Lunch

This tiny udon shop is a great option for a sub-$20 lunch in Crown Heights.

This butcher shop also sells sandwiches and excellent cookies.

An all-day cafe that's charming at every hour.

Where a hot dog and soda are still only $1.50.

This Long Island City pizza shop thinks outside the pizza box with very good breakfast slices and falafel pies.

Head to Taqueria By El Prieto when the line at Los Tacos No. 1 is too long.

In a hot pizza neighborhood, Fini Pizza carves out its own niche.

There's nothing missing from the satisfying sandwiches at Counter Service.

The Chinatown location of this handpulled noodle spot makes great beef noodle soup.

The Hell’s Kitchen outpost of the Flushing food stall makes crab roe delicacies more convenient for Manhattanites.

The third location of Maxi’s Noodle in Chinatown brings some of Flushing’s best wontons to Manhattan.

The best thing since sliced bread.

There are a lot of restaurants near Rockefeller Center, and some of them are actually pretty good.

At VPho & Pizzeria, lunch starts with a slice of pizza and ends with a big bowl of phở.

New York’s best cheesesteak is a Philly import with Bradley Cooper ties.

Lucia Pizza’s third location serves excellent slices on the Upper East Side.

Carmenta’s makes sloppy, destination-worthy sandwiches in Bushwick.

This Woodside burger joint is also a butcher shop, and the quality of their beef shines through.

Duffy’s Tavern makes a burger with three slices of cheese.

Onigiri Tanakaya serves warm onigiri and affordable hand rolls in Gramercy.

Where to go when you want something better than a block of dried noodles and a powder-filled foil packet.

Ignazio’s is a good choice for a slice near the water in Dumbo.

Papa San is a great option for a non-boring work lunch in Hudson Yards.

Bring visitors to the second location of this NYC pizza-making institution.

At this Greenpoint slice shop, go ahead and try a pie topped with buffalo chicken.