Get the Mexican corn. if the wait is too long, go around the corner to the annex for to go orders.
Order the pork buns and the Momofuku Ramen. It's not your usual 40-cent shady microwave ramen.
Recommended: Cereal-milk soft-serve ice cream, chocolate-chocolate cookie, candy-bar pie, chocolate cake with yellow-cake icing, banana cake with hazelnut crunch, Chinese-sausage focaccia. Read more.
The restaurant's signature dish is the result of what happens when you sandwich half a chicken between a roaring hot skillet and a 35-pound brick. One of our 5 favorite roast chickens in the city! Read more.
Not to be missed: French fries dipped in salted caramel, a.k.a. the stuff stoner dreams are made of.
the 'shroom burger is the best thing here: bite into it and drown in cheese. wash it down with a lemonade
Go through the phone booth at Crif Dogs and order a Benton’s Old Fashioned with bacon infused bourbon. Cocktails and gourmet hot dogs.
This SRO espresso shop serves the creamiest cappuccino in the city. Be sure to get the olive shortbread if they've made it. Closed on Mondays.
You'll need a nap after the Breslin Burger, a griddled LaFrieda patty covered with a blanket of assertive, mature English cheddar & topped off with supple slabs of house-cured Berkshire pork belly. Read more.
Perhaps the best haircut I've gotten, and the price is amazing for this quality in NYC. They do take credit cards but tips are a cash only affair.
Overproof bourbon/cognac juleps, old-fashioned on freaking massive pieces of sculptor ice, frosty as hell daiquiris. $9-10. Cheap. Back that up with a can of beer for $4. You need a drink. Trust.
This absinthe bar is a replica of Olde Abinthe House in New Orleans. Loved the absinthe blanche - go from 4 - 7pm for dollar oysters.
This is the place to get unique old-school NYC drinks. The bowtied bartenders can make you anything you want…or didn’t know you wanted. Also try the duck fat crisps.
They serve excellent smoked meat sandwiches by day, and innovative takes on Jewish classics at night. Great neighborhood spot; also worth the schlep across the river. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Faves: steak & eggs, dumplings. But all is superb -- and folks are very helpful if you have Qs. Enjoy!
Get the Swingle, a miniature frozen chocolate-dipped key lime pie on a stick.
Sunny's is the best bar in America, a kind, simple place that exists outside time and the normal course of Brooklyn trend-humping. But keep that between you & me, our little secret, k?
Torrisi Lunch is a Hobson's choice between chicken parm and turkey; we say, go turkey. For dinner, arrive around 6pm, they'll give you a time to return to dine later that evening. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, the duo behind Torrisi Italian Specialties, will bring more Italian-American goodness to Mulberry Street with a 35-seat offshoot serving casual fare.
The Richard Boccato & Giuseppe Gonzalez-backed bar is an urban riff on tiki: the drink menu gives dirty classics like the Mai Thai & Zombie a top-shelf makeover & lifts the Scorpion Bowl. Read more.
Niku-Uni (raw uni over gorgeous raw beef served over a shiso leaf and seaweed) is probably the best thing I've ever tasted in my life. For serious.
it's going to be a shitshow for st patty's day but definitely an experience.
they've got a laundry list of burgers that will suit anyone's need. they're all good.
All NYC brews. Kinda touristy location but all the beers are solid. Get the six point resin.
