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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
Competition breeds the best. If only one pizzeria existed in New York, of course, there’d be no real winning slice. Thankfully, we’ll never know what that sorry situation tastes like, since pizza—like dance parties, dog runs, and fried chicken—has to evolve upward here.
