/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>go to airport
>fly to chicago
>fly back to jew york happy and satiated

>>5529989
Definitely go to Ray's.

Best NY pizza.

>>5529989
That looks so sad

I was just in NYC last week for my birthday

There's a really neat candy shop called It'Sugar

There's a really fantastic japanese tea house called Ippodo Tea, they sell great drinks, loose leaves, and serve lunch (it was mostly sushi from what I read, but I didn't eat there)

Lombardi's Pizza (the "historic" 1st pizzeria ever) was fucking great. One of the best pizzas I've had in my life, pretty expensive though.

Some street venders actually some some really dope food, be on the look out and try some things from them.

Hope I helped even a little bit.

You can't go to New York and NOT get a hot dog from a cart.

>>5530054
It's all the same. They use the same dogs as other people. Hebrew, etc.

Dont waste your money.

>>5530046
Oh also, there is a really nice little cafe (near the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center I went there last year for comic con) that sells a good espresso. I forget the name of it though... sorry.

the halal guys chicken on rice

>>5529989
I'll let others give recommendations for the obvious stuff, like Katz's deli, pizza joints, Russ and Daughters and whatnot.

For some real street level New York that most tourists would miss:

Punjabi - 114 E1st St. Classic NYC cabbie joint. Two curries over rice for $3.50. Vegetarian. Food is simple, good, spicy. Open 24hrs.

Chinatown: Walk into any joint with ducks hanging in the window. Order duck over rice. Be sure to ask for green sauce. If you're still hungry after that pick a random Chinese bakery and get a roast pork bun (the baked kind).

Russ and Daughters: 179 E. Houston St. Overpay for a bagel and smoked fish sandwich and see a piece of history.

The Essex St Market: 120 Essex St. Take a look at a Laguardia era public market built to get the pushcarts off the streets. Today it's a mix of low rent groceries and fancy food stalls.

El Casyliio de Jagua: 114 Rivington St. Time was when most of the lunch counters were Puerto Rican. Then they were Dominican. Let the Dominicans here make you a huge Cuban sandwich, have a beer and drop about $10. Pretend it's 1988.

>>5530054
I live in NY and have never had a hot dog from a vendor. I just never trust those dudes, they look slimy.

>>5530269
I meant Papaya King in that list of obvious stuff, not Russ and Daughters.

Definitely check out Sbarro

>>5529989
Also:
Some folks will try to tell you a felafel at Mamoun's (119 Macdougal St) is amazing, but it's really just a good delivery system for their god-tier hot sauce, which will hurt you.

Hey there AUS bro, I did a pizza centered tour of NYC a few years ago. Hit all the great spots. Here are some of the best, of the best.

Ray's on Prince St - There are like 1000 Ray's. This is good, cheap, standard NY pizza

Patsy's in Harlem - Wouldnt think to find god tier pies in darky land, but these were some of the cities best

Grimaldi's in Brooklyn - Near the bridge, fucking fantastic

Di Fara Pizza - in Brooklyn, in the Midwood area, Jew town. Been called the cities best by Anthony Bourdain, Zagat, and the New York Times. Wasn't my favorite (Patsy's or Grimaldi's probably was), but it was still fantastic.

Skip Lombardi's, and skip Totonnos in Coney Island.

NOT PIZZA RELATED BUT PLZ OP, check out Katz's Deli in Manhatten, Lower East Side, and get a pastrami sandwich. Best sandwich in the world. I think about it all the time.

Hope you enjoy your trip, its a hell of a city.

>>5530315
>Katz's Deli

What are you smoking, dude? That pastrami sandwich is overpriced and extremely boring. $20 for the plainest pastrami sandwich in the world.

Ray's pizza (they're all pretty much the same)

Go! Go! Curry!

Tuck Shop

>>5530275
Dirty water dogs are perfectly safe. Not very exciting, but safe.

>>5530324
>No suggestions of your own
>A simple, perfect sandwich is boring

Why don't you fucking kill yourself? I didn't pay 20 dollars for shit.

>>5530036
that's what she said

>>5530324
>$20 for the plainest pastrami sandwich in the world.
It's fucking huge, and the pastrami is excellent. I don't know what you mean by plain. The sandwich is bread and meat - that's all it's supposed to be - Pastrami on rye. If you want mustard it's on the table.

As for the price, it's a tourist joint, so what do you expect? You can easily drop that much in Times Square for something not half as satisfying.

>>5530333
>getting this angry over food

I didn't suggest anything else because literally any other sandwich would be a better deal than $20 for a pile of meat between two slices of bread. I can get a better pastrami sandwich at a small random deli in Jersey than Katz can make.

