2109 Starling Ave (btwn Olmstead & Odell), Bronx, NY
Restaurante Asiático · Parkchester · 16 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: A meal at Neerob is an eye-opening, palate-thrilling crash course in gingery chana dal, fragrant goat biryani, and vegetables like cabbage and spinach cooked into soft, intricately spiced succulence.
Restaurante Italiano · Alphabet City · 131 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Dinner is Fri-Sat, when the kitchen is open until 7:30 and 9:30, make a reservation; only 18. homespun, absurdly affordable Italian salads, sandwiches, and pasta; bakes her own focaccia and pastries.
Sanduicheria · Williamsburg · 142 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: There’s the pickle-palooza Scuttlebutt, the Clean Slate, an open-faced Middle Eastern kitchen sink, all housebaked focaccia and chewy naan; bright, piquant dressings; and flurries of fresh herbs.
170 Elizabeth St (btwn Kenmare & Spring St), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Bagel · NoLita · 227 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: And the bagels are hot and fresh throughout the day: Smallish in size with a largish hole that affords a superior crust-to-crumb ratio, they’re perfectly dense and chewy, with a hint of crispness
18-24 College Point Blvd (btwn 18th & 20th Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Chinês · 38 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: If you want a sure thing, go for crowd-pleasers like cumin lamb, spicy cold noodles, braised fish, and the ever-popular “crust of cooked rice with pork,” a Little Pepper signature.
24 W 45th St (btwn 5th & 6th Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Chinês · Midtown East · 256 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Multiple Locations. Every lamb-centric, cumin-charged dish is as good as it’s always been, including all the various hand-ripped noodles, and our personal favorite, the lamb pao-mo soup.
25 Clinton St (btwn Stanton & E Houston St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante de Ramen · Lower East Side · 326 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Ramen and then deep-fried chicken livers and hearts, a Caesar riff with tofu dressing and anchovy-Parmesan fricos, fried tofu with a veggie-chili-dog topping, and the Lancaster okonomiyaki.
Jeffrey: The numbing, tingly assault of the Sichuan peppercorn, also chile peppers, dried, pickled, or preserved; pork, duck, bamboo, beef, which becomes something akin to jerky.
Restaurante Tailandês · Cobble Hill · 341 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Night-market street food: mussel-and-egg crêpe called hoi thawt, a rotisserie chicken stuffed with lemongrass and herbs, a soothing khao soi, a mild curry that’s warmed by its intricate mix of spices.
248 Mulberry St (btwn Prince & Spring St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Italiano · NoLita · 494 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: House-pulled “mozz,” in balls or sticks; the vinegary iceberg “Sunday” salad, which becomes a “Holiday” salad with some salami and cheese; and the eponymous sandwiches—eggplant, chicken, and meatball
150 Ainslie St (btwn Leonard & Lorimer St), Brooklyn, NY
Restaurante Japonês · East Williamsburg · 133 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Oatmeal and grapefruit is your idea of a healthy breakfast, ichiju sansai. 10-4 on weekends, is the set-price, seafood-centered Japanese breakfast most often encountered in posh hotels.
Restaurante Chinês · Theater District · 152 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: A combination of the Lanzhou-style la mian Song traveled to the region to study; Shanghai-style soup buns, or xiaolongbao; scallion pancakes stuffed with beef.
Sanduicheria · East Williamsburg · 48 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The roast-pork hero with tuna sauce, raisins, and fennel or lamb sausage on a hot-dog bun with pickled tomato, fried eggplant, fresh mint, onion, tzatziki or a gyro.
85 Avenue A (btwn E 5th & E 6th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Tailandês · East Village · 192 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Funky, fiery food of Thailand’s northeast Isan region. Somtum Der takes the trend a step further by focusing on the invigorating green-papaya salads known as som tum.
65 4th Ave (btwn E 9th & E 10th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante de Ramen · Greenwich Village · 1165 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The thing to order is still the Shiromaru Hakata Classic (the house pork-bone broth style) or the Akamaru Modern (essentially a high-octane Shiromaru).
321 W 51st St (btwn 8th and 9th Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante de Ramen · Hell's Kitchen · 530 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The thing to order is still the Shiromaru Hakata Classic (the house pork-bone broth style) or the Akamaru Modern (essentially a high-octane Shiromaru).
