#just like we have the separation of chinese food indian food mexican food italian food french food etc. here

[imaginealpha]

Please think about why you don’t consider BAME British people or immigrants to be ‘really’ British, and why I might have included those food cultures on purpose.

Hey, I didn't mean to imply that they're not British. I am Indian myself, and I always believed that that the food had Indian roots, not European roots. The whole "thin ice" comment was mainly a joke based on my surprise, but I'm sorry if it offended anyone.

#i suppose it's along the same lines as me considering tex mex as having roots in mexican food despite not being exactly mexican ykno? #like yeah i can understand if tikka masala originated in britain then technically it is british #which is why after googling i was like 'ok yeah i guess' #but not being british means it definitely caught me by surprise when i found out it's quite popular there #actually I've been thinking about this and to add on: #define british food to me pls bc i don't actually know what is considered culturally british #if i were to make a dish inspired by indian cuisine i would market it here as indian food not american food #but america is a hodge podge of cultures and very few things are actually considered culturally american in this country #i had thought even in britain tikka masala would be considered indian food of a sort because it is heavily inspired by indian cultural food #just like we have the separation of chinese food indian food mexican food italian food french food etc. here #and even in some places there is separation between cultural international foods and 'american' international foods #like I've been to asian restaurants that label cultural foods on their menu vs for example 'american chinese food' #so to me tikka masala would be 'british indian food' and not solely british food because the indian part is still important there #anyways this became a bit of a ramble but at the end of the day #i understand that there is rampant anti-immigrant sentiment going around that is important to combat #but please don't drop in my inbox acting like i am immediately racist for having a modicum of disbelief #i really did not appreciate waking up to what felt like an attack on a monday morning #im sure you meant well and are probably tired of seeing actual racism in your notes #and as a child of immigrants i appreciate you sticking up for immigrants #esp since you may be one yourself idk #just please keep in mind that people do have different experiences and perspectives that aren't characterized the same as yours #because it did come off a little abrasive

[nightcoremoon]

weird opinion but christians aren't religious.

ok so like, jews generally follow god's rules, muslims follow allah's rules, hindus probably follow their gods rules, so on and so forth. and overall they do it out of faith; they do it because they want to honor the deity who loves them rather than because society forces them to.

granted the zionists and the radical extremists and the zealots do exist but as loud minorities and thus are statistical outliers & don't matter.

christians are... a different breed.

"if you aren't x branch and dont obey y rules you'll go to hell so we'll fucking murder you" is pretty much the main driving force behind a significant portion of christianity in history. the catholics, the protestants, the orthodoxy, all are built on a foundation of fear, anger, and hatred. it's shaped the way society developed; in the 4 nations that did the most genocidal imperialist colonialism- England, France, Spain, and Italy- a combination of convenient coastal locations, naval prowess, military tendency, christianity, and ultranationalism lead them down a path of missionaries, holding bibles in one hand and bloodstained knives in the other. the religion is inseparable from the culture and inseparable from the horrible things done in the name of their god, and the resulting cancers of society we feel today from the campaigns of slaughter. xenophobia. capitalism. savage barbarism via sensationalized capitol punishment. misogyny. queerphobia. gender fascism. classism. racism. all of these issues in the "civilized world" stem predominantly from those four nations and the disease ridden pestilent filth some call pilgrims.

here's something interesting:

there are less than 1 million rastafari in the world.

there are less than 5 million shinto in the world.

there are less than 25 million jews in the world.

there are less than 30 million sikhs in the world.

there are roughly 100 million african cultural religious adherents in the world.

there are less than 400 million chinese cultural religious adherents in the world.

there are about 500 million buddhists in the world.

there are about 1.1 billion hindus in the world.

there are about 1.2 billion nonreligious people in the world.

there are 1.6 billion muslims in the world.

and one final statistic

there are over 2.1 billion christians in the world.

the jewish count is a highball, rounded up, and includes several different definitions of jewish including people who are only one quarter. so for every single person who is even remotely jewish, there are more than 8 christians. for every hindu, there are 4 christians. for every atheist, agnostic, or "other", 2 christians. this frightening statistic should set off warning bells for everyone who is involved in a discussion about religion. and anyone who knows BASIC world history and can correlate data at all can probably piece together what I'm putting down.

now, I may be slightly biased here considering my eclectic religious beliefs. now, I personally believe that there is some primary force of energy that may or may not manifest itself as a humanoid being, that engineered the most basic laws of physics in the universe: atomic magnetism. as can be inferred by planck's constant and its implications, our universe is digital, written in binary. an electron either moves or doesn't move. there are no other options. so I genuinely believe in some form of intelligent design; whether it's a bearded guy on a cloud, some dude with six arms and an elephant for a face, just a big swirling pool of ectoplasm, or a big ol' plate of spaghetti and meatballs, something is out there that we are physically incapable of contacting from our plane of existence, just as a drawing on a piece of paper cannot reach out to interact with the world: a gif will move on its own but it will never acknowledge our existence, even if it could think by itself. and all the different mythologies of the world- egyptian, greek, norse, shinto, whatever- very well could be the agents of that unknown "god". perhaps anubis, ra, and bastet are just angels with animal heads that all of the peoples of ancient egypt saw and were like oh I guess this must be a god. maybe zeus and loki were the same person with a magic dick who fucked a bunch of animals in both greece and the scandinavian countries and spawned all of the horrible half-animal monstrosities that, idk, made vishnu think "well I have to kill that" and caused the biblical flood or something. maybe the jewish god gifted wisdom to siddhartha for sitting under a fig tree for 6 years through the angel pomona [roman goddess of fruit, had to google that one], so buddha gets his wisdom from demeter and is in nirvana right now right a step up from hades on yggdrasil the world tree keeping an eye on his charge persephone. any theory could theoretically be true but we ants of humans will never fucking know because we can't just point a telescope at the magellanic clouds and say "look, there's amaterasu with russell's teapot, and she's having tea with... *rubs eyes* lemmy kilmister??? wow I guess gods are real after all!" it's impossible to know the secrets of our universe because of the very restrictive nature of the universe itself. is it a circle? is it a donut? WE DONT FUCKIN KNOW.

we cannot know what religion is truthful.

""anyone who says that any one religion is more or less true than any other is a fucking moron, and if they're suggesting that White Western European Colonial Imperialist Protestantism is the one true faith, they're probably a fucking racist colonizer who beats his wife/sister and burns gays at the stake. and considering how that exact demographic is typically the one that murdered people for not converting to their religion, I don't think they have the intellectual non-deranged ability to make those logical connections.

again, I'm not saying that there AREN'T a lot of people of every religion who are evil assholes who contributed to mass genocide. israelites killed palestinians. shiites killed sunnis. hutus killed tutsis. danes killed geats. turks killed armenians. the ottoman empire has as much blood on its hands as the holy roman empire. germans who called themselves aryans but weren't actually aryan killed jews. but all of these tragedies were isolated incidents rather than repeated patterns over the course of two thousand years. not like christianity was and is.

just look at the United States, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, & India's British Raj. Britain, France, Spain, and Italy, by extension Protestantism and Catholicism, are the shared factor between the long and bloody history fraught with massacring indigenous populations who wouldn't convert religions. native americans, indigenous canadians, latin americans but predominantly mexicans, the eastern chinese, coastal africans, aborigine aussies, indians- coastal coastal coastal. true the western chinese and the mongols/hunnu and xinjiang muslims haven't exactly been on civil terms and the silk road has always been a battleground and the middle east was already tenuous before murrica bombed them for oil but those happened in such a spread out area among asia which is FUCKING HUGE, MIND YOU! but also that's three high traffic places with massive diversity, it's human nature to have conflict, but not nearly to the same level as all of the shit christianity has done to the world. it's impossible to separate the religion from the cultures; victorian england without protestantism is just dirty people who die at 15 from having their 3rd child. italy without the catholicism is just grass and cheese. france and spain without religion are just kingdoms that fought wars with england for forever and now just make food that's one part delicious and three parts horrifying. religion is directly responsible for a significant portion of the evils those countries committed. one religion in particular.

