Roast pig with crispy skin as a way fung alternative honestly

This porchetta sandwich

Eugene’s best pizza in America

Roast beef bowl and black curry

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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTfP62q/ Curry fish ball Yuzu wings French toast Milk tea

Need this crab roe noodle

Very very good 국밥

V good v wide udon

East village soup dumplings

Au poivre burger……

Curry beef stew over flat noodles Fried shrimp rolls Lemon grass steak Fried wonton

Rob’s number two pasta in New York

Sister restaurant to soothr specifically focused on GRILLED

Soho branch of Lucia slaps

Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles were introduced to Chinatown here in 2003, but now the menu partly focuses on dumplings. The shape is odd, rolled like little enchiladas, and the dumplings are deep fried, making them crunchy with a porcine flavor. The three sauces are unusual, too, including a welcome bottle of pure Donghu aged black vinegar: 10 for $6

The half chicken looks unreal

Rob’s favorite Peruvian place in the city Fabian says “esta muy rico”

Wow ahgassi opened in New York

New burger to try

Very good pork dumplings

Burgers after 10p on Fridays and Saturdays

SURF AND TURF BURGER???

Need this banana split

“The chopped tenderloin is seasoned with by-the-book bistro ingredients — shallots, capers, cornichons, parsley, and chives minced and tossed in a mustardy aioli — but the twist comes from the heavy hand with which that dressing is applied to the steak. It’s nearly dip, which is fitting since it comes heaped on what is essentially a very large corn chip that turns out to be the perfect delivery system for a burger-size puck of cool beef.”

The Los Tisaria prime rib sandwich is next level

At Mr. Lopez

Chilaquiles are a perfect food — if I weren’t allowed to eat anything else before noon ever again, I’d still be happy. At least for a while. So while I didn’t go to Superiority Burger in search of this dish, how could I say no? The chilaquiles ($15) here are the work of cook Akbal Ortega, who spends most of his time making bulk batches of soups, stews, and braises. The chips are still firm and crispy, simmered in a tart and just oh-so-spicy salsa verde with a fried egg plopped on top. —Chris Crowley

“Manhattan is swimming in fast omakases, but the $109 procession of courses at Sushi Ouji, a subterranean spot that opened in December on Prince Street, stood out with a lovely chawanmushi starter loaded with snow crab and scallop and a gorgeous slice of ikura-topped futomaki served after nine pieces of nigiri. —T.T.”

“I recently tried the duck club sandwich at Blueprint in Park Slope: rare duck breast sliced thin like roast beef and layered with bacon, lettuce, and tomato on the kitchen’s own raisin-walnut bread. It’s an incredible combination that this neighborhood cocktail bar has had on the menu for years, but it deserves to be more famous. —T.T.”

Most prominent are four “slippery egg” dishes ($14) that feature a mountain of rice blanketed by an omelet laced with milk and cheese, which glows alarmingly yellow. The one I tried had a breaded chicken cutlet on top with a Malaysian-style coconut curry gravy on the side. Noodle soups are another strong point. Using soft rice noodles, these deploy a mellow chicken broth and fill it with multiple ingredients, focusing on beef or seafood. The most expensive is abalone and seafood rice noodle soup ($20) featuring what seems like an unusual selection for a fast food joint: squid, shrimp, mussels, and fish balls, in addition to actual abalone, once a luxury product but now being farmed along the Fujianese coastline. This soup is briny and fortifying, but I left wishing I’d ordered the spicy beef noodle soup instead.

Original Coke with ice cream

Most of the cocktails at the new bar Chinato — run by the former research and development head of Double Chicken Please, Ray Zhou — have a song pairing. I ordered the “Pancakes for Dinner,” an average tune, but a thoroughly enjoyable beverage — flavorful, strong, satisfying. Small plate offerings were developed by a Jung Sik chef. Chinato lacks the pageantry of DCP, but its cocktails live up to the hype. –Drew Sussman

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At Spice Brothers, the beef-and-lamb shawarma (“Shawarma East” on the menu) is seasoned with a Turkish-style spice blend heavy on warm spices like cumin, cinnamon, and a bright flash of rose petals before it’s dressed with herbed labneh sauce. The other option, chicken, is the Shawarma West, spiced with pimentón and turmeric and packing the heat of harissa. The sandwiches are $15 (chicken) and $17 (beef-lamb), made with Sercarz’s spices and Pat LaFrieda meat. Each comes with tahini, a salty rendition of the mango-pickle amba, cilantro, and an unconventional crown of arugula. (It’s peppery and fresh; it works.) The pita, from New Jersey’s Angel Bakeries, is fluffy and holds its own against all the sauce and meat juice.

