One of the best ice cream shops in the city now delivers delectable tubs of its good stuff right to your apartment. If you're feeling mobile, Ample Hills has this brand new facility in Gowanus. Read more.
Fun-loving soft serve with creative toppings like the Salty Pimp: vanilla, salt, dulce de leche, and a chocolate dip.
Cafe China serves all your Sichuan favorites in a dining room that evokes 1930s Shanghai. Standout dishes include spicy diced rabbit, baby black lamb, and "Szechuan pesto chicken." [Eater 38 Member]
Top billing goes to the carne asada. With flavor so intense, it‘s hard to justify ordering anything else. That said, the pulled pork and pollo asado (grilled chicken) are also excellent. Read more.
Try the Stamina Soba, which combines savory and briny seaweed-bonito stocks and features pork belly, scallion and a plump ginger-chicken meatball. It’s one of our #100best dishes and drinks of 2011. Read more.
We love the morning bun, a croissant dough snail with a sprinkle of cinnamon-sugar; the liege waffle, with soft, elastic dough, pearls of sugar, and a perfect crust; and an actively buttery palmier. Read more.
The oyster and leek soup is fantastic, as are their lobster rolls, made with just the right amount of mayo on a buttery side-split bun.
Butter-crusted pies with fillings that are more hipster than Great Plains Grandma in style and substance. We adore their chocolate oatmeal pie, plus anything double-crusted with apple or rhubarb.
Dai bao (big bun) is like dim sum in one bun: egg, Chinese sausage, veggies, and unidentifiable meat paste.
A little something for everyone: you can get a textbook roasted chicken, a serious pub burger, homemade pork dumplings, Korean-style steak & eggs, or a Peking duck leg, if you like. [Eater 38 Member]
The massive beef rib is the showstopper and has earned its pitmaster an unprecedented amount of fast fame in the world of slow flame, including an appearance on Good Morning America. Don't miss out. Read more.
Chef Yuji is serving a set menu, which includes a simple assortment of fish, vegetables, rice, and soup for just $9. He will expand the menu to include ramen, street food, and omakase tastings. Read more.
This Japanese export started in Tokyo before making the jump to the East Village; the shio broth here is unique for its nontraditional use of chicken and pork bones.
Visit on Lobstah Feast Fridays between 6-9pm (and 5-9pm on Sat), when you can chow down a 1.5-lb lobster with sides for $25.
Tiny but excellent tea shop with great milk and bubble tea. The owners use high quality teas and let you pinpoint exactly how sweet you want your drink.
At this small organic noodle-soup joint there are three types of noodles, each paired with a different broth: miso, paitan (creamy chicken) and shoyu (soy-sauce based).
Best destination for the food of the Chinese city of Xi'an in NYC. Try the chewy liang pi noodles or "lamb face" salad, all doused in their alluringly fiery house sauces.
