Named after a village in mountainous southwestern Puebla, this former grocery specializes in bargain Mexican fare with all sorts of pre-Colombian twists. Mehr erfahren.
Perhaps its greatest notoriety rests on a splendid Italian cheese course-served with various honeys, nuts, and preserves. Mehr erfahren.
Lamb chops offer crisp, fatty-edged meat and a good gnaw on the bone, and the gilauti kebab is composed of small, pale pucks of meat that go all silken in your mouth, like a marvelous, spiced pâté. Mehr erfahren.
To start, don't miss the pickled, grilled paneer. The squares of cheese, bright white with puffy, golden edges, and a tart, pickled bite that balances the paneer's mild, milky flavor. Mehr erfahren.
The lebni, so rich you could stand a spoon up in it, and the tomato salad are uncommonly good. Mehr erfahren.
In the canapé family, we loved txitxiki, a fat-cigar-sized sandwich of crusty bread stuffed with homemade chorizo hash. And you can't do better than the arraultza Mehr erfahren.
The entrées are voluminous, so you don't need starters, but then you'd miss the Moroccan cigars (pastry flutes filled with ground vegetables) and the tomatoey vegetarian bread dip called matbucha. Mehr erfahren.
This comfortable Persian restaurant-which translates as "village hut" in Farsi-offers some excellent kebabs, foremost of which are the bone-in Cornish game hen and a surprisingly tasty filet mignon Mehr erfahren.
It might simply be a neighborhood sushi joint, except that it happens to be surprisingly excellent, with fish flown in from Tokyo, and daily specials of the most pristine fish. Mehr erfahren.
A perfect hearty options include fattah-a porridge of torn pitas-and maloukhiaih, a slimy sauce of jute and lamb that gives okra a run for its money. Open 24 hours Mehr erfahren.
This Yemeni restaurant excels at salta, a bubbling cast-iron pot of brown gravy used as a dip for the restaurant's wonderful homemade pitas, nearly a foot in diameter and charred on the edges. Mehr erfahren.
As an additional fillip, the pork ribs are also excellent, mantled with a thick sauce that's not too sweet. Mehr erfahren.
This fish-and-chips shop specializes in fried whiting, by filet or whole fish, matched with some of the best french fries in Brooklyn, made from fresh potatoes with little bits of skin adhering. Mehr erfahren.
Spice-lovers should go for option number three, the bowl with spicy meat sauce that you stir into the broth, rendering it brick red and incredibly tasty. Mehr erfahren.
Big-ticket items such as “braised whole fish filet with soy bean sprouts in roasted chili spiced broth” and “Braised lamb filets with napa cabbage and roasted chili” are worth the larger tab. Mehr erfahren.
The usual standards—ma po bean curd, Sichuan wontons, tripe and tongue in chili oil, dan dan noodles—are here rendered in lush form Mehr erfahren.
Best of all is the barbecued pork, pulled in big clumps and strangely tossed with steamed cabbage. It really tastes like barbecue. Mehr erfahren.
Check out the Spam nori-wrapped rice balls, noodles known as saimin, and beef short ribs glazed with a sweet, salty sauce, straight out of Family Circle. Mehr erfahren.
Don't miss the steamed dumplings, filled with pork and fresh greens, exhibiting one of the thinnest dumpling skins you've ever seen. Mehr erfahren.
The corned beef can't measure up. It finds the meaning of its life not in a sandwich, but in the corned beef hash-slivers of salty meat fried crisp that overpower the smidgens of potato. Mehr erfahren.
its willingness to offer items outside the standard Mughal canon, but because the waiter appeared with unexpected freebies at various junctures during the meal, Mehr erfahren.
Lenny's is your best choice, a palace of "piss clams" (a/k/a steamers), conch, shrimp, and a lobster Sorrentino engulfed in red sauce. Mehr erfahren.
Tom's has slung hash since 1936, and it functions as the village square of Prospect Heights-a place where you can depend on a warm greeting, decent chow, and a chance to socialize with your nabies. Mehr erfahren.
The seafood pajeon unites green onions with shrimp and squid in a pancake that's crisp outside and chewy inside, and goes perfectly with a bottle of soju. Mehr erfahren.
Named after the Umbrian saint who loved birds and other small animals, this taquería might be East Harlem's best. Mehr erfahren.
You can't go wrong with the antojitos: the potato filled flautas, which come heaped with greenery and crumbled cheese Mehr erfahren.
You have to try the roast baby lamb, presented in a fragrant, boxcar-shaped pile. Mehr erfahren.
The single-plate meals at Jones Wood Foundry make the best values Mehr erfahren.
The premises were once a hardware store and foundry, dating to the 19th century. Mehr erfahren.
Ensconced in a former bank lobby, the restaurant has soaring windows that offer a romantic view of the city's prettiest park. Mehr erfahren.
