My Top Food Finds: New York, Buenos Aires & Berlin

Top 5 Cabbie-Recommended Restaurants in New York

• Tangra Masala – Indian-Chinese in Elmhurst, Queens
• The Door – Jamaican in Jamaica, Queens
• Cherry Hill Gourmet Market – Russian in Sheepshead Bay
• Papaye – Ghanaian in the Bronx
• Ganapati Temple Canteen – South Indian in Flushing, Queens

My Top 15 Cabbie Recommended Dishes in New York
I spent a year getting into random New York taxis and asking drivers to deliver me to their favorite things to eat. If I had 24 hours to eat in the Big Apple and wasn’t driving a cab, there are 15 cabbie-recommended dishes I’d definitely have to taste again, from lollipop chicken and goat curry to baklava and sweet potato pie. Get the list

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My Top 5 Cabbie-Recommended Restaurants in Buenos Aires:

• Parrilla Peña – Steak, tiramisu and more in Barrio Norte
• Albamonte – Thin-crust pizza in Chacarita
• Panaderia Santa Teresita - Struffoli and alfajores in Las Cañitas
• La Aguada – Empanadas tucumanas in Barrio Norte
• Spiagge di Napoli – House-made pastas and Balcarce cake in Boedo

My Top 10 Cabbie-Recommended (Beefless) Dishes in Buenos Aires
If you ask a Buenos Aires taxista about his/her favorite thing to eat, it’s going to be un buen bife 90% of the time. But after two years and lots and lots of steak-driven taxi adventures in Argentina’s capital, I unearthed a few beefless treasures, too. Get the list

My Top 5 Taxista-Recommended Steak Houses (Parrillas) in Buenos Aires
Most of the taxistas I met in Buenos Aires would agree that you haven’t really eaten if your meal didn’t contain some form of beef. Naturally, they led me to a lot of delicious bifes. Here are my 5 favorite cabbie-recommended steak houses.

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My Top 5 Cabbie-Recommended Restaurants in Berlin

• Gel Gör Inegöl Köfteci – A Turkish snack bar where they make their sausage in house.
• Kaese Konig – East German classics in Alexanderplatz
• Hamy Café-Foodstore Vietnamesische Speisen – Possibly the best Vietnamese curry in Berlin
• La Vigna Italienische Weine und Spezialitäten – Skip the food and go straight to the espresso.
• Adana Grill Haus – Turkish meats grilled before your eyes

My Top 10 Cabbie Recommended Dishes in Berlin
Three months in a city of four million isn’t enough to penetrate all of its culinary layers. Still, this top 10 list reflects the transformation that’s happening around food – and so much else – in Berlin. Look at it as a snapshot of some of what’s exciting to eat there right now. Get the list

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