Snack restaurants in North America
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Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs
If you eat 'em, this is the place for an all-beef dog with sauerkraut and mustard. A frightening time to visit is July 4, when Nathan's holds a hot-dog-eating contest (the record stands at Joey Chestnut's 68 in 10 minutes).
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Sweetgreen
One day, we’ll catch the guys at Sweetgreen selling polar-bear-cub tacos to lumberjacks in the back room. We’re sure that’s the dark secret to this place – no business can be so cutely macrobiotic! Until then, we admit these are some of the freshest, cheapest salads in the city. Just leave room for the nonfat Sweetflow frozen yogurt – every time you buy one, an acre of the Amazon Rainforest grows back. No, not really, but you get the sense it could happen – everyone here is such a damn do-gooder. Try and catch Sweetgreen’s mobile incarnation, Sweetflow Mobile, as it trundles around town.
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Evelyn’s
The town of Tiverton stretches alongside the wide Sakonnet river, with views of distant sailing vessels and Aquidneck Island. On the north stretch of Rte 77, you’ll find gray-shingled Evelyn’s a traditional roadside eatery from another era. Park on the crushed shell driveway and eat amazing lobster rolls (cool, mildly spiced claw and tail meat on a hotdog bun). The place sits next to a blue inlet with a handful of bobbing dinghies.
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La Perrada de Edgar
Back in the day, Colombia’s most (in)famous export to Miami was cocaine. But seriously, what’s powder got on La Perrada and its kookily delicious hot dogs that were devised by some Dr Evil of the frankfurter world. Don’t believe us? Try an especial, topped with plums, pineapple and whipped cream. How about shrimp and potato sticks? Apparently, these are normal hot-dog toppings in Colombia.
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Mixt Greens
No, they’re not getting the Grateful Dead back together – those ponytailed stockbrokers lined up out the door are here for generous organic salads with humanely raised, herb-marinated chicken and chipotle dressing or mango, jicama and roasted peanuts with tangy Thai vinaigrette. Grab a stool or get yours to go in a compostable corn container to enjoy bayside at the Ferry Building.
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Bruckner Bar & Grill
Looking like a 100-year-old classic, with chipped-wood floors and historic photos of the area, this place is actually a new version of an elevator factory, with beer, wine and some surprisingly good sandwiches and burgers ($9 to $11); there’s a pool-table room to the side with some live music and comedy. It’s nearly under the Third Ave Bridge overpass.
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Waffle
After a night out clubbing, do you really feel like filling yourself with garbage? Us, too. But the Waffle's 21st-century diner food - cornmeal-jalapeño waffles with grilled chicken, carrot cake waffles, mac 'n' cheese, samiches, heaping salads - is organic and locally sourced, so it's (almost) good for you. Bonus: short but well-chosen wine list.
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Skooby’s
Hot dogs are king at this pocket-sized paean to America’s favorite guilty pleasure. Grab a seat at the Walk-of-Fame-adjacent counter and order a 7in dog with Guinness chili, grilled onions and peppers, or keep it easy-squeezy with a squirt of spicy mustard. Fries and dipping sauce are scrumptious. Cash only.
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Al Andar
Most of the late-night action at this tiny downtown bar spills out onto a convivial pedestrian thoroughfare. Choose from 20 varieties of primo mezcal and sample a mixed platter of snacks that includes chapulines (grasshoppers) and queso Oaxaca (Oaxacan cheese).
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Central Grocery
A Sicilian immigrant invented the world-famous muffuletta sandwich - a round, seeded loaf of bread stuffed with ham, salami, provolone and marinated olive salad that's roughly the size of a manhole cover - here in 1906. Today, this is still the best place in town to get one.
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Split Pea Seduction
Right off Skid Row are unexpectedly healthy, homey $8.50 gourmet soup-and-sandwich combinations, including seasonal soups like potato and housemade pesto with a signature crostata (open-faced sandwich), such as cambozola cheese and nectarine drizzled with honey.
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Elliott Bay Café
This cozy crypt underneath Elliott Bay Book Co is a clean well-lit place to settle in with a book and a bowl of soup or salad, or a Bukowski’s Ham on Rye sandwich (named for the grisly old barfly poet), and browse the book-lined walls while you eat.
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Curtis’ Barbeque
In a retrofitted school bus, Curtis’ Barbeque dispenses some of the best ribs and barbecue chicken north of the Mason-Dixon line. Wash it down with one of Curtis’ own bottled sodas.
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Cajun Seafood
The name says it all: this is a grocery store/take-out that’s one of the best budget options in town for raw seafood and cooked hot plates, such as fried chicken, boudin, fish plates and the like.
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Up for Breakfast
Search out this hole-in-the-wall 2nd-floor restaurant in Manchester Center for the best breakfast in town, anything from good ol' blueberry pancakes to smoked-salmon-and-caper omelets.
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Horsefeathers
The most popular gathering place in town has an encyclopedic menu featuring pasta, salads, sandwiches, burgers, bar snacks and main-course platters.
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Helus
Excellent takeout items like ground-beef turnovers and Arabic pastries; served by a distant relative of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
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Pupuseria San Miguel
Offers great, very cheap pupusas, a traditional Salvadoran snack of corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, meat and beans.
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Bryce Canyon General Store & Snack Bar
Sells basic supplies, hot dogs, drinks, sandwiches, chile, soup and pizza. Showers ($4) and laundry too.
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Desert View Trading Post Snack Bar
Snack bar by the East Entrance serves breakfast, burgers and other predictable basic fare.
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Churrería de Coyoacán
Coyoacán’s best deep-fried snacks. Get in line for a bag – cream-filled or straight up.
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