In NYC, where are the best...?

Appetizer

• Blue Water Grill Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad
• Locanda Verde Sheep’s Milk ricotta with Truffle Honey and Burnt Orange Toast

Bacon

• Club A Steakhouse
• Quality Eats

Bagel

• Tal Bagels 
• Corner Cafe

BBQ

• Brisket  Hill Country
• Pork ribs  Dinosaur BBQ, Morgan's
  

Biscuits

• Bubby's Tribeca (made w/ lard!)
• Egg
• Friedman's Lunch

Bread basket

• Armani Ristorante 5th Avenue 
• Del Posto
• Locanda Verde  
• Peter Luger Steakhouse
• Scarpetta
  

Brunch

• ilili  prix fixe
• Jacob's Pickles 
• Rubirosa

Brunch cocktail

• ABC Kitchen  Sour-cherry bellini
• Distilled  Summer Crush
• Murray's Cheese Bar  Blood orange bellini
  

Burger

• Diner 
• Jane
• La Esquina
• Marc Forgione
  
• Marseille
• P.J. Clarke's
• Peter Luger Steakhouse
• Smith & Mills
• Tipsy Parson

Cheese enchiladas

• Chavela's

Cheese plate

• Casellula
  
• Otto

Chilaquiles

• Tulcingo del Valle

Chile con Queso dip

• Gueros Brooklyn 

Chips & salsa

• Gueros Brooklyn
• Los Feliz
• Taqueria y Fonda La Mexicana
  
• Toloache

Chongqing Chicken

• Hot Kitchen

Comfort food

• Bubby's Tribeca
• Jacob's Pickles

Cookies

• City Cakes
• Potbelly Sandwich Shop
• The Smile to go

Corn bread

• Dirty Bird

Creamiest caffe latte made with *skim* milk

• 9th Street Espresso

Create-your-own-salad

• Dishes 
• Organique

Creative egg dish

• Alice's Tea Cup  Scones Benedict
• Elephant & Castle  Eggs'n Apples Benedict on French Toast
• Murray's Cheese Bar  Alpine Eggs  
• Rubirosa  Eggs "Rubirosa"

Croque Monsieur

• L'Express
• Tartine
  

Cupcake

• Alice's Tea Cup
• Buttercup Bakeshop
• Sprinkles
  

Desserts

• Chocolate Chip Cookie (...pair it with an order of their salted-caramel ice cream!), Crave Fishbar 
• Fried Oreos, Jacob's Pickles 
• Peanut Butter Pie, Dinosaur BBQ
• Osh-Al-Saraia, Gazala's
• Malasadas, Macao Trading Co.
  

Drinks with a killer view

• Beekman Beer Garden
• Lobby Bar  The Mandarin Oriental
• 230 Fifth

Dumplings (Chinese)

• Hot Kitchen

Entree

• Cafe Ollin  Pork carnitas cemita
• Laut  Beef Rendang
• "Bo Ssam," Momofuku Ssam Bar

Falafel

• Maoz Vegetarian
• Omar's Kitchen & Bakery 
• Pita Joe
  

Free bar snacks

• Del Posto
• Distilled
• Scarpetta
• The Library  Loews Regency Hotel

French fries/frites

• Greenwich Tavern 
• The Breslin 

French toast

• Murray's Cheese Bar

Frozen margarita

• Agave
• Gueros Brooklyn

Gelato

• Otto
  

Gnocchi

• Caffe Linda
• Jane  appetizer listed on dinner menu
• Serafina

Gnudi

•  Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria

Greek salad

• Ethos
• Periyali

Grilled cheese sandwich 

• Anfora  fancy-pants
• Burger Heaven  old-fashioned, no fuss
• Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop  old-fashioned, no fuss
• Melt Shop  any way you want it!
  

Guacamole

• Barrio Chino
• Dos Caminos
• Rosa Mexicano

Horchata

• Taqueria y Fonda La Mexicana

Hummus

• Omar's Kitchen & Bakery

Lasagna

• Al Di La
• Lucciola

Mac & Cheese

• Friedman's Lunch 
• Red Rooster Harlem
  
• Sylvia's Soul Food
  

Macaron

• Ceci Cela
• Laduree

Meatballs 

• Motorino
• Rubirosa
• Terroir

Most breathtaking space

• Asiate
• BG  Bergdorf Goodman

Mozzarella

• Bar Veloce

Onion rings

• Peter Luger

Osso bucco

• Piccolo Angolo

Overall restaurant experience  a kick-ass meal from start to finish, dine-in only and service excluded

• Blue Hill at Stone Barns
• Brooklyn Fare
• Crave Fishbar
• "Bo Ssam" at Momofuku Ssam Bar

Pan-fried pork dumplings

• Prosperity Dumpling

Pastrami

• Katz's Deli

Pate d' Fruit

• La Bergamote
• La Maison du Chocolat

Peanut butter indulgence

• Big Booty Bread Co.  peanut butter cookie
  
• Buttercup Bakeshop  PB&J cupcake
• Dinosaur BBQ  peanut butter pie
• The Smile to-go  PB&J cookie 
• The Treats Truck  PB&J sandwich cookie 
• 'wichcraft  peanut butter cream'wich

Pie

• Dinosaur BBQ  peanut butter pie
• Hill Country Chicken  Cowboy Pie

Pizza pie

• Angelo's Pizza
• Grimaldi's
• Rubirosa
• Speedy Romeo

Quesadilla

• Cafe Frida  con rajas

Queso fundido

• El Paso Taqueria

Quiche

• Petite Abeille

Salted-caramel ice cream

• Crave Fishbar
• Dreamscoops

Sandwich 

• Cafe Ollin  Pork carnitas cemita
• Sophie's "Pernil with a twist"
  

Sangria

• Balaboosta

Service

• Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Side dishes / small plates 

• Balaboosta  falafel-wrapped meatballs, crispy cauliflower
• Bubby's Tribeca  grits
• Maysville  Crispy Grits 
• Momofuku Ssam Bar  Brussels sprouts
• Sophie's  yellow rice + beans 
• Tulcingo del Valle  rice and refried beans

Spanish rice

• Great Burrito
• Tulcingo del Valle

Stuffed pide

• Ali Baba Turkish Cuisine

Tex Mex-style taco   fried outer shell, shredded cheese, shredded iceberg lettuce, chopped tomatoes

• Arriba Arriba

Tuna tartare

• BLT Prime
• Burger & Barrel
• Nougatine
• Quality Eats

Whole wheat pizza

• ABC Kitchen
• Lil' Frankie's