>>5530344
"Fucking huge" is the biggest overstatement. Huge if you're a 10 year old maybe. There are so many better places listed in this thread than Katz, seriously.

>>5530362
You must be insanely fat. Like morbidly obese to the fucking max. If you don't think this is a huge sandwich.

>>5530371

>>5530362
>There are so many better places listed in this thread than Katz, seriously.
Agreed. But as far as tourist traps go it's one of the few worth seeing. I live here, and I've been once. Never felt the need to go there again. But it's not something a tourist would want to miss, if they have any interest at all in seeing it. Like Totonno's in Coney Island it's the real deal, even if it's not the best.

When I want a killer meat sandwich I'll go to Hometown Bar-B-Que in Red Hook. But I wouldn't send a tourist to fucking Red Hook.Unless that tourist lived in Manhattan.

>>5530376
Those type of monsters held up with toothpicks are meant to be shared, obviously. And compared to the Katz, that meat looks like it came out of shrink wrap.

>>5530376
That is fucking retarded.

>>5530379

Carnegie's has a no sharing policy.

But yeah, the pastrami at Katz's is much better.

>>5530384
>Carnegie's has a no sharing policy.
Try and stop me

>>5530398
Never go against a jew when monies are on the line.

>>5530418
This is true. These folks bulldoze entire neighborhoods.

>>5530371
Welcome to the USA
>>5530384
>Carnegie's has a no sharing policy.

Into the trash it goes. no matter how good it is.

>>5530315
Di Faras is overrated, 5 fucking dollars for a regular slice. They also get constant fines because it's a shit hole.

>tfw live in NYC all my life
>tfw sick and tired of pizza

All pizza tastes like shit now. I hate all of them and can never enjoy them. Now I just try to find good burger places. There is a good burger place in Brooklyn called Prime Meats. There is a really good priced Cuban place that has a surprisingly good burger with porkrinds called Coppelia on 14th st 7av in manhattan.

Then there is a pure fat delicious place in brooklyn called Good Eats. Holy fuck those burgers are so crazy

Fuck Pizza get burgers

prepare to be disappointed

"NY" food sucks and is overrated, only enjoyed by budweiser fans or PBR hipsters who use buzz words to describe food they don't even enjoy

>>5529989
Check out Brooklyn Central in Park Slope, they have delicious personal pies and for desert they have a Nutella pizza/quesadilla kind thing and also a smores calzone. Shit is so cash.

>>5530594
>smores calzone
pig disgusting

>>5529989

Where in Manhattan will you be?

If you're unwilling to cross a bridge it makes a difference.

>>5530036
It looks like sbarro lel

>>5531311

>that's what she said

For jewfood, go to eisenberg's! It's next to the flatiron building.

>>5530269
>chinese
>green sauce

Uh...? You mean plum sauce?

>>5530418
>buy the food and take it home
>Wow cops actually showed up at my door

The great thing about food in the U.S. is the extreme variety. We take food from all over the world. It's not always authentic but honestly most of the time it tastes way better.

So, try everything. Especially in NYC you'll have access to foods that you'll NEVER see in Austrailia. Take advantage of the variety, try out a ton of stuff, just whatever looks good. If you only eat 'iconic' food like hotdogs and pizza you'll leave disappointed, trust me.

What's your budget, OP?

Even if you have no money, get a dog from Grey's Papaya. It is superior to Papaya King. Skip the carts.

Katz's has the best pastrami sandwich, and the lines are shorter than Carnegie Deli.

Did no one say Artichokes? Really?

Go to Artichokes in Union Square.

Pizza in New York is massively disappointing
I've had significantly better New York Pizza outside of New York than when I was actually there.

Of all the highly recommended pizza places I tried, the pizza was bland, cheap, and unremarkable.
The 3 New York pizza places I regularly go to in my city in California are so much fucking better in terms of the ingredients they use and the flavors.

Fuck New York. Everything there is so crowded, expensive and overrated. Almost every dish that's known for being invented in New York can be had outside of the crowded shithole, and odds are it will be far tastier too.

>>5531394

>take advantage of the variety, try out a ton of stuff, just whatever looks good
>trust me

Wow. I lived in NYC for two years and that is the worst possible place I've ever been to give that advice.

Manhattan is so gentrified and tourist ridden that it's literally impossible to just walk down the street and find something worth trying.

Every other place is either going to go out of business in a month or two, is overpriced shit that's going to go out of business in a few months, is over priced tourist shit, is over priced "authentic" Greek diner shit, etc, etc...

