- March 12, 2012
- Smackdown: French Fries
Both fries have their merits, but the Dutch version triumphs.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Tasting Menu
The elaborate new tasting menu is the opposite of tiresome.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Juice Bar
The takeout annex of next door’s Jamaican restaurant Miss Lily’s offers much more than juice.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Goat
These are the salad days in the big city for connoisseurs of goat.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Deli Plate
For a quick fix of all the guilty delicacies that make deli special, our choice these days is the Delicatessen.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Larb
Larb, the ground-meat salad of northeast Thailand, is a handy litmus test for Thai-food connoisseurs.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Mac ’n’ Cheese
It’s pure, unbridled fancy-pants, a combination of Cheddar, Gruyère, and smoked mozzarella with a squiggle of creamy tomato sauce.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Baba Ghannouj
A textbook-perfect Lebanese take on the classic eggplant purée.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Pizza
Our current infatuation is with the montanara Starita at the new Don Antonio.
- March 12, 2012
- Best Combination Plate
Leave it to Julie E. Farias, a Mexican-American chef who’s worked in the kitchens of Andrew Carmellini and Daniel Boulud, to rescue the undersung relic.