Astoria is a friendly, comfortable, and affordable place to live, but above all else, it's a place to eat. The fare probably isn't what you grew up with, but it doesn't take long to start eating like a true blue Greek/Italian/Egyptian/Serbian/Latin American/who knows what else. Seriously, the amount of ethnic food here is staggering. Go forth with a sense of adventure and you'll be richly rewarded with a polyglot dining scene growing in every direction at once.
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[Photographs: Adam Kuban] Looks like Pho Cho Ben Thanh, which has Grand Opening! banners plastered across its façade and is running a debut special of 15% off, is so new there's no intel on it on the various websites....
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[Photographs: Kathy YL Chan] In September of last year, Robyn Lee did a post on the $6.50 Quarter-Chicken and Two Sides Deal from Señor Pollo. It's one of the best cheap lunch deals in the East Village and most...
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[Photograph: Adam Kuban] Spotted in Williamsburg over the weekend: No Plates. What the heck do they serve things on, then? Some searching finds this on Gothamist, in case you've seen it and are wondering, too: Open this week [late...
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[Photograph: Word in Mouth] Add this to our list of Brooklyn breakfast pizzas: the bacon, sausage, and egg pizza at Toby's Public House. Peter Cherches at Word in Mouth writes: "I wondered how the bacon and eggs would figure...
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"The meringue acts like an igloo, shielding the frozen parfait from the elements." It’s hard not to see Boerum Hill restaurant Saul as a trailblazer—if not a particularly obvious one. Opened ten years ago this August, when Smith Street was...
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On Wednesday, July 8, Greenwich Village's New York Hot Dog & Coffee will be giving away 100 bulgogi burgers (all-beef patty marinated in NYHDCC's sauce). No minimum purchase; starting at 11 a.m., it's first come, first served. 245 Bleecker Street,...
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Elephant Larry Longtime SE reader Jeff S. alerts us to an "awful seafood display" he snapped a picture of at the Whole Foods on Houston Street in New York City—the one where they filmed parts of Top Chef this...
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If you could play Jenga with cans, and make something cool with it that didn't topple, that would describe the Canstruction 2008 exhibit at the World Financial Center. Since the artists were from top architectural and engineering firms across...
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Nina Lalli takes you on a taco and torta hunt through Staten Island's Mexican restaurants.
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