Unless you don't have to think about money, eating out in Manhattan is pretty fucking stupid...

>i could make some suggestions, but they're still not as good as the same shit you could find a hundred other places

>>5531432

>this is where moot is supposed to jump in with suggestions

OP here. Staying in midtown to narrow it down, but we'll be heading all over checking out touristy crap.

Thanks for all the tips so far, gives me something to work with.

>>5531324
Nope. the ginger scallion sauce Chang lifted for his noodles at Momofuku. It's a free condiment at most Cantonese BBQ joints if you ask. Usually goes with the crispy skin roast pig, but they will serve it with the duck upon request. Pure badass.

>>5531321

Oh my, this looks like the best thing ever.

>>5530275
You can trust the old guys. Haven't died on the toilet yet.

>>5531432
>>5529989

No kidding. Slice of pizza is $2.50 and a whole plain cheese pie is $20. Shiiiiit. Here in queens a slice of pizza is below $1.75 and a whole pie is below $13.

Get out of Manhattan and explore.

>>5530376
That's not a sandwich that's a stack of meat with a slice of bread on top

>>5531924

>here in queens

Get off the internet, Julie.

>>5531924
California here. Pizza my heart is 4.25 a slice.

>>5529989
get a gyro and a fake watch on the streets

>>5530298
Their falafels are amazing, though. I haven't been able to find a better one, personally.

What does OP like? I am most familiar with the union square area so that's where a lot of my suggestions will be from.

Mexican- Hotel Tortuga. 14th St and 3rd Ave. A really small place but I haven't had anything that I didn't like from there.

Ramen- You have to eat ramen if you haven't had it before. My favorite place is Takumi, it's right at Washington Square Park. You can't go wrong exploring St. Mark's Place though, there are good noodle and sushi places there. Also, Spot is there. It's dessert food, and expensive, but fucking delicious. The Golden Toast physically aroused me.

Waffles- Wafels and Dinges. There are food trucks around but they have a small venue near Herald Square. They post specials on their twitter every day, if you do it (like, do jumping jacks while you order or something like that) then they'll give you a free topping. I love this food.

Cheese- Murray's. Look it up. It's right near Peanut Butter and Company too, so you can get a grilled cheese from Murray's and a PBJ from PB&Co.

Burgers-Shake Shack, hands down. If you want to eat a good burger then you will eat at Shake Shack.

Dessert- Besides Spot, there's Serendipity 3. They have "frozen hot chocolate" and the world's most expensive sundae. If I had to choose between the two then I would choose Spot, but either place is good. Spot is more asiany and Serendipity 3 is more artsy, I would say.

I can't think of much else at the moment, but eating in NYC is such a blast. You should really just explore and see what you find. Since it's so tourist trap it attracts good chefs, so the quality (and price, unfortunately) go up. That's how I see it at least.

Have fun on your trip! And do try to get beyond Times Square and the like, visit the Highline or something that isn't as obvious and super touristy. Explore!

>>5532062

w-why no trip?

>>5529989
>good spots for pizza
Chicago.

http://murraysfalafel.com/

Best falafel in NYC.

ny pizza sucks, your better off going to eagle boys m8

>>5532062

18 year old NYU student detected

>>5532283

>>5529989
Italian here. This is not Pizza. This is bread with cheese and tomato sauce. You are fags.

>>5532375
Shut up faggot. I've been to Italy and your pizza isn't as great as you think it is.

>>5532388
>responding to trolls who have no idea what they're talking about

when did pizza become iconic new york food?

>>5532397
1973 when the Jews in charge of the New York Times replaced Charleton Heston with a reptoid synthicant who went on to implant Zionist propaganda into the minds of the young

>>5532390
>trolls who have no idea what they're talking about
Go scarf down an extra doughey pepperoni topped shitcake you disgusting subhuman mistake.

>>5532402
>extra doughey

what?

>>5532324
20 year old NYU student here, you're so right.

>>5532062
Hotel Tortuga is okay, except for that one time I ordered tacos via delivery. The tortilla was cold and wet. It was depressing.

OP: You're Australian so you must have no idea what real Mexican food is like. If you're interested in trying some unpretentious Mexican food for commoners, go to Bushwick in Brooklyn or Corona in Queens. But you probably won't. They're far from the center of the city and you'll probably be scared.

