Best Chinese (from Timeout)

Midtown

Szechuan Gourmet
“The best Szechuan food in Manhattan. I’m still working my way through the giant menu, but I almost always get razor clams with ‘scallion pesto’ and fish fillets with napa cabbage, which comes in an amazing oily chili sauce.” 21 W 39th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves (212-921-0233)

Brooklyn

Grand Sichuan House
“This is my current favorite Szechuan in the five boroughs. The lamb with cumin flavor is awesome, and so is the ‘sautéed fresh sliced pork,’ as long as you demand fatty meat.” 8701 Fifth Ave between at 87th St, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn (718-680-8887)

Uptown

Empire Szechuan
“I grew up eating here, and it still serves the egg rolls, cold noodles with sesame sauce, and egg foo yong against which I measure all other American Chinese food.” 193 Columbus Ave between 68th and 69th Sts (212-496-8778)


Downtown

Chinatown Brasserie
“It’s not a cacophonous, chaotic cart place. But the chef, Joe Ng, is amazing. Everything from the dim sum menu is good, especially the shrimp-and-snow-pea-leaf dumplings and the lamb dumplings with spicy vegetables.” 380 Lafayette St between Great Jones Pl and W 4th St (212-533-7000)

Vanessa’s Dumpling House
“A couple of benefits to the recent expansion of Dumpling House: There are chairs and tables, plus they no longer run out of half the things on their menu. This is where I go to get absolutely stuffed on pork dumplings and puffy sesame bread filled with beef and pickled carrots for $5.” 118 Eldridge St between Broome and Grand Sts (212-625-8008)

Best Thai ever / Sripraphai in Queens

We had whole fish with green peppers, penang curry with beef, green papaya salad, green curry with chicken, fried rice with shrimp

was all delicious!!!!

64-13 39th Ave., Queens, NY 11377
nr. 64th St.
718-899-9599

other outer borough restaurants to check soon:

BEST INDIAN FOOD
Rajdani in Woodside or Kababish in Jackson Heights

Bar Pitti

My fav italian restaurant in Manhattan at the moment...

Try the burrata (on Wednesday) a wonderful creamy fresh mozzarella.
Also spinach and rape just with a little butter / garlic delicious.
Also top of the pops, their veal Schnitzel, big as a whale!

People come clearly for the food and not for Beyonce or jayZ...

268 Avenue of the Americas / at Bleecker
New York, NY 10014
(212) 982-3300

Tsukishi

The best Japanese restaurants are definetely in midtown. Tsukishi is great value, it feels like being in Japan. They ask you about allergies and what follows is an inspiring suite of wonderful small dishes Japanese country style (no menu). Soba with roe, cabbage with beef, wonderful sashimi.

300 E 41st St.
(between 2nd Ave & Tudor City Pl)
New York, NY 10017
(212) 599-8888