(This venue is closed.) Galicia takes its name and inspiration from a province on the northwest coast of Spain, the owner's home until he emigrated to the United States in the 1980s. His "comidas Españas & Latinas" also speak to Upper Manhattan's large Dominican community. While many of the items on the bill of fare above the counter, painstakingly hand-lettered many years ago, are still in play, an addendum (in the first photo below, it hangs at bottom right) also offers a roster of sandwiches, including two adopted stalwarts of Dominican restaurants throughout the city: the Cubano and the medianoche.
The most enticing dishes, however, offer flavors that seem more Old World than New. Shown below: lunch specials of carne a la Madrileña, featuring beef, and pollo a la Extrameña, whose chicken is accompanied by a little sliced sausage.
Like all too many small businesses in New York, this 30-year-old Washington Heights restaurant in danger of vanishing. Learn more.
Galicia
4083 Broadway (172nd-173rd Sts.), Manhattan
(the only location, despite the awning)
212-568-0168
www.GaliciaRestaurantNYC.com
