La Caverna is also a good place to get ready for a night of partying, as its $4 drink happy hour lasts until 10pm Tuesday through Sunday. Leggi tutto.
Especially recommended are Duba, a pumpkin stew with berbere, tomatoes, and rosemary, and the lamb dishes. Leggi tutto.
Here you can try 14 or 15 varieties at one time. Few culinary pleasures can match the chance to compare several from far-flung locales. Or opt for a bowl of delicious clam chowder. Leggi tutto.
Save room for the ever-popular banafi cake, which puts banana and toffee pie on a dark Oreo crust. Leggi tutto.
Skip the salad bar and go right for the meat, which comes with great black beans, rice, fried yuca and bananas, and french fries. Leggi tutto.
It's like a vacation to Brazil. Boi na Brasa ("cow on the coals") is an authentic churrascaria located in Newark's Portuguese-speaking Ironbound, and the price alone makes it worth the trek. Leggi tutto.
Murray's Bagels in Greenwich Village bakes fifteen varieties of huge, chewy bagels, but you can't get any of these bagels toasted. They're hot from the oven, and that's the point. Leggi tutto.
With no porterhouse, your choice devolves to just the N.Y. strip and the hefty ribeye. Pick the former, which arrives charred and displaying the crumbly texture of the perfectly aged steak Leggi tutto.
The clams with fresh garlic were another hit: a Sicilian-style seafood salad presented in a series of giant clam shells. It will leave your mouth burning with raw garlic. Leggi tutto.
Tops in our book is a fish maw soup (referred-to as "fish stomach" on the menu) with so-called "water melon" (which isn't the red-fleshed fruit). Leggi tutto.
Sided by mashed potatoes and gravy, the fried chicken is nothing short of miraculous, with a very thin, crisp coating of what seems like corn flakes, done to a pleasing shade of light brown. Leggi tutto.
Favela offers a greatest hits of Brazilian cuisine-maybe you won't need to go to Newark's Ironbound anymore. You can't beat Favela for bar snacks, either: Pick the carne de sol Leggi tutto.
The corned beef is the meat to get; while the pastrami is moist, it lacks smoky flavor. Also good is the matzo ball soup, with glove-soft, baseball-size dumplings. Leggi tutto.
This new and shiny pizza parlor, decorated with a hand-painted mural of Naples with Vesuvius blowing its top, also excels at Sicilian slices and pizzas Margherita, Leggi tutto.
Ensconced in a former pharmacy, Locanda is an expanded wine bar, with deep bows to Lupa and Pepolino, featuring semi-wild notions like seafood charcuterie and a reconfigured lasagna called lasagnette. Leggi tutto.
Our favorite dish is boeuf en gelée, a cocktail glass of cold beef chunks lubricated with natural jelly and topped with horseradish foam. Spoon it on the slices of toast provided. Leggi tutto.
Bahar is New York's best Afghan restaurant, located on Kensington's hopping Pakistani strip. Leggi tutto.
Papa's Kitchen is the only place where you can belt out your best rendition of "Purple Rain" while waiting for your Filipino meal Leggi tutto.
Try a few of the traditional Paraguayan dishes, like chipa guazu, which tastes like a cross between a soufflé and cornbread. Leggi tutto.
The butter masala dosa is a can't-lose choice. Unusual dishes abound, including a quartered and deep-fried rendition of iddly dumplings, and a cold rice pudding called curd rice. Leggi tutto.
Eat in the blue-tiled barroom and enjoy the neighborhood vibe missing from the dining room, which, nonetheless, takes you back to the old country via a collection of fusty wall-mounted mementos. Leggi tutto.
You'll either love 'em or hate 'em;miniature burgers, sold in pairs, topped with a tiny swatch of cheese and a slice of plum tomato on a picture-perfect brown bun, smeared with Russian dressing. Leggi tutto.
Skip the pizza. The real strength lies in its Albanian food, including a homemade yogurt that's as good as any in the city. The enormous round filo pies called bureks are also admirable. Leggi tutto.
This sushi parlor has a secret rock garden in the rear where you can order the amazing churashi–elsewhere a bowl of scraps but here featuring yellowtail, oshinko, seaweed, tamago, roe, and tuna. Leggi tutto.
Not only does it dispense vegetarian dosas, iddlies, and utthapams, it supplements these with flesh-bearing dishes from south India. Leggi tutto.
WIth a roster of 66 dosas, you can freak out and order pessaratu, its wrapper turned verdant green with herbs, or spring dosa, filled with sautéed onions and peppers but enfolding zero potatoes. Leggi tutto.
Wash it all down with BYOB Polish beer from the Russian deli across the street. Leggi tutto.
Soups are a specialty, including four startlingly dissimilar takes on borscht: one comes with a giant ingot of fried pork, another with a scoop of potatoes to be dumped into its clear carmine depths. Leggi tutto.