Great place to eat in Chinatown, specifically: shredded pork with preserved cabbage on pan fried noodles, the xlb, and scallion pancake is a perfect 2 person meal

YAKTV - it's important that you get the roast PIG and not the roast pork. The roast pig is like crackly hard skin with pork belly, the roast park is like sweet char siu

Really interesting new ramen place, former Ippudo person. It's a really interesting and clean broth and tastes very good. It's extremely small, so just be ready for that.

Former Prince St person, for two people I'd say: spicy pepperoni, vodka slice, grandma slice.

New fried chicken sandwich place by a very popular Indian food group (adda, Dhmaka, etc.)

As passe as the term "brunch" is, these pancakes actually made me like pancakes as a person who was just kind of like "pancakes are fine". They do something texturally that I hadn't experienced, super crunchy bc they're almost fried in ghee, and just taste very good.

Former momo chef, Korean-American, making some really interesting diner food. They have specials for dinner (a good 짜장면 and 수제비 cacio e pepe), but also a great breakfast sandwich, etc.

I crave an N2 (spicy beef hand pulled) like once every other week, it's a classic and still great.

Extremely wholesome nabe place, not every dish lands, but it's cozy and the shabu shabu/sukiyaki/nabes are all p good.

Caponata, pate, pastries, it's honestly all very good and nice to pair with a visit to moma

Bougie white girl lunch, but genuinely great mixed green salad and cacio e pepe