they don't practice religion the same way as the rest do. they aren't faithful to their god. they don't follow his rules out of love but out of fear. they execute dissenters without a second thought, heresy they cry. they execute women and little girls for being free thinking or having sickness associated with mercury poisoning in the water, witch they cry. they slaughter men women and kids alike in the name of cramming their beliefs down the natives throats, we're chasing out the snakes they cry, we're bringing god to your godless people they cry, we're just civilizing you they cry. they shit in the streets and proudly display rotting corpses and leave the impoverished disabled and starving to die alone and whip their slaves and rape teenage girls and scrap in the streets while sopping wet with spilled ale over insignificant insults and stab people to death in the night and never even fucking BATHE, and they have the nerve to say the natives were uncivilized. the nerve. because hey. they read a magic book they stole from a culture who stole from another culture who stole from another culture, mistranslating each time from hebrew to greek to italian to english, and they think they're better because their skin is white.

christians never evolved. their mentalities have stayed the same. all thatms advanced has been technology. that's it. they're still the same evil disgusting degenerate bastards they always were. they just have the money they stole to buy stained glass windows, rosary beads, giant tacky metal statues, bigass robes, leather, and printing presses. and as time passed they used the money they continued to steal to buy cars and websites and radio stations and commit felony tax evasion and secretly molest children and line the pockets of the politicians.

all of their holidays are stolen from pagans anyway.

so fuck christmas. fuck easter. fuck lent. fuck the golden calf christian holidays that the tiny minded fragile snowflake conservatives lose their collective shit over because the pandemic response common sense stipulations won't let them buy the shit they can't afford with money they shouldn't have for people they don't even LIKE, all in the name of tradition, tradition! the rituals that worship something so much worse than satan or baphomet or pan or whatever: the dollar. they buy all the new shiny shit they can, at the expense of the chinese kids that the corporate pigs outsource to, buy the pine trees and the coca cola vunderbar and the fake mint corn syrup Js and watch the same shitty cookie cutter white supremacist hallmark fash movies and stuff their kids full of enough sugar to go into a goddamn coma when the african slaves who pick the cocoa beans will never get to know what actually being a kid will ever feel like because they're gonna die from falling into a combine harvester and be eternally forgotten to history and no christian will ever give a shit because they don't fucking care about what they don't see on their safe space news or hear on their safe space radio or read on their safe space social media. they think their worst sin is eating cheeseburgers so instead they'll go eat a mcchicken or chick fil a or an arby's chicken sandwich instead but not at popeyes because "that place is sketchy" and by that they mean they don't wanna eat where black people eat, that's why cracker barrel was so popular for so many white christians for so long because it had racially segregated seating until barely 20 years ago.

they don't love jesus. they love a paper doll they shove into their back pockets until every other sunday where they go to a fucking mall with a baptism waterslide and raise their hands like a bunch of dumbass weirdos and away to adult contemporary indie schlock with the word jesus pasted into a boring-ass hetero romance song, pat themselves on the back, then go to starbucks to scream slurs and misgenderings at 14 year old starbucks baristas who give them a cappamochalattechino instead of a fucking carmamochalattechino because you mumbled under the mask you didn't even fucking cover your nose with because you don't give a shit about the virus beyond how it inconveniences you.

they are horrible people who pretend to be good. until you suggest the slightest infinitely small inconvenience to them that would alter their holiday plans even the littlest smidge. then they would kill you if not for the police. don't get me started on them because you know by now what I'd say about those fuckers. but they'll gladly wear shirts about how they'll kill you. how they'll go back 200 years. how they'll murder you and watch you slowly suffer because their primate brains shoot a million endorphins when they watch things die by their hands because they never evolved a sense of empathy, compassion, or morality beyond how wearing a cross necklace will remove any of the consequences they will face in their afterlife.

they are horrible people who pretend to be good. unless you're gay or black or trans or Not Christian™ or mexican or disagree with them about politics economics sociology science technology music or movies. assimilate or die. assimilate or die. assimilate or die.

they don't deserve special treatment for their false idols.

they aren't better than jews or muslims.

they're worse.

so much worse.

and they should be stopped.""

-Nightingale Quietioca

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[wayward-hums]

Backscratcher Solved

The things you believed in will stay like the needle in the eye of your son, forever, while violet lights on Christmas windows tell their young to count the stars above for the tow trucks to come.

One snap of both fingers on both hands is that quick to forget the loss of the eye for the storm. Bjork and her son on some island are editing magazines, as the newspapers cut their font accordingly.

Believe in Weimar - all the dogs that make you happy today are the cats with burnt tails at night, and that weeps you out.

Tell Eno about the sign, as present continuous couldn't be if not for being alive. Forget the Judge, he knows.

My fire is despairing in Chernobyl while the elephant's leg is laughing inside one snake turned into a wrong god.

My orange later is the new blue and black depending on the dalton in the snow.

Cilla approves of my literature beyond the thistles of the pale lilac rainbow.

Roma follow lithium when Kurt knows how right Reznor could have been if he still believed in self destruction from Lucas.

There's too much actor geometry in my systems. I think this is stolen from Ballard. Ballard who did you steal it from? Jews probably... Then I feel shameless to steal it from you once more.

If you want to find my twisted sister, my anchor has made a pact in Panjeea not to look in the eye when the Celtic ring is breaking on the middle finger.

The man hammering the anvil still sits on the fence before the oval, surrounded by coal and covered by the trees.

Pigeons not only develop a coop, they wait before the docks positioning themselves in the manner of your being and everything turns against Gira machine because his Polaroids don't match the patterns on Andy's chest.

My murder of crows never Rows M for H anymore, as the P is at composed consolidation with the Mac and cheese.

Is your purple super handed man still escaping through your husband's elbow while you stick your eye in it to see how close you are from reaching your own screw? He says quietly that they always come and so they do. They really do. I see them wandering around me in Jung and its shadows. I see stars. Little openings, usually of green glow.

My hook aura can do a cucumber before 9pm.

***

Keep all lose ends, you never know whether the mercurial son won't end up trashing background music.

Your belt in hypercube can do prime numbers showing the tree that cut its own head and turned into a stone from which Pegasus took young self into nowhere.

Gabo Othala Gabo Othala Gabo Othala.

The silver lining is on your apricot.

Remember that babies are on the mint trolley so the smoke is showing you Odin from the blood to the excrement in the river.

Mondays are manic and ratty, Tuesday is for the eternal love of Thom. On Wednesdays the leprechaun is flexing the muscles, while Thursday belongs to David... and it is so low, Lou needs to cut himself in the reeds for Iggy to pop alive on television. Running around the beach with a yoggi.

Jessica's Fridays are doing shrimps in the green mile jar for a doormouse.

Weekends don't come around. Or they do when Moz is unable to look me in the eye, cursing the father.

No-one really sells the world exactly, not even my self, my voided body.

Saturday could be the moment for Nick Cave's split with Blixa if not for the fact I'm on Jupiter and she is on Pluto.

No matter how much your raisin shows, the towel will sweep the others for you on a snow creamed Marilyn kiss from three Irelands visiting to and fro and then back to young Erin again.

This is not the time for the b&w, but for the 'S' that goes onto 'M' for the demon that doesn't breathe (it lives in the idea in the hallway-room that wasn't reversed to the time before the great break)

||

So count to nine (hee-haw) because 13 is the number reserved for jumping Heather / feather of the church of Brigid.

Silvans blow their Peruvian pipes for Oliver to replace Stuart, like a fiver killed through my barking girl hidden within an exhibitionist gym for when we were young animal girls.

Sometimes things feel like faceless beauty looking cardinal purple for Art to go turquoise and celeste on a mean lean green sunflower pact with a-cordian Jon.

There's too much carnelian on the Fubar for the floss of Leviathan and red weather drums hiding Indian eggs on mount I donated a paper plane to cover the moon of wolves in my polar bear lying on the floor.

A misogynist chef that cooks awesome hospital food without much attitude for love sings "wo' y'all yall".

"Keep it snappy for suffragette equalizers on central Deadpool Rock Resistance", said Edith in Glasgow while singing bread melody of the morning frost in pure mist.

David lynch knows not to pull 7 for a very long time in this factory.

Sunglasses at night might help, but children of the plague have begun their surreal journey with abacus to give a three - fingered hand shakes.

Bolt the doctor in the eye of your chin.

Apples don't talk of piety when they're unafraid of the mirror iris. Ewe and Grace won't ever do the thin daughter's water scale channel in the open.

There is a teal in Argos for the Chinese salmon and eels.

We won't scratch Hungarians to bring turkey to the bridge for the anti-heroes hidden in literature's fantastic eyelashes.

Please remember the terrifying future of the freeze. Why your brother is so full of angst about spiders and machines from war of the worlds. You love him and you understand how step-ladders work now.

Although you're still around the difficulty to forgive, regardless of the amount of Tzur's Ho and purple Sign O' the Times, she must have your name.