Korean tasting menu from former Jua chef

Extremely recommended by Eugene, his order is: Bak Kut Teh Pork chop in sweet bbq sauce Salt and pepper pork chop Hainanese chicken Curry chicken Chicken rice Princess tofu Fried pearl noodles Choy kway teow

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Also delivers…

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Cheeseburger, cottage fries, cup of chili, Bloody Mary

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The burger here with the roast beef

https://www.grubstreet.com/2023/05/superbueno-green-mango-martini.html

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DRY CRAB NOODLES

BURGER

Fried chicken sandwich until next Thursday

Lamb rendang and ribeye

One of the last Cuban and Chinese restaurants left, good for after Lincoln Center… Get the crackling chicken with green sauce Egg foo yong Fried pork chop General Tso beef

Opening March 17… new Wylie pizza place

Go for burger, steak frites, and a drink in WB

Wagyu chopped cheese

Extremely highly recommended from Hannah.

Peking duck and ice cream dog

New southern and Italian… have to go for the pasta happy hour (4-6p on weekdays and 2-6p on weekends)

Go for fish, Japanese fruit, white peach juice

"Still, my personal Manhattan recommendation is Da Long Yi, the Chengdu eatery that opened its first U.S. location on Canal Street. Its spicy base comes with a warning and arrives with a bobbing log of beef tallow spiked with chili peppers. The ingredients are fresh and prepped with care. In addition to the usual spread, I enjoyed the fresh tofu skin, which looks like golden parchment, and the gelatinous, delightful chew of beef tendon, which surprisingly few places have."

The best banh mi in the city

"This old-timer opened near the Hackensack River waterfront in Jersey City in 1972, and the menu reflects Italian American food at that juncture of its development. Nothing could be more perfect than the eggplant rollatini ($11), stuffing southern Italy’s favorite vegetable with the cow’s milk cheese so abundant in the New World, called for lack of a better term, mozzarella. The pungent tomato sauce knocks the dish into orbit."

"This was a sterling year for new Thai restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, with regional food flooding many menus. Replacing the respected Pam Real Thai food this year was LumLum, offering several remarkable new dishes. These river prawns (two for $14) native to the Mekong River are like little lobsters, tasting of butter and oozing roe, served with a pungent dipping sauce."

"The name chicken paratha ($8) might suggest a flatbread wrapped around a curry or other stew into a sort of sandwich — but this wonderful recipe is far from it. The paratha here is transformed into delightful little dumplings in this spicy red stew enhanced with herbs and shredded cabbage, with red pepper flakes on the side in case you want to ramp up the heat."

"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."

"Proving that the best-tasting dishes aren’t necessarily the best-looking ones, the fish pepper soup blew me away when this essential Nigerian restaurant reopened in new digs. The soup ($15) — also available in a goat version — is known as one of the cuisine’s hottest, and the heat comes from a symphony of indigenous African spices. The flavor is mellow, warm, and pleasantly caustic all at once, and will leave you feeling very satisfied. "

From Robert Sietsma's best dishes of 2022: "Sea bass with rice peppers at Café China: The revamped Café China in its new location nearer Herald Square is better than ever, especially this entrée ($42) of an entire fish in a lovely yellow broth shot with pickled green peppercorns, yielding a tart and spicy savor characteristic of Sichuan cuisine. The depths of the bowl offer a luxuriant quantity of glass mung bean noodles, too. 5"

Intrigued by this burger

HK milk tea Egg sandwich Soy sauce chow mien

A random tasting menu of Japanese food

Breakfast burrito…..

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New Korean food by Kips Bay…

https://www.tiktok.com/@thebingbuzz/video/7168648536593157418?_r=1&_t=8XZNbULrbj8&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7168648536593157418

Cheesesteak https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQhevsU/

Wah fung alternative https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQrq869/

Wah fung alternative and maybe some beef chow fun

Beef noodle soup

masa alum pick up sushi https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRuqS9vw/

New tsukemen place… Michelin star??? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRmQTy9d/

Chopped beef fries and single burger

Reopened by the four Charles people… need to try

Really good Peking duck

Allegedly a top cinnamon bun, also this strawberry thing

Ribeye in midtown

An Instagram trap of "Indian tacos"...

Try this negi toro don the next time in Chelsea

A restaurant that Janie swears by, says it "could be the next Fanelli's"... which OK!

Hand pulled noodles in Chelsea Market

New Korean tapas

New Mediterranean that does weekend lunch: eggs and mortadella and lamb burger

Dry brisket noodles and pork pancake

“Mexican Vietnamese” with a short rib pho?

Go for the garlic noodles, etc

Get the chicken caesar wrap

Steak, octopus, escargot, the little crepes

Peking pork chop

Spanish retailer that does food and closes before 6p

Another Scott pizza

Pizza that Scott said I had to try

Pretty solid offering from Ignacio and Estela team, for better and for worse in the heart of Dimes Sq and just like a busy and fun place to have dinner where you'll run into someone you know.

Hot dogs

Red sauce but allegedly good

East village local Vietnamese place with good pho and really good bun bo hue.

New Thai place from Wayla and kimika ppl, good and easy, tries a little harder than it needs to but doesn't get precious with it.

