
BuzzFeed: This DUMBO bakery sustained serious damage after Hurricane Sandy, and was forced to close for almost a year. They’re back up and running now, and their almond croissant makes New York a better place.
235 Elizabeth St (btwn Prince & E Houston St), Nova Iorque, NY
Sorveteria · NoLita · 67 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Come once for the rotating selection of esoteric gelato flavors, like gorgonzola, or the pesto-like basil and pine nut. Come back for the hazelnut, which tastes like a cold jar of Nutella.
BuzzFeed: Slices of bottarga (pressed mullet roe) & little chiles are placed between two Italian crackers spread with butter, which are called carte de musica because they’re so thin they look like sheet music.
65 Bayard St (btwn Elizabeth & Mott St), Nova Iorque, NY
Sorveteria · Chinatown · 450 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Sesame Seed is the ice cream flavor you never knew you needed. Soy Sauce flavor is sometimes available here, too — it tastes surprisingly like salted caramel.
Casa de Tortas · Red Hook · 114 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: swin·gle [swin-guhl] (n.): A frozen key lime pie dipped in chocolate, on a stick. Best enjoyed with a view of the Statue of Liberty from a pier in Red Hook.
BuzzFeed: From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays, the Greenpoint warehouse that supplies Russ & Daughters is open to the public. Pro-tip: There are no bagels, so BYOB.
Casa de Sushi · Alphabet City · 25 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: There are dozens of places to eat creative sushi in New York, but nowhere will it be as much fun as at the homey Bugs in the East Village, run by Sho Boo, one of the city’s few female sushi chefs.
Restaurante Etíope · North Slope · 67 dicas e avaliações
BuzzFeed: Here’s what you do: go with four people, order the $60 combination, which gets you basically all of the restaurant’s best dishes for $15 a person.