Gather self around the time you crunched and went back to say Carlin was not just right, he was essential.

You don't want to die holding an Artaud shoe but pancreatic cancer doesn't feel appealing either. Why is it always cancer or suicide by society?

Don't slice the ear, keep the slave in the black tulip for scientists to wonder.

Japan is saving the moment of air / water release for the grainy deserted field of barley, Roxy Boney.

Yoko Ono never meant to tell me until this December that I am Pepe Pewing lasers for Hong Kong.

I am forgiven.

There is sorrow for Libby in my dust bunnies, I crumble my rib and lung.

The right side of the body hailing to the man is the realm of the dead. Live your hands separately, I told them enough.

Raspberry slipper hill on Francis the magpie turn leopard once for the Tinkerbell to off herself for Disney-Pasta with a sample of Finland for the birds on your assessment notes.

At first you may think that the weirded masked nympho is having a pact with a hoover man and denotes the conversations to the red lion man blackmailed by the pen handling yellow, 9"11 causing peckers, over and over.

I said I won't Sanchez you that white frame for Chris and John, but I allowed my blue trousers to go full circle and come back as I don't feel much like creating portals in 2005, so don't dare stealing my love.

Time and morality are so relative it feels it was me who has always been giving to the eternity; I have given flowers for the red crown that brought cracks on the crocodile pavement for ankh girl go sandman.

I have awakened you and nursed Joe in his dream on the 01/12 by spitting on my totem.

If they are looking through my right eye, my left fountain keeps flowing gum that will come back in style, since the owls have left the ward with marlboro and lassoes, Dennis Jordan won't buffalo buffalo even for the ear.

***

Birds see my floaters and I don't catch black snow. One tiny spoon of Italian ice-cream wounded by an old relative (that is not with me anymore) is enough to convince Vienna of waiters.

FedEx kid told Tom who lately broke a lot of wall not to look me in the Wilson this time, one neighbour on covid19 is enough, we reckon. His son did some Buckley a while back. Who else looks like dope?

I learned that my cairn was a farmer. The one legged Alan tossed the coin to me. The deor collects no dandylion.

The tin with the stag in four A reflected the same pattern as the Rudolf before the || hallway, just like my radiator - dried bobble today.

They tried to recount me by removing my magnetic field of mice away, while adding heavier than life gravity onto my atlas that still reminds me of clear bag in Hungarian.

***

When I spoke to you the first time your blonde hair and pale skin were set on fire. I love every time you move your head towards a cat caress.

Phil Spector is still reincarnating outside the window. Swayze's wife must be furious about the theft of patsy Cline into the crazy vein of my middle finger.

The teared rose on Mexican palms have led me to a higher wisdom of Armenia.

Now that I listened to you I understand the highs of organic artists better and I'm disappointed it is leaving me while the gravity of rock and roll becomes too heavy to relate to my foetus on the leash the way I could relate before.

You have to be that tall to pass my headge-row with a lion tattoo on the armpit, when you drive over the body of that girl and get away with it, buddy.

Tear for Eddie.

Who is off the nut today? I'm only playing poker cards on my brown paladium. The ancient black cat knows no Asian bullshit

Hyenas are laughing about their shimmering initiation. Bird laughs with droplets falling on my right elbow. It serves me not (back when I got scared in the restaurant chain) until I'm served Jasmine knot.

I'm that girl everyone keeps selling and that man you can't look in the eye on your right. Stop using my raspberry rabbit, it is mine!

Why do You insist on using language as if it couldn't harm you? I'm least likely to, anyway.

***

[obiwan824]

A Week- Poly! Hamilsquad x Reader x Southern! Democratic Republicans

A/N: The project that’s taken weeks to write, it’s finally done! This is just a little bit of a preview of a series I want to write? Kind of a prequel or introduction? But this took me so long, hope you enjoy!

Monday

“I’m home,” Y/N called, kicking off her shoes and dropping her bag by the door. She swung off her coat and hung it on the hook, smiling as one of her boys appeared around the corner and held out his arms. Snuggling into Herc’s chest she finally felt at home.

“Hi, baby,” he whispered.

“Hi.”

He leaned down and kissed her softly, cute and gentle and sweet. He looked at her with so much adoration that she felt her cheeks heat up the tiniest bit. Laf walked over and joined the hug with a grin. She separated from Hercules and kissed Lafayette’s cheek.

“How was work?”

She let out a huff. “More gossip, more rumors, more writing to be done.”

Alex laughed, coming through the front door behind her and kissing both Laf and Herc’s cheeks. “Don’t I know it.”

John was last, practically running around the corner and into his girlfriend’s arms. “BABY GIRL!”

“John!” she said, teasing him with the same amount of enthusiasm and kissing him. “Get any sketches done?”

He smiled proudly and showed her his colorful hands. “Paintings, actually.”

“I hope you didn’t do it on my desk again.” Y/N groaned playfully. When he looked down sheepishly she frowned. “John, you promised!” When he kissed her again, she shook her head. “Fine, just clean it up, ‘kay?”

“Anything for you, baby girl,” he announced, kissing her one more time before moving on to Alex.

Laf pulled her back against his chest. “I do love having you here, mon cheri.”

“It’s great to be here, Laf.”

“Then don’t leave!” John said, bouncing a bit. Y/N giggled as Alex nodded.

“Yeah, don’t go back to Thomas, he doesn’t need you, we do!”

“Aw, Alex,” Y/N teased, leaning over and kissing his cheek. “Can’t leave my other boys alone- but, for tonight, I’m yours.”

 Tuesday

Thomas held her close against his chest. “No, I don’t wanna share you!”

“Baby,” Y/N cooed, raising an eyebrow and smirking. “Don’t you want to see Aaron and Jemmy?”

Thomas frowned. “Fine. But we better not run into Hamilton on our way out.”

She stood up and brushed off her legs with a scowl. “Thomas, you know I need to check on Alex before I go.”

He sighed dramatically as he stood and kissed her cheek. “I’m not going to talk to him.”

“I didn’t expect you to,” Y/N said with a giggle and lacing her fingers with his. Thomas slung her work bag over his shoulder and held her stack of books and papers with his free hand. Y/N had a brown paper bag clutched tightly in her hand. She stopped at Alexander’s office, letting Jefferson stand off to the side, and rapped lightly on the door.

“Come in,” Hamilton called. She entered with a smile. “Y/N, darling!”

She set the bag on his desk as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her for a moment. He laid his forehead against hers and kissed her once more, hands roaming her body. She playfully pushed him away.

“Alex, it’s not your day,” she sang. Alex rolled his eyes before she handed him the bag. “Here.”

“A present?” he teased, quirking an eyebrow and beginning to open it.

Y/N rolled her eyes. “A meal. I know you, you won’t be home until midnight and by the time you finish writing you wouldn’t have had time to eat, and it’ll be too late. I made your favorite.”

He smiled at the Tupperware and kissed her again. “Thanks, sweetheart. Love you. Are you going to check on John?”

She nodded. “Yep, if Thomas stops acting like a child.” She raised her voice at the end, making sure Jefferson could hear her.

“HEY!” he called back to them.

She kissed Alex one more time before walking away. “See you tomorrow.”

“Bye, darling.”

Y/N walked out the door, giving him one last look, reminding him to eat his meal, and closed the door. Thomas had his arms crossed and was wearing a pout.

“You didn’t say you’d be in there for that long!”

“Come on, we still have to give John his meal, then we can go home.”

Jefferson groaned but gave no protest. After checking up on Laurens, Y/N and Jefferson got in the car. Thomas placed all of her things carefully in the back and slid into the driver’s seat, squeezing her hand. Once home, he parked the car in the garage and grabbed her bag.

“I can carry that, you know,” Y/N told him, stepping into the elevator with their fingers laced.

Thomas rolled his eyes as the elevator rose. “I only get to see you every other day, darling, I’m not letting you work hard while I’m around.”

She smiled and took out her keys, holding open the door for her boyfriend, making him frown at her briefly before entering.

“James!” Thomas exclaimed happily, setting down the bag and stepping into Madison’s arms. Y/N grinned at them before walking towards James and pulling him away for a moment to hug him.

“Missed you, sweetheart,” James said softly, pulling her into a small kiss. “Are you staying the night?”

She smiled. “Yep, don’t want to miss an opportunity to talk with my favorite boy.”

“You tell that to all your boys,” someone else said with a teasing tone. Y/N turned around and walked into Aaron’s arms, kissing his cheek as he wasn’t one for lots of physical contact.

