Best cheap eats in the Bronxen-ushttp://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753180MapBuilder.Net256530Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:29:49 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753218 E 170th St @ Sheridan Ave., Tremont. "This splendid Senegalese still cooks with palm oil, and the national dish of cheb arrives tinted a brilliant red-orange. The tiny grains of broken rice are heaped with eggplant, carrot, cabbage, yuca, and fried fish, and if you ask the cook, she’ll give you a dab of pima—a red pepper paste—to make your cheb hotter. The mafe, a thick stew of lamb in peanut sauce, with a phantom smoky flavor, is also exemplary. Finally, on a warm Saturday afternoon we also tried a dish the cook called sauce chicken, which didn’t seem very Senegalese, but quickly disappeared nonetheless." [Village Voice] 40.838233 -73.91303840.838233-73.913038311052Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:34:05 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753394 City Island Ave, 718-885-9885 "City Islanders seem to prefer Artie's Italian Seafood.  The prices are reasonable and so are the portions.  I stopped in for a plate of Littleneck clams posillipo, and I'm glad I did. The clams were fresh as could be, the white wine sauce was light and perfect for sopping up with bread, and the garlic was like candy. The waitress proudly informed me that not only are the customers at Artie's mostly "clamdiggers," the employees are as well (although the owner is from Connecticut)." (NFT) 40.849521 -73.78716240.849521-73.787162263924Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:43:53 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207533716 White Plains Rd, Gun Hill, Bronx, NY 10476 Phone: (718) 882-5100 "Even though Aziza is a Nigerian café, bottles of shito are displayed on the counter for Ghanaian patrons, and the provender would be instantly familiar to immigrants from either country: big, fluffy mounds of potato fufu, white rice, and jolloff rice, any of which could serve as a launching pad for the soup and meat combos. The vegetable soup is delicious, but decidedly not vegetarian, flavored with little bits of dried fish and goat rib. The fish soup contains a steak of the fresh product, and some bonus chunks of goat stew meat if you request it. The staff is very congenial and will gladly help you along if you’re unfamiliar with West African food." (Village Voice) 40.881832 -73.86352740.881832-73.863527252671Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:56:17 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531715 Webster Ave @ E 174th, Bathgate. "The fare of Sierra Leone isn't all that different from that of its neighbor, Guinea. Discover both cuisines at B.B. African and American Restaurant, where peanut is king, and where a particularly good soup features cassava leaf puree further thickened with crushed peanuts. Open 24 hours." (Village Voice) "Mariama Bah says that her regulars at B. B. African and American Restaurant - mostly taxi drivers from Guinea, Senegal and her native Sierra Leone - like her coffee even more than her food. "I make it the African way," she said, with instant Nescafé and hot condensed milk. It's a bracing match for her thick, spicy beef and groundnut stew, shredded goat with hot peppers and cucumber salad, or creamy, lightly bitter cassava-leaf stew." (NY Times)40.843773 -73.90331940.843773-73.9033191371528Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:24:52 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Battambang Market II 229 East Kingsbridge Rd. (near East 194th St.), Bronx "Battambang's proprietors, and the bulk of the videotape library, hail from Cambodia, but most of the edible offerings have their roots in Thailand or elsewhere in Southeast Asia.  On a recent visit, I snagged an Ice Cool brand mangosteen juice drink (310 ml.; 75 cents). For ingredients, it lists only water, mangosteen puree, and sugar; call it a placeholder for the fresh mangosteens that will finally find their way into New York markets this fall. Previously, I munched on med kanoon (ten for $2.50), a wet blend of mung beans, sugar, and coconut milk." (Eating in Translation) 40.864991 -73.89383240.864991-73.893832252667Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:54:34 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531924 Webster Ave @  E 178th.  "Perubian.” (Village Voice)40.848762 -73.90019540.848762-73.900195263925Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:46:23 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Mexican lunch counter. 