Restaurante Italiano · East Village · 203 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: A nice hot bowl of Puglian-inspired orecchiette or a take on Rome’s amatriciana, swapping house-cured lamb bellies for the guanciale. Or with a crunchy antipasti salad or Fontina-stuffed meatballs
Restaurante Mexicano · East Village · 170 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Ask for the off-the-menu Gorgon - a supersize fresh-masa tortilla deep-fried to a delicate crisp, then stuffed with guacamole, carne asada, serrano-chile crema, onion, and cilantro
Jeffrey: Mimi Kitani is known for her hummus, which she blends with lemon and garlic, enriches with olive oil, and tops with everything from fava beans to cinnamon-tinged ground beef.
Restaurante Chinês · East Village · 348 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Whatever doubts we had about a Philly chainlet invading the East Village evaporated within minutes of sampling the dan dan noodles, correctly ranked eight on the restaurant’s precise heat scale.
7708 Woodside Ave (btwn 77th & 78th St), Elmhurst, NY
Restaurante Tailandês · 124 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Get raw-shrimp salad, redolent of lime, garlic; panang duck curry, with its pinpoint calibration of sweet, sour, and spicy; crisp, lacy catfish salad; mango sticky rice, a dissertation in ripeness.
Pizzaria · East Williamsburg · 864 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: New Brooklyn pizzeria. Rooftop farmer. Erstwhile beekeeper. Bread bakery. Internet radio station. The place is a hillbilly-hipster juggernaut.
Jeffrey: Ceci, a falafel stuffed with chickpea fritters, beets, kimchee, and pickled onions. They’re served on his elegant pizza bianca, a soft and chewy dough slicked with oil and dusted with salt
68 Forsyth St Frnt B (btwn Grand & Hester St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Chinês · Lower East Side · 184 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Why you go: the da pan ji, or “spicy big tray chicken,” a manhole-size skillet loaded with chunks of bone-on bird in a sea of oily red sauce spiked with chiles, star anise, and Sichuan peppercorns.
1 Doyers St (btwn Bowery & Pell St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Macarrão Oriental · Chinatown · 169 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The noodles are firm and springy, the flavorful broths enhanced by the fresh cilantro and chile oil set on the table. Even better might be the brothless knife-peeled noodles, stir-fried with cabbage.
203 1st Ave (btwn 12th & 13th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Vietnamita · East Village · 99 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Sao Mai debunks the old wives’ tale that you can’t find a good bowl of Vietnamese beef-bone-broth noodle soup outside our city’s Chinatowns, let alone in Manhattan. Also good for takeout/delivery.
355 Metropolitan Ave (btwn Havemeyer & Roebling St), Brooklyn, NY
Restaurante Americano · Williamsburg · 318 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Chicken or fish good, but you can still get what is the most baffling beefsteak bargain in town, the estimable butcher’s steak, for a paltry $16.
905 Church Ave (btwn Coney Island Ave & E 10th St), Brooklyn, NY
Pizzaria · Flatbush · 61 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Nicely charred, tender-crusted Neapolitan-esque pizza with a micro-layer of crispness and keep the price point to under $15 per pie on average - electric oven. Great cocktails.
100-05 Metropolitan Ave (at 70th Ave.), Forest Hills, NY
Restaurante Mediterrâneo · 42 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The proof is in the meze - the wood-smoked baba ghannouj, the deft grape leaves, the silky, nutty hummus. And the chicken shawarma’s inclduing beet-pickled turnips and homemade garlic and hot sauces.
Restaurante Tailandês · Elmhurst · 27 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Khao mun kai, which means “oiled-rice chicken” (eim means “full”), is the popular Thai adaptation of a common Hainanese street food and the specialty of this Elmhurst storefront shop.
Restaurante Vietnamita · Upper West Side · 123 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Saiguette’s might be the biggest bánh mì you’ve ever seen. It takes two wooden skewers to hold one together. Unlike most supersize sandwiches, these are well balanced and carefully constructed.
Restaurante Neo-Americano · Fort Greene · 51 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Small space, small plates: The only truly outsize thing about Matt Hamilton’s cozy canteen is the flavors. DIY bone-marrow tacos are a signature dish.