“Yes, but I only mean it with you,” she cooed, rubbing his back and snuggling into his shoulder. Thomas and James quickly joined in, not wanting to be left out. Cuddled between three of her boys, there was no place she’d rather be.

Wednesday

“Wednesday’s movie night,” Hercules called, stepping into the apartment with arms full of movies. “We have one each of everyone’s favorites, we don’t have time for everything, we’re watching 2 movies so get your arguments ready!”

Alex jumped up from the couch. He had previously had Y/N’s feet on his legs as she sat in John’s lap, but he quickly pushed them off so he could begin to scream. “We have to watch The Little Mermaid!”

Y/N rolled her eyes. “You love that movie more than you love me!”

John rubbed her shoulders and kissed her neck from behind. “He doesn’t love the movie, N/N, it’s Ariel he’s in love with.”

“Great.” she chuckled. “That’s better.”

Laf entered through the door behind Herc, carrying 3 large boxes of pizza. He set the food down and smiled, coming into the living room and holding out his arms.

“I’m home, mon cheris!”’

John jumped off the couch and barrelled into Laf’s arms. “Please don’t let Alex choose The Little Mermaid again, Laf, don’t you love me?” Laurens gave his best puppy eyes.

“Aw, mon amour, it’s beyond my control!” Lafayette kissed the top of his head and opened his arms to Y/N. She stepped into them, putting her arms around his neck and kissing him sweetly.

“Glad you’re home,” she whispered into his hair.

“Glad you’re here,” he replied softly, kissing her again.

“But please, Laf, don’t let him choose again!”

Gilbert laughed. “I’ll do my best.”

Thursday

“Where are we going?”

Thomas pulled Y/N more tightly against his chest. “Well, we can do Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian- or we can just run to the store and get another frozen meal.”

Y/N shifted a bit in his lap. “Okay, and when is Aaron coming home?”

“Answer my question and I’ll answer yours.” Thomas poked her nose, making her pout. After she gave him her dinner order he kissed her. “Aaron will be home any minute, and James should be up from his nap soon.”

Sure enough, only a few moments later Madison wandered out of the bedroom and came into the living room. He smiled at the two.

“Thanks for letting me rest, I feel much better.” James sniffed and settled next to them on the couch. Thomas took his hand and Y/N leaned over to kiss his cheek. Madison frowned. “Y/N, you’ll get sick!”

“And I’ll have you to take care of me,” she finished, kissing him on the lips.

“I’m home,” Aaron called, walking in. “I brought home enough ingredients for Thomas to make mac and-”

“MAC AND CHEESE!” Thomas exclaimed, shaking Y/N a bit. “Guys, Aaron is my favorite person ever!”

Y/N rolled her eyes and got off of Thomas, kissing Aaron’s forehead. “What have I told you about spoiling the children.”

“Sorry, darling,” Aaron replied, smiling.

Friday

She snuggled into Herc’s chest. “I don’t wanna go to sleep.”

He kissed the top of her head. She smiled as John rubbed her shoulders. “Why not, sweetheart?”

“‘Cause tomorrow I have to leave you again.”

“Yeah,” Alex piped up from John’s other side. “Why not stay?”

Laf smiled. “Come on, mon amour.” He reached for Y/N’s hand and squeezed it over Hercules. “Then you get to go and hang out with Thomas and James and Aaron!”

She grinned back. “Yeah. And then Sunday I’ll be back. Okay, goodnight.”

Saturday

“You shouldn’t snuggle with me, Y/N,” James reminded his girlfriend, watching with a fond smile as she moved closer to him.

“You’re always sick, cuddling has never killed me before!”

Madison shook his head. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

Aaron came in shortly, finding his spot at Y/N’s other side and spooning her. “Goodnight. Thomas will be in soon.”

She rolled her eyes. “He’s almost as bad as Alex, I doubt he’ll be here at all.”

“You have so little faith in me!” Jefferson piped up, coming in with an easy smirk on his face. “I’m here, aren’t I?”

Sunday

She took the pregnancy test between her hands, studying it slowly. She felt her vision go a bit blurry, her world crashing around her.

It was positive.

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How Trader Joe’s Can Emerge from COVID-19 As The Greatest of All-Time (G.O.A.T.) Grocery Chain

The following post is not a paid promotion or endorsement.

Despite our changed COVID-19 reality, there’s one thing that remains constant…our need for food. While some may depend on takeout or even growing their food, there’s a high likelihood that you or someone in your household will be thinking about, planning for, or venturing out to do some grocery shopping in the near future. Last week, it was time for me to restock on groceries, so I put on my mask and ventured out to one of my favorite grocery store chains, Trader Joe’s. Founded in California in 1967 by a man named Joe, Trader Joe’s has earned a cult-like following over the last decade.

Why do I and so many others love Trader Joe’s so much? I’d say it’s a combination of their high quality one-of-a-kind products, crazy affordable prices that are generally 16% lower than other grocery stores, and customer service with a genuine personal touch. I’ve always been impressed with Trader Joe’s fundamental value proposition based on their products, people, and pricing, but seeing their COVID-19 safety measures during my most recent visit, made me realize that Trader Joe’s has the potential to earn the title of G.O.A.T., greatest grocer of all time.

While some may argue that Trader Joe’s has already reached G.O.A.T. status, I see some room for growth. Below, I go in depth into Trader Joe’s fundamental strengths (Product, People, and Pricing), their new COVID safety measures, and an opportunity for them to emerge from COVID-19 as the greatest grocery store of all time by expanding into minority communities .

Products

You can’t start a discussion about Trader Joe’s without talking about their products. In fact, if you’ve ever heard someone rant about how great Trader Joe’s is, they probably began by talking about an amazing specialty product that can only be purchased at Trader Joe’s. Whether it’s cookie butter (a delicious biscoff-cookie-flavored spread), or a 10-minute frozen bag meal that tastes like your favorite takeout restaurant at a fraction of the price and risk, Trader Joe’s products have become even more vital now that we’re spending so much time at home.

Here are some of my favorite products (Bonus: Click here to download a free Trader Joe’s shopping list I created): 

Undeniably Delicious Frozen Foods: In my humble opinion, Trader Joe’s has some of the best frozen foods I’ve ever tasted, and they’re clearly cheaper than frozen items at other grocery stores. Frozen meals are a quick and easy way to make lunch or dinner in minutes with little prep and minimal cleanup. Some of my go-tos include:

Chinese take-out replacements: Mandarin orange chicken, BBQ chicken teriyaki, the mildly sweet and spicy beef and broccoli, and chicken fried rice. I typically serve the first three with minute rice and bam! Dinner or lunch is served.

Indian take-out replacements: Chicken Tikka Masala (just buy it and I promise you’ll thank me later), vegetable panang curry, and butter chicken with basmati rice

Italian take-out replacements: Mushroom and Black Truffle Flatbread (decadent but so damn delicious), roasted vegetable lasagna (a little pricier than other items but also feeds more people), fettuccine with mushrooms, and stacked eggplant parmesan

Hamburger Helpers: If you’re looking for some frozen meat patties to jazz up your ordinary burger, look no further than Trader Joe’s frozen food aisle. From the turkey burgers and chili lime chicken burgers, to the salmon burgers and mahi burgers (which I like to complement with my favorite seafood seasonings or marinades), their frozen burger patty options are the truth! 

Desserts: So, I’ve hated chocolate my entire life (Yes, I know it’s weird…), so I haven’t truly been able to enjoy all the amazing frozen desserts Trader Joe’s offers. However, their macarons, which are also found in the frozen aisle, are one of my all-time favorites. They’re $4.99 for a dozen and allow you to imagine yourself enjoying each bite in a quaint little pastry shop an hour outside of Paris. Don’t we need more food like this in our lives right now? Oui. Oui. 

Tasty Yet Budget Friendly Wine : I first discovered Trader Joe’s in college when I was introduced to Charles Shaw wine, or ‘2 buck chuck’. Yes, for just $1.99, you could have your pick of a regular sized bottle of decent red or white wine. While my wine taste has evolved since then, Trader Joe’s still has a large collection of inexpensive, yet tasty wines that I enjoy.

Crazy Affordable Organic Fresh Produce: Another area where Trader Joe’s shines is their fresh produce. Not only do they have a good variety of items, but their organic and non-organic fruits and vegetables are also typically cheaper than their competitors. While there are some who say Trader Joe’s produce doesn’t stay fresh as long as other grocers, that hasn’t been my experience to-date. 

