Potluck Club

Chinese restaurant • Lower East Side

"This daffy new Chinese restaurant looks like a movie theater inside — and no one has taken the concept of Chinese American fusion further. American fried chicken is rendered as its Chinese counterpart, salt and pepper chicken ($25), then spectacularly sided with biscuits that riff on scallion pancakes, with a salty plum jam and sweet pickled jalapenos on the side. It’s one of the city’s best versions of fried chicken, period."