04Best by Dish
Know what you're craving? Here's where to get it.
Our guides start from the dish, not the restaurant: the soup dumpling worth the line, the bowl of cold noodles worth the ride to Northern Boulevard. Every pick is a kitchen we've confirmed is open.
35 dishes
The Best Asian Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Ride the 7 train east from Sunnyside to Elmhurst and you pass through Thailand, the Philippines, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh and Indonesia in a dozen stops. Here is what to order at each, and the few Manhattan tables worth crossing the river back for.
36 dishes
The Best Chinese Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Manhattan's Chinatown is where the story starts. The widest range of regional Chinese cooking in the city is in Queens — Flushing above all, then Elmhurst and College Point — with Sunset Park close behind. Here is what to order, and where.
31 dishes
The Best Korean Food in New York, Dish by Dish
West 32nd Street gets the attention. The cooking Korean New Yorkers actually go out for runs east along Northern Boulevard, from the Murray Hill LIRR station to Little Neck — here is what to order, and where.
30 dishes
The Best Japanese Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Japanese cooking rewards specialists — the shop that does only soba, the counter that fries only tempura, the grill that cooks one bird from end to end. Here is what to order across the city, and where, from a miso-ramen bar on Second Avenue to a fish market in Hunters Point.
24 dishes
The Best Thai Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Elmhurst is where Thai New York eats — boat noodles, khao man gai, Isan larb, southern curries over rice — with a handful of Manhattan and Brooklyn rooms worth crossing the river for. Here is what to order, and where.
20 dishes
The Best Filipino Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Start under the 7 train at 69th Street, where Little Manila has been cooking since the 1970s, then follow the sisig, the kare-kare and the ube across Queens and into Manhattan — here is what to order, and where.
24 dishes
The Best Vietnamese Food in New York, Dish by Dish
Pho from Baxter Street to Yorkville, Huế soup in Sunset Park, bánh mì on bread baked in a basement, and the snails, crab soups and egg coffee that New York has only lately learned to love. Here is what to order, and where.