Unique Restaurants & Bars in New York City

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.