Try the Chef's Steak -it hits the table with an expertly charred crust, the interior marbled & juicy. Served with a smoky salsa verde and caramelized onion-spiked mashed sweet potatoes. Leer más.
Sample the cheese plate or the crisp-skinned chicken breast, but don't miss the frisace salad. Leer más.
Bountiful portions throughout are sure to sate any range of hungry patrons. The $7 lunch special is a neighborhood favorite. Leer más.
Worth checking out are bunny chow (chicken curry poured into a loaf of white bread), potje (oxtail stew with hominy), frikadelle (buffalo meat balls), and biltong (a very dry beef jerky). Leer más.
There are snacks, too, including the peanut-dusted kebabs called suya and the palm-oil-laced dish known simply as "beans." Leer más.
Three types of fufu-like mash are available (pounded white yam, yam flour, and fermented cassava), to be matched with three stews (chicken, lamb, fish). Leer más.
Naturally, the food is mainly Bavarian meaning giant, plate-flopping schnitzels and sausages presented in omnibus platters with tangy purple cabbage, kartoffeln, and sauerkraut. Leer más.
The kitchen churns out small bites that you won't find at your standard burrito joint like melted cheese with grasshoppers and tomato, and braised lamb in a chipotle sauce. Leer más.
The onion-laced ceviche mixto is a wonder of tart, fresh, marinated seafood, including clams, mussels, shrimp, squid, and corvine-the firm-fleshed national fish of Peru. Leer más.
Tamarind Tribeca is like an upscale Indian Shopsin's, with a sprawling menu that offers regional dishes from every part of the subcontinent. Leer más.
The General Tso's chicken is the best you've ever had, while the Fu-chou fried rice reflects a very refined version of that standard: rice topped with delicately gravied ham, chicken, and shrimp. Leer más.
The larb is the best we've ever tasted: Served warm, this ground-pork salad is sharply seasoned with lime, mint, green onions, and a touch of fish sauce, and served on a bed of onions and greenery. Leer más.
This Cobble Hill carryout joint, with a few tables for eating in, defines "soul" as broadly as possible to include Afro-Caribbean and even African cooking. Leer más.
Nothing in town quite matches the perfection of the cheese and spinach ravioli, or tagliata, a sliced steak served with greenery; or inzimino, a dense calamari sludge not for the squeamish. Leer más.
Hottest of all is jungle curry, which sports two kinds of eggplant. Leer más.
Challenging the culinary hegemony of Sripraphai, Chao Thai offers dishes from several regions. Leer más.
For mains, go for the chicken tabaka (an entire fried bird paved with crushed garlic) or kupati (a pork sausage laced with pomegranate syrup, and not all that sweet). Leer más.
The whole smoked mackerel makes a wonderful cheap starter, and so does katchapouri (here spelled "hatchapouri"), a Georgian flatbread oozing white cheese. Leer más.
With a tip of the hat to the neighborhood, Famous created its signature Indopac pizza, a cheesy personal pie topped with onions, garlic, jalapeños, and an Indian spice mixture. Leer más.
This restaurant specalizes in rustic seafood dishes, including a conch salad heaped over tangy, vinegar-cured vegetables, and juicy clams stuffed with toasted bread crumbs Leer más.
The simplicity of this tiny coffee shop is refreshing, with a menu limited to three kinds of bureks (cheese, spinach, and ground meat), homemade yogurt, and the standard permutations of espresso. Leer más.
The burgers are dense and juicy, the mac and cheese so rich with cream that it might better be called a macaroni gratin. Be sure to save room for sweets next door at the DuMont Doughnuts counter. Leer más.
Toshihiro Uezu is a towering figure on the New York sushi scene. Fifteen minutes in his care at Kuruma Zushi is bliss; two hours spells bankruptcy. Expect the fattiest tuna belly you've ever seen. Leer más.
Nothing in the borough is quite as challenging as the roast beef hero at John's – masses of warm, pink meat on a crusty hero, topped with melting slices of mozzarella and gobbed with a midnight gravy. Leer más.
Follow the swarm of cabs to this Pakistani restaurant, where vegetables are forsaken in favor of one of the meatiest and most highly flavored cuisines on the planet. Leer más.
We love wontons laked in red oil and the cumin-dusted julienne of lamb topped with sesame seeds. Leer más.
The colorful room opens to salty Sheepshead Bay breezes in fine weather on this hopping restaurant strip. Bone up on Greek wines before you go; the reds in particular are lovely and well-priced. Leer más.
The lightly crumbed and lovingly fried flounder is a high point of the menu, as are the occasionally available grilled sardines, which are sweet and meaty and a gorgeous shade of steel blue. Leer más.
