Featuring 12 of Icons of New York’s food scene, this guide is made with their help. From Brooklyn’s best bagel and great value street food in Chinatown to ultimate Italian-American restaurants and authentic tacos.
A special thank you to our guests: Fariyal Abdullahi, Tania Apolinar, Giovanni Cervantes, Billy Durney, Sohla El-Waylly, Mark Iacono, Ignacio Matto, George Motz (@FirstWeFeast), Francesco Pinello, Andrew Rea (@babishculinaryuniverse) and Emilio Vitolo.
We heavily recommend staying at The Penny in Williamsburg: https://www.penny-hotel.com/
In order of appearance:
00:00 Shelsky’s
02:16 Jin Mei Dumpling
03:10 Cheong Fun Cart
04:02 Double Crispy Bakery
04:42 Shukette
07:11 The Dead Rabbit
08:09 The Penny Williamsburg
08:54 Emilio’s Ballato
11:00 Strong Rope Brewery
12:15 Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie
12:56 Red Hook Tavern
15:24 El Nico
16:10 Radio Bakery
17:16 Best Pizza
18:49 Hamburger America
21:02 Lucali
24:06 Step: Your World
24:25 Taqueria Ramirez
26:00 Wildair
28:19 Maison Premiere
30:00 Veselka
32:08 C as in Charlie
35:06 Estela
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42 Comments
This guy has a Gavin Rossdale vibe.
This video editor is really good. There's literally not one boring frame. I grew up in New York my whole life and this vid definitely captures the essence of NYC.
Excellent! I’ve only driven through, flown into, or sailed out of New York City, even though my parents are both from Phili and we’ve lived all around it. I so much wanted to be part of your crew on this video. The pizza looked amazing, and I could eat one of thos burgers for lunch every day and never miss any other food.
This is an amazing video- this is everything I’m always looking for in a food video and more! Great restaurant suggestions, enticing food shots, and plenty of favorite guest chefs featured. So well done! Would love to see more.
Can confirm: Radio Bakery will blow your d*ck off.
rye bread cum is wild XD
Need to change title to *Brooklyn's Best Restaurants 2024
They are called Montreal Bagels, because they come from Montreal!!!
My family has been going to Wo Hop for 50 years! The best.
What a great channel I’ve found
strong rope, best pizza, hamburger america, cheong fun cart all suck, like super average places.
Emilio is definitely in the Mafia
You were literally dying by the end, and I have to say that makes me feel better about living in NY, lol – it catches up. Amazing amazing shots and dedication with such a small crew, so so awesome – the show gets better and better every time
Brilliant vids keep them coming the only thing I will not miss is that white Havana shirt and that black T at the end lol
shelsky's best bagel in ny? more like most expensive bagel in ny… as a born and raised brooklynite I must critique my city and say there are better bagels in long island and jersey in this day and age. The bagel game in ny is overpriced and weaker quality than 15-20 years ago.
You hit the best spots in BK – Red Hook Tavern, Lucali, Strong Ropes, Shelskey’s !!
You seemed to be in really safe neighborhoods. NYC isn’t like that anymore
Why not just use subtitles for the whole video and not bits by bits? Yes there’s closed caption option on YT but it would be great if creator also adds it too.
Heard you were into Pain Suisse. Best I’ve ever had = Qima London
We at The Big Forkers try and keep the convo's going with Chefs. But its a different format than Top Jaw. Love what the lads are doing at Top Jaw. We are mid Delhi season and also Thailand in the middle.
Great video! love the slow style with some more time to enjoy every single spot! Besides that, how cool is Jesses colorful jacket! From which brand is it? 😉
A correction: @ 32:50 "Holy Trinity" also known as "Mirepoix" is Onions, Celery and Carrots, not Bell Pepper…
5:55 I’m in love with her
3:12 you couldn't pay me to eat from a food truck w a B rating in NYC. There's no chance the temperature of the food is right. Given food trucks in NYC have to be moved every day after service there's no obvious rodent issues which means there must be roaches and improper heating to lead to food poisoning. It's hard to get a B rating in the city as a food cart.
I can't trust anything this man eats now after saying you should eat that.
What a great list of restaurants! Now, could you venture uptown a bit? Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, UWS – all have amazing restaurants.
Would be cool to know how much all this costs! I’ve been to NY for site seeing but will want to go back for the food now. Great job.
Sourdough anything is the best and it’s also gut friendly!
Not a tangerine that’s a cutie. 🍊
I don't leave the Upper East Side. Especially to some slum or to one of the outer boroughs!
This was an excellent video yet again. I'm in awe of the production value of these videos. Started watching your videos a few years back, when you had around 50K subs and thought to myself "that can't be right?". Now your channel has grown quite a bit, but I still find myself thinking "that can't be right?", when I look at just 373K subs. You've got everything going for you. You're clearly having fun, you manage to have all sorts of access to chefs and places (and Andrew Rhea, for crying out loud!), you're charming as hell and the filming and editing is spot-on. I really hope you get a big break, because your channel deserves to have at least 1-2M subs.
Go to harlem!!!!
I got back from 10 days in NYC around a month ago. I LOVED George Motz’s Hamburger America, but now thanks to you I have to head back out there again as soon as possible, to try out all those other places you visited. Thanks a lot. 😂😂😂
Word to the host and cameraman: Be careful with your sexual statements. (Spread thin like knickers, haven’t opened a clam like that before, etc). People you’re visiting don’t want to be spoken to like that. Notice how they don’t respond back in kind. Even if you want a cool cutting edge vibe or adult vibe, if you’re not careful, people will dismiss you (eat, you’re asking too many questions) or they won’t work with you again.
Sexualized statements like that are very inappropriate in any professional setting. You need sexual harassment training. That was really cringey watching you say those things.
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no Queens? slacking
Damn, always considered I can understand English well, but in this video I can recognize only 5 percent of this guy's speech. Is it American English or another accent?
When other speak, I understand everything.
Update: ah, LOL, he's from London 😂
stiil waiting to see restaraurants ?? LOL ????dude you suposto be say about street food ???? YES ?
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"It's clear you've put a lot of effort into researching this topic. Your passion for food is inspiring."
Absolutely LOVE this!! Big fans anyway but this is such a briliant video and our munching & boozing list for NYC has now got shorter – which is a good thing – as we now know everywhere we go will be banging! Thank you, you guys rule 🙌
Great video! On a side note, where did you get that colorful jacket?
Used to live directly across from Veselkas in 90s. Such an institution. That’s a quick shot of my old apartment after they left