Warung Selasa at Indo Java

Indo Java is a two-aisle Indonesian grocery on Queens Boulevard — kecap manis, bumbu pastes, blocks of tempeh — and once a week its back corner becomes one of the smallest restaurants in New York. Selasa means Tuesday. Dewi, who opened the shop in 2008, began cooking a weekly lunch in 2016, for whoever fit at a single folding table.

The menu changes every week with the market and the cook's mood: nasi campur, a plate of rice crowded with small dishes; nasi gudeg, the jackfruit stew of Yogyakarta; soto ayam, the turmeric chicken soup. When it's gone, it's gone. In 2026 the New York Times ranked this one-table pop-up twenty-second among the city's best restaurants, ahead of rooms that seat a hundred.