New to me in 2019? Hopefully:
- Adda - seems everyone's raving/gushing about the lamb and food's fieriness.
- Bamonte - One of my favorite 2018 experiences was taking the kids to Queen. Such honest food and such a welcoming environment. I'm hoping/expecting the same here.
- Berber Street Food - both read reviews reminded me that I'm ignorant about so much of northwestern Africa. Beyond bistella and djoloff rice, there's a lot more for me to learn.
- Casa Enrique - More new-to-me Mexican dishes please.
- Frenchette - Does anyone not like this place? And the wine list is only natural?
- Le Coq Rico - A $140 baeckoffe? Sign me up!
- Loring Place - I'm a sucker for a grandma pie and two decades ago I worked for the chef here.
- Lowerline - I get too little of the gumbo, jambalaya, red beans dishes.
- M. Wells Steakhouse - So many years, every year I'm going to go and well, I don't go! I need a 9pm flight from LGA to incent me to eat here at 6:30!
- Mu Ramen - my ramen intake has waned as I make more and more ramen at home.
- Okonomi - Also so many years of saying I'll go and not going. They even serve weekday breakfast!
- Randazzo's - see #2
- Tama - Filipino food gets too little of a place in our home rotation. I need to experience more to make sure
- Zyara - Sandwiches of all sorts can be great but something vegan and Arabic? Sign me up!
- Chez Ma Tante - we had a lovely meal here in the summer of 2018 that included two wines I wish I recalled; because they were delicious.
- Faun - a random 2019 partial family outing led us here where we experienced really delayed service and incomprehensibly good pork
- J.G. Melon - it's been 20 years!
- LIC Market - after two 2018 visits, this may be my favorite new restaurant in New York. I've even started replicating their dishes at home.
- Ugly Baby - the food was delicious on a record-cold December 2017 night when I went with a self-purported foodie who then turned a nose up at offal and non-primal cuts. The cold and company made concentrating on the food difficult.
