"The Banty Rooster, a recently opened restaurant helmed by hospitality industry veterans Delores Tronco-DePierro and her husband John DePierro, is hoping to rewrite the narrative of Southwestern cuisine in New York City. Southwestern cuisine—not Tex-Mex or traditional Mexican cuisine—is essentially nonexistent in the city, and it also happens to be the food I feel most personally connected to, so it was an easy decision to go that direction, Delores explains." - Billy Lyons