Cuisine of New York City

A slice of New York-style plain pizza

Cuisine of New York City comprises many cuisines belonging to various ethnic groups that have entered the United States through the city. Almost all ethnic cuisines are well represented in NYC, both in and out of their various ethnic neighborhoods.^{[citation needed]}

Enclaves reflecting national cuisines

The Bronx

• Bedford Park – Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Korean (on 204th St.)
• Belmont – Italian, Albanian (also known as "Arthur Avenue," "Little Italy")
• City Island – Italian, Seafood
• Morris Park – Italian
• Norwood – Filipino (formerly Irish, less so today)
• Riverdale – Kosher
• South Bronx – Puerto Rican, Dominican
• Wakefield – Jamaican, West Indian
• Woodlawn – Irish

Queens

An Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights

• Astoria – Greek, Czech, Bangladeshi and Arab
• Bellerose – Indian and Pakistani
• Corona – Colombian, Dominican, Mexican and Ecuadorean
• Floral Park, Queens – Filipino and Indian
• Flushing; Elmhurst – Afghan, Korean, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Italian, Dominican and Colombian
• Forest Hills; Kew Gardens Hills; Rego Park – Kosher, Russian and Uzbek
• Howard Beach; Ozone Park – Italian
• Jackson Heights – Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Latin American, Korean, Filipino and Mexican
• Jamaica – Bangladeshi, Caribbean; African-American; African; Creole
• Little Neck – Arab, Chinese, and Italian
• Richmond Hill – Indian, Guyanese, West Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi
• Woodhaven – Irish, Dominican, Mexican, Guyanese
• Woodside; Sunnyside – Filipino, Irish, Mexican, and Romanian

Brooklyn

• Bay Ridge – Irish, Italian, and Arabic
• Bedford-Stuyvesant – African American, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Puerto Rican and West Indian
• Bensonhurst; Dyker Heights – Italian, Chinese, Russian
• Borough Park – Kosher
• Brighton Beach – Russian, Georgian, Arab and Ukrainian
• Bushwick – Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Ecuadorian
• Canarsie – Jamaican, West Indian, African-American
• Crown Heights – Jamaican, West Indian, and Kosher
• East New York – African American, Dominican, and Puerto Rican
• Flatbush – Jamaican, Haitian, and Creole
• Greenpoint – Polish and Ukrainian
• Kensington – Bengali, Pakistani, Mexican, and Polish
• Midwood – Kosher, Italian, and Russian
• Park Slope – Italian, Irish, French, and Puerto Rican (formerly)
• Red Hook – Puerto Rican, African American, and Italian
• Sheepshead Bay – Seafood, Russian, and Italian
• Sunset Park – Puerto Rican, Chinese, Arab, Mexican and Italian
• Williamsburg – Jewish, Italian, and Puerto Rican

Staten Island

• Rossville; South Beach; Great Kills – Italian, Russian, Arab and Polish
• Tompkinsville – Sri Lankan

Manhattan

• Lower East Side – Puerto Rican, Kosher and Latin American
• Chinatown – Chinese and Vietnamese
• East Harlem – Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican and Italian along Pleasant Avenue
• East Village – Japanese, Korean, Indian and Ukrainian
• Harlem – African-American, Latin American, West Indian, and West African
• Koreatown – Korean
• Little Italy – Italian and Chinese
• Murray Hill – Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi
• Washington Heights – Dominican, Puerto Rican and Jewish
• Upper East Side – German, Czech, Hungarian

Food identified with New York City origins

Eggs Benedict

Black and white cookie

• Hot dogs – Served with any of the following, including: sauerkraut, sweet relish, onion sauce, and/or mustard.^[1]

• Manhattan clam chowder
• New York-style cheesecake
• New York-style pizza
• Strip steak
• New York-style bagel
• New York-style pastrami
• Baked pretzels
• Italian Ice
• Knish
• Eggs Benedict
• Ice Cream Cone
• Lobster Newberg
• Waldorf Salad
• Doughnut
• Delmonico steak
• Black and white cookie

Dishes invented in or alleged to have been invented in NYC

Egg cream

• Bloody Mary
• Cappuccino
• Chicken à la King^{[citation needed]}
• Delmonico steak
• Egg cream
• Eggs Benedict
• General Tso's chicken
• Ice cream cone
• Lobster Newburg
• Mallomars^{[citation needed]}
• Manhattan Special – A type of carbonated espresso drink.
• Pasta primavera
• Penne alla Vodka
• Reuben sandwich
• Steak Diane
• Vichyssoise
• Waldorf salad

