Javelina

12 Country Bars & Restaurants In NYC - New York - The Infatuation

"Ask a New Yorker for the city’s best queso and they’ll tell you to go to Yellow Rose (see below). But ask a Texan who’s been eating queso since they began ingesting solid food, and they’ll likely direct you to Javelina. For hot cheese and syrupy sweet margaritas, head to this Upper East Side Tex-Mex spot (or their Union Square location). Get the queso sampler, which comes with four types—we like the traditional yellow, and the Bob Armstrong with ground beef—and a steady stream of tortilla chips. The rest of the food is unremarkable, but the portions are large, as they should be—everything’s bigger in Texas." - bryan kim, willa moore, will hartman, neha talreja