Restaurante do Leste Europeu · Hammels · 35 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: A hearty bowl of the noodle soup called lagman, ground-beef lula kebabs, and plov, the oil-varnished rice pilaf and Uzbekistan’s national dish.
40-09 Prince St (at Roosevelt Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Chinês · 77 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Fu Run specializes in the cooking of China’s Northeast, the region formerly known as Manchuria. Consider ordering the massive rack of fatty ribs known as “Muslim lamb chop,” braised, battered, fried.
366 Metropolitan Ave (at Havemeyer St), Brooklyn, NY
Restaurante Americano · Williamsburg · 322 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Three-thigh fried-chicken plate, with biscuits and hot sauce; the hot breast sandwich; the equally incendiary hot fish. There’s also a classic burger, an irresistible pimento-poblano grilled cheese.
Restaurante Mexicano · Mott Haven · 12 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The bodega has evolved into an adjacent restaurant. Chief among them are Chavez’s carnitas, or manteca, in which they baste, along with oranges, limes, Fanta, and Coke.
49 Canal St (btwn Orchard & Ludlow St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Americano · Chinatown · 179 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Dimes is an actual restaurant in juice-bar guise with fresh, vibrant, not entirely vegetarian food, from a summer salad with blackberries, cantaloupe, and feta. Packed at brunch. Mellow at dinner.
Restaurante Caribenho · Crown Heights · 147 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Born as a fancy sandwich shop, Glady’s has recently morphed a jerk joint with a crackerjack kitchen, led by a veteran of Momofuku Noodle Bar and Kajitsu. Jerk chicken, juicy jerk pork, or curry goat.
Restaurante Mediterrâneo · Upper East Side · 8 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Gourmet grocery more than sit down shop. Yegen’s cases are full of oil-slicked vegetable mezze, tangy hot yogurt soup, baked lamb over mashed-eggplant purée, and butternut-squash non-dessert dessert.
Restaurante Grego · Lower East Side · 18 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Boubouki specializes in spanakopita, the Greek spinach pie, which is baked and served by erstwhile lawyer Rona Economou in her Essex Street Market stall.
Restaurante Coreano · Brighton Beach · 28 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Try the plov (lamb-mingled rice pilaf) and the flaky-crusted samsa filled with minced lamb and onion or the chilled Korean beef-noodle soup, kuksu, with cucumber, cabbage, shredded omelette, and dill.
485 Court St (btwn Nelson and Huntington St), Brooklyn, NY
Varejista de Alimentos e Bebidas · Carroll Gardens · 157 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: From French’s Fried Onions to Mama Lil’s Pickled Peppers. For breakfast, get egg on a roll with Cabot Cheddar and Burger’s Smokehouse bacon, or American cheese and the Taylor Pork Roll.
Restaurante de Ramen · Prospect Heights · 389 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Straddling that fine line between tradition and innovation in a stylishly stripped-down space. Specialty: a miso-kelp veggie broth that holds its own in body and savor with its porkier rivals.
Bar Esportivo · Central Slope · 147 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Extremely loud but still the best bar burger in town. Take it the way it comes: two square patties, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, mustard, mayo, and no ketchup.
Restaurante Filipino · West Village · 42 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Lumpia in both heritage-pork and triple-mushroom form, and the Chipotle-style, customizable rice bowls are such a great introduction to an often inaccessible cuisine.
214 E 10th St (btwn 1st and 2nd Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante de Curry Japonês · East Village · 113 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Among the nine curry options, we like the one with a crisp-fried Berkshire-pork cutlet best; the hamburger curry is also terrific, if not as easy on the eyes.
Restaurante Indiano · Greenwich Village · 119 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Griddled-to-order nizami rolls, the rolled parathas stuffed with fillings like egg, minced lamb, chicken, and lime-flavored paneer, they make a perfect midnight snack. Also good: chaat.
Restaurante Chinês · Chinatown · 28 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Two-year-old Chinatown restaurant that calls itself a diner and espresso bar: Half the menu is Hong Kong–style Western food; the other half is straight-up Cantonese.
