# 1
VANESSA DUMPLING HOUSE
118 Eldridge Street, NY NY
The ORIGINAL VANESSA'S DUMPLING HOUSE
118 ELDRIDGE STREET
NEW YORK NY
and in WILLIAMSBURG , BROOKLYN
4 DUMPLINGS For Just $1.50
4 orders Shown Here
That's Just $6.00
A SESAME PANCAKE
Filled with BEEF BRISKEY CUCEMBER CYLANTRO
and CARROTS
$2.50
# 2
PAPAYA KING & GRAY'S PAPAYA
HOT DOGS
PAPAYA KING
86th STREET and 3rd AVENUE
SINCE 1932
GRAYS'S PAPAYA
HOT DOGS
and FRUIT JUICE
"This was one of our old pal Tony Bourdain's favorites. Tony just loved the place, and whats not to love? They've got tasty Fruit Juice, whatever kind you like, along with a couple of the Best Hot Dogs in town, and your good to go."
God Bless Tony, RIP, Anthony you had and still have millions of fans. I bet you would be surprised of how many millions of people think about you every single day. And fondly. And people wish you were still around, and can't believe you passed. Yes Tony people really do miss you and think of you, and wish you were still here on planet Earth. God Bless you Anthony."
BROADWAY at 72nd STREET
NY NY
The RECESSION SPECIAL
At PAPAYA KING
2 HOT DOGS and a SOFT DRINK
Just $4.45 (NOT ANY MORE)
WORLD'S BEST CHILI DOGS
HOT DOGS on THE GRILL
At GRAY'S PAPAYA
# 3
SHAKE SHACK
Madison Square Park and Other Locations
SHAKE SHACK
The ORIGINAL
At MADISON PARK
At 23rd STREET
NEW YORK NEW YORK
A SHAKE SHACK BURGER
$6.85
$8.10 For a DOUBLE
LEARN HOW to MAKE YOUR OWN
SHAKE SHACK BURGER
RECIPE is In The BADASS COOKBOOK
SHAKE SHACK
BURGER Recipe INSIDE !!!
# 4
MAMOUN'S
119 Macdougal Street, Greenwich Village and 30 Saint Marks Place , NEW YORK .
Waiting for their FALAFEL MAMOUN,S
Mamoun's has long been one of the greatest Cheap Eat Deals in town. Mamound Chater, an immigrated to New York in the late 1960s from Damascus, Syria. He opened Mamoun's Falafel at 119 Macdougal Street in 1971, and claimed it to be the 1st Falafel Joint in America. Mamoun's is World Famous. It's a tiny little spot that churns out Falafel and other Middle Eastern foods around the clock t Days a Week, 365 days a year. The Falafels are tasty and a great cheap eat at $3.50 a pop as of this writing. People line up every single day to get their Falafel, Hummus or whatever, but the Falafel is and always will be the King.
The story of Mamoun Chater and his little falafel stand is quite amazing. That little stand on Macdougal Street makes a small fortune by itself, but the family has opened numerous other Falafel Joints in New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York. It's a winning combination of a tasty sandwich, that's quite inexpensive, and healthy to boot.
# 5
El Castillo de Jagua
113 Rivington Street, near Essex, on the Lower East Side of New York
El Castillo de Jagua
113 Rivington Street, LES, New York
Great Cheap Eats, including their awesome CUBAN SANDWICH (CUBANO)
Rice and Beans
Perrnil (Roast Pork Leg) Goat Stew, Cuban Coffee, and More ...
I've been going to Castillo de Jagua for some 30 years now. I love it, always have. I used to go to a few other Carribean Latin joints in the area, but some of those are gone. Castillo de Jagua remeains, and these days whenever I get a hankering for my beloved Cubano Sandwich, de Jagua is me go to place for the famous Cuban Sandwich, so I head right on over to Rivington Street to get my fix until next time. I used to eat at least 1 or even two of these bad boys every week when I lived on Avenue A back in the 80s and early 90s. I get up, walk down Avenue A, cross Houston Street and on to Essex Street until I hit Rivington, make a right, and there I was. Sometimes I'd get Pernil, which is that delicious Roast Pork Leg that Domincans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans know how to cook up so well. An order of Pernil (Roast Pork Leg) comes with Rice and Beans (Red or Black), and maybe some fried plantains (Fried Bananas) if you're lucky. Yes it was always one of two items that I'd get, either a Cuban Sandwich (Cubano) or an order of Pernil, occasionally Mofongo, and I really loved Gandulas which was some white rice with gandulas beans mixed in.
Anyway, if you've never been to one of these Carribean Latin Cuisine Restaurants, it's high time you did. They're a New York institution that serve dam tasty food, dishes you've probably never had, and at reasonable prices to boot.
A CUBANO
Sandwich Cubano
$7.50
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RICE and BEANS
# 6
JOE'S PIZZA
Carmine Street, GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK
JOE'S PIZZA
Two SLICES
A PIZZA at JOE'S
Get a SLICE or WHOLE PIE
# 7
KOSSAR'S BAGELS
367 Grand Street, NEW YORK
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KOSSAR'S BIALYS & BAGELS
367 GRANDE STREET
NEW YORK NY
EVERYTHING BAGEL with CREAM CHEESE
$2.00 to $2.75
More Great BAGEL SHOPS
ZABAR'S
BAGELS on The SQUARE (my Neighborhood Bagel Joint)
Carmine Street
GREENWICH VILLAGE
BLACK SEED BAGELS
1st Avenue , East Village
MURRAY'S BAGELS
Sixth Avenue near 11th Street, Greenwixh Village
# 8
SAIGON VIETNAMESE BANH Mi
369 Broome Street, New York NY
SAIGON
VIETNAMESE BAHN MI
369 BROOME STREET
NEW YORK NY
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A BAHN MI SANDWICH
SAIGON
Just $6.50
These Sandwiches are dam Tasty. They're served on awesome crispy French Baguette Bread, and filled with Chicken, Beef, or Pork, fresh Cucumbers and Cilantro and whatever. This is one of the Best Sandwiches in town, and as far as Vietnamese Bahn Me goes, they are the # 1 joint in all of New York, "Trust me, I've been going there for years. Long before most American's ever knew or dreamt about this lovely little thing. That's the way it usually is. I usually know about many culinary delights years before the rest of America catches on. This has been the case with the Cubano Sandwich (my 1st was 1983), the Negroni (I had my 1st in 1985) , Aperol Spritz (1995), and the Vietnamese Bahn Mi, I started eating around 2000, and Vietnamese Pho (Beef Broth rice noodle soup) I discovered way back in 1983.
"So if you want to know what the hot thing Americans will be eating 10 years from now, ask me."
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# 9
PHO
at Nha Trang
87 Baxter Street , NY NY
PHO
with FREE TEA
Just $7.00
SPRING ROLL
$5.50
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Vietnamese Ice Coffee
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# 10
SUN SAI GAI RICE SHOP
220 Canal Street, NY NY
ROAST DUCK , BARBECUED PIG
or SOY SAUCE CHICKEN and RICE
with Free TEA for Just $6.50
A Tasty PORK BUN
Just $1.50
A BOWL of TASTY ROAST DUCK WONTON SOUP
Roast Duck , Wonton , and Invigorating Broth
Only $6.50
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