Eating In Translation

What's Eating In Translation?

This website began as a collection of field notes on interesting food I'd tried, or planned to try, in and around New York. Since its launch, in January 2005, I've visited thousands of venues, from white-linen restaurants to elbows-on-the-table eateries, as well as street vendors, fairs, festivals, grocers, and greenmarkets — and my "to eat" list is longer than ever.

Empanadas Mix

A Venezuelan hot dog — with onion, cabbage, carrot, corn, potato, pecorino, pink sauce, ketchup, and mayo — at a sidewalk table. Actual hot dog not shown.

Empanadas Mix
8103 Northern Blvd. (81st-82nd Sts.), Jackson Heights, Queens
347-935-3777
www.Instagram.com/EmpanadasMixNY

Give some, take some: Ozone Park Community Fridge

Hand-painted artwork (Brandi Jones, Black Village Arts, 2020)
Outside Dave's Barber Shop & Hair Salon (that's Dave at work near the window)
13206 Liberty Ave. (132nd-133rd Sts.), South Richmond Hill, Queens
718-577-8331
https://Daves-Barber-Shop-Hair-Salon.business.site

Si n'Shpi

Qofte djegëst (Chofe-tah Yeah-guest) — as served, and as assembled into one of a series of ad hoc sliders — at a sheltered outdoor table. If you don't like your Albanian qofte so spicy, you can always order it padjegëst.

Si n'Shpi ("Like Home")
2307 65th St. (23rd-24th Aves.), Mapleton, Brooklyn
917-933-4579
www.Instagram.com /SinShpi_Restaurant

Fauzia's Heavenly Delights

Fauzia's cart was a fixture near the Bronx courthouses till late last year, when Columbia entreated her to set up beside the construction site of the school's Manhattanville campus. New to the neighborhood, from the rotating menu: a Jamaican-ish grilled lamb platter.

Fauzia's Heavenly Delights
Cart on Broadway near the northwest corner with 131st St., Manhattan
718-930-5711
www.FauziasHeavenlyDelights
Weekday lunch only

Bolivian Llama Party: Pump Up the Salteñas

At a glance, a salteña "resembles nothing more than a fat baked empanada — a resemblance that can vanish with one incautious bite." Read about the Oropeza brothers, their restaurant Bolivian Llama Party, and their salteñas on Culinary Backstreets.