NYC's Top Restaurant Dishes of 2020, According to Critic Ryan Sutton
A crowd of roughly 50 patrons queued up near the shiny Birria-Landia truck in Jackson Heights at 6 p.m. on a recent Friday. There, just a block away from Elmhurst Hospital — the epicenter of the fight against the pandemic last spring — cooks sent out drippy, saucy, Tijuana-style tacos for $3 a pop. After 20 minutes of waiting, I fetched my order, crouched down on the sidewalk, and dunked beef fat-griddled tortillas into a spicy, cilantro-studded consomme. My insides warmed up like a radiator. Still hungry, I biked down Roosevelt Avenue to Todo Rico, for conchas, then to Fama Bakery, for ...