Claire J Song: the Curious George ($6.95), which includes three fried eggs, French fries in the sandwich, bacon, cheese, and two pieces of boiled luncheon meat ham.
116 Stanton St (btwn Essex & Ludlow St.), New York, NY
Greek Restaurant · Lower East Side · 199 tips and reviews
Claire J Song: Three hefty scoops for $15 (out of a choice of seven). kebabs in a pita sandwich, which comes stuffed with a brochette of your choice, tomato, purple onions, tzatziki, and french fries.
Claire J Song: X Calabresa — a good-sized patty with two types of white cheese, lettuce, tomato, corn, potato sticks, an egg, and a slice of smoked sausage. $7.50
29-29 23rd Ave (btwn 29th & 31st St.), Astoria, NY
Bakery · 8 tips and reviews
Claire J Song: The spanakopita comes in giant sheets, and is steaming hot as it's served up, but along the same lines is another pastry stuffed with leeks, and several types of cheese pies.
Claire J Song: a noodle soup with crumbled beef on top called thukpa, a really wonderful salad of shredded chayote, and a fiery curry of cubed chicken sided with a steamed loaf of bread
139 Essex St (btwn Rivington & Stanton St), New York, NY
Venezuelan Restaurant · Lower East Side · 42 tips and reviews
Claire J Song: The namesake dish is its specialty: two fantastically flattened frisbees of tostones stuffed like a sandwich with roasted pork, grilled steak, or simply black beans, cheese, and avocados.
Claire J Song: Tranca Pecho (chest clogger) the national sandwich of Bolivia. Mounted on a hero roll, layered with a breaded beef cutlet, fried egg, purple onions, tomatoes, diced beets
Scandinavian Restaurant · Tribeca · 35 tips and reviews
Claire J Song: Smorrebrod, Danish. The juxtapositions can be mind-boggling, with cured fish, mustard, sour cream, dill, pickled vegetables, and cranberry sauce occupying the same tiny, teetering sandwich