Fisherma's Dawta offers up delicious Caribbean cuisine at bargain prices..Enjoy delicious and zesty jerk chicken for just $10 and wash it down with a cold ginger beer for just $4.
Try the tlacoyos ($3): long masa flatbreads stuffed with refried beans and topped with bright-orange spicy pork, sweet chopped onion, lettuce, and cilantro. One of our 25 favorite food trucks! Read more.
The turkey sandwich with home brined buttermilk turkey, housemade sage mayo with bacon on an everything croissant is amazing.
Here, grilled cheese receives the star treatment & all sandwiches are under $11. Try the rich melted Gouda, offset with pickled jalapeños, sweet guava jam & creamy black-bean hummus on brioche ($10). Read more.
Try them all if you can, but you won't go wrong with the carbonara and the nutella with cinnamon
Wow! Very good. Bulgogi sliders, skirt steak Korean BBQ style, and butternut squash congee are absolutely amazing
Try the pretzel croissant, perfect mix of sweet and salty! And their chocolate chip cookies are second to none! They have a good salad bar too if you need to be healthy.
Get the Banh Mi. It's a Vietnamese sandwich. If you've never had it, go there and try it. Everybody that ends up trying this place usually makes it regular stop for food.
One of the best meals I've ever had in my life. From start to finish, totally spot-on. Great service, great food (babaghanouj, lamb masloog, curry yamaan). Worth the trek from Manhattan.
The meatball banh mi (which is basically a Vietnamese submarine sandwich) was yummy and really wholesome.
Cheap and terrific banh mi (the meatball version’s best) on the northern edge of Brooklyn Chinatown, with ace coffee.
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. Read more.
Why did it take me so long to have one of the legendary Gargiulo Burger? Nothing goes better with beef than mo’ beef. – Adam Richman, Man v. Food Read more.
Easily the best hummus restaurant in NYC. The mushroom hummus is out of this world.
The liang pi cold noodles are bringing me to tears. Don't forget the $3 lamb burger, Anthony Bordain's fave. Also, apple sodas.
Chinatown is already swimming in cheap, tasty meat—veggies are usually an afterthought. However, the $5 vegetable hui mei is delicious, satisfying, & expertly paired with a crisp bottle of suds (BYOB) Read more.
Dan Dan noodles best I've had yet in NYC. Beef and tripe in chili oil appetizer is excellent but very "Mala" (tingly spicy) so watch out!
Get the Crossing the Bridge Noodles, featuring a steaming bowl of plain broth in which you cook thin-sliced pork, black medicinal chicken, quail eggs, garlic, chives, sprouts, and soft noodles. Read more.
The signature al pastor is a must pick as shown on the right in the following pic, chipotle chicken is also tasty the one in the middle. Not your average taco place :P
If you're in Astoria try out a sandwich called "The Bomb" at this local sandwich shop. This 12-inch masterpiece comes filled with literally All The Meat—ham, salami, turkey, roast beef, mortadella. Read more.
This 92-year-old Chinatown restaurant serves terrific dim sum in a dining room with old-school charm. This is a great place to go for a cheap and satisfying meal in Chinatown. [Eater 38 Member]
This new-ish Thai restaurant focuses on sharp flavors like fish sauce, hot chiles, tamarind, etc. It explores the mix of Laotian and Siamese cuisines in a way unseen before. Try the Sai Krog Isan. Read more.
Try the "Pho Real" ($7), which combines "fresh sliced Boar’s Head roast beef, basil, cilantro, sprouts, tomato and avocado...to capture the essence of the Vietnamese noodle soup in sandwich form." Read more.
Go before noon on the weekends; otherwise, you'll wait an hour before you get seated! Order shrimp wrapped w/ rice noodles, bbq pork bun, turnip cake & shrimp dumplings
"Taco Tuesday, all day, all for under $5 a pop. The Al Pastor taco is my favorite, but their special tacos are always great too." - Alexa Mehraban, @EatingNYC Read more.
"Burger or lobster. Two choices. Both $20. Done." - Alexa Mehraban, @EatingNYC Read more.
New York: A James Beard Award-winning chef & owners from La Esquina and 1 Oak aim to bring you NYC's most authentic Jamaican experience. Click "More Info" to take a tour Read more.
"NYC's newest and arguably best spot for Korean BBQ. Start with the Lunchbox and the Seafood Pancake and end with the Beef Combo." - Alexa Mehraban, @EatingNYC Read more.
A Cape Cod\Caribbean mash up with an island focus that gives new meaning to seafood. Crabby dip with callaloo is a keeper. That salmon sandwich is right up there. Turn down that music! Back garden???
Really great service, yummy pizza with $5 wine pairings for happy hour, free wine on wednesdays for ladies & student discount ...what more can you ask for?! :)
Hidden Gem! Real yummy greek restaurant. By far the best in east side and could easily compete with Kyklades and Pylos. Things to order: octopus, spicy cheese, mousakka , salad #yum
$15 dinner combo: chicken sandwich, wedge fries, and tecate. Piece of chicken is huge and very filling. Wedge fries are thick and so good dipped in ssam sauce. You will eat standing up. No bathroom.
A platter of General Tso’s gleams with crisp fried chicken pieces coated in a syrupy red sauce freckled with spicy chilies. Just one bite reveals the crunchy, juicy, spicy and sweet flavors. Read more.
