The Bronx
5 open around New York City
Declared with zero rows. The borough is real whether or not he has saved in it, and a tree that omitted it would be making a claim about the Bronx.
Restaurants4
Ajo y Orégano
Solid · Bronx
walk-in
The food comes to the table in metal pots under painted lids. The walls behind them are palm green with pink shutters.
Çka Ka Qëllu
Solid · Bronx
walk-in
Ramiz Kukaj brought the yokes, brass coffee mills and hammered dishes on these walls over from the old country. Some of them, he says, go back to the 18th century.
Dukagjini Burek
Listed · Bronx
walk-in
The burek here is phyllo built up in craggy layers and filled with beef, feta or spinach. It flakes on the way in and then goes soft under the teeth.
188 Bakery Cuchifritos
Listed · Bronx
walk-in
Ligaya Mishan calls frying an art. She thinks it is perhaps plied nowhere with more efficiency and aplomb than at this East 188th Street lunch counter.
Bakes & sweet1
Kingston Tropical
Listed · Bakery · Bronx
walk-in
John Levi and his wife, Joyce, opened this Wakefield takeout counter in 1970. The Jamaican patties still come out deep yellow, crimped and scented with thyme.
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