Arberia Grill & Cafe

Arberia Grill & Cafe is a small, family-run Albanian and Balkan restaurant on 65th Street in Bensonhurst, and its menu reads like a map of Kosovo. The kitchen traces its grill to Gjakova, citing some forty years of grilling experience, and its oven to Prizren, where the family says it has been baking for ten generations. That gives the place two specialties under one roof: meat off the grill, and burek and homemade samun bread from the bakery side. The room is cozy and unpretentious, with outdoor seating when the weather allows, and it has the feel of a neighborhood spot where regulars drop in for a slice of pie and a coffee as often as for a full plate.

Featured by the YouTuber New York Turk in 2026, Arberia is best approached with an appetite for both halves of the kitchen. Start with burek, filled with meat or spinach, then move to the grill: qebapa, the small Balkan beef sausages; qofte; or pleskavica, the broad mixed-meat patty served on homemade pita. All three also come as sandwiches, which makes this an easy and affordable lunch. Add a side of the homemade yogurt, and if you have room, regulars like the tres leches for dessert. Online ordering and delivery are available through the restaurant's website, handy if you live nearby, but a seat inside, with the grill going, is the better way to meet it.