“What Restaurant Will Impress A Native New Yorker?”

"Lee’s Tavern is frozen in an era without cell phone reception or the team known as the New York Metropolitans. It’s a 1940s-founded sports bar on Staten Island where every table features at least one pitcher of light beer and a couple of cracker-thin crust pizza oozing onto paper plates. The pies here are some of our favorite in the Staten-Island style, with slightly charred bottoms and crust bubbles you could break with a single little tap. I always order their clam pie. Even if you were raised to think that molluscs and cheese don’t belong together, Lee’s Tavern’s clam pie is proof that food rules are mostly stupid. The mild, low-moisture cheese, fresh hunks of garlic, and briny clams work so well together that they should form an LLC." - hannah albertine