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"Positioned as a cafe-bar with an all-day, linger-friendly format that’s surprisingly hard to come by in New York, this place serves a standout bikini, its take on the beloved Spanish ham-and-cheese sandwich found all over Barcelona. The bikini, priced at $12, arrives as four petite triangles that look delicate but deliver a full hit of buttery, ham-and-cheesy payoff, with butter and salt feeling like listed ingredients. Paired with a nonalcoholic kalimotxo on a freezing early January night, it briefly transported me somewhere else entirely." - Melissa McCart