504 E 138th St. @ Brook Ave. "Over the last 20 years, this old-time Mott Haven lunch counter has compiled pastrami sandwiches, served eggs with grits, and dished up Caribbean steak and onions, satisfying three constituencies simultaneously. Now Mexican has been added to the mix, and the well-stuffed barbacoa tacos—dressed with only onions and cilantro—are the best in the Bronx." (Village Voice) 40.807564 -73.91950540.807564-73.919505264584Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:41:44 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531 Bruckner Blvd @ 3rd Ave. "The Bruckner Bar and Grill fits right into its freshly minted artists' neighborhood, near the Third Avenue bridge; it looks like a SoHo restaurant, circa 1978. Big windows, old wood floors and tin ceilings bathe the simple food in a heavenly light: excellent guacamole, good burgers oozing juice into toasted English muffins, elaborate salads and six beers on tap." (NY Times) 40.80834 -73.93044440.80834-73.930444263927Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:47:17 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Albanian. 758 Lydig Ave @ Holland Ave. "The simplicity of this tiny coffee shop is refreshing, with a menu limited to three kinds of bureks (cheese, spinach, and ground meat), homemade yogurt to dip them in, and the standard permutations of espresso. The contraption the bureks fly out of looks like a miniature pizza oven, and these round filo pies appear with clockwork regularity. Though they outwardly resemble the Bosnian bureks of Astoria, the Albanian examples are less greasy; the spinach version lacks cheese, but is more powerfully flavored with dill; while the cheese is extra-cheesy and even tastes good stone-cold. Whole pie: $12." (Village Voice) "Dukagjini Burektorja, says its Albanian owner, Marjan Kolnrekaj, is the only restaurant in the city devoted entirely to bureks: savory pies that are the Balkans' answer to pizza. "My family made bureks in Dubrovnik for a hundred years," he said, and they are convincingly good, stuffed with meat, spinach, or feta and ricotta, the crust hovering between puff pastry and pizza dough." (NY Times) Bronx Burek Taste-Off: compared to Tony & Tina's, "the meat was too greasy and lacked the rich flavor of Tony and Tina's. The cheese was good, but sharper and tangier. I prefer the milder T&T version. I didn't sample the yogurt, but it looked promising." (Chowhound) What the F*** is a burek? (Chowhound) "Picking up a fresh, hot slice of burek is a two-handed operation, even for the locals. My slice of spinach ($3) — meat and cheese are also on offer — was appropriately spiked with onion and (I think) just a little feta, and encased top and bottom in pastry that was layered like phyllo, yet chewy and even a bit doughy." (Eating in Translation) 40.854325 -73.86541940.854325-73.865419263928Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:47:59 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532480 Hughes Ave @ E 189th, Fordham. "There are perhaps a dozen places in the Arthur Avenue area where you can score a dreadnought sandwich, one of the signal achievements of Italian American cuisine and, thankfully, bigger than a panini. Innovatively, Butchie's thrusts french fries into some of its sandwiches. According to the cook, local kids invented the idea." (Village Voice) [Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] 40.856749 -73.88530540.856749-73.885305252681Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:01:11 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532344 Arthur Ave between Crescent Ave & E 186th St., Fordham. "Located at the back of one of the 1930s markets Fiorello LaGuardia created to get pushcarts off the streets, this café is a repository of Sicilian goodies, including sauced cutlets, sausages, broccoli rabe, and pizza slices draped across every available surface, and the seating puts you in the center of the busy market." (Village Voice) [Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] 40.854274 -73.88846340.854274-73.888463252680Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:00:51 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532338 Arthur Ave between Crescent Ave & E 186th St. Italian soppressata & dry sausage.  [Village Voice, Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture]40.854173 -73.88855740.854173-73.888557264585Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:42:06 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531888 Eastchester Rd @ Stillwell Ave & Morris Park Ave. Pizza. And some people like their burgers. (A Hamburger Today) 40.851647 -73.84387240.851647-73.843872252683Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:02:12 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753252 East 167th St @ Grand Concourse. "This modest bakery manages to cram lots of other stuff behind the small counter, including great fried dumplings, well-browned and spherical, and little coconut tarts with a perfect pastry. A handful of hot dishes are offered each day, including a goat curry with the meat cut in a tiny dice and quite delicious, and a jerk chicken that, while not actually cooked over charcoal, manages to repair the deficiency with superior flavor." (Village Voice) "The cake is moist and dense and flecked with tiny bits of carrot, and needs no frosting to achieve its seductive ends. In addition to other Anglo-Caribbean baked goods of high quality, including delicious coconut tarts, Concourse offers such set meals as oxtails, jerk chicken, and escovitch fish, served with rice and peas, of course." (Village Voice Best of 2006) 40.83338 -73.91478740.83338-73.914787275006Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:47:19 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532335 Arthur Avenue. Italian. [Veal Cheeks, Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] 40.85428 -73.88890140.85428-73.888901252673Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:57:05 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532364 Jerome Ave @ E 183rd. [Veal Cheeks) "There's no menu at Ebe Ye Yie. You place your order by pointing through the Plexiglas divider at the steam table's unpredictable offerings of Ghanaian dishes: spicy soups and stews with massive chunks of beef or fish, for about $10. These main courses are accompanied by filling starches like fufu, a log made from cooked yams, pounded until they're glutinous and firm; gari, a cassava-based couscous; and rice with black-eyed peas. Tilapia stew ($10)." (TONY]40.85881 -73.90342240.85881-73.903422263929Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:49:09 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207535589 Broadway, Riverdale Phone: (718) 601-5577 "a bustling retro lunch counter located under the elevated tracks in working-class Kingsbridge, dispensing food several notches better than the premises would suggest. The roast pork is particularly moist (ask for boiled yuca with green sauce alongside),and El Economico serves the best Dominican sancocho, a soothing chicken soup thickened with pumpkin." (Village Voice) "El Económico, a Dominican restaurant, doesn't look like much, but the line of regulars at the counter testifies to the quality. "We come here every day," said Virgil Patterson, a mechanic at the nearby subway yard, gesturing at a group of West Indian colleagues who were drinking tres golpes, a Creamsicle-like blend of freshly squeezed orange juice, carrot juice and condensed milk. The specialty here is a changing roster of rich stews like oxtail, eggplant and sancocho, the classic brew of pork, pumpkin and root vegetables. Boiled yuca is served with house-made pickled red onions." (NY Times) 40.879214 -73.9047640.879214-73.90476252674Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:57:24 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753 791 E Tremont Ave @ Prospect., East Tremont. "The machetes flash at this authentic lechonera, pride of Puerto Rican East Tremont, as the roast pig is hacked and arrayed in the window, the moist chunks salty and garlicky, the skin well-bronzed and gloriously chewy. Everything depends on this perfect mammal, including excellent morcilla (blood sausage) and made-to-order mofongo." (Village Voice 03) 40.844277 -73.88846240.844277-73.888462264587Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:43:03 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Puerto Rican cuchifritos. 101 E 161st St @ Gerard. 40.827646 -73.92428240.827646-73.924282252676Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:58:09 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753E 155th St @ Melrose Ave. (Hungry Cabbie, NY Press)  Dominican.40.8202 -73.915940.8202-73.9159557019Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:32:01 -0500http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532328 Arthur Ave between Crescent Ave & E 186th. Mexican. "A fried calamari’s throw away from the likes of Dominick’s and Umberto’s Clam House II, which will cost you your first bambino, the diminutive Estrellita Poblana III caters to the immigrants employed in the kitchens of the aforementioned joints." (NY Press) 40.854005 -73.88871240.854005-73.888712263902Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:32:14 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Jamaican.  