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Best of New York Food 2004

Best Hot Date

  • Hal Rubenstein's Pick

    Spice Market

    403 West 13th Street, 212-675-2322

    The Asian fantasia’s subterranea offers hideaways for the point when someone yells “Get a room.”

  • Adam Platt's Pick

    Westville

    210 West 10th Street, 212-741-7971

    I like the hot dogs; my wife is partial to the butterscotch pudding.

  • Robin Raisfeld's Pick

    Bao 111

    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.

  • Rob Patronite's Pick

    The Grocery

    288 Smith Street, 718-596-3335

    Ask for the coveted corner deuce, a.k.a. “the makeout table.”

From the 2004 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine

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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.

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