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Bowery at East 3rd Street
10 places, all within 10 minutes on foot, from morning coffee to a late drink.
MorningCoffee and breakfast
Get: The Classic: Gaspé Nova, cream cheese, tomato, onion and capers
The appetizing shop since 1914; take a number and a bagel to go.
Get: Challah French toast, a bowl of borscht
A kosher dairy counter the size of a hallway, unchanged and cheap.
LunchLunch and an afternoon bite
Get: Pastrami on rye, hand-cut, with a pickle
Keep your ticket, tip the cutter, get the pastrami. Nothing else in town is like it.
Get: The Superiority Burger and a scoop of the gelato
Brooks Headley's vegetarian diner that meat eaters line up for.
DinnerDinner
Get: The spaghetti pomodoro, the cacio e pepe
Andrew Carmellini's pasta house across the street, easy and good.
Get: The porchetta, anything from the wood oven
Candlelit Italian with a wine cellar Poe is said to have written in.
Get: Duck à l'orange, the steak frites
A tiny French bistro with a real neighborhood crowd and late hours.
A drinkA drink
Get: Ask the bartender; it's their bar
The cocktail bar that taught a generation of bartenders.
LateLate, and something sweet
Get: Pierogi, borscht, the challah French toast
The Ukrainian diner on Second Avenue, open late with the same menu all day.
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