Dive Bar

Though out of place on a menu heavy with burgers and other New York bar food, the "New Orleans Muffuletta" ($10) might be just the thing if Jazz Fest isn't in your plans. (If it is, lucky you.)

Dive Bar's muffuletta may vary slightly from visit to visit, but it always packs mouth-stretching quantities into its crisp (sometimes toasty) confines: cappicola, mortadella, Genoa salami, ham, provolone, olive salad, roasted peppers, onions, tomato, arugula. Most appetites will be finished off by four quarters like this; if you go into overtime, there's a heap of fries, too. Wash it down with a bottle or two of Abita ($5).

Perhaps the Montreal Jazz Festival has also figured in someone's travel plans: Poutine appears in the lineup, too. This Québécois comfort food adds cheese curds to fries, then wets down the pile with gravy; the Dive Bar rendition is able if routine.

Dive Bar
723 Amsterdam Ave. (95th-96th Sts.)
(one of several locations, though only this one prepares food)
212-749-4358