Snacks and Munchies: It would take multiple posts to describe the variety of chips, popcorns, and dips Trader Joe’s offers, but here are my top 5 absolute must-haves: 

Speculoos Cookie Butter: Think about buying a jar of peanut butter only to find out that someone replaced the peanuts with those delicious biscoff cookies they give away on Delta Airline flights. There are so many different ways to enjoy this finger-licking good spread, but my favorite is dripped over apple slices, or fresh strawberries 

Restaurant Style Tortilla chips: I’d put Trader Joe’s restaurant style tortilla chips head-to-head against any other grocery store’s tortilla chips. Heat them up in the microwave for 10 to 15 seconds and you’d swear they came straight out of your favorite Mexican restaurant.

Roasted Plantain chips: Delicious and a great snack for little people; can easily be paired with guacamole, queso, or any of your favorite dips 

Spinach and artichoke dip: While this is technically in the frozen food aisle, I placed it here because it epitomizes the very essence of an appetizer or snack. Warm the dip up in the microwave per instructions on packaging, and garnish with grated parmesan. Serve with pita chips, tortilla chips, or crackers. It’s crazy delicious. Nothing more to say.

Rhubarb and Strawberry soda: So this isn’t a snack per se, but I couldn’t end our product list without shouting out one of my fizzy indulgences and the perfect addition to any mocktail or cocktail. It’s great by itself, and can be used to create a simplified twist on the strawberry mojito. Bottoms up! 

Pricing

Beyond products, what makes Trader Joe’s value proposition so compelling, particularly during this time, are its prices. At most grocers, you have to pay a premium for quality; however, at Trader Joe’s, that isn’t always the case. You can easily get quality, uniqueness, and affordability all in one place, and often from one item. Why is that, you ask? 80% of Trader Joe’s products are made for its private label, which means their supply chain costs are much lower, allowing them to pass these cost savings on to consumers. 

People

While their products and pricing help Trader Joe’s stand out amongst their competition, many would argue that their strongest attribute is their people. As a proud customer, I would describe Trader Joe’s culture in one word, community. From their friendly cashiers to their crew members passing out samples with a smile, they seem like they’ve cracked the code on how to keep their employees engaged, productive, and seemingly satisfied, which is increasingly comforting and pretty inspiring during times like these. 

Safety Precautions

Products, pricing, and people have always been integral to Trader Joe’s value proposition; however, I’ve been extremely impressed by how thoroughly Trader Joe’s has adapted to our “COVID-19 new normal” with updated safety precautions. While all businesses are taking additional precautions to help ensure safety amid the constant threat of COVID-19, Trader Joe’s was one of the few grocery stores that made me feel like they’re taking the precautions because they genuinely care, and not as a check-the-box license to operate. I’m not sure if it’s the fact they limit the number of shoppers inside the store, have a strict separation of clean and used grocery carts, or the sight of crew members walking the aisles wiping down items, but they’ve created a level of safety/security that I’ve rarely felt in public since COVID-19 became a reality.

Path to Greatness

While Trader’s Joe’s value proposition is defined by a combination of superior quality, uniqueness, community, and affordability, for its entire history, Trader Joe’s has been a luxury reserved for the educated, privileged, and disproportionately white subset of America that happens to live in one of the high-income areas where the company sets up shop. But, what if Trader Joe’s opened stores in underserved communities of color, helping to combat the countless food deserts across this country? Not only would this provide families in these communities with access to quality, healthy, and affordable food, it would also provide earners in these communities with practical training on customer-centric management, operations and service. While it may sound a little crazy, if done right and in combination with other policies in support of their crew members’ safety and the broader fight for a more just future, Trader Joe’s could send a powerful message and show that they believe in and stand for something far bigger than just paper and green ink.

I’d like to close on a note of gratitude and action...

Trader Joe’s, I appreciate you. I appreciate your products. I appreciate your crew members, and I appreciate the fact that you’re not charging me an arm, leg, and kidney for a bag of avocados. Most of all, during a time when community and public spaces have become synonymous with danger and illness, I appreciate the added safety, communal solidarity and consciousness I felt when I walked into your store.

So Trader Joe’s, consider this a call to action. I implore you to share your shopping experience of empathy and dignity and demonstration of community and love with people who need it most: people living in food deserts across this country who don’t have access to healthy yet inexpensive organic produce and quick meal options; people who would tremendously value and benefit the jobs, skills and employee experience you offer, and people who, just like you and I, want simply to feel their lives, basic needs, and futures matter. During a time of unprecedented uncertainty and fear, you have a transformative opportunity to model a much-needed form of social innovation that pushes us forward as a country and society by championing equality and community. While it may sound idealistic, I believe we can help create a clearer path for these underserved communities to achieve a more just and hopeful future, one grocery store, one policy, and one person at a time.

So what do I need from you as a reader?

Support the fight to ensure equal access to quality nutritious foods by clicking here to sign a petition asking Trader Joe’s to make plans to open at least two stores in the next 18 months in underserved, minority communities.

If you know others who would value the information listed above and feel comfortable holding our corporations to a higher level of accountability for people over profits, then share this post and ask others to sign the petition. 

If you enjoyed this post and would like more information on being intentional with your life, join my mailing list for updates and check out my posts on value and goal-based living, intentional self-care, childcare and development, and relationships. 

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How Trump Created a New Global Capital of Exiles

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How Trump Created a New Global Capital of Exiles

An asylum-seeker outside El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, waits for his turn to present to U.S. border authorities to request asylum. | GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images

Jack Herrera is an independent reporter and photojournalist covering immigration, refugees and human rights. His writing has appeared in Pacific Standard, The Nation, GEN magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, USA Today and other publications.

TIJUANA, Mexico—If you go early in the morning to the plaza in front of El Chaparral, the border crossing where a person can walk from Mexico into the state of California, you’ll hear shouts like “2,578: El Salvador!” and “2,579: Guatemala!”—a number, followed by a place of origin. Every day, groups of families gather around, waiting anxiously underneath the trees at the back of the square. The numbers come fromLa Lista, The List: When a person’s number is called, it’s their turn to ask for asylum in the United States.

These days, the most common place names shouted are Michoacán or Guerrero, Mexican states where intense cartel violence has sent thousands fleeing northward—occasionally, they���ll call Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras, countries where pervasive poverty, gangs, drugs and femicide have done the same. But every so often, the name of a different, more far-off country is called. In the span of just two weeks late last year, a list-keeper called out a number, in Spanish, followed by “Rusia!” They also called out numbers for people from Armenia, Ghana and Cameroon. Asylum-seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo crossed, as well as people from Eritrea. One day, the list-keeper called out “Turquía!” and a Turkish family rushed forward to claim their spot. The family was escorted by Mexican immigration officials over the pedestrian walkway into the United States, where they told Customs and Border Protection agents that they had, like everyone else, left their home country fleeing for their lives.

These people were the lucky ones. They had managed to persist in Tijuana, waiting until the day they finally heard their numbers called. Others haven’t been so fortunate. With The List’s queue regularly stretching longer than six months, many migrants fall victim to predatory robbery, kidnapping or murder before they can find refuge; others find the wait in one of the most dangerous cities in the world simply unendurable.

When Americans think of the people crossing the southern border, they might imagine Mexicans or Central Americans—or, even more generally, Latin Americans. But migration, both legal and illegal, from Mexico into the United States is incredibly international. In the course of 2018, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 9,000 Indians, 1,000 Chinese nationals, 250 Romanians, 153 Pakistanis, 159 Vietnamese people and dozens of citizens of over 100 other countries. Fifteen Albanians and seven Italians were stopped trying to cross the southern border, as were four people from Ireland, a single person from Japan, and three people each from Syria and Taiwan. Border Patrol even apprehended two North Koreans on the border in 2018 who were separately attempting to cross into various parts of Texas.

Now,one of the most direct effects of Trump’s border policy is that thousands of foreigners from all over the world have found themselves unexpectedly stuck on the southern border. Since 2017, President Donald Trump has turned the country’s immigration system on its head to deter Central American asylum-seekers. But policies meant to address Guatemalan or Honduran migrants have also affected Jewish people fleeing persecution in Hungary; Syrians escaping civil war in their home country; and LGBTQ people fleeing Vladimir Putin’s homophobic regime in Russia. The effects of U.S. border policy are not confined to northern Mexico. They reverberate around the world.

