Restaurants in New York

CHICAGO Street food is often considered déclassé, but not in the Windy City. In fact, it is so cherished there that restaurants are designed for it. These brash canteens...

EVEN CORNELL STUDENTS with scant aptitude for languages quickly become fluent in the idiom of hot truck. Spoken mostly late at night, it is a short-order patois used to...

The eel never had so staunch an admirer as Ray Turner. As a child, Turner would go with his father to catch eels on the Delaware River. “The codgers...

In 1949, a professor of poultry science at Cornell set up a food stand at the New York State Fair, in Syracuse, and changed the region’s culinary horizons forever....

No introduction is necessary. These are America's ten best hot dog joints By JANE and MICHAEL STERN  1 Walter's is a pagoda-shaped roadside stand that has been serving incomparable hot...

Even if you have eaten the great roast beef sandwiches served at Al's #1 Italian Beef in Chicago, Mother's in New Orleans, and Philippe the Original in Los Angeles,...

Steamy hot, soft and supple, perfumed by spice and smoke, pastrami is the most voluptuous of delicatessen meats. You might find a counterman who will cut it lean if...

By Jane and Michael stern Ralph the waiter, one of the brisk armadas of white jacketed attendants who patrol the terrazzo floors of LUNDY BROS. RESTAURANT on Sheepshead Bay, knows...

Watertown to Niagara Falls This tour will take you on a five and a half hour drive along America’s Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Beginning in Watertown, you will end your...

The color of New England's autumn foliage attracts seasonal visitors to the southern foothills of the Berkshires, but year around, it is an excruciatingly beautiful land: rolling hills, stone...

Is there another dish as malleable as pizza? It can be an utterly simple tomato pie – nothing but sauce on crust – or it can be a multi-meat...

Original Northeastern Tomato Pies Tomato Pies originally consisted of a piece of flatbread topped with crushed tomatoes, spice and maybe a few anchovies or a sprinkle of hard cheese. Unlike...

East Coast Pizza Showdown Connecticut, New York and New Jersey all can lay claim to the best pizza in America, maybe in the world. We want you to be the...

Great Soft Serve There is so much inferior soft-serve ice cream (aerated, chemically-flavored), that soft-serve in general has a bad reputation among ice cream lovers. But there are exceptions, soft-serve...

Variety in the Big Apple What is the true taste of New York City? Yes, you can dine on the cuisines of the world (especially in the boroughs) and if...

Airport Food Food in airports is better than it used to be, but when we arrive by plane, we can't get out of the terminal fast enough. By rental car,...

Texas Hots in New York Texas hots do not exist in Texas. Unique to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the curiously addictive franks were first created a century ago...

Unique Regional Dishes After 40 years and 5 million miles spent on the road looking for America's best regional food, we've assembled a list of the quintessential, must-eat food in...

Throughout New York City, countless storefront joints sell pizza by the slice; and some of it is pretty good. But if you are looking for a whole pizza pie...

Twelve champion chocolatiers, from the Oregon coast to downeast Maine.

The only possible happy exclamation incited by corned beef hash spooned from a can is "Arf!" But freshly chopped and sizzled to a crisp, crowned with poached eggs eager...

Every deli serves a roast beef sandwich, but a handful of U.S. restaurants make roast beef sandwiches that go beyond mere lunch meat on bread. The most memorable are...

Of the many eating tours Roadfood.com has sponsored to delicious destinations around the U.S., one of the happiest was a restaurant crawl through Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Here...

The northeast has four main kinds of clam chowder. Manhattan is tomato-red and full of vegetables, rarely served northeast of New York City. South Coast, a specialty of Connecticut...

Donut devotion as fervid as the commitment devotees have for barbecue. Everybody has a favorite kind. From robust cake sinkers to featherweight glazed, styles vary dramatically. In our experience,...

"Drive-in" has come to mean just about any cheap-eats restaurant with car-friendly parking. A genuine drive-in is a place where customers park and are waited on and eat in...

Steamy hot, soft and supple, perfumed by spice and smoke, infused with the dripping succulence of animal fat, pastrami is the most voluptuous of delicatessen meats. Great pastrami sandwiches...

Although ice cream tends to be more butterfatty, frozen custard tastes richer because it traditionally is made with egg yolks. Even when eggs are not part of the formula,...

Many restaurants serve steak, but some places are dedicated to it. Although no great steak house is cheap, some of the best are extremely informal (like Doe's Eat Place...

There's no point getting into a flame war over which American hot dog is best. It's impossible, because the nation's hot dogs are so diverse.  However, we will go...

From the German word "Kummel," meaning caraway seed, a kummelweck, or simply "weck," is shaped like a Kaiser roll, but crowned with a mantle of seeds and coarse salt...

Close cousin of Rhode Island's New York System and Coney Islands everywhere, the Michigan is a small frankfurter in a soft bun topped with vividly spiced beef sauce, bright...

Famous for chicken wings and, among connoisseurs, beef on weck, Buffalo also happens to be a confectionery city of the highest order. Family-run sweet shops, large and small, temper...