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Midoriya
Japanese, Food and Drink
Midoriya is a Japanese mini-mart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They sell all kinds of Japanese foodstuffs, kitchen items, and other miscellaneous useful things. It is clean, bright, and cheerful—one of the tidiest little stores I have ever seen in New…
Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten
German, Food and Drink
Not long ago there was a Brooklyn branch of this place, too, but it appears to have closed, leaving just the Manhattan location, which is large and cool and has a German menu of eats. Besides a selection of German…
East 6th Street
Hindi, Food and Drink, Neighborhoods
On East 6th Street between First and Second avenues are numerous Indian restaurants, sometimes referred to collectively as Indian Restaurant Row. When I first moved to New York in 1990, I ate here constantly: yummy, inexpensive food. The Indian languages spoken…
Zum Schneider
German, Food and Drink
Zum Schneider is a Bavarian bar and restaurant on Avenue C and Seventh Street, and if you like bars, especially of the German variety, this place is for you. When I have been there, I have found, and enjoyed, opportunities…
Biedronka
Polish, Food and Drink
This Greenpoint food store has a heavily Polish clientele. When I was there walking up and down the aisles, I heard and saw nonstop Polish, on the food and in the air. It is not the most attractively laid-out…
New York Mutual Trading Company/Japanese Culinary Center
Japanese, Food and Drink, Shopping
This is a big, beautiful East Side showroom, a gastronomically seductive space, for lovers of Japanese cuisine. Of which I am one. It is there courtesy of a Moonachie, N.J.-based company called New York Mutual Trading. …
Mike’s Deli
Italian, Food and Drink
This is a must-visit kind of place in the Arthur Avenue section of the Bronx. Owner David Greco is a big guy with a big personality. He seems to know everyone, and the customers who come around greet him with…
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
Mandarin, Food and Drink
This place is on the coolest of old Chinatown streets, but it seems to me to be the victim of its own popularity. The last time I was there, the wait staff were the only Chinese people in the place,…