E 162nd & Gerard. "Just two blocks from Yankee Stadium the Feeding Tree, a Jamaican restaurant, makes some of the best beef patties in the city: spicy, with a rich orange-yellow crust that falls apart into delicious flakes when you bite. With a fiery ginger beer, they're superior to any $8 stadium hot dog and soda." (NY Times) "It’s a real locals haunt, a full meal is less than the price of one beer inside the ballpark, and it’s practically within sight of the upper deck seats...Like Derek Jeter is for the Yankees this season, the jerk options are clearly the star of a Feeding Tree meal. " (Hungry Cabbie) 40.82848854088363 -73.9243412017822340.82848854088363-73.92434120178223263905Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:35:17 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753716 Burke Ave @ Cruger Ave. Roti. 40.871263 -73.86648240.871263-73.866482252675Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:57:45 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753402 Hunts Point Ave @ Halleck, Hunts Point. "Perhaps the most obscurely located place on the list, Fratelli's is open 24 hours from Sunday midnight to Friday midnight, to serve the drivers and warehousemen of the Hunts Point Market. Broccoli rabe, which couldn't get any fresher, is worshipped in combination with a choice of pastas." (Village Voice) Get the broccoli rabe hero. (Hungry Cabbie) 40.809605 -73.88047540.809605-73.880475252684Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:02:34 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753 40.887872 -73.8601640.887872-73.86016263930Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:49:36 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532343 Arthur Ave between Crescent Ave & E 186th St, Fordham. "Giovanni's specializes in brick-oven pizzas with an unusually thick crust, chunky tomato sauce, and great latitude in topping selection. The same pies are cheaper if you get them made in the regular oven, but who would be so crazy?" (Village Voice) [Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] 40.854414 -73.88877640.854414-73.888776252672Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:56:39 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531363 Webster Ave between E 169th & 170th. Ghanaian. (Village Voice 04)40.83546 -73.90806440.83546-73.908064263931Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:49:55 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532325 Arthur Ave between Crescent Ave & E 186th St, Belmont. "the Albanian bar food is superb. Set meals (around $10) begin with a beautifully dressed salad heaped with shredded feta, then progress to a big plate of meat. That meat may be pljeskavica (an onion-laced burger smeared with kimek, a Balkan crème fraîche), or grilled Albanian sausage, or an orange goulash served with a scoop of mashed potatoes." (Village Voice) 40.854111 -73.88905640.854111-73.889056252666Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:54:12 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753441 E 153rd St between Melrose & 3rd Ave. (Village Voice)  Ghanaian.40.818825 -73.91561940.818825-73.915619263903Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:33:04 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753E 238th St @ Katonah Ave. 40.8996 -73.867640.8996-73.8676409032Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:44:34 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207536031 Broadway (242nd Street), Riverdale; (718) 581-0182. "Jake's Steakhouse, on the eastern edge of Riverdale, serves some of the best creamed spinach and mashed potatoes anywhere. Steaks are juicy and good, but the genius dish here is the full rack of pork ribs: sweet, smoky, and soft." (NY Times)40.891602 -73.89756740.891602-73.897567252668Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:54:53 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753392 East 169th St @ Clay, Claremont Village. "This culinary jewel is hidden on an obscure Bronx byway south of Claremont Park, an area of hills and curving streets. This diner with a U-shaped counter offers the unreconstructed fare of the American South, including wonderful fried chicken, unimpeachable mac-and-cheese, egg-and-grits breakfasts served all day, waffles, and more sausages than you've probably ever seen on a menu: pork sage, hot or sweet beef, fried bologna, even turkey kielbasa. The good-natured staff goes out of its way to make you feel welcome. Open till 6 most evenings, closed on Monday" (Village Voice) "In Morrisania James Combs, owner of Jimmy's Luncheonette, bakes tall Southern-style layer cakes from scratch every day (coconut, lemon and coconut-pineapple). Mr. Combs has been cooking on this corner since 1970, and still makes the dishes he opened with: fried fish with grits, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken." (NY Times) 40.834142 -73.90993640.834142-73.909936409030Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:43:07 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531841 Westchester Avenue @ Thieriot Avenue, Parkchester; (718) 918-0859. "Joe's Place serves the solid, tasty Puerto Rican classics that have become hard to find in New York