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Where To Have A Unique Dining Experience In NYC
The best restaurants for when you need karaoke, an interactive experience, or a margarita in a cave with stalactites.
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29 International & Specialty Grocery Stores In NYC
When you can’t find what you’re looking for at big chain grocery stores, head to the 29 spots on this guide.
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6 NYC Rooftops With Outdoor Heat Lamps
Every heated rooftop spot in NYC that you should know about.
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Where To Take Someone You Don't Like Talking To
When you're planning a night out with someone who excels at tedious conversation, choose one of these spots.
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11 NYC Spots Showing Outdoor Movies
Find that Snuggie you bought in 2009 and stash some gummy bears in your tote—you’re going to the movies, baby (sort of).
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The Russian Tea Room
The Russian Tea Room is an NYC institution in Midtown that's part art museum and part restaurant, and it's a popular destination for afternoon tea.
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Dollar Hits
Dollar Hits is a Filipino BBQ spot in Woodside where you can choose from over 20 skewers that range from pork intestine to tempura quail eggs.
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Burger Joint
Burger Joint is behind a red velvet curtain inside a Midtown hotel. The burgers here used to be worth the wait. They’re not anymore.
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Surf Bar
If you want to eat fish tacos and enjoy tropical drinks in a beach shack with a sand floor, head to Surf Bar in Williamsburg.
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Where To Take Someone You Don't Like Talking To
When you're planning a night out with someone who excels at tedious conversation, choose one of these spots.
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Mắm
Mắm serves northern Vietnamese street food in a small, cozy space on Forsyth street in Chinatown.
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Brooklyn Hots
The garbage plate is a Rochester delicacy, and you can get one of these chaotic bar-food mashups at Brooklyn Hots in Clinton Hill.
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11 NYC Spots Showing Outdoor Movies
Find that Snuggie you bought in 2009 and stash some gummy bears in your tote—you’re going to the movies, baby (sort of).
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La Caverna
La Caverna is a Mexican restaurant on the LES where you can eat tacos and smoke hookah in a basement built like a cave.
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Where To Have A Unique Dining Experience In NYC
The best restaurants for when you need karaoke, an interactive experience, or a margarita in a cave with stalactites.
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Dinner Party
Dinner Party is an unpretentious, intimate restaurant in Fort Greene with a new prix-fixe menu every week.
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Dept. Of Culture
This fantastic Bed-Stuy restaurant serves a rotating prix-fixe meal inspired by the owner’s upbringing in the Northern Nigerian state of Kwara.
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Shalom Japan
Shalom Japan is what happens when two chefs from different backgrounds (Japanese & Jewish) fall in love and start making food instead of babies.
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Grand Banks
If the Queen Mary just ended up being a nicely appointed tug boat loaded with alcohol and raw oysters, you’d have Grand Banks. Load up on ceviche and fried veggies, just make sure you aren’t prone to motion sickness.
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Niche Niche
Niche Niche is a dinner party inside a Soho townhouse, where there’s a different wine list and menu every night.
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Momofuku Ko
For a place where dinner costs $255, Momofuku Ko is surprisingly relaxed. The tasting menu changes often, but expect excellent food.
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Shuko
Shuko, an unmarked Japanese spot near Union Square, is our favorite omakase experience in NYC.