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2818 Coney Island Ave (at Kathleen Pl), Brooklyn, NY
Eastern European Restaurant · Sheepshead Bay · 60 tips and reviews
Melissa: Chuchvara (ring-shaped, Central Asian lamp dumplings often compared to tortellini). Order them pan-friend, showered with dill and caramelized onion
218 Lafayette St (btwn Kenmare & Spring St), New York, NY
Italian Restaurant · SoHo · 301 tips and reviews
Melissa: Two distinct packets of egg pasta fused together. One side houses a gamy mince of rabbit meat, the other the soft white cheese from Emilia-Romagna called squacquerone.
342 Lexington Ave (btwn E 39th & E 40th St), New York, NY
Ramen Restaurant · Murray Hill · 104 tips and reviews
Melissa: Gyoza crammed with juicy pork and fragrant chives and serves them in the iron pan they're cooked in, tetsunabe style, under a cloak of untraditional but tonic ginger-scallion sauce.
Melissa: Located in a back room behind the You and Me cell-phone shop. The satchel-shaped momos (get beef and chive) doused in Tibetan chile sauce called sepen.
1827 Coney Island Ave (Coney Island Ave and Ave O), Brooklyn, NY
Romanian Restaurant · Midwood · 13 tips and reviews
Melissa: Mamaliga Trapeza. Dense cornmeal porridge formed into flat-bottom balls with a fleeting blandness that vanishes once they're mixed with sour cream, scrambled egg, Romanian feta and roast pork