New York Magazine

Before New York was a town with a panino in every presser, there was 'ino.

The panini kings at 'ino have brought Italian-style small plates dining to the Lower East Side. 

This late-night diner serves Northern Indian eats to cabbies and clubkids.

An independent coffee bar with a rabidly loyal clientele and an exceptional product.

When a dining establishment makes a good slice of pizza for 99 cents, the chances are excellent that there’s going to be a rabble of slavering slice hounds beating down its door.

As often happens in growth markets, employees with big plans of their own abscond with trade secrets.

A restaurant that has delved into the rarefied world of thin-crust square, or "grandma"-style pizza.

Definitely the biggest and possibly the best place in Little Senegal for the fish, lamb, and okra stew.

A lot of ramen around town can be disappointing. Not so at Ajisen.

Every weekday, a tahini-splattered falafel war is waged in Liberty Plaza Park, Wall Street’s great outdoors lunchroom, and this cart's excelled in texture (perceptibly crisper and a tad lighter) and flavor.

The Middle Eastern takeout joint has morphed into a 72-seat restaurant just two blocks away from the original location.

This tiny takeout may no longer be called Melampo, but the Italian sandwiches and spectacular dressing are still the same.

You need no more incentive than the stop-you-in-your-tracks aroma emanating from the mini-cake cart of Chinatown, where the going rate for twenty sweet puffy confections is one smackeroo.

With its river-rock wall and romantic glow, Alta is great for sipping wine by the glass and sharing small plates.

This food cart ensconced below the tracks of a Woodside hub serves up an unassuming bastion of Mexican tamales worthy of an interborough expedition or a pit stop en route to anywhere else.

Faithful fans make the pilgrimage to Maria Piedad Cano's elusive food cart for her specialty: two types of ethereal Colombian arepas, brushed with margarine and griddled until brown and crispy.

Whatever the tiny shop lacks in tables and assorted other restaurant trappings—which is to say, everything—it makes up for in in pizza, in personality, and in very tasty, obviously homespun food.

Turtle Bay's dire bánh mì situation is corrected with a snack and sandwich shop from the owners of the Vietnamese restaurant Bôi.

This more casual, less expensive offshoot of Bao 111 focuses on four distinct Vietnamese cooking styles.

Well-crafted panini and tramezzini washed down with easy-drinking wines.

Tiny Italian sandwiches; cheap, easy-drinking wines...

Savor Barney's raison d'etre: the holy trinity of sturgeon, smoked salmon and Nova.

This cheeky Bay Ridge “chippie” serves up some of Gotham’s best British comfort foods, especially fried cod.

Spanish tapas reimagined with Mediterranean and American influences make this bar and its upscale bar food worth a trek.

David Giddings says he and his partners envisioned it as a modest Sao Paolo boteco, where you can laze about while popping made-to-order pao de queijo and sip cocktails made with fresh passion fruit and pressed sugar cane.