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Lebanese-accented falafel shop for cash-starved Columbia students and their ilk.

Columbia haunt with martini-lounge looks and a diner-broad menu of familiar snacks.

Cheap and standard Indian food in Morningside Heights.

Morningside Heights American bistro offers standards and an excellent wine list in a neighborhood of limited choices.

This second-floor kosher café serves up sprightly Israeli and Mediterranean specialties to its mainly Columbia/Barnard clientele.

Opposite Columbia, cheap Italian a step up from the campus cafeteria.

A spirited trattoria with grilled pizzas, steaming pastas, and vino.

Affordable Chinese food, plus free wine for in-house diners.

Clinton St. Baking Co. founders bring a seasonal, locally sourced menu to this certified “green” restaurant near Columbia.

Uptown keeps swinging at this old-school restaurant and nightclub.

Anemic pastries mar this cheap, healthful spin on traditional street food.

A roomier spinoff of the venerable TriBeCa comfort-food cottage.

A sprawling megabistro pumps out tried-and-true French fare.

Traditional, above-average and sometimes delicious Ethiopian and Eritrian food with fiery sauces.

A rustic spinoff of Max Soha, this homey café is meant for all-day snacking, Italian-style.

This charming trattoria colonized a previously broccoli-rabe-bereft neighborhood.

This gleaming Morningside Heights deli has some of the neighborhood’s best hero sandwiches and Italian specialty foods.

Pastries, bagels, and grab-and-go meals to get you through class.

Excellent and unusual panini rock this sleepy stretch near Columbia.

The only thing missing at this traditional Morningside Heights Italian are the red-checked tablecloths.

This tiny triangular Morningside Heights deli is a Middle Eastern mecca.

A rustic pan-Mediterranean restaurant in Morningside Heights, with outstanding pizzas and panuzzo sandwiches.

Columbia students have one more dining option on the border of Morningside Heights and Harlem

A neighborhood Greek restaurant that's a true survivor.

Despite ostensibly luxurious touches, the impression of sophistication that Terrace in the Sky wishes to exude is not convincing.