City: mofongo, mashed plaintains enriched with garlic and pork cracklings; juicy chuletas, thin pork chops; and tangy ensalada de bacalao, shredded salt cod sparked with capers and olives. Joe's is hugely popular with locals." (NY Times)40.832588 -73.86448540.832588-73.864485263933Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:52:45 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753554 Morris Ave @ E 149th, Belmont. "Though it sounds more like an action movie featuring a schussing ski patrol, Joey's is the best Italian sandwich shop in the Bronx. The heros are superb, especially when topped with the add-ons displayed in the glass case, including fried eggplant, sautéed onions, and pickled hot peppers." (Village Voice) 40.817655 -73.92249940.817655-73.922499252677Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:58:32 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532 City Island Ave. 40.837783 -73.78277340.837783-73.782773263901Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:31:35 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Mexican. 40.81228265564267 -73.9033985137939540.81228265564267-73.90339851379395263934Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:53:10 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753500 E 149th St @ Brook Ave, Mott Haven. 718.585-1488 "This place offers tasty Central American fodder, including pupusas, enchiladas, and fried yuca combos, in addition to uniquely Honduran specialties like sofrito-rubbed carne asado, weekends-only conch soup, and a typical breakfast of eggs with chorizo, frijoles, fried plantain, avocado, and thick homemade tortillas." (Village Voice) "La Orquídea, which serves mostly Honduran food (and ranges elsewhere in Central America), excels at pupusas, yellow cornmeal pancakes stuffed with mild cheese and pressed on a griddle until the edges are crisp and the cheese is melted. The restaurant also makes baleadas from scratch: warm, thick flour tortillas wrapped around beans and cheese that are a Honduran specialty; ask for chimol, a fresh tomato-cilantro salsa, on the side." (NY Times) "Staff were friendly but seemed to be mystified by a non-Honduran in their midst; the chummy atmosphere at the counter in the front room, and the small pool table in the back, suggest that La Orquidea may be more comfortable serving as a social club than a full-service restaurant." (Eating in Translation) 40.814918 -73.91530740.814918-73.915307409029Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:40:54 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531709 Webster Ave @ E 173rd. "Lechonera Criolla proudly displays its masterwork - burnished legs of roast pork - in its front window. Open for 15 years, this is the place for garlicky pernil (leg) and lechón (shoulder)." (NY Times)40.843634 -73.90341140.843634-73.903411263935Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:53:36 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753552 W 235th St., Riverdale. "As old-style Jewish delis disappear from the landscape, we’ve been looking further afield for authentic ones. Open since 1953, Liebman’s is a downtown Riverdale favorite, with an appealing window display of neatly stacked potato pancakes, round knishes, square knishes, and pigs in blankets (tiny cocktail weenies rolled in pastry), and a dining room done in pale-green Naugahyde with subdued lighting, which looks good on white hair. The corned beef is the meat to get; while the pastrami is moist, it lacks smoky flavor. Also good is the matzoh ball soup, with glove-soft, baseball-size dumplings." (Village Voice) "If it's been too long since your last tongue and coleslaw on rye or chicken soup with kreplach, Liebman's Kosher Restaurant is a beautiful sight. Open since 1953, the restaurant makes wondrous corned beef, homemade pigs in blankets, and increasingly rare round knishes. (Brooklynites still mourning Shatzkin's might want to make a pilgrimage.) Liebman's is one of very few places in New York that still make their own pastrami and slice it to order; one of the owners, Yuval Dekel, said he rubs a whole brisket of beef with pepper, sugar, and salt; then he smokes it, and then steams it "until the proteins in the meat just give in." Mother's Bake Shop, two doors down, has excellent babkas and black-and-white cookies." (NY Times) "Liebman's has been dishing knishes since 1953, and will hopefully continue doing so when downtown Manhattan kosher delis are a distant memory. I'm not a big an of their pastrami, but the corned beef is as good as it gets—well-brined, fat-rimmed, thick-sliced. The matzo ball soup is similarly appealing, with two big soft balls and egg noodles." (Village Voice Best of 2006) 40.885499 -73.90970240.885499-73.909702263936Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:54:08 