Great supermarket if you are looking for fresh, delicious ingredients for home cooked meals and tasty pastries. Try their chocolate cakes and their mariage teas!!
Don't try to pop in unannounced at this hidden speakeasy. Appointments are required, but once inside the knowledgable bartender will create original, masterful cocktails at your request.
This Michelin star restaurant is for the true foodies, especially egg lovers. We recommend the tasting menu to get the full experience.
This is an upscale Puerto Rican restaurant that serves some of the best Latin food in New York City. Try their delicious carne empanadas and their famous mojitos!
Good, reliable Thai food at this Greenwich Village establishment. We recommend the chicken basil udon and the spring rolls.
For $26, their signature Black Label Burger better be amazing…and it is. Topped with caramelized onions, it tastes as amazing as it looks. Get it and your stomach will never be happier.
The rolls here are just too good to pass up. Get the Chapli roll and ask them to spice it up for you.
Another Mario Batali restaurant, Lupa is a nice casual place with classic Italian dishes and a nice atmosphere. Try one of their pastas, we recommend the Ricotta Gnocchi.
The crispy pastry shell alone of these cream puffs is enough to keep you coming back for more. No need to play it safe here, go for the green tea, éclair, or dulce de leche flavors.
Get a pitcher of sangria and the pollo a la brasa or lomo saltado. Yup, it's gonna be a good night.
The city's best falafel and chicken schwarma and the $2.50 price tag can't be beat. Use the hot sauce sparingly though, don't say we didn't warn you!
For $4.25 get the #1 Bahn Mi Saigon pork sandwich. Loaded with pork on a crispy baguette, it fills you up and is light on the wallet.
You can get 5 dumplings for just $1 at this Chinatown establishment. For the price you might think the quality isn't good but it is authentic and fantastic, arguably the best dumplings in all of NYC.
A very cool concept, enter this hidden lounge and be transported into a classic '20s era with snazzy jazz old-school décor. Try their signature drink, Prohibition Punch.
Amazing sake selection and the authentic food is great for a quick, casual lunch. We recommend the onsen tomago, sakagura special, and black sesame ice cream.
For the best sushi experience in NYC, you've come to the right place. For the full experience get the Omakase, a personal dining experience with one chef who serves up piece after piece of pure bliss.
Awesome thin crust pizza and the seats outside are great. Try the tivo white pie with fig compote, bleu cheese, and prosciutto. Yum!
For a culinary seafood treat, splurge on the tasting menu at Le Bernadin and experience 8 courses of perfectly paired dishes from world renowned Chef Ripert.
Serving up the one of the best dining experiences in the world, Per Se is quite simply the best of the best. Make reservations a month in advance and expect a meal lasting multiple hours.
This San Francisco style mexican restaurant really hits the spot with their quesadillas and burritos, but don't get one without their guac, it's the best!
On those days when you're craving Ukranian food, come here. Potato pancakes and stuffed cabbage, oh my. Get the borscht too, it's as authentic as it gets.
Despite the name, sorry, we've told and so have many others. Enter through the phone booth and go back in time to a prohibition era speakeasy. Sit at the bar if you can, the bartenders are great.
My two favorite pizzas here are the brussels sprout and pancetta pie and the cherrystone clam pizza. But you really can't go wrong with whatever calls to you on the menu. Mehr erfahren.
Take a seat that faces the back of the shop so you can watch them make your hand pulled noodles from scratch. MUST order the #9 pork soup & the fried dumplings. Best dumplings in NYC.
Try the hot and sour sweet potato noodle soup ($7) and enjoy the mouth-numbing sensation of slippery noodles bathed in a hot chili-oil broth, studded with bits of ground beef, peanuts and cilantro. Mehr erfahren.
The term “face melting” is tossed around a lot, but few dishes embody the description quite like Szechuan Gourmet’s hot and sour cellophane noodles. Mehr erfahren.
The Lassi Pop is made from a blend of all-natural, probiotic Indian yogurt with digestive herbs, spices and fruit. These rich and creamy pops make for a delightful afternoon snack on a hot day. Mehr erfahren.
Peppa’s jerk chicken is best known for its lovely, crisp skin, but be sure to soak your entire order in their wonderful jerk sauce. Mehr erfahren.
Hot and sour sweet potato noodles are actually vermicelli, but forgive the misnomer and just enjoy the mouth-numbing slippery noodles in hot chili-oil broth, with ground beef, peanuts and cilantro. Mehr erfahren.
Go for the samosa and chickpeas chaat ($4). "Crisp samosas are split open and doused in spicy stewed chickpeas, tangy yogurt, sweet tamarind-date chutney, spicy cilantro chutney and raw onions." Mehr erfahren.
"Don't miss" the salt-baked squid ($9.95). It's "a mountainous pile of lightly battered and tender chunks of crisp, well seasoned cephalopod." Mehr erfahren.
Try the roast pork over rice ($3), "stuffed to the gills with fluffy white rice, a few decorative pieces of broccoli, and more roast pork than should physically fit into the volume of the box." Mehr erfahren.
There are tons of cheap and tasty options here, but start with wonton soup. "The delicate, oversized wontons, dotted with a single stud of ground pork filling, bob in a thick, savory broth. Mehr erfahren.
The “hot pot rice” arrives steaming, sizzling & topped with your choice of meats. Try pork with salted fish. Drizzle plenty of extra-thick soy sauce over the pot & add a splash of roasted chili oil. Mehr erfahren.
Try the katsu curry ($7.50). "Flavored with pureed apples, ketchup, curry powder and garam masala, the brown gravy is sweet and mild & is popularly topped with tonkatsu, a breaded, fried pork cutlet." Mehr erfahren.
Check out the Taiwanese dumplings. ($6) "The beef, pork and chicken dumplings here are longer and skinnier than the variety normally found at the five-for-$1 shops in Chinatown, but no less tasty." Mehr erfahren.
Look to the lamb shawarma spit, "where layers upon layers of fatty lamb meat roast in their own juices." A sizeable shawarma wrap will set you back $6.
Try the thukpa ($5). "The noodles are obviously pre-packaged, but the pile of greens and crumbled beef on top of this bone-broth soup make it nearly impossible to complain." Mehr erfahren.
Try lǘ dǎ gǔn, (translation: "Donkey Rolling on the Ground"), "a cake of sticky rice rolled in cooked soybean powder and stuffed with homemade red bean paste." Mehr erfahren.
The infamous $1 Peking duck sandwich "a taste of heaven, cradling a bit of duck blanketed by hoisin and topped with green onion." Mehr erfahren.
The filling in the bahn mi sandwiches are the best part here, abundant and tasty, the house special barbecued pork version is more flavorful than the pâté sandwich.
Casino: gin, Maraschino, lemon, orange bitters. You can't go wrong with Bartender's Choice, though.
You go here for one thing: pork wontons in hot oil (no. 6). The thin wonton skins hold a delicate filling; mild chili oil and preserved vegetable topping make this one of the best dumplings in NYC.
Knish Nosh isn't as famous as Yonah Schimmel's downtown, but the knishes are way better, and the Queens Boulevard knisherie is a borough-wide icon.
