Cuisine of New York City

Template:Short description Template:Cleanup rewrite Template:American cuisine The 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 New York, both within and outside the various ethnic neighborhoods.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

The city's New York Restaurant Week started in 1992 and has spread around the world due to the discounted prices that such a deal offers.<ref>Gergely Baics, Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860 (Princeton UP, 2016)</ref> In New York there are over 12,000 bodegas, delis, and groceries, and many among them are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Food identified with New York

Food associated with or popularized in New York

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A variant of Eggs benedict made with smoked salmon

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Black and white cookie

Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on a roll<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Baked pretzels Template:Cn
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Chopped cheese<ref name="Bolois_2016">Template:Cite news</ref>
Corned beef<ref name="Michelin" />
Delmonico steak
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Eggs Benedict, generally regarded as having been popularized by the Waldorf
Gyros - a Greek dishTemplate:Citation needed
Halal cart<ref name="Krishna">Template:Cite web</ref>
Hot dogs – served with sauerkraut, sweet relish, onion sauce, or mustard.<ref name="google1">Template:Cite book</ref>
New York-style Italian ice Template:Cn
Italian Sausage Template:Citation needed
Knish<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Lobster Newberg, generally regarded as having been popularized by Delmonico's
Manhattan clam chowder
New York-style cheesecake
New York-style pizza
New York-style bagel
New York-style pastrami
Sausage and peppers Template:Citation needed
Waldorf salad, first created at the Waldorf

Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine

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Bagel and lox

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Challah

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Matzo ball soup

A good portion of the cuisine usually associated with New York stems in part from its large community of Ashkenazi 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.Template:Citation needed Much of New York's Jewish fare, predominantly based on Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>) Template:Div col

Bagel and cream cheese
Bialy<ref name="Michelin" />
Blintzes<ref name="Michelin" />
Brisket<ref name="Michelin">Template:Cite book</ref>
Celery soda
Challah bread
Chopped chicken liver
Corned beef<ref name="Michelin" />
Cream cheese
Egg cream
Gefilte fish
Kishka
Knish<ref name="Michelin" />
Lokshen soup
Matzo
Matzo ball soup
New York-style bagels and lox (see also: appetizing)<ref name="Michelin" />
New York-style pastrami, pastrami on rye
Potato kugel
Potato pancake
Pickled cucumbers (especially dill pickles)
Tongue
Whitefish with and without pike

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Italian-American cuisine

A large part of the cuisine associated with New York stems from its large community of Italian-Americans and their descendants. Much of New York's Italian fare has become popular around the globe, especially New York-style pizza.

Chino-Latino cuisine

Template:See also Chino-Latino<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> cuisine in New York is primarily associated with the immigration of Chinese Cubans following the Cuban Revolution.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Chino-Latino dishes include:

Chicken and broccoli
Cuban chicharrones de pollo<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Egg drop soup
Fried pork chop
Fried rice
Lumpiang Shanghai
Oxtail stew
Sesame chicken
White rice with black beans and churrasco

Dishes invented or claimed to have been invented in New York

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Egg cream

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Baked Alaska<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Beef Negimaki
Chef salad
Chicken à la King<ref>Editorial (5 March 1915). Chicken a la King Inventor Dies. New York Tribune, pg. 9, col. 5</ref>
Chicken divan
Cronut<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Delmonico steak<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Egg cream<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Eggs Benedict
General Tso's chicken
Ice cream cone
Lobster Newburg
Mallomars<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Manhattan
Manhattan special—a type of carbonated espresso drink.
Pasta primavera
Penne alla vodka
Reuben sandwich
Sausage and peppers
Spaghetti and meatballs
Vichyssoise<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Waldorf salad<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Street food

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Pizza truck in Midtown

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The Halal Guys

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Arepas
Calzones
Chinese kebabs (chuanr)
Churros
Corndogs
Cuchifritos
Dumplings
Falafel
Fried chicken
Fried noodles
Gray's Papaya, Papaya King—combined papaya juice/hot dog stands
Grilled chestnuts<ref name="google1"/>
Gyros/Shawarma
Halal cart chicken/lamb over rice<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Hamburgers
Honey-roasted peanuts, almonds, cashews, and coconut
Hot dog stands
Italian ice
Italian sausage, bratwurst
Knishes
Mister Softee ice cream
Muffins
Nutcrackers, illicit alcoholic drinks
Piragua
Pizza, especially New York-style pizza
Soft pretzels<ref name="google1"/>
Souvlaki/Shish kebab
Stromboli
Tacos
Take-out soup, as Soup Kitchen International

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Enclaves reflecting national cuisines

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The Bronx

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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, Albanian
Norwood – Filipino (formerly Irish, less so today)
Riverdale – Jewish, Irish
South Bronx – Puerto Rican, Dominican
Wakefield – Jamaican, West Indian
Woodlawn – Irish

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A trailer painted with the title "Aguadilla" and "Cocinando con Salsa Sason y Sabor" and decorated with paintings of a Puerto Rican flag, drums, and a frog

La Piraña Lechonera, a Puerto Rican food trailer in South Bronx

Queens

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An Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights

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Astoria – Greek, Italian, Eastern-European, Brazilian, Egyptian and other Arabic
Bellerose – Indian and Pakistani
Elmhurst – Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese
Flushing – Chinese and Korean
Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills, Rego Park – Jewish, Russian and Uzbek
Howard Beach, Ozone Park – Italian
Glendale – German and Polish
Jackson Heights – Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Korean, Filipino, Thai, Tibetan, Bhutanese, Mexican
Jamaica – Bangladeshi, Caribbean, African-American, African, Creole
Little Neck – Arab, Chinese, Italian
Richmond Hill; South Ozone Park – Indian, Guyanese, Trinidadian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi
The Rockaways – Irish, Jewish
Woodhaven – Irish, Dominican, Mexican, Guyanese
Woodside; Sunnyside – Filipino, Irish, Mexican, Tibetan, Romanian

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Brooklyn

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

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Staten Island

Port Richmond – Mexican, Indian, Italian
Rossville; South Beach; Great Kills – Italian, Russian, Arab and Polish
Tompkinsville – Italian, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Indian

Manhattan

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Chinatown – Chinese and Vietnamese
East Harlem – Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican, Chinese-Cuban and Italian
East Village – Japanese, Korean, Indian and Ukrainian
Greenwich Village – Italian and Middle Eastern
Harlem – Italian, African-American, Latin American, West Indian, and West African
Koreatown – Korean
Nolita – Australian
Little Italy – Italian
Lower East Side – Puerto Rican, Jewish, Italian, and Latin American
Murray Hill – Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi
Upper West Side, Manhattan – Jewish, Chinese-Latino
Washington Heights – Dominican, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Jewish
Upper East Side – German, Czech, Hungarian