"I felt the same eating the $68 omakase at Matsunori in the Lower East Side, a BYOB counter where you book a seat for an hour-ish reservation. Our 8:15 seating was completely sold out, which is common, and explains why these small counters are able to afford such high-quality fish, though I had some initial doubts after my first dish, a confusing appetizer of hamachi sprinkled with actual Frosted Flakes. The next hour or so consisted of an evenly paced succession of delicately garnished lumps of nigiri, one with pickled mustard seeds, another simply with flaky salt or sesame seeds to bring out the fish. Wagyu was sliced and warmed by blowtorch, atomizing smoky fat into the air. Fire always leaves a good impression."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/nostalgia-with-a-twist-at-gage-tollner

Relatively new pasta place that seemingly is built off the back of an Internet influencer but is allegedly pretty good?

A good place for after a movie at Lincoln Center

Potentially interesting new Vietnamese restaurant

New fine dining from oiji team

New boulud lyonese(sp?) place?

New bar from the bode people

The trendier one that is a storefront that looks like a food truck

Allegedly good birria in LES, the "original" and "cheaper" one? idk

EV pasta want to try

Crispy garlic chicken and peking pork chop

Bbq and izakaya

New hatch chili place

Cold sesame noodles, beef noodle soup

Southeast Asian dessert

boba donut

death and co ppl's cocktail bar...

Need to go back

vegan chinese food, worth trying i think sloppy joe, bok choy

$200 tasting tempura menu

black pork curry

New Asian cute bear ice creamery

Japanese resto Les with Unagi omu rice

Tapas restaurant with katsu sando

설렁탕

New "nice" Indian From the NYM food newsletter: A few days earlier, I had been similarly captivated by a different restaurant, Gazab. The food is completely different from Rowdy Rooster’s, but there seemed to be a strong overlap in the crowds that gathered at both restaurants. Under the gaze of Gazab’s floor-to-ceiling dining-room mural — a woman with a Champagne flute staring out over her sunglasses — a guy wearing a Polo teddy-bear sweatshirt and a turban split some biryani with his partner while three women sipping mango lassis asked for an extra side of ghee. I didn’t ask anyone where they were from, of course, but I took it as a good sign that they all seemed to know their way around the food. I took cues from all of them and ordered the chicken biryani and lamb. When the women asked for an extra side of garlic naan, I ordered that, too. A hungover-looking group of three waited for a table, and I overheard two guys on a date talking about how the food was “just like India.” (I skipped the dish called ’70s Tikka Masala, though I appreciated the way the owners seemed to nod to its undisputed ubiquity while embracing its populist appeal.)

get a sandwich

New Indian fried chicken.... from the Adda group

Former Mission chef v positively reviewed by platt

Get juice

Need a sandwich

Indian place from dhamaka team: good biryani, oxtail, dosa

New Mexican from Contramar?Pujol? alum

"You might have to take a subway and a bus to get to Mama Lee, but it’s worth it. It’s this little Taiwanese restaurant run by this wonderful lady who only opens when she feels like it, so it’s always good to call ahead. This dish’s simplicity is what makes it great. The preserved turnip is a totally magical ingredient that gives you a taste of salt, but filtered through the earth somehow."

The Cuatro Leches Cake

The Cheong Fun

The Blueberry Buttermilk Doughnut at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop

NYT rec'd birria

Korean lunch in chinatown

Edimae style omakase

The tuna rice bowlB

Just need to go more often

Get the sardine burger

AYCE hot pot with sashimi

Park

Kind of want to try this

New Chinese but not Chinese restaurant

Pete Wells reviewed Chinese place that some say is not that good... but still curious to try, from the review: Curry beef triangles; ma la jellyfish; tempura lotus root and shrimp sandwich; soy-braised romaine lettuce; grilled banana leaf branzino; black beef pepper tenderloin; Macao curry chicken; Cha Kee fried rice. Appetizers, $8 to $15; main courses, $15 to $26.

Former ippudo chef with a non tonkotsu broth

Not food but still need to go

I just want udon lol

Tommy’s birria place also with birria ramen

cardamon bun

Midtown high end Chinese, things to order from Grub Street below: Dim sum sampler, kou shuichicken, Hutong lobster and/or Red Lantern soft-shell crab, ma la beef tenderloin, Four Seasons beans with pork and shrimp, white-chocolate' «bao.

New Boulud fine dining - tasting menu only

NYT reviewed halal cart

Trendy authentic shanghai food

Extremely good drunk, late night burger, delivers too....

Random British steakhouse covered in Eater. I'm intrigued!

Need to try this burger, probably on a Friday because they have dry aged on Fridays...

Japanese hot pot

New fancy soba

Rajas super fries (carne asada fries) essentially

Chorizo con potato breakfast burrito

BLT - get this before tomato season is over.... (also PBJ cookie) UPDATE: I got both of these and they both DELIVERED. Sad that tomato season is almost over.

Carmellini steakhouse at Southstreet Seaport UPDATE: pretty solid! Gorgonzola wagyu was a great piece of meat and then everything else was a very very good bite. Lowkey in the cut, but like it kind of feels "event"-y in that way?

Allegedly good Chinatown sushi UPDATE: went and it was very good, kind of a weird vibe, got the full omakase and they had really good fish prepared in legit interesting ways

New ramen place from SF, hakata tonkotsu UPDATE: Tried it! This was p solid. Very straight down the middle tonkotsu that got the job done in a really effective way! V chill outdoor seating sitch