When I met asylum-seekers at El Chapparal and around Tijuana, most of them told me that they’d been waiting in the city for months. Even though U.S. law says that anyone who claims to be fleeing for their lives should be immediately admitted to a port of entry for vetting, under the Trump administration, Border Patrol has started a controversial policy of “metering.” Now, agents accept only a set number of asylum-seekers each day and send the rest back. In Tijuana, they accept around 20 to 60 people per day, while thousands are left waiting and more are constantly arriving. That’s how The List was born: Migrants themselves began keeping a ledger as an attempt to create a fair waiting system—a virtual line—to get past the manufactured bottleneck.

But that wait may now be for nothing. In July, the Trump administration announced it would no longer accept asylum applications from people who transited through a third country on their way to the U.S. Anyone who traveled through Mexico or another country that wasn’t their place of origin without first applying for asylum there could be returned automatically. (The asylum restriction, immediately challenged in court, has been temporarily upheld by the Supreme Court pending a final decision).

At a time when the total number of refugees around the globe has reached the highest level since World War II, the United States has refashioned the immigration system in a way that forces those fearing for their lives in their home countries to put their lives at further risk on the way to safety. Many potentially legitimate asylum-seekers who once might have found at least temporary refuge in the United States while their applications were being reviewed are now made to undertake a harrowing and dangerous journey across the world, only to be forced to wait in Mexico’s borderlands—and less likely than ever to be allowed in later. Across the border, Mexican cities like Tijuanaare struggling to deal with a shifting crisis of their own, with thousands of desperate people, many stuck in a foreign country they never intended to stay in, struggling to survive in a region afflicted by its own intense violence and poverty.

That’s Daniel’s situation.(Out of an abundance of caution, I’m using pseudonyms in place of current asylum-seekers’ names.) An English teacher from Ghana, Daniel has been waiting in Tijuana since June to cross at El Chaparral. This past October, Daniel told me his number on The List was 4,068. At that time, the numbers being called were in the high 2,000s. By New Year’s Day, the numbers being called on the list were still below 3,800, and Daniel was still waiting to cross.

I met Daniel in the small church shelter where he sleeps in a ramshackle neighborhood built on the steep side of Cerro Colorado, the enormous hill that rises out of the center of Tijuana. As we sat on a bed in the pastor’s room, the 42-year-old spoke openly, though he initially remained vague about the reasons he left Ghana.

“I came here because I had a problem with some people. If I hadn’t left that place, it wouldn’t be good,” he said.

Daniel told me his story is “very sad,” and he didn’t want to burden me with the details, but he had to leave the country very quickly. He spoke in a voice that was soft but gravelly and rough: He said he has throat cancer, and I could hear it was painful for him to speak. But he still had the gentle tone and mannerism of a teacher. When he noticed me misspell his real name in my notebook, he quietly reached over and pointed out where an “e” should have been an “a.”

Mexicans call asylum-seekers like Daniel extracontinentales—a word for immigrants who come from outside the Americas. Daniel has been one of the many extracontinentalesbiding his time in Tijuana, waiting for his turn to cross into the U.S, and he thinks he’s still got months before they call his number on The List.

Life for extracontinentalesin northern Mexico can be tough. While thousands of people from outside the Americas arrive on the border each year, most shelters are equipped to house Latinos. Staff at migrant homes around the city told me they had trouble providing the right food for foreigners, especially those with religious dietary restrictions. There can also be a cultural disconnect. Though Daniel is friendly and approachable, he still has a look of distance to him, a gulf created by language and custom. Each night, he sleeps in a small bunk bed in a room with about two dozen other people, all from Mexico or Central America. No one in the shelter speaks any English besides the church pastor, so Daniel’s evenings are mostly quiet. He smiles when others make eye contact with him, but most people quickly look away. While in the shelter, I heard a Central American man use a demeaning word for black people in Spanish to describe Daniel.

As wait times to cross the border grow longer, many foreigners live in precarious and unstable conditions in Mexico. In many ways, the situation has become a humanitarian crisis.

Many foreigners I met in Tijuana—people from Ghana, Yemen, Jamaica, Cameroon, India—talked about experiencing loneliness, isolation, and racism. They told me Mexicans are generally welcoming, tolerant and respectful, but the country is still a hard place to be for non-Latinos—especially those who do not speak fluent SpanishorEnglish.

Some get by using a phone to translate into Spanish, but most foreigners have trouble integrating, especially when it comes to finding work. Many wind up working long hours in the factories on the outskirts of the city, or in other jobs involving physical labor. At many car washes around the city, it’s become a common sight to see groups of Africans—Ghanaians, Cameroonians, Congolese—cleaning cars, the very same kind of cheap but steady labor that many Mexican migrants resorted to in Southern California in the 1990s and 2000s.

For people like Daniel, the wait might become permanent. In July, the Trump administration announced it would no longer accept asylum claims from anyone who transited through a third country on their way to the United States unless they applied at each country they passed through first, effectively making allextracontinentaleslike Daniel ineligible. Though U.S. officials say asylum-seekers can simply seek refugee status in Mexico, journalists and human rights groups have documented many cases of asylum-seekers facing kidnapping, rape, robbery and murder in that country.

“Mexico is a good country,” Daniel says. But he still wants to make it to the United States, where he hopes he might finally be able to find stability, safety and a community.

Though the experience of being a foreignerin northern Mexico can be isolating, Tijuana is a decidedly international city. Long a transit point, it’s become a milieu of cosmopolitan culture. Russians have been arriving in the city since the late 1940s (many fled the former USSR), and there’s even a popular taco stand called “Tacos El Ruso” with a cartoon on the wall that proclaims, “Que Rico Takoskys.”

This multinational characteristic is particularly vivid in the city’s only mosque, a small, plain building in the city’s west, not far from the Pacific Ocean. During a Friday prayer in October, I watched as the imam began his sermon in Spanish before transitioning to English—though many of the men gathered didn’t speak either language.

“We’ve got people from Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan—I mean, everywhere. You name it, we’ve got it,” Imam Omar Islam, a Mexican-born convert, told me. He says many of the people he meets in the mosque have come fleeing conflict in their home countries, trying to make it to the U.S.

The men mostly arrive in groups with their compatriots (Egyptians with Egyptians, Indians with Indians), but during prayer the group comes together as one, and at the end of the imam’s sermon, they rise to greet one another. There was a young man who escaped civil war in Yemen who shook hands with a group of West Africans, including Emmanuel, a man who fled multiple homophobic attacks in Ghana.

Today—especially as the Trump administration cracks down on the asylum process—many migrants who first intended to go to the U.S. have decided to stay in Mexico. Some seek humanitarian visas, while others try their luck as undocumented immigrants.

Emmanuel told me has no desire to stay in Tijuana. With clear west African features, he stands out, and he says he’s been beaten and robbed multiple times by thieves who target the vulnerable migrant population.

“I can’t stay here. It’s too dangerous,” he said.

In 2018, Tijuana was, by some measures, the murder capital of the world. And, according to reports by U.S.-based advocacy organization Human Rights First, “refugees and migrants face acute risks of kidnapping, disappearance, sexual assault, trafficking, and other grave harms in Mexico.” Besides the inherent vulnerability of being itinerant, asylum-seekingextracontinentalesalso can routinely face racism and anti-LGBTQ violence in Mexico.

Emmanuel plans on crossing the border and asking for asylum in the United States, but his number on The List is weeks, if not months, away. After his last robbery, he says he can’t afford rent. He’s desperate, and unsure what to do. For many of these extracontinentalesstalled in the north of Mexico, the U.S. border is simply the final obstacle at the end of an immense odyssey.

There’s a fairly straightforward reason why so many people from around the world end up in northern Mexico, even though their ultimate destination is the United States: visa restrictions. For many people, it’s impossible to fly straight to the U.S. without a visa, so many asylum-seekers fly into Latin American countries with the plan to travel northward.

For people with stronger passports, like Russian, Indian and Chinese nationals, it’s possible to fly directly into Mexico. Many of theseextracontinentaleshave landed first in Mexico City or Cancún, where they masquerade as tourists before making their way to the border. (The rate of arrival is higher than you might think: On a single Monday when I was in Tijuana, six Russians and two Chinese nationals were detained at the airport on charges of traveling with forged or improper documents; they were promptly returned.)

But many people from African and Middle Eastern countries have trouble securing travel even to Mexico. So, for many forced migrants—like Daniel and Emmanuel—the journey through the Americas begins much further south.

