"Hidden up six flights of stairs in an unremarkable apartment building, Casa Hortensia teleports you to the cider houses of Asturias, the misty northern region on the Cantabrian coast that Anthony Bourdain called the most “extraordinary place” he'd ever visited. The menu reads like a highlight reel of Asturian cuisine. There's cachopo, fried beef cutlets with a molten ham-and-cheese center; chorizo links braised in cider; fresh seafood platters; and—the restaurant's specialty—fabada, Spain's answer to cassoulet enriched with pork belly and smoky blood sausage." - Benjamin Kemper