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Hal Rubenstein's Pick
- Spice Market
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403 West 13th Street, 212-675-2322
The Asian fantasia’s subterranea offers hideaways for the point when someone yells “Get a room.”
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Adam Platt's Pick
- Westville
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210 West 10th Street, 212-741-7971
I like the hot dogs; my wife is partial to the butterscotch pudding.
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Robin Raisfeld's Pick
- Bao 111
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111 Avenue C, 212-254-7773
Where the house cocktail is as spicy as the nouvelle Vietnamese food, the lighting low, and the vibe vaguely illicit.
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Rob Patronite's Pick
- The Grocery
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288 Smith Street, 718-596-3335
Ask for the coveted corner deuce, a.k.a. “the makeout table.”
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PrintFrom the 2004 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine
Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.