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/2075334 City Island Ave. 40.838656 -73.78310340.838656-73.783103252678Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:59:50 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531300 Crosby Ave @ Waterbury Ave, Pelham Bay. "Hunkering in the basement of a white frame house—you can hear the tenants walking around upstairs—L & E's is located so obscurely in Pelham Bay that I'm afraid you might not be able to locate it. The glory of the menu is the shimmering white slice, gobbed with ricotta and mozzarella that turn a burnished brown." (Village Voice) 40.838479 -73.82879440.838479-73.828794264602Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:00:08 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532348 Arthur Ave @ E 186th St. "grab a cannoli-the rich ricotta filling is squirted into the shell when you order, so the pastry stays crunchy." (Village Voice) [Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] 40.854341 -73.88840140.854341-73.888401263937Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:54:38 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207535592 Broadway. Cuban 40.879114 -73.90441640.879114-73.904416263938Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:55:19 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207533926 White Plains Road, Williamsbridge Phone: (718) 515-5400 "This new Williamsbridge café is the Ghanaian mother lode, serving up comfort food like mashed potato fufu and crushed-rice omotouo with the usual range of sauces (called "soups")—eguishie is particularly good, made with crushed melon seeds and greens stewed into vegetable richness." (Village Voice) 40.886472 -73.8609640.886472-73.86096263939Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:55:42 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531080 Morris Park Ave @ Lurting Ave, Morris Heights. "Most diners don't know that the Bronx boasts a second Little Italy, competing with Arthur Avenue for their dining dollar. Patricia's is evidence of the neighborhood vigor, slinging wood-oven pizzas, profusely sauced pastas, and, best of all, a nightly list of specials like osso buco in Barolo sauce and tripe Genovese." (Village Voice) 40.849229 -73.85347740.849229-73.853477283075Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:26:05 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753234 E. Gunhill Road "This is a decent little deli, with a good selection of desserts in the refrigerator.  Better selection, in fact, than Elvie's Turo Turo.  So take that, Manhattan!  And if you live in the Bronx, check this place out (although beware, they don't keep strict hours - officially, they're open 9-7 everyday). 3.9 stars - this place is A-one, and the absolute best place for Philipino treats (Sapin Sapin, Yema, Macapuno Tarts, etc)" (The Gaijin Guide)40.880017 -73.87656140.880017-73.876561263940Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:56:12 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207534290 Katonah Ave., Woodlawn. "Stroll down the hill from Van Cortlandt Park’s primeval forest and find the main street of a wee Irish village. There are public houses (a/k/a pubs), bakeries, and a grocery or two. The most formidable eatery is Rambling House, a bar and dining room boasting a west-facing window that admits a golden light during Sunday-afternoon brunch. Favorite dish was a shepherd’s pie with masses of meat surmounted by nicely browned mashed potatoes—but just try to get them to cook a burger anything less than “medium well.” A glass of Guinness at the proper temp and foaminess comes with the brunch." (Village Voice) "Open since 2002, the Rambling House has quickly become the anchor for its stretch of Katonah Avenue, a social and shopping center for young Irish immigrants in the city. The Bronx has long been rich in Irish pubs, but the Rambling House is more than a pub, especially on Sundays, when families sit down to shepherd's pie, fish and chips, and rich, crumbly black pudding (blood sausage). For the "Katonah Avenue Favorite" of bangers, mashed potatoes and baked beans, the owner, Declan Rainsford, has the sausages made in the fine-grain Irish style by local butchers." (NY Times) 40.898466 -73.8671640.898466-73.86716252670Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:55:56 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753641 Lydig Ave off White Plains Rd., Pelham Parkway. 