"You might know L&B as that place where eating one of the city's best square slices on the patio is a rite of summer, but inside they serve a full menu, and you'll see several generations enjoying chicken francese every night of the week. The portions at this Gravesend restaurant, which opened in 1935, are huge—think cartoon-drawing-of-a-mountain-of-spaghetti—and bottles of red litter the tables. They serve pizza inside, and you should absolutely order one, because it remains the best thing here. But feel free to round out your meal with rice ball parmigiana, and pasta with vodka sauce. " - willa moore, will hartman, sonal shah, neha talreja