Places phildzielski Wants to Go

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.