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Neighborhood Restaurants

In a former Toys “R” Us, you can buy Nepali dumplings, get your eyebrows threaded, and pick up merguez sausages.

Zahir Janmohamed

I meet sources, hold court with friends, and even conduct interviews with television networks at a taco truck.

Gustavo Arellano

I waited six years to work in this weird restaurant with comically sad snowmen paintings on the walls and Trivial Pursuit cards lining the bathroom shelves.

Zoë Sessums

Carey Bolton runs the bar, kitchen, floor, and door of Reel M Inn on its busiest nights. She’s a hero.

Marnie Hanel

People have been hanging out at The Broken Drum for 13 years. Now, there's finally good food.

Marilyn Hagerty

My partner and I both lost our jobs within a week of one another. So we got oysters. And a lobster roll.

Korsha Wilson

Waffles for breakfast, bánh mì for lunch, and tacos all the time.

Bryan Washington

Someone either brought you to Hugo’s, or you’d been coming there your whole life.

Kathleen Alcott

Behold the heavenly funk of smoked fish at Barney Greengrass, New York’s legendary appetizing shop

David Remnick

When I eat at this Jamaican restaurant, it ties my life in the Hudson Valley back to the babysitter who helped raise me.

Julia Turshen

Fresh flounder, rainbow trout, and hushpuppies where you’d least expect it.

Jeff Martin

The small fridge covered in those clunky, colorful magnetic letters wisely spits out life’s bittersweet truths.

Oset Babür-Winter

I’ve eaten at Mi Cocina my entire life, but I didn’t know anything about its past.

Priya Krishna

This low-key legendary burger shack is the perfect pit stop.

Carla Lalli Music

Our food scene seems to promise a Detroit experience without actual native Detroiters. This restaurant is the good kind of exception.

Dream Hampton

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