Daniel says he never had any intention of coming to the U.S. originally. He just needed to leave Ghana. In a rush, he flew to one of the few countries on the planet where Ghanaians could travel without a visa: Ecuador. (Daniel arrived in April, three months before Ecuador added Ghana to a very short list of countries whose citizens can no longer arrive without a visa.) He landed in Quito, the country’s high-altitude capital in the Andes, without any plan.

“When I got to Ecuador, communication was a real problem. I speak English, but I have never traveled to the American continent. So when I got there, the language—Spanish—I didn’t understand anything,” Daniel said. “I asked someone, ‘Which country in this area speaks English?’ And they said, “Around here? Nowhere—unless you go to the United States.’”

Daniel says he didn’t know anything about the U.S. “All I knew is that there is a country called United States, and that it’s very good country,” he said. But, after a week in Quito, he made his choice and caught a bus toward Colombia, the first leg in a long journey to Tijuana.

On the buses he took, Daniel spoke to other migrants—many from Venezuela but also others from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—all heading northward. In recent years, thousands of people from around the world have made the same long and arduous journey as Daniel, from a South American country to the U.S.-Mexico border. (Ecuador, which has some of the freest visa requirements of any nation, is perhaps the most popular starting point.) From there, they travel down out of the mountains into Colombia, and then to the border with Panama. At this point, the journey becomes incredibly perilous. Many do not survive.

There is no road between the jungles of northern Colombia through the swamps into central Panama. Traveling on foot, northbound migrants must trek first over cloud forest and then across 50 miles of marshland, through a stretch of sparsely populated wilderness called the Darién Gap. The trip is, by all accounts, brutal. Reporting from northern Mexico in the past year, I’ve spoken with asylum-seekers from Ghana, Cameroon, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who all said they had made this trek. The stories they tell are harrowing: People die from snakebite or from drowning. Many eat nothing but uncooked rice for the week it takes to transit the Gap.

Emmanuel grew silent when we started talking about the journey through the swamps in Panama. He asked to pause the interview and later explained he was overcome with guilt because he didn’t stop to help people he saw dying. He barely had enough strength to carry himself forward.

“I can’t let my mind go back there,” he told me, shaking his head repeatedly.

Along the migration routes, human traffickers, kidnappers and robbers prey on travelers. People get robbed in every country, but every person I spoke with, without exception, said they were robbed at gunpoint by bandits in the jungle in Panama.

Daniel says that if he had known exactly how horrible the journey would be, he might not have made it. But many of the people traveling northward do know how arduous their travel will be and continue anyway. They simply have too much to lose if they turn back.

For Emmanuel, the situation back in Ghana became so severe that he chose to make the journey northward from Ecuador not just once, but twice. After he first fled homophobic violence in Ghana in 2016, Emmanuel made it to the U.S. border and crossed at the official port of entry. As he argued his asylum case in court, he remained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. He says he learned his English while there. After almost two years, Emmanuel was hopeless and depressed. He decided he couldn’t stay locked up anymore and chose to give up on his asylum case. ICE deported him back to Accra.

Once returned to Accra, Emmanuel was attacked again by the men who originally persecuted him. Emmanuel says he’s not gay, but he welcomed LGBTQ patrons into the mechanic shop he ran. Nevertheless, people in his community accused him of being gay and tried to kill him, he says. He showed me huge scars on his belly from stab wounds and a video someone filmed soon after he was returned to Ghana showing him bloody and unconscious in a crowded hospital. Fearing death, Emmanuel escaped again and flew back to Ecuador this past spring.

He says the journey is the hardest thing he’s ever done. But still, he chose to make the trek a second time. He says he had no choice. In Mexico, he showed me that he still gets threatening phone calls and WhatsApp messages from unknown contacts. He is certain he’ll be killed if he ever returns.

The people making the northward journeyto the United States have left behind some of the world’s most severe strife and brutality. In Tijuana during the past year, I’ve met English-speaking Cameroonians who told me how they fled violence at the hands of their country’s Francophone majority (an ongoing campaign of repression that some humanitarian organizationsbelieve amounts to ethnic cleansing). They shared stories of torture and rape used as weapons of war. I met Russians who arrived on the southern border in recent years after escaping the persecution of LGBTQ people under Putin’s regime. People have fled war in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Central African Republic. Thousands of Hungarians and Romanians have made their way to the southern border after fleeing increasingly violent anti-Semitism and growing authoritarianism. And in the past four years, the U.S. has seen a fast-growing number of Indian religious minorities cross the border, after leaving behind burgeoning Hindu nationalism in their home country.

At the same time, the Trump administration has claimed that the promise of refugee status has become a “pull factor” that has drawn to the U.S. people from around the world with dubious asylum claims. What the U.S. needs, the administration argues, is a deterrence-first policy. But it’s hard to imagine a deterrent more onerous than the journey from Ecuador to the southern border—a punishing gantlet that some like Emmanuel have been forced to make more than once.

Thanks to the Trump administration’s new “third country” asylum restriction, declaring asylum in the U.S. now comes with a dramatically increased risk of deportation back to one’s home country, a terrifying prospect for so many.

However, new immigration policies have delayed effect, one felt acutely here on the border: Many people trying to reach the U.S. were alreadyen routewhen the newest restriction was announced in July. Emmanuel was making his way through Guatemala; Daniel had been in Tijuana less than two weeks and had already taken a number from The List. Now, both men are stuck in Tijuana with limited choices.

Even if they decide to remain in Mexico, their fates are far from certain. Besides the dangers of robbery and violence, Human Rights First has documented cases of Mexican officials deporting asylum-seekers without due process. And, under pressure from the Trump administration, Mexico has begun dramatically expanding its own deportation machine. Just during a few days I was recently in Tijuana, Mexican officials deported over 300 Indian nationals back to Delhi on a flight from Mexico City.

In October, I visited a Mexican immigration office in southern Tijuana that’s been converted into a makeshift detention center.

“Which countries are detainees inside from?” I asked a janitor on her smoke break.

“Every country,” she told me. “Peru, Haiti …”

“United Nations inside there,” someone else joked.

When I asked the woman what the conditions were like inside, she just shook her head and raised her eyebrows. As she looked over her shoulder nervously, she motioned silently in a clear gesture: “not so good.”

The threat of detention might persuade some foreigners to give up, to leave Mexico. But for many people, like Daniel or Emmanuel, going home is not an option.

The promise of the United States, of freedom from persecution or violence, persuaded the two Ghanaians and thousands like them to travel tens of thousands of miles, across oceans and mountains. But steps away from the southern border, they learned that the door had been slammed shut. Tijuana was never meant to be the final destination for Daniel or Emmanuel or so many other asylum-seekers. Rather, the city is just a place they’ve wound upatrapado—stuck.

Jorge Armando Nieto contributed to this report.

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We can Develop On-Demand Food Delivery App similar to UberEATS

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We can Develop On-Demand Food Delivery App similar to UberEATS

The Cab Booking Apps such as Uber, Ola and Gett have really revolutionized travel and these apps ensure the users that travel will no more be difficult or strenuous but comfortable, enjoyable and time-saving. Uber really achieved phenomenal success and since thousands of upcoming app developers took inspiration from the success story of Uber, Uber has now the credit of creating a new generation of mobile app developers. Innovation has become synonymous with app development. The tremendous success of Uber and the global popularity of the Uber app prompted the company to venture into other fields also. Uber identified the field of online food delivery as their next venue to perform. UberEATS, which is an on-demand app for online food delivery is now attracting users the world over. It is really amazing to see how the on-demand app for food delivery became the favorite of millions of people all over the world. Recent surveys which were conducted in the US revealed that more than 20% of Americans use food delivery apps at least for once in a week since the app enables them to get their favorite food items delivered at the doorstop, that too, from one of their favorite restaurants. Thus the latest app introduced by Uber – the UberEATS – enables the users to order for their favorite dishes from a wide variety of restaurants and receive the ordered items at their doorsteps with unbelievable fastness. Just as its taxi booking predecessor, UberEATS also is now popular all over the world and people in many countries the world over are using this Uber app to book their favorite food items.

Your preferred dishes delivered at your home within minutes

The great advantage of UberEATS is that the users of this app can get their favorite dishes at their home whenever they think about the same. They need not go all the way to the restaurant and they need not wait for the dishes at the restaurant. Hence, now they need not wait any more for their favorite dishes and no restaurant is now far away. Those who use UberEATS can order for dishes of any cuisine – Italian, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Mexican and the like. The users of the app can enjoy the meals at their home with all their preferred items. The restaurants all over the world are the other beneficiaries of this Uber app. As a result of many people starting to order their favorite items online, there has been a tremendous increase in the sales of the restaurants. The digital food delivery business is already increased by about 6% and it is expected that within the next 5 years it will go up by 11%.

