Of course, the real business here is pizza, with standouts including the caprese of homemade straciatella, tomato and pesto, or the mushroom and prosciutto, topped with peas and pecorino. Leer más.
Invite hungry friends who will let you eat off their plate—almost everything is served family style—and fight over the rich & crusty eggplant parmagiano or the spicy sausage & broccoli rabe cavatelli. Leer más.
The most wonderful section on the menu may just be the desserts, which include a grapefruit stuffed with citrus ice and all sorts of other goodies, capped with caramel. Leer más.
Agnanti, right off Astoria Park, is not your typical hummus-and-lamb Greek restaurant: The authentic menu is made up mostly of enough ys and ks to let you know it's the real deal. Leer más.
On select weekday evenings, free French fries are served: perfect belching material to clear the stomach for another brew. Leer más.
Casa Restaurant might possibly be home to some of the most authentic Brazilian in Manhattan. Leer más.
The drinks are authentic, and the best might be the caiprinha, which is flavored with lime and lots and lots of sugar. Leer más.
Handmade pierogies (filled with everything from potato to arugula and goat cheese) are especially popular, as are the grilled kielbasa and the veal goulash. Leer más.
Those who know and appreciate the stretch of Flatbush Avenue that winds around Prospect Park would be astonished at the lush setting of this Marine Park lobster pound. You might as well be in Maine. Leer más.
The roast pork is particularly moist (ask for boiled yuca with green sauce alongside),and El Economico serves the best Dominican sancocho, a soothing chicken soup thickened with pumpkin. Leer más.
Best of all the main dishes is the grilled rainbow trout. The whole fish arrives grilled beautifully, butterflied and filleted, but with the head left on, so you can fork out the tiny cheeks. Leer más.
Traditional favorites like yedoro wat are supplemented with surprises like yedoro alech-chicken with rosemary in a mellow yellow spice mixture. Leer más.
This Ethiopian restaurant boasts an amazing vegetarian combo of seven dishes, including azifa-a cold lentil salad flavored with ginger and mustard that climbs right up your nose. Leer más.
An excellent grilled fresh ham that was first marinated in white wine, and an appetizer of asparagus wrapped with the kind of great Polish ham they still smoke in Greenpoint. Leer más.
Start your meal with "peasant lard," a pool of semi-liquid fat dotted with bacon -- it goes better on the rye bread than butter, and it's healthier, too. Leer más.
Spawn of International Food House, a Dominican all-you-can-eat around the corner, Albert's specializes in mofongo-not to be confused with Mofungo, the East Village Noise band from the 1980s. Leer más.
The homemade ice cream is old-fashioned tasting, and the soda fountain drinks of the remote past are all available. Leer más.
The crunchy Apulian crackers called taralli are an excellent substitute for pretzels, and the best southern Italian bakeries in Brooklyn make them in several styles. Leer más.
This modest bakery manages to cram lots of other stuff behind the small counter, including great fried dumplings, well-browned and spherical, and little coconut tarts with a perfect pastry. Leer más.
Reflecting its Milanese heritage, Bar Veloce was the first East Village Italian wine bar, and it remains a very stylish place to have a drink. Leer más.
This Turkish halal spot is popular with cabbies, often a good indicator of affordability and authenticity. Go for the eggplant salad and the cheese pide. Leer más.
Crabby Shack in Crown Heights is now open after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Enjoy a seafood-centric menu of crab cake sliders, crab mac & cheese & crab tacos. Open daily at 3pm. Leer más.
Fratelli's is open 24 hours from Sunday midnight to Friday midnight, to serve the drivers and warehousemen of the Hunts Point Market. Broccoli rabe, which couldn't get any fresher, is worshiped. Leer más.
This Egyptian old-timer specializes, somewhat obsessively, in fish. Whole fish are dusted with whole wheat flour, blackened, and doused with salt water–peel off the skin to get at the succulent flesh. Leer más.
There's that pizza which you compare to pizza in Italy, and then there's New York pizza. This is the small but fanatic third party of pizza: many Cajun flavors, and some are just "alternative." Leer más.
Knock-out fried chicken with more black pepper than flour in the supremely crisp crust, mac and cheese, collards laced with smoked turkey wing, and pork ribs slathered with sauce and oven-roasted. Leer más.
Grab one of the booths in the sunny front room, and try the fresh-veggie succotash if it's available. Leer más.
The burger demands to be shared by two people, and you'll never forget it once you've tried it. Leer más.
What may be the world's greatest hamburger: a pljeskavica, patty the size of a hubcap made with a lamb/beef mixture laced with onions. The wonderful homemade bun is a variation on the pocketless pita. Leer más.
