New York
The Good Batch Bakery
Bakery · Clinton Hill
Salted tahini choc chunk cookie (they supply the one at Buddies, copper mug etc)
Terms of Endearment
Permanently Closed
Halva roll, croissant
Samurai Mama
Japanese restaurant · Williamsburg
Tempura udon, extra tempura
Wenwen
Taiwanese restaurant · Greenpoint
Popcorn chicken app (ask for sauce on side), Lilly Flemming rice w pork collar on top, dessert (sticky rice balls on black sesame cream, some kind of sweet cream ice cream, peanut dust, goji berries) BDSM chicken
Antica Pesa Brooklyn
Italian restaurant · Williamsburg
Great N.Y. Noodletown
Chinese Restaurant · Chinatown
No corkage
hanon
Temporarily Closed
Washugyu menchi katsu, duck dipping noodles
Dame
Seafood Restaurant · Greenwich Village
Gem
New American Restaurant · Lower East Side
Electric Burrito
Burrito Place · East Village
B'klyn Burro
Burrito Place · Clinton Hill
From this colorful Clinton Hill taqueria, owner Pepe Urquijo is serving one of the borough’s most accurate representations of the San Francisco-style burrito. The restaurant’s flakey flour tortillas are filled with pico de gallo, rice, and beans, while the trio of crema, cheese, and avocado — what’s sometimes referred to as “a super” in the northern California city — are included by default. The best bet is the knockout garlic butter shrimp, but keep your eyes peeled for the sometimes-there, sometimes-not carne asada.
Ursula
Café · Crown Heights
Ursula isn’t just a breakfast burrito spot. It’s a “green chile-fueled love letter to New Mexico,” as Eater called it shortly after opening, ripe with stuffed sopaipillas and chile rellenos from chef-owner Eric See. Still, New Yorkers continue to line up here in the early mornings, when the restaurant serves New Mexican-style burritos, made with eggs, hash browns, Hatch chiles, and — best of all — smoky chorizo or vegan pinto beans. Served until noon.
Llama Inn
Peruvian Restaurant · Williamsburg
Julien Boulangerie
Bakery · Park Slope
Lemon raspberry meringue tart with a flaky crust reminiscent of a kouign amann (BEST I'VE EVER HAD), pistachio twist filled w a pistachio creme pat, salmon and spinach quiche (ask for it warmed up), good coffee
Fradei
Italian Restaurant · Fort Greene
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Pomp & Circumstance
Restaurant · Williamsburg
Pitas, duck liver, snap peas, lamb meatballs w pomegranate, agnolotti w anchovy butter, Chiot Montamaro digestif
MDFG
Temporarily Closed
Beam
Furniture / Home Store · Williamsburg
Great accessories, candle selection
Buddies Coffee
Coffee Shop · Williamsburg
CHOC CHIP COOKIE
Ringolevio
Italian Restaurant · Williamsburg
Tradisyon
Filipino Restaurant · Midtown West
Sinigang
Blue Sky Bakery
Permanently Closed
Supposedly best muffins
Apotheke
Cocktail Bar · Chinatown
The Matador
Ha’s Dac Biet
Permanently Closed
They have an ever-changing menu. One week they served a steamed porgy with a ginger nước mắm and fried pork loin with a caramelized fish sauce. I went a few weeks later ready to eat that same pork loin I was daydreaming about and instead had to, unfortunately, SETTLE for a perfectly steamed skate wing covered in the tamarind sauce of my dreams. It’s maddening. How could you replace something so good with something else so damn good? Explain it to me Sadie and Anthony. Explain how every time I go and have a meal with y’all I leave feeling euphoric, at peace, and yet upset that I may not get to taste that dish again. The skate wing. THAT SKATE WING. Steamed. Covered in a sweet and tart tamarind sauce. Topped with spinach quickly cooked in butter. God. When I worked at Contra we had a skate wing dish and it was good. Really good. Deboned, lightly floured, seared, basted in butter. Placed on top of mushrooms cooked with black garlic topped with a curried cherry sauce. But this skate???… I pushed past how full I was to suck the bones dry. Has Dac Biet has continuously proven that steamed fish is a humble yet almost perfect way to eat fish. * oysters w nước chấm * skate wing
CheLi 浙里
Chinese Restaurant · East Village
wowowow + rice wine
Bon Bon
Candy Store · Williamsburg
Candy for Jay and Adrien
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream
Ice Cream Shop · Greenwich Village
Nicky’s Unisex
Bar · Williamsburg
Mekelburg’s
Beer Bar · Williamsburg
Smoked fish and roe potato, babka sundae
Ceremonia Bakeshop
Bakery · Williamsburg
mochi butter muffins, breakfast burrito
Hawa Smoothies & Bubble Tea
Smoothie Shop · Lower East Side
Acai bowl
Brooklyn Museum
Art Museum · Prospect Park
12 Chairs
Middle Eastern Restaurant · Williamsburg
All the small plates, lamb. Brunch looks good
M. Crow
Women's Store · SoHo
Devocion
Coffee Shop · Williamsburg
Butter croissant
Sobre Masa Tortilleria
Mexican Restaurant · Williamsburg
margarita w house-made lime
Red Hook Tavern
Pub · Red Hook
Burgers, martinis
Birds of a Feather
Chinese restaurant · Williamsburg
Husband & Wife, veg fried rice
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Museum · West Village
The Noguchi Museum
Art Museum · Long Island City
MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Art Museum · Long Island City
Via Carota
Italian Restaurant · West Village
Thai Diner
Thai Restaurant · Nolita
bibi
Wine Bar · East Village
L'Industrie Pizzeria
Pizza restaurant · Williamsburg
Oneg Heimishe Bakery
Bakery · Williamsburg
chocolate babka
Superiority Burger
Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurant · East Village
Contra
Permanently Closed
Penny Bridge
Permanently Closed
"mozzarella sticks" w rose sauce, fried cauliflower, french toast, billionaire's bacon
Dr. Clark
Japanese Restaurant · Chinatown