If you want street food I would highly suggest you skip the hot dogs and pretzels and instead buy the street food that New Yorkers actually buy nowadays. Go to a halal cart and order chicken or lamb over rice, with white sauce and hot sauce. Not all halal carts are created equally, so good luck. People claim Halal Guys in Midtown is "the best" but I've never actually tried them, so I can't confirm that. I suspect it's fueled by hype from tourists who don't realize there are 10,000 other halal carts in this city.

I'm sad that you're staying mainly in Midtown because Midtown has boring overpriced food served in uninspired restaurants, but such is the life of tourists in this city I guess. I think the neighborhood that wins for best food variety is hands down the East Village, so consider going there. The East Village also has the highest density of bars in the country.

P.S. there is a colony of Australians centered around Nolita in Manhattan, if you care. Lamingtons and vegemite oi oi oi.

>>5529989

Gonna be unique and suggest Shake Shack.

Go to Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem and ask to see the smokers after dinner, the dudes who run it are top blokes.

>>5529989
Veselka in LES for god tier varenyky, St. Mark's for ramen, Japadog, cute desserts at Spot, and a bretty cool secondhand store.

>>5532466
Unfortunately Japadog closed. ;_;

>>5529989
278 Bleecker st, the place is called John's Pizzaria. Amazing pizzas, my favorite in the city. Its cash only and they dont do slices so make sure you're hungry and have cash. would recommend not missing this on your trip bud.

take the 1 train downtown to Christopher then cross 7th ave and walk a block or so down to bleecker. it'll be on your right when you start.walking down bleecker st.


if you're looking for good street food look out for the halal guys or the biryani guys and get the lamb over rice w extra white sauce (and red if you like spicy food). they're all over, the good ones are between 53 and 46 st on 6th and 5th ave iirc

>>5532443
>shitting on midtown food

And a poorfag too. So much for celebutante party school.

>>5531685
Thats real easy to make at home btw. Just ground ginger, shallot/scallion (english not first language, I think you're talking about what I'm talking about) and hot oil

If ramen is of interest one of the best is Ippudo (65 4th Ave, East Village). There's often a little wait for a table, but it's worth it.

As far as Mexican goes, real Mexican is kind of hard to come by outside of Mexican neighborhoods in northern Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Taqueria LES (189 Orchard St) does great LA style tacos, and Brooklyn Taco in the Essex Street Market (120 Essex St) does a slightly precious (but still fukken good) take on some classics.

If OP is really curious about Mexican food he can get a taste of Puebla style for a 25 min subway ride from midtown. Take the N or D train Brooklyn bound, and get off at 36th St in Brooklyn. Walk one block up the hill, and make a right on 5th Ave. That puts you in striking distance of Tacos El Bronco Mobil and Tortas Don Pepe. You'll also be just a few blocks from Tacos Matamoros. After that walk up into the park, check out the panoramic view of the harbor, the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan. Walk back to 36th St and take the train back to midtown. The whole trip will take an hour and a half, two hours max, and give bragging rights of having had Mexican in a real Mexican neighborhood in Brooklyn. Plus you get two trips across the Manhattan Bridge, giving you sweeping East River views along the way.

>>5532477
Yes. It is easy to make at home. The duck and crispy skinned roast pork that it goes with is far less easy to do at home, though.

>>5530233
Hell yeah, 53rd street and 6th ave.

OP again.

Just had the lamb on rice from halal guys. Pretty good, quite a lot of food for $6.

>>5529989
Two Brothers
It's right by 2nd and St. Marks.
Dollar slices all dayyyy.
If you see some 20 something homeless kids please call them oogles for me. Thanks.

>>5529989
Di Fara's has the best pizza in NYC, and, by extension, the world. Go there.

>>5532846
I'm sorry

I live in Manhattan and i will tell you this: all pizza is the same. It's just the novelty of the place you eat at. One pizza place might have been family owned since the dawn of pizza and another might serve the pizza in a unique way and makes a name for itself through it. They will all taste like pretty good pizza, but their flair is what makes people think "oh this one place is the BEST in town."

OP, you should take a trip to Midwood in Brooklyn and get some Bagels.

>>5533613

Ex-NYC resident here, I have to agree with this guy... most pizza is basically the same.

However with other foods this is certainly not true

>>5530579
You my nigga.
I live in brooklyn, lemme tell you this OP most good places are no names and shit. Dont get me wrong some popular places are good, whilst others are overrated but its better to explore on your own.

>>5529989
Check out Dorsia. I hear their Sea Urchin Ceviche is great.

Ausfag here, just went to LA a couple of weeks ago, It's kinda sad really and now I see why all you people are so fat.
Every meal had chips and coke, like a fucking mountain of chips and a bucket of coke.
Love most of the people I met but I wouldn't go back unless someone else paid for it.