Pizzaria · Greenwood Heights · 20 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: One of the most satisfying slices you’ve had in a while—remarkably flavorful and surprisingly crisp-crusted despite its supercolossal size and droopy posture.
94 Avenue C (btwn E 6th & E 7th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa de Frango Frito · Alphabet City · 293 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Sweet-tea-brined and pressure-fried, the moist, craggy-crusted chicken is the main event at this modest redoubt, and it comes with a tasty buttermilk biscuit and some well-intentioned mixed greens.
359 Bedford Ave (btwn S 5th St & S 4th St), Brooklyn, NY
BBQ Joint · Williamsburg · 164 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: For Delaney, and us, brisket’s the thing, preferably fatty (although, as with Katz’s pastrami, lean is an option), sauceless, and sided with no more than pickles and white bread.
1259 Park Ave (btwn E 97th & E 98th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Americano · East Harlem · 169 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: The Calabro mozzarella with miso mayo and potato chips; the Cheddar with pork belly, kimchee, and a fried egg; and especially the pork-shoulder scallion-pancake “taco.”
600 11th Ave (btwn W 44th & W 45th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Praça de Alimentação · Hell's Kitchen · 205 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Try Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop, which gave New York its first taste of the Syosset native’s distinctive dashi-and-chicken broth and rye noodles, not to mention the donburi rice bowls you’ll only find here.
Restaurante Mexicano · Greenwood Heights · 29 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Why do locals flock to this Mexican restaurant in the back of a big, bright grocery store? Could be the condiment bar, or maybe specials like chicken enchiladas in a sweet-and-spicy mole sauce.
Restaurante do Leste Europeu · Alphabet City · 82 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: You’ll want the version called adjaruli, stuffed with cheese, and with an egg cracked into the hollowed-out center like a toad in the hole. Or the soup dumplings called khinkali.
Cachorro-Quente · North Slope · 195 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Crafted by an Austrian sausage maven upstate and garnished with housemade relishes. The bacon’s from Nueske’s, the heirloom Jacob’s Cattle beans from Vermont, and the veggie burger is worth it.
Jeffrey: The ordeal is part of the commitment. And all is right with the world when they fork over your pulled-pork sandwich, a stack of sliced brisket, and especially the titanic, much-talked-about beef rib.
1188 Broadway (btwn E 28th & E 29th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Sanduicheria · NoMad · 223 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Broccoli Classic has become a classic, so has cauliflower cheesesteak. A compelling case for the profligate use of Fritos and Zapp’s BBQ potato chips in the sandwich-making arena.
Jeffrey: There’s more technique than you’d expect from a kitchen whose main attraction is gourmet grilled cheese. And the craft-beer and cider lists run long and deep.
Restaurante Tailandês · Garment District · 115 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Larb—the ground-meat salad of northeast Thailand that’s mingled with herbs, chiles, lime juice, fish sauce, and toasted rice powder—must be the most powerfully addictive substance known to man.
Restaurante Mediterrâneo · Two Bridges · 45 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Of note are the fried-fish sandwich, tender fillets of Narragansett-beer-battered pollock gobbed with homemade tartar sauce on Pain D’Avignon brioche, and the falafel-coated Israeli Scotch egg.
439 3rd Ave (btwn 30th & 31st St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Enoteca · Rose Hill · 61 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Unlike a standard wine bar, Terroir features sherry, Madeira, vermouth. Pair with Canora’s duck-ham panino, lamb-sausage-stuffed sage leaves, or the lightest, fluffiest veal-ricotta meatballs.
432 6th Avenue (btwn W 9th & W 10th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Hamburgueria · Greenwich Village · 408 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Abundantly juicy, beautifully crusted, and super-meaty. The recent limited-edition run of the José Andrés pork burger with ham, Manchego, and piquillo-pepper confit pretty much knocked our socks off.
Casa de Asinhas de Frango · North Slope · 44 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: This off-the-radar fried-chicken specialist dispenses its goods from a Park Slope takeout window flanked by a few outdoor benches and a narrow standing ledge. Straight or banh-mi style
Casa de Tacos · Crown Heights · 184 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Main draw at this sunny counter-service cantina is the breakfast taco. It’s a hot, steamy flour tortilla cradling scrambled eggs and your choice of fixings, served weekends only, until 4 p.m.
