Katz’s Delicatessen

Where Harry Met Sally and I ate Pastrami

Corner Bistro

Corner Bistro is to me what the Empire State Building is to other tourists. A landmark burger.

Dizzy’s

Best Brunch in Brooklyn.

Eileen’s Special Cheesecake

Eileen’s a crabby old bat. Good thing she serves the best cheesecake I ever done tasted.

Good Enough To Eat

Making breakfast an art form. Huge queues at the weekend for brunch, book a weekday off and go for the apple pancakes.

Two Of My Favourite Cinemas In The World

When you go for a piss at the Brooklyn Heights, you pass the projectionist. And the usher at Ziegfeld’s welcomes you like a VIP. Spectacular. For the record, my top 5 also includes the Bath Picturehouse, which I fear no longer exists, ‘Wembley’ in Kandy, Sri Lanka and Zeffirelli’s in Ambleside.

The Rocking Horse Cafe

With a pint of frozen mango margarita in your hand it doesn’t matter what the food tastes like. Until you taste the food. Then, it matters. In a good way.

7A

A personal favourite brunch spot in the Lower East Side. Confusingly, the picture's taken from the restaurnat rather than of the restaurant. It's not even a very good picture.

Vini E Olii

A Brooklyn gem. Unrecognisable as a restaurant from the outside – they’ve kept the ’50s drugstore façade - the inside ‘prescribes’ perfectly cooked Italian seasonal cuisine with surprisingly good house Chianti and Orvieto to wash it down for not very much money.

Bloom's Deli

My First Motzah Ball Soup. Some Jewish food I simply don’t understand. A great place with fantastic service.