Try the Chef's Steak -it hits the table with an expertly charred crust, the interior marbled & juicy. Served with a smoky salsa verde and caramelized onion-spiked mashed sweet potatoes. Mehr erfahren.
Bangers and mash are a highlight. Go to lunch to get the Afternoon Tea for One, which includes finger sandwiches, tons of scones with cream and jam, cakes, and a big pot of hot tea. Mehr erfahren.
Sample the cheese plate or the crisp-skinned chicken breast, but don't miss the frisace salad. Mehr erfahren.
Bountiful portions throughout are sure to sate any range of hungry patrons. The $7 lunch special is a neighborhood favorite. Mehr erfahren.
Worth checking out are bunny chow (chicken curry poured into a loaf of white bread), potje (oxtail stew with hominy), frikadelle (buffalo meat balls), and biltong (a very dry beef jerky). Mehr erfahren.
There are snacks, too, including the peanut-dusted kebabs called suya and the palm-oil-laced dish known simply as "beans." Mehr erfahren.
Three types of fufu-like mash are available (pounded white yam, yam flour, and fermented cassava), to be matched with three stews (chicken, lamb, fish). Mehr erfahren.
Naturally, the food is mainly Bavarian meaning giant, plate-flopping schnitzels and sausages presented in omnibus platters with tangy purple cabbage, kartoffeln, and sauerkraut. Mehr erfahren.
The kitchen churns out small bites that you won't find at your standard burrito joint like melted cheese with grasshoppers and tomato, and braised lamb in a chipotle sauce. Mehr erfahren.
The onion-laced ceviche mixto is a wonder of tart, fresh, marinated seafood, including clams, mussels, shrimp, squid, and corvine-the firm-fleshed national fish of Peru. Mehr erfahren.
Tamarind Tribeca is like an upscale Indian Shopsin's, with a sprawling menu that offers regional dishes from every part of the subcontinent. Mehr erfahren.
The General Tso's chicken is the best you've ever had, while the Fu-chou fried rice reflects a very refined version of that standard: rice topped with delicately gravied ham, chicken, and shrimp. Mehr erfahren.
Best of all, though, is an amazing take on steak tartare, deep-red and nearly fatless beef molded on bread points and garnished with capers and raw onions. And no egg! Mehr erfahren.
The larb is the best we've ever tasted: Served warm, this ground-pork salad is sharply seasoned with lime, mint, green onions, and a touch of fish sauce, and served on a bed of onions and greenery. Mehr erfahren.
This Cobble Hill carryout joint, with a few tables for eating in, defines "soul" as broadly as possible to include Afro-Caribbean and even African cooking. Mehr erfahren.
Nothing in town quite matches the perfection of the cheese and spinach ravioli, or tagliata, a sliced steak served with greenery; or inzimino, a dense calamari sludge not for the squeamish. Mehr erfahren.
Hottest of all is jungle curry, which sports two kinds of eggplant. Mehr erfahren.
Challenging the culinary hegemony of Sripraphai, Chao Thai offers dishes from several regions. Mehr erfahren.
For mains, go for the chicken tabaka (an entire fried bird paved with crushed garlic) or kupati (a pork sausage laced with pomegranate syrup, and not all that sweet). Mehr erfahren.
The whole smoked mackerel makes a wonderful cheap starter, and so does katchapouri (here spelled "hatchapouri"), a Georgian flatbread oozing white cheese. Mehr erfahren.
With a tip of the hat to the neighborhood, Famous created its signature Indopac pizza, a cheesy personal pie topped with onions, garlic, jalapeños, and an Indian spice mixture. Mehr erfahren.
This restaurant specalizes in rustic seafood dishes, including a conch salad heaped over tangy, vinegar-cured vegetables, and juicy clams stuffed with toasted bread crumbs Mehr erfahren.
The simplicity of this tiny coffee shop is refreshing, with a menu limited to three kinds of bureks (cheese, spinach, and ground meat), homemade yogurt, and the standard permutations of espresso. Mehr erfahren.
The burgers are dense and juicy, the mac and cheese so rich with cream that it might better be called a macaroni gratin. Be sure to save room for sweets next door at the DuMont Doughnuts counter. Mehr erfahren.
Toshihiro Uezu is a towering figure on the New York sushi scene. Fifteen minutes in his care at Kuruma Zushi is bliss; two hours spells bankruptcy. Expect the fattiest tuna belly you've ever seen. Mehr erfahren.
Nothing in the borough is quite as challenging as the roast beef hero at John's – masses of warm, pink meat on a crusty hero, topped with melting slices of mozzarella and gobbed with a midnight gravy. Mehr erfahren.
Follow the swarm of cabs to this Pakistani restaurant, where vegetables are forsaken in favor of one of the meatiest and most highly flavored cuisines on the planet. Mehr erfahren.