329 Henry St (btwn Atlantic Ave & Pacific St), Brooklyn, NY
Pub Gastronômico · Cobble Hill · 192 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: There is the famous turkey sandwich: milk-braised leg meat luxuriating in its peppery pan juices, topped with crispy fried onions, then piled high between two slices of sauce-sopping Pullman toast.
Restaurante Vegano e Vegetariano · Gowanus · 56 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Low-key but well-stocked craft-brew bar adds a small menu of meatless sandwiches, salads, and snacks, as culinarily inventive as a smoked-tofu bánh mì adorned with house-fermented kimchee and avocado.
95-19 Rockaway Beach Blvd (at Beach 96th St), Queens, NY
Casa de Tacos · Hammels · 135 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: It’s the unassuming—and delicious—gringo taquería that spawned a foodie community, an evolved boardwalk concession, and, just this year, an urban farm.
53 Bayard St. New York, NY (Bayard St & Elizabeth St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Restaurante Asiático · Chinatown · 31 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Still, here is a Hong Kong–style sai chaan, or Western comfort-food restaurant, with a focus on Italian cuisine. In other words, it’s Chinese dudes cooking spaghetti.
35 Orchard St (btwn Canal St & Hester St), Nova Iorque, NY
Sanduicheria · Chinatown · 220 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Braised short rib with horseradish on toasted challah. Fried chicken on a buttermilk biscuit with coleslaw and gravy. A veggie muffuletta. This is not your average Boar’s Head–on–rye deli counter.
Restaurante Venezuelano · Elmhurst · 23 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: But the main attraction is the patacon, a sandwich constructed with disks of twice-fried green plantains rather than bread. Overstuffed, dense, chewy, unwieldy and tasty.
Casa de Frango Frito · Williamsburg · 553 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: No matter how fancy or far-flung the food world gets, there will always be room for cheese grits, cake doughnuts, and the full roster of sides.
Jeffrey: Get the meatballs and the arancini, and the paccheri all’amatriciana. If you’re in the mood for a sandwich, get the Arthur Avenue (ham, salami, mortadella, provolone) and save a trip to the Bronx.
1571 2nd Ave (btwn E 81st & E 82nd St), Nova Iorque, NY
Hamburgueria · Yorkville · 92 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: There are “urban fries” (Parmesan, herbs, garlic aïoli), plus six different toppings for regular fries. Most surprising of all, you can ask for your spuds cooked “well done” or even limp.
Sanduicheria · East Village · 37 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Among the eight sandwich options, go for the Bamberg—crunchy breaded chicken with pickled cukes, daikon radish, ginger, and a swipe of onion mustard on a Tom Cat pretzel roll.
Restaurante Mexicano · Lower East Side · 44 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Taquitoria’s taquitos are the fine corn tortillas, rolled like cigars around shredded meat, then deep-fried to a salty, fatty crunch. Get the Berkshire-pork taquito topped “cheesy” style.
Jeffrey: But by wisely not stinting on fat, protein, or dressing, signature combos like the Kale Caesar and the Earth Bowl do solve the eternal nutritional dilemma: how to make salad satisfying.
33 Saint Marks Pl (btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave), Nova Iorque, NY
Hamburgueria · East Village · 207 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Slider for $2.75 ($4.95 a double), a house-ground blend, cooked on a cast-iron griddle, and topped, with grilled onions and American cheese. Spring for a side of fries and the Guinness shake.
50 Macdougal St (btwn Prince St and Houston St), Nova Iorque, NY
Pizzaria · SoHo · 115 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: You go to Emmett’s for a dense, pastry-crusted beast of a thing, with a blanket of stretchy cheese and a reservoir of zesty sauce. It requires 25 minutes to make from start to finish.
Jeffrey: $2 buys you a wang mandoo (king dumpling), a round of dough the size of a bocce ball. The super-spongy things are filled with ground pork or pork and kimchee. One is more than a snack. Two are a meal.
Restaurante Coreano · Koreatown · 4 dicas e avaliações
Jeffrey: Wang mandoo (king dumpling): a round of dough the size of a bocce ball. The super-spongy things are filled with ground pork or pork and kimchee. One is more than a snack. Two are a meal