Food in New York City
New York has established itself as one of the top food cities in the world. The sheer volume of food available is staggering: Ther are over 25,000 New York restaurants to choose from and an additional 4000 licensed street vendors selling food on the streets and in the parks. Luckily, the variety of cuisines and the quality of the food offered is very high. New Yorkers are a demanding audience and chefs and other food purveyors know they have to live up to the city’s reputation.
Street food is one of New York’s guilty pleasures. Vendors are known for their hot dogs and pretzels, New York-style of course. There are also stands, carts, and stalls throughout the city offering pizza (again, New York style), coffee, bagels, dosas, falafel, and even ice cream.
In thinking about New York food, there are obviously certain foods for which the city is known. Famous for its own “New York style” for pizza, bagels, cheesecake, hot dogs, and deli sandwiches, the city is also the birthplace of dishes such as the Waldorf Salad, Eggs Benedict, Lobster Newburg, Chicken ala King, Steak Diance, and pasta primavera — amongst many others.
For those who like to experiment with different cuisines, New York is a one-stop shop. Some neighborhoods are known for specific immigrant populations and the cuisines that came with them. Other ethnic cuisines are available throughout the city. A short list of wonderful ethnic foods found in New York would include Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Thai, Central American, South American, Carribean, and African. Of course, many of these regions are represented by specific national or even regional cuisines.
New York is also known as a media town, so its no suprise that many of the top food magazines are published here and that the headquarters of the Food Network cable channel are located in Chelsea Market. With so much attention focused on the New York food scene it attracts top chefs from all over the world. Each wants to prove themselves to the discerning New York palates and more successful chefs will have not just a flagship restaurant, but several establishments offering different variations of their primary cuisine.
With so many chefs in town, its not surprise that New York is on the cutting edge of modern cuisines. Chefs here are creating new and exciting dishes all the time. They work on the fusion of different flavors and techniques and experiment with molecular gastronomy. The result is that the city remains the place to find what’s new in food as well a great place to enjoy the traditional – for almost any food.
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