'This grandly alliterative Pakistani restaurant has its work cut out for it at the Bronx’s best food corner, which features everything from Albanian bureks to Russian Jewish baked goods to vegan Jamaican. Luckily, the 3Rs is up to the task, proffering moist and exceptionally spicy chicken biryani, perfect goat curry mellowed with a deliciously light gravy, a braise of potatoes and cauliflower swimming in sharp mustard oil, and urad dal—miniature white lozenges with a mild creamy flavor and slight crackle, kind of like Rice Krispies." (Village Voice) 40.854568 -73.86840440.854568-73.868404263900Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:30:57 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531013 E 163rd off Southern Parkway. "Real Azteca, a taqueria near Hunts Point, makes gorgeously overstuffed tortas, sandwiches of carnitas (roast pork) or cecina (dried beef) with diced tomatoes, lettuce, avocado, queso fresco and pickled jalapeños, all pressed into a softball-size foil package. The tacos are some of the best in the city, and on weekends there's an hourlong wait for roast goat." (NY Times) 40.82101938628853 -73.8924551010131840.82101938628853-73.89245510101318263899Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:30:05 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Italian. E 186th St @ Belmont Ave, Belmont. [Veal Cheeks, Gastropoda on Arthur Ave, Sicilian Culture] "After relocating even further from its red-sauced brethren, this Belmont modern Italian keeps its brilliance intact. Sure, the dining room is a little more luxurious, and some will be glad to hear of the removal of the trestle tables, but the pastas remain just as powerful and generously proportioned (one plate serves two). We loved the farfalle with fresh porcinis in a butter-driven sauce that achieved the most delicate shade of brown and the spicy chicken on the bone braised with artichokes and peppers—which seemed like a chef’s whim." (Village Voice) 40.8541 -73.886940.8541-73.8869263941Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:56:46 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531200 Castle Hill Ave @ Gleason Ave., Castle Hill. "This oddball establishment in J.Lo's old nabe offers Dominican-Chinese food with lots of fusion going on. The over-rice farrago called locrio will remind you of paella, and the garlicky broiled clams will leave you enthusing days later." (Village Voice) 40.831779 -73.85079940.831779-73.850799263909Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:37:21 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531296 E Gun Hill Road, Williamsbridge, Bronx. "This converted gas station in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx serves some of the best jerk chicken in the city. Slathered with a paste of allspice, garlic, green onions, and chili pepper, it's slowly barbecued over charcoal. The fragrant odor can be detected blocks away. They also serve other Jamaican specialties such as oxtail, curry goat, brown stew chicken, saltfish and ackee, and the incredibly funky cow cod soup (made with a bull's penis). Beverages include ginger beer, mauby, sorrel, and Aunt Linda's Colonic Bitters." (Village Voice) "Tasty Hut (formerly the Jerk Center) has changed its name but not its recipe, which produces some of the most fragrant jerk chicken in the city. The restaurant is open 24 hours a day. "People have our jerk for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner," said a waitress. "I think they get into the spices." Sauce-free and moist, the chicken carries a gentle heat and the unmistakable grit of spices: allspice, thyme and cumin, at least." (NY Times)40.871626 -73.84881940.871626-73.848819263904Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:34:29 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Old school Italian. 40.849518 -73.86695940.849518-73.866959263907Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:36:49 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Albany Crescent @ W 231st St. Tiny neighborhood pub - burgers and fries40.8785 -73.903640.8785-73.9036263914Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753E 137th St @ Willow Ave. Classic German bar & restaurant (wurst and boiled beef with horseradish). Alert: open only until 7 p.m. mon-fri. 40.8036 -73.911840.8036-73.9118263942Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:57:33 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207533033 Tibbett Ave. "Talk about obscure locations! Just try to find Tibbett Avenue. When you do, you'll be in view of Tibbett Diner. The eclectic menu goes from whole broiled fish (impressively fresh) to Italian to Greek to Irish, all better than your average diner. From the final category comes a savory chicken pot pie, loaded with poultry and hand-hewn vegetables. The pebbly chrome exterior is a paradigm of '60s architectural flash." (Village Voice) 40.880053 -73.90937440.880053-73.909374252669Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:55:37 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532483 Arthur Ave @ E 189th, Belmont. "Skip the pizza. The real