>>5530371
not worth $20, you got jipped bro

>>5530371
if you think katz's is huge you need to get the fuck back to the midwest or wherever your transplant ass is from

>>5534665

>every meal had chips and coke

Did you just go to fast food places and order value meals?

That's literally the only scenario where a soda is included with the food.

Oh wait, you're just shitposting and have no idea what you're talking about.

>>5534665
>LA
i think i found your problem

>>5533613
>>5534609
Not going to debate which place has the best pizza because that's subjective but to say all/most pizza is the same is being ignorant. The are plenty of shitty mom and pop pizzeria that has shit bland pizza with fake cheese and a few really good ones. Going with the well known places that have a following is always the safest and the better option.

>>5534692
You can try and defend your freedom as much as you like, I was there and your portion sizes and lack of choice is fucked. I mostly just ate from the hotels I was in but I did get some burger while I was there.
I couldn't shit right for a few days after I got home.

>>5534706
>I mostly just ate from the hotels I was in but I did get some burger while I was there

r tard

also idk what that guy was talking about most places give you at least the fries

>>5534706
>I couldn't shit right for a few days after I got home.
did you alway get a serve of dick in the ass while in LA?

>>5534711
Na just fucked me up because my regular diet is mostly fruit, veggies and some meat but I was on holiday so I didn't give a shit. Was just a bit weird ordering food there, it felt like I was taking part in some sort of experiment.

>>5533572
Fucking 2 bros. They are everywhere now.

>>5530233
>>5532498
Dont listen to these guys 53rd and 6th is the most overrated halal stand in the universe. They give you the most dry chicken/lamb you have ever seen. They let you put however much white/bbq sauce you want just because they know they have 0 taste otherwise. 90% of every halal stand actually gives you juicy chunks of meat (no homo) and they just give you the Milimeter shreds of it.

Seriously just try out a bunch of different halal stands and while there might be 1 shit one that adds like cinnamon to their rice for no reason youll find a bunch of better ones.

Halal guys one positive is portions. You will barely finish cause they give you so fucking much.

>>5532010

Mr Falafel in Park Slope is better, but not as cheap as Mamouns

Make sure you go to Bubba Grump shirp

>>5531321

2nd Ave Deli is better than Eisenberg and Katz

Eisenberg's was too dry and Katz was meat on bread.

>>5536052
>Katz was meat on bread.

Congratulations; you just described a sandwich.

>>5536052
This is the first time I have ever heard of eisenbergs in the same sentence as the other two

Did they change their pastrami in the last couple years?

>>5535999
Al Safa in Bay Ridge is my current fave/

>>5530233
yes and also prosperity dumplings

>>5536028

Is there one near Time's Square?

>>5536052

>meat on bread

That's what the mustard's there for ya dingus.

>>5531432
>>5531924
Have to agree. Very few places in the city are worth your time now. (Btw, "the city" is what we call Manhattan. It doesn't refer to the whole of New York City, which also includes the Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.) If you're willing to cross any of the bridges into the outer boroughs, you'll find amazing food of all kinds. Brooklyn (particularly south Brooklyn) is great if you want quality, authentic Jewish, Russian, Chinese and Italian cuisine (any $14 pizza you get here will be 34273498374 times better than any $30 pizza you buy in Manhattan). Queens is excellent for Indian, Korean and Hispanic food, among many other types of food too.

The outer boroughs have really amazing, authentic cuisines from around the world, but if you like whitewashed, tailored-to-tourists type of stuff, you'll be okay with what's in Manhattan. However, of the many places in the city mentioned by others in this thread, the only ones I can really agree with being good are:
>Go Go Curry (Japanese curry, it's pretty tasty)
>Gray's Papaya (hot dogssssss)
>Shake Shack (go at night when the line is shorter)

Other places I recommend:
>Any bagel shop with high food traffic that specifically specializes in bagels. The bagels will probably be just average if they're not in Brooklyn, but all of these places have great flavored cream cheeses.
>Gregory's Coffee. Great tea selection (with quality teas) if you're not into coffee. 50% off pastries after 7pm.

Just do your research on Yelp and don't go into any place with under 4 stars. Don't pussy out and go to McDicks, Starbucks or anyplace familiar either. New York is the food capital of the world, go on an adventure.

>>5533572
2 Bros is not bad for $1 but I still wouldn't call them great pizza. Hits the spot so well when you need something greasy though. Also I hate those fucking "homeless" crusties who sit outside.

>>5534796
I agree. Don't go to 53rd and 6th, it's not worth the wait.