"Holding down the eastern end of St. Mark’s, Empellon Al Pastor offers views of Tompkins Square Park and its Temperance Fountain (1888), reminding you not to overindulge. The place strives to be both a dive bar and one of the city’s most innovative taquerias. Sit and enjoy a blood orange margarita and a cheeseburger taco. If you’re really in an adventuresome mood, try the sweetbread milanesa slider. And now thank your lucky stars that the food on St. Mark’s Place is so darn good." - Robert Sietsema