The Hottest Dishes, Ever

All month, Grub Street has been documenting New York’s past through its assorted restaurant scenes. The focus has been the people, but this is not to say the food was completely secondary. Certain dishes have always had a way of breaking through to mass awareness and acclaim. To cap off the series, we present 14 of the buzziest individual dishes in the city’s history, the culinary innovations that were delicious and sophisticated enough to...