Potluck Club

"As the big marquee inside Potluck Club proudly states, you're “here for a good time, not a long time.” From the moment you enter, you know there’s something different happening here. Is it a bar, a lounge, a restaurant, the concessions section of an imaginary movie theater? This place is large, pleasantly noisy, and serves food that’s a nostalgic love letter to Chinatown, like fried chicken with scallion biscuits and chili crisp jam. The one thing keeping it from turning into a true rager is that there’s no hard liquor, just wine and beer. But they do have dole whip for dessert. How fun is that?" - willa moore, sonal shah, bryan kim, neha talreja, will hartman

"This restaurant on the Chinatown/LES border does fun, modern takes on Cantonese-American cuisine in a space with faux movie theater displays and a bar with a sign that says “Here for a good time, not a long time.” Do not skip the salt-and-pepper fried chicken sandwich, even if you’ve spent the last two days polishing off a family meal from KFC. They also serve a Hong Kong-style french toast with salted egg yolk lava and taro shrimp fritters. A coffee milk tea goes perfectly with everything here, but we also love their mocktails, so try both." - neha talreja, will hartman, bryan kim, kenny yang

"The salt and pepper chicken is a perfect example of the Cantonese-American cooking that happens at Potluck Club, a casual but festive restaurant in Chinatown. The chicken is a hybrid of Southern and Chinese styles: crunchy, tingly, salty, and it's our favorite thing on the menu here. And the sweet and salty chili-plum jam it comes with makes us salivate like one of Pavlov’s dogs every time we think about it. Did we mention the dish is served with a scallion biscuit?" - will hartman, willa moore, molly fitzpatrick

"Decorated like a movie theater, with a lobby in front and screening room in back, Potluck Club is a hyper-modern restaurant that remakes Cantonese food with spins by the next generation. A salt-and-pepper chicken arrives with scallion biscuits standing in for scallion pancakes; while rock shrimp, candied walnuts, and caulilini, come smothered in mayo. Exploring the menu is downright fun." - Robert Sietsema

"On the border of Chinatown and the LES, Potluck Club serves Cantonese-American food in a space that looks like a cross between a restaurant, a lounge, and the concessions area of a movie theater. The menu was inspired by Chinatown, with dishes like a jellyfish salad, Berkshire pork potstickers, and salt and pepper chicken that comes with chive biscuits, pickled jalapeños, and a chili crisp jam. Order that chicken, and don’t skip dessert. The Dole Whip soft serve topped with a bolo bao crumble is reason enough to visit. " - bryan kim, molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, neha talreja, will hartman