"When you walk into Rebel on the corner of Stanton and Clinton, you might do one of two things: turn around immediately because you're not sure if you're in a restaurant, or start looking for someone to charge you a cover. On any given night, there's either a live band or a DJ with rainbow globe lights going every which way. It feels like a party, but that isn't the only reason why you come here. The griot is fatty and tender like it should be, and the Barbancourt mussels (our favorite dish) come in a pool of slightly spicy and garlicky broth made with Haitian rum and other secret ingredients that we couldn’t pry out of our server." - Nikko Duren, Carina Finn Koeppicus, Kenny Yang