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- 2 City Island Ave., South Bronx
- 718-885-2086
Johnny's Famous Reef Restaurant
Exposed flesh, complex body odor, the floating stench of urine. It’s summer in the Bronx! Take it seaside for a breath of salt air near City Island’s southern tip. Form a single-file line for crisp... read more
- 1709 Webster Ave., South Bronx
- 718-220-7855
La Lechonera Criolla
Creole cocina on official PR pride patrol. All day, every day, flags on the ceiling and beneath your glass tabletop shade that mofongo red, white, and blue. Boricua! Scar your vegan girlfriend for ... read more
- 500 E. 149th St., South Bronx
- 718-585-1488
La Orquídea
Hungering for Honduran? Ride-less in Mott Haven? Cheap? Look no further. Two buckeroo pupusas—corn pitas crammed with cheese and pork, fried. Two-fitty spicy burritos, wrapped in extra-thick wheat ... read more
- 552 W. 235th St., North Bronx
- 718-548-4534
Liebman's Delicatessen
Send a brisket to your boy in med school. Also pastrami on rye with a side of Russian, corned beef and tongue combo, chopped liver platter. Riverdale keeps it old school like that. Boring coffee sh... read more
- 34 City Island Ave., South Bronx
- 718-885-1952
Lobster Box
City’s Island’s crustacean king. Slanging that salt-water special since 1946. Upscale Sound view, working fireplace. Still beach bummy enough for bibs, flip-flops, and buffalo wings. Banquetesque d... read more
- 2342 Arthur Ave., Arthur Avenue
- 718-584-1100
Mario's
Neapolitan holding down Arthur Avenue since 1919. In the heart of Belmont, self-described “safest neighborhood in America.” Though featured in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, scoffed at chance to appea... read more
- 565 Hunts Point Ave., South Bronx
- 718-991-3046
Mo Gridder's BBQ
There’s more to Hunts Point than hookers. There’s also smoked hog, cooked up in a red trailer on the grounds of an auto body shop. Proves you don’t have to be in the woods to be country. Cherrywood... read more
- 361 City Island Ave., South Bronx
- 718-885-1810
The Original Crab Shanty Restaurant
If nothing gets you in the mood to chow down on fried oysters more than giant star and heart-shaped photo collages, you’re in the right place. This cozy City Island seafood spot loves its cus... read more
- 114 E. 157th St., Yankee Stadium
- 718-401-0545
Press Café
Feeling too sophisto for a soggy dog and a plastic cup of brew? Try a (near) footlong panini instead. Oozy soppressata presses right across from Gate 6. Gussied-up grilled cheese melts fresh mozzar... read more
- 4292 Katonah Ave., North Bronx
- 718-798-4510
Rambling House
Drink hard, eat harder at this Irish pubstaurant. Shell steak fired with Jack Daniels, Gaelic chicken smothered in ’shrooms and Irish whiskey sauce. Buzz-ilicous! Classic corned beef and cabbage, p... read more
- 1013 E. 163rd St., South Bronx
- 718-860-1566
Real Azteca
Toothsome taqueria’s recent expansion from teeny to tiny adds tables and chairs, wainscoting. Crack-like tortillas remain. Pressed and griddled to order, filled with fave carnitas like shredded por... read more
- 603 Crescent Ave., Arthur Avenue
- 718-733-9503
Roberto Restaurant
Pasta by the vat at this pastoral tomato saucer in the village of Belmont. Chicken by the flock. Nothing skimpy here. Veal scallopini zinged up with hot cherry peppers, half a rabbit grilled with r... read more
- 64 City Island Ave., South Bronx
- 718-885-3200
Shrimp Box Restaurant
Former Tito Puente’s waters down Latin flavor with hearty helpings of pasty Puritan chowder. Only paella and piña coladas remain, dwarfed by multi-page menu of steamers and halibut. Wood-roasted fi... read more
- 4038 E. Tremont Ave., South Bronx
- 718-239-3300
Tosca Café
The Boogie’s only coal oven pizza does the trick when you’re stuck inside the Bronx with that black lung itch again. Charred Napolitana with sausage and broccoli rabe, crusty no-cheese Insalata bed... read more
- 273 City Island Ave., South Bronx
- 718-885-0806
The Tree House Restaurant
City Island contradiction—no neon crustaceans, plastic tablecloths, forlorn-looking fish tanks. Instead a real-life tree reaches for the sun inside this gussied-up pizza joint run by two Yugoslavia... read more
- 445 W. 238th St., North Bronx
- 718-884-7127
An Beal Bocht Café
Guzzle Guinness with neighborhoodlums at the city’s Irish-ist pub. Densely decorated room houses yellowing archive of framed newspaper clippings. Doomsday provisions stockpiled above the bar: canne... read more
- 575 Grand Concourse, South Bronx
- 718-402-6996
G-Bar
Serpentine fluorescent bar, polished industrial vibe, specialty martini list featuring the cranberry and Alizé “Sex and the City.” No, this isn’t Manhattan, circa 1999, it’s the Bronx right now! Sl... read more
- 5588 Broadway, North Bronx
- 718-548-9751
Keenan's
Neighborhood holdouts warm the bar stools, from 8AM daily. Guinness for breakfast, Yuengling for lunch. Variety is the spice of life. Surprisingly dust-free abode hiding behind maroon-striped front... read more
- 836 River Ave., Yankee Stadium
- 718-993-5548
Stan's Sports Bar
South Boogie institution across the street from the bleachers, under the 4 train. Navigate ceiling art—Budweiser beer blimps, xxxl t-shirts, televisions—to post up at the center bar for pitchers, n... read more
- 1209 White Plains Rd., South Bronx
- 718-792-3367
Café Sevilla
Feeding the hood from cow-feet soup to paella. Broiled Spanish-style steaks. Starchy mofongo. Crisp fried plantains. After a few pitchers of toothachy sangria, décor may actually start to make sens... read more
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