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So I moved away five months from KC to NYC, but the following were my go-to restaurants:

Classic: OK Joes, Strouds (more for the cinnamon rolls than the chicken), Jack Stacks (for the prime beef ribs) and LC's BBQ for their burnt ends (fried fatty pockets of heaven), Westport Flea Market (its still a great burger and while not as consistent, when done well its as good as Shake Shack)

New: Westport Cafe & Bar, El Camino Real (fresh to made tortillas and surprisingly good Mexican food coming from LA), Bluestem (if you want to be fancy, its as good as any restaurant in NY and costs 1/3 as much), Room 39 (great new farm-to-table)

Guilty pleasure: New Peking Chinese Restaurant - ONLY THE CHINESE MENU ON THE BACK PAGE. Their Americanized Chinese is honestly worse than panda express, but their Chinese menu was a welcome shot of spice and Asian flavor to the fairly white-washed list above)

plain by itself with some crusty bread and good wine

just as an fyi, this article is currently being linked to from espn.com....thats some impressive advertising penetration (albeight it is via twitter)

Gates is overrated. OK Joes, Bryants, and LC's for the burnt ends are insane. I haven't met anyone here who doesnt have either OK Joes or Arthur Bryants as their favorite place.

i haven't had the chance to try a lot of innovative or molecular gastronomy dishes, but I really enjoyed trying chickpea fries, and making kenji's homemade potato chips with the vinegar solution.

with good cheese and wine

I am curious, what exactly do cows do if left unattended during the summer months when they graze? Do they just naturally gravitate to grazing under the shade of trees and the such or do all cows require air-conditioned rooms, and if so than isn't the problem that our cow population is way beyond environmental carrying capacity and we basically have to reduce our population of cows if we want the cows we do eat to be healthy/happy/safe?

porterhouse

brussel sprouts with bacon

why do you cut it on the bias?, wouldn't that just lead to longer protein strands while cutting it at a perpendicular angle would minimize the toughness of the meat while not looking as pretty?

Probably Turkey, really just enjoyed the food and was shocked by how amazing it was

what's going to happen when dumpling grows up and is no longer super cut??? i feel like 86.13% (approximately) of the future pictures will have to be rethought

I really think you can't fully appreciate Town Topic until you show up there at 3 am, completely starved and in need of some greasy goodness. At that time, not only are the burgers amazing, but the people that you meet and the conversations around you cannot be beat.