Enjoy warm, budget-priced bagels that are a bit larger than average. The egg bagel is a favorite. So is the everything bagel with the salty and smoky whitefish salad for an explosion of flavor. Mehr erfahren.
This classic NY shop first opened in 1976. Its 2 locations have long lines for the chewy bagels, but people just picking up bagels & cream cheese can sneak to the back, where the line is much shorter. Mehr erfahren.
The Chelsea outpost is popular for their big, airy bagels, mini bagels, a robust selection of cream cheeses, and rotating specials like toasted almond cream cheese or gingerbread bagels. Mehr erfahren.
Since 1996, Murrays' superior thin, dense bagels have had a crackly crust and interior chew. Beyond standard cream cheese and egg sandwiches, Murray’s also offers chicken cutlet, pastrami, and salami. Mehr erfahren.
The rainbow of cream cheese options and rainbow-colored bagels, make for long lines but a massive variety of menu items will serve basically any appetite. Mehr erfahren.
Bialys — a flat round roll with onions chopped up in the center — are a NY tradition. Kossar’s is the ultimate place to score some. The shop opened in 1936, and still uses the same original recipe. Mehr erfahren.
This shop offers an unusually large range of flavored creams cheeses and alternatives made from whipped tofu. The bagels remain the focus, with great cinnamon raisin, poppy, and sesame seed bagels. Mehr erfahren.
Sadelle's in Soho offers a classic egg sandwich that shouldn't be missed. The classic BEC is fairly simple: 2 fried eggs with bacon and muenster on homemade challah. Mehr erfahren.
Saigon Banh Mi specialized in hero, making its own perfect baguettes having some rice flour mixed in with the wheat, and dressing them with fillings that ran from pâté to barbecued pork to chicken. Mehr erfahren.
With its luxuriance of fried chickpea fritters, nutty tasting tahini, and fresh greens, onions, and tomatoes, Mamoun's falafel redefined a quick bite for New Yorkers. Mehr erfahren.
It comes closest to fulfilling the hot dog principles that originated on the Coney Island Boardwalk: plainish, popping-skinned franks topped with a meager choice of ingredients. Mehr erfahren.
This upscale Jewish deli concept from Ben and Jen Johnson and Shelley Sweet of popular breakfast spot, West Egg, and executive chef Todd Ginsberg has been winning hearts since it opened in early 2013. Mehr erfahren.
Everything is made in-house from the highest-quality ingredients: special flavors like pumpkin are available seasonally, and vegan ice cream is especially popular. Mehr erfahren.
Best Ice Cream in NYC: They serve all the original flavours like the lychee, pandan, and the now famous black sesame (which you need to try). The almond cookie or green tea are just as good! Mehr erfahren.
Creamy, milky burrata and salt and pepper caramel are the two flavors on offer right now at Dominique Ansel's dine-in dessert spot. Head's up though, soft serve is only available Fri-Sun, noon to 9pm. Mehr erfahren.
Long lines form for treats like chocolate soft serve coated in curry-coconut flake, Tang floats, and some perennial favorites like the Mermaid and Bea Arthur. Mehr erfahren.
House-made soft serve is the one dessert at this otherwise beef-only spot. Enjoy it in unadorned or get the works, which include azuki beans, black sesame flour, rice dumplings, and even gold flakes. Mehr erfahren.
Top the vanilla soft serve at ChikaLicious however you desire — the real joy in this dessert comes from the flaky churro cone. Mehr erfahren.
The right call at the end of the meal is a soft-serve gelato delivered in a glass cup, anointed with your choice of toppings; try garnishing it with candied orange rind for an impromptu creamsicle. Mehr erfahren.
If — for some reason — you don't want to order an entire whale cake, go for the soft serve at Carvel: available in a cup, a cone, a sundae, or even sandwiched between two cookies. Mehr erfahren.
New York City is overrun with chickens for two, but this is the bird to beat. Daniel Humm stuffs a mixture of foie gras, black truffles, and bread crumbs between the skin and the meat. Mehr erfahren.
Office workers and tourists alike line up day and night for the combo over rice at Halal Guys. You feel like a beast finishing one of these tubs of meat, rice, and tangy white sauce. Mehr erfahren.
Jim Lahey's pizzas have chewy crusts with blistered edges, and the toppings are fresh. The spinach-topped Popeye is the must-order dish here, but also consider the flambé pizza or the cauliflower pie. Mehr erfahren.
All of the rustic, wood-fired pizzas at Franny's are worth a try, but the clam pie is the knock-out dish here. It is quite possibly New York's best clam pizza. Mehr erfahren.
Lee's Tavern serves the classic bar pie — a small, wafer-thin pizza that is intended for one diner to consume with a pint of beer. Mehr erfahren.
This Staten Island pizzeria serves Neapolitan-style slices, square pieces, and thick pizzas with an over-abundance of toppings. Nunzio's has been around in one form or another since the 1940s. Mehr erfahren.
Rizzo's serves pizzas with extremely thin, crispy crusts. The pizzaioli know how to layer the toppings so that you still get that satisfying crunch when you take the first bite. Mehr erfahren.
Rose & Joe's serves a square slice that has a thick blanket of melted mozzarella atop a tangy layer of tomato sauce. Mehr erfahren.