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.
sesame pancakes — warm bread stuffed with pickled vegetables and either duck, beef, chicken, or egg
Corner 28 in Flushing is a whole restaurant, but what you want is the $1 Peking Duck bun from the stall outside. (
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.
Alidoro’s sandwiches — which get stuffed with various permutations of prosciutto, chicken, mozzarrella, eggplants, and so on
“dipping soba,” where you dip cold noodles into a hot, concentrated broth (and then dip them into your mouth).
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.
Unlikely as it may seem, fries made out of chickpeas can taste better than fries made out of potatoes.
Breads’ version of Babka tastes less like dried-out coffee cake and more like challah French Toast, delicately striped with super-high quality chocolate.
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.
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.
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.
French sources confirm this might be the best French pastry in the five boroughs. - Cream Puff
A perfect iteration of Staten Island thin crust pizza. BTW, M.O.R. stands for meatball onion ricotta
Acme doesn’t provide carbs on which to place your smoked fish, so get a bagel at Bagelsmith when you get off the L at Bedford.
It’s a crepe with bacon, shrimp, and bean sprouts, and it’s what we’re having for brunch.
The freshly-made, still warm mozzarella makes this place worthy of the name “House of Mozzarella.”
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.
