New York City
The institutions outlast the trends, and most of them are older than anyone eating there.
A city-block turnover rate that would flatten most food scenes, and underneath it a layer of delis and dining rooms that have run the same menu since before anyone reviewing them was born.
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Barney Greengrass
New York City, United StatesThe Upper West Side "Sturgeon King" deli Anthony Bourdain called an essential part of a balanced breakfast.
Casa Adela
New York City, United StatesA no-frills Puerto Rican counter in Loisaida serving the same weekly specials to a devoted block of regulars.
Le Bernardin
New York City, United StatesEric Ripert's Midtown seafood dining room — the restaurant Anthony Bourdain called his own favourite.
Russ & Daughters
New York City, United StatesA Lower East Side lox-and-herring institution since 1907, and one of Anthony Bourdain's favourite corners of "disappearing" Manhattan.
White Horse Tavern
New York City, United StatesAn 1880 West Village bar that went from longshoremen to writers in the 1950s — Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, Norman Mailer.
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Barney Greengrass
New York City, United StatesThe Upper West Side "Sturgeon King" deli Anthony Bourdain called an essential part of a balanced breakfast.
Le Bernardin
New York City, United StatesEric Ripert's Midtown seafood dining room — the restaurant Anthony Bourdain called his own favourite.
Russ & Daughters
New York City, United StatesA Lower East Side lox-and-herring institution since 1907, and one of Anthony Bourdain's favourite corners of "disappearing" Manhattan.
White Horse Tavern
New York City, United StatesAn 1880 West Village bar that went from longshoremen to writers in the 1950s — Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, Norman Mailer.