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How to eat a city like someone who lives there.
Manhattan
Where every block is a different country
6 neighborhoods
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Paris
Eat like you have nowhere to be
5 neighborhoods
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London
The world's food in one postcode
5 neighborhoods
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Tokyo
The most serious food city on earth
5 neighborhoods
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Madrid
Eat late, eat slow, eat everything
4 neighborhoods
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City Guide
Manhattan
Twenty-three square miles. Every cuisine on earth. One rule: never eat the same thing twice.
6
Neighborhoods
4
Stops
27,000+
Restaurants
1-2 days
Suggested time
Neighborhoods
Chinatown
Start at the southern tip of the island. Roast duck windows on Canal Street, soup dumpling counters tucked into tenements, and bakeries with pork buns stacked to the ceiling. The city at its most elemental.
Lower East Side
Walk five minutes north and the story shifts. The original immigrant food corridor - bagels and bialys at dawn, hand-pulled noodles at noon, natural wine bars after dark. It contains multitudes.
East Village
Continue north along First Avenue. Ramen row on 10th Street rivals Tokyo. St. Marks Place for cheap and brilliant. Ivan Ramen for the counter seat that requires a reservation three weeks out.
West Village
Cross town along 14th Street and the city softens. Cobblestones, corner wine bars, and Italian restaurants that have been here since before you were born. Best for a long dinner with time on your side.
Koreatown
Up to Midtown, where 32nd Street between Fifth and Broadway never sleeps. Galbi, soju, banchan that keeps arriving uninvited. One of the most alive blocks in the city at 2am.
Upper West Side
The final stretch north. Zabar's for smoked fish and babka that locals have been buying since 1934, the Hungarian Pastry Shop for coffee with no agenda, and a stretch of Broadway lined with some of the city's most reliably excellent neighborhood restaurants.