NYC street food

Pizza truck in Midtown

Vendor in New York City

• arepas
• calzones
• Chinese kebabs (chuanr)
• churros
• cuchifritos
• dumplings
• falafel
• fried chicken
• fried noodles
• Gray's Papaya, Papaya King – combined papaya juice/hot dog stands
• grilled chestnuts^[1]
• gyros/shawarma
• hamburgers
• honey-roasted peanuts, almonds, cashews, and coconut
• hot dog stands
• Italian ice
• Italian sausage, bratwurst
• knishes
• Mister Softee ice cream
• muffins
• piragua
• pizza, especially New York-style pizza
• soft pretzels^[1]
• souvlaki/shish kebab
• stromboli
• take-out soup, as Soup Kitchen International

NYC Eastern European Jewish Cuisine

bagel and lox

challah

matzo ball soup

Much of the cuisine usually associated with New York City stems in part from its large community of Eastern European Jews and their descendants. The world famous New York institution of the "Delicatessen," commonly referred to as a "Deli," was originally an institution of the city's Jewry. Much of New York City's Jewish fare has become popular around the globe, especially bagels. (New York City's Jewish community is also famously fond of Chinese food, and many members of this community think of it as their second ethnic cuisine.)^{[citation needed]}

• celery soda
• New York-style pastrami
• brisket[1]
• corned beef^[2]
• tongue
• knish[2]
• New York-style bagels and lox (see also: appetizing)^[2]
• cream cheese
• whitefish with and without pike
• Gefilte fish
• blintzes[3]
• potato pancakes
• bialy[4]
• challah bread
• matzo
• egg cream
• pickled cucumbers (especially dill pickles)
• kishka
• potato kugel
• chopped chicken liver
• matzo ball soup
• lokshen soup

Notable food and beverage companies

Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant

Dr. Brown's soda

Serendipity 3 is a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan founded by Stephen Bruce in 1954.^[3]

• A&P
• AriZona Beverage Company
• Balducci's
• Benihana
• Blimpie
• C-Town Supermarkets
• Carnegie Deli
• Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant
• Dean & DeLuca
• Dr. Brown's – sodas
• Entenmann's – cakes, pies, pastries
• Fairway Market
• Food Network – the cable TV channel
• Fraunces Tavern – Washington said goodbye to his troops here. Some departments of his new federal government were originally located here.
• Gray's Papaya – hotdog institution where there is always a "recession special"
• Häagen-Dazs
• Hebrew National
• Junior's – The World's Most Fabulous Cheesecake
• Katz's Deli
• Lindy's
• Lombardi's – the first pizzeria in America
• Nathan's
• PepsiCo, Inc.
• Peter Luger
• Ray's Pizza – a fierce debate over which was the original
• Russian Tea Room
• Second Avenue Deli
• Serendipity 3
• Sbarro
• Snapple
• Stella D'oro – biscuits, cookies
• T.G.I. Friday's – originally a NYC bar
• Vitamin Water
• Yoo-hoo – chocolate drink
• Zabar's

See also

	New York City portal
	Food portal

• Regional cuisine

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Let's Go New York City. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ewr8FJP32jQC&pg=PA74&dq=%22new+york+city+cuisine%22&hl=en&ei=-wPPTcSjNsG90AHl6pmfDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CGwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22new%20york%20city%20cuisine%22&f=false. Retrieved May 14, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Michelin Green Guide New York City. http://books.google.com/books?id=syKHJ_wEveYC&pg=PA341&dq=%22new+york+city+cuisine%22&hl=en&ei=-wPPTcSjNsG90AHl6pmfDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CGgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22new%20york%20city%20cuisine%22&f=false. Retrieved May 14, 2011. 
3. ^ "Serendipity 3". http://www.serendipity3.com/history.htm. Retrieved March 10, 2009. 

External links

• New York Food Anywhere
• Who Cooked That Up?
• New York Gastronomic & Cultural Food Tours
• The Best Of Brooklyn Multicultural Ethnic Neighborhood Food Tasting and Culture Tour
• Find NYC street food vendors