strength of this corner pizzeria lies in its Albanian food, including a homemade yogurt—$1 per 8-ounce cup—that's as good as any in the city, tart and thick and coarse. The enormous round filo pies called bureks are also admirable, a little taller and lighter than usual, with a pastry less greasy. All the usual varieties are available (meat, spinach, and feta cheese), but what really knocked me out was a miniature version stuffed with bright orange pumpkin. Dipped in yogurt before each bite, it can't be beat." (Village Voice) Bronx Burek Taste-Off: "The spinach is my least favorite, and I haven't had it since my first time there. The cheese is delicious, and tastes like a blend of ricotta and a mild feta. The meat is ground and seasoned with loads of onions and other spices I could tease out, and reminds me of good lamejun. Or something." (Chowhound) What the F*** is a burek? (Chowhound) 40.857623 -73.88601840.857623-73.886018256535Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:33:33 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753Southern Italian & pizza. 4038 E Tremont @ Sampson Ave. "Tosca inherited a coal oven from a bakery, and immediately put it to use turning out excellent pizzas in the style of the old masters from Brooklyn and Manhattan. Though the menu touches all the bases of northern and southern Italian cooking, the best stuff is southern: eggplant rollatini and escarole soup." (Village Voice) "At Tosca in Throgs Neck, the owner, Eddy Sujak, has lovingly restored a 1922 pizza oven and uses it to make lightly charred, delicate, thin-crust pizzas. Tosca is the kind of old-school Italian-American restaurant that barely exists in Manhattan, with great grilled calamari, stuffed mushrooms and a luxurious toasted-almond cream cake that blends the allures of tiramisù and tortoni." (NY Times) 40.820114 -73.81809940.820114-73.818099263943Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:00:03 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207531770 E Tremont Ave @ St Lawrence Ave., East Tremont. "The Bronx is not a place you might go looking for great barbecue, but there in the industrial and automotive welter of East Tremont Avenue you'll find this tiny, multifarious carryout. The baby-back ribs are moist and succulent at Uncle Sal's Ribs and Bibs, and the meat falls from the bone the moment you touch it." (Village Voice) 40.839756 -73.8685240.839756-73.86852263944Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:00:40 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753772 E 149th St @ Wales Ave, Hunts Point. "The founders hail from Ponza—where Circe turned Odysseus's men into pigs—50 kilometers south of Rome. The cuisine benefits from the location near the Hunts Point Market, featuring rustic seafood dishes, including a conch salad heaped over tangy, vinegar-cured vegetables, and juicy clams stuffed with toasted bread crumbs" (Village Voice) 40.812799 -73.90761640.812799-73.907616263945Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:00:58 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/20753987 East 233rd St. (at Gunther Ave.), Wakefield, The Bronx 718-655-8348 "Allan Vernon is one of the city’s foremost jerk theorists, and his version of jerk sauce is readily available in specialty stores. While the sauce is traditionally a thin bonnet-pepper vinaigrette, his is loaded up with all sorts of ingredients to give it the consistency of ketchup, and a flavor that owes a little too much to Worcestershire. That said, his jerk pork is fabulous, meaty, and tender. The chicken is more succulent than most, leaving a faint burn in your mouth. And having the counter gal dump Vernon’s dark concoction over everything is optional. Look for daily specials like brown stew chicken and tripe and beans." (Village Voice) "This jerk chicken (plate; $9) was very tender, though the sour-sweet dry rub could've used more spice; the rice was extra-fluffy and flavorful. Vernon’s is a few blocks off the beaten path of White Plains Rd. but certainly worth the detour." (Eating in Translation) 40.890942 -73.84901340.890942-73.8490131371524Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:21:56 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/sonja/207532614 Jerome Ave. (between East 193rd St.-Kingsbridge Rd.), Bronx 718-584-5228 "The setting for this bun bo Hue (beef noodle soup; $5) evoked a no-frills streetside café in the onetime Vietnamese capital: minimal decoration; chopstick-and-spoon caddies, napkin holders, and condiments on uncovered tables; and backless 18-inch stools. For more authenticity, you'd need tables and chairs only half their height, generally in plastic, and a covey of locals watching you lower yourself into a seat." (Eating in Translation) 40.866766 -73.89782240.866766-73.897822