Order online and pay online

Uber has partnered with almost all the leading restaurants in various cities all over the world and these restaurants are known for their variety of delicious dishes. The users of this app may just go through the menu of the particular restaurant and place their orders online by mentioning the name of the item and the quantity required. The users can make the payment either through the payment gateway or by using their credit/debit cards. The team of professionals A team of skilled professionals are responsible for developing the online food delivery app. Depending on the platform – Android or iOS – there will be at least two app developers in the team. There will be two designers for developing the User Interface of the app and another two designers will be in charge of developing the UX of the app. The other professionals in the app development team include backend developers, app testers and quality assurance experts.

How to develop an app for online food delivery which will be similar to UberEATS or Food Panda?

An experienced app developer will be aware of the various aspects of the most popular as well as widely downloaded online food delivery apps like UberEATS which is developed on either of the most popular platforms – Android and iOS. The cost of the app varies according to the choice of platform. Those who take up the project to develop an app similar to UberEATS or Food Panda for online food delivery are required to concentrate basically on three different tasks:

Designing and developing the customer side app

Developing the Restaurant Dashboard

Developing the Control Panel

How to make the customer side app efficient as well as attractive? Creating an impressive and stylish customer page is a crucial part of the project. The user of the app will be using the customer page as the platform from where he can place his orders online. The app developers have to include various sub categories in the customer page of the app. Registration/Log In The customer begins his journey from the sign-in page and the first and foremost task of the app developing team is to develop the sign-in page. Once the user enters his or her name, email id, mobile number, user name and password he or she becomes eligible for availing the services offered by the app. This sign-in system will enable the owner of the restaurant to provide personalized service to the customers. Using the particulars entered by each customer on the sign-in page the restaurant manager can keep a track of all customers and establish a strong and long lasting business relationship with each customer. The app developers have to ensure that it is a highly user-friendly platform that enables the customers to log in easily just by entering their user name and password. In order to facilitate online payment the app developers may make it a point to provide a space for the customers exclusively for entering the particulars of their debit/credit cards. The developers can make the customer page more informative by including various personalized features. The customers can be asked to mention their most preferred cuisines and also their favorite restaurants. Search Menu After taking our seat in a restaurant the first thing we do is to go through the menu card. Without a proper menu card it is difficult for the customers to select the items and place orders. Hence, for the online food delivery app also, it is all the more important to have a list of menu pertaining to each restaurant. So the app developing team has to ensure that a list of menu is created for a restaurant which is included in the app. Apart from mentioning the names of the dishes or the particular category of food, the list must contain names of cuisines, corresponding images and the prices of the dishes. The app developers can make the app more impressive as well as informative by providing the menu list under different sub headings like Chinese, Thai, Italian, Indian, etc. By categorizing the menu in this way the customers can be provided different options also. For example, those who go for the Indian cuisine can select from North Indian, South Indian, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, etc. Reviews as well as ratings of the dishes also can be made available on the page. When the menu in the app contains the food category, the customers need not scroll down the long list of dishes. They just need to tap the search and type the name of the dish. This will make the ordering process faster as well as easier. Separate menu lists based on the timings While preparing the menu list for the customer page of the app, the app developers can provide separate lists for breakfast, meals and dinner. All breakfast items may be made available from 6 am to 10 am, meals from 12.00 hrs to 14.30 hrs and dinner from 7 pm to 11pm, etc. The evening snack items may be made available from 3 pm to 6 pm. For the full meals also, the different items may be displayed in the menu list. Facility to order custom-made dishes Most of the customers who order their dishes online are doing so mainly for pampering their taste buds. It is quite natural that they want the dishes with some minor changes or additions according to their tastes and preferences. They may like to have some changes in the normal pizza like adding more quantity of cheese or providing some cream as additional topping. The owner of the restaurant has to ensure that the items against such orders are prepared and served strictly as per specifications provided by the customers. The developer of the online food delivery app can make his new app smarter by providing a separate key for custom-made dishes. It will be a valuable new feature of the app. Add to Cart Once the customer has selected the dishes he can proceed towards the check-out process. Additional items can be included or number of items can be reduced by tapping plus or minus. The customer may add to cart all the chosen items before the payment process. Once the ordering process is over the customer receives the final bill. At that time the customer can make use of his discount coupons/promo codes and avail rebates. The online bill will show the final amount to be paid including all taxes. The customer will also receive the estimated delivery time so that he can calculate when the food will be delivered at his doorsteps. Informing the customer the time of delivery in real time is indeed an amazing feature and at that stage all the details are updated. Effecting the payment Once the customer has completed the ordering process he receives the bill. On finding that the bill is alright, his next step will be effecting the payment online. Among the various payment options provided in the app, the app developer may include the gateway option like PayPal also. The other options that are to be included are payment via debit/credit cards, net banking and mobile payments like Google Wallet or Apple. Cash on Delivery (COD) option also may be provided in the app. Order tracking After making the payment the customer may want to track his order until the items are delivered at his doorsteps. GPS technology enables the customers to track the orders. GPS is identified as a very effective tool and it helps the delivery boy also to find the exact location of the customer. Reviews, Ratings Customer reviews and product ratings are the other important features of the customer dashboard. The majority of customers have the practice of going through the reviews and ratings of the restaurant as well as the dishes offered by the restaurant prior to placing their order. The ratings and reviews show the most preferred restaurants in the city and also the cuisines for which the maximum number of orders are placed. Help and Support The users of the app must be provided all kinds of technical support. The app developer has to provide the online chat or email to enable them to contact. Owner’s Dashboard Once the development work of the Customer Page is completed the app developing team may start creating an amazing dashboard for the owner. Log In by owner The log in by owner is different from log in by the user. The owner can log in using his Smartphone and from his personal account. The owner can receive orders directly and manage them. The owner can make adjustments to the orders when required. Menu List Management Able management of the menu list is very important for the owners. Proper display of the cuisine with the wide variety of dishes must be ensured. The descriptions about each item must be clear as well as informative. When the picture or the description is not proper, the customer may have difficulty in selecting the dishes and he may even give up the idea of placing the order. Order management The owner of the app has to keep a track of the orders received from various customers to the different restaurants. All the information pertaining to the orders such as the items, quantity and other details are to be checked thoroughly. The details pertaining to the orders including the items, quantity, name of restaurant, and address of the customer are to be passed on to the delivery boy. The owner of the app should make it a point to inform the customer the time required to deliver the items at his doorsteps. The app owner should also maintain proper records of all expenses incurred including salary paid to the delivery boy, incentives or any other extra payments made to him, transportation expenses and other miscellaneous expenses. All records must be updated regularly. Go through the reviews regularly From the customer reviews and ratings one can easily identify the restaurants that are leading and the cuisines that are preferred by majority of customers. Provide Push Notifications Push Notification is one among the prominent features of the on-demand food delivery apps. The push notification provides the customer the information regarding arrival of the items ordered by him and those who make cash payment at the time of delivery can keep the cash ready on receiving the push notification. Admin Panel The admin panel is a significant part of the online food delivery app and the app developer should ensure that the admin panel is provided. Control Panel Control Panel is the platform from where the admin controls the various activities and the entire operation of the food delivery app. The admin manages the restaurants as well as delivery boys through the control panel and a sub admin can be included if required by the admin. Inclusion and removal of restaurants Admin is the controller of the app and admin can add new restaurants to the app after entering into an agreement with them. In case the admin finds that a particular restaurant fails to get good rating and positive reviews from the customers, he can remove that restaurant from the list. Managing the mobile app The mobile app for online food delivery is managed exclusively by the admin. Admin has the right to add or remove members, block or edit any user, delivery boy and restaurant from the database of the app. Only the admin has the right to view the site banner. Payment Management While developing the food delivery app, the app developers must provide the admin with a separate dashboard so that he can know about the payment received against each order and the source of each payment. Special Discounts and Coupons It is the duty of the admin to send special notifications to all the users about special discounts and coupons and inviting all the users to take advantage of the coupons and special discounts. Admin has also the power to extend the validity of the coupons and also to cancel the same. Technical Assistance The users can approach the restaurant owners whenever they have problems. However, the admin has to provide technical assistance to the users whenever required. Apart from sending the updates to the user to upgrade his app, the admin has to assist to solve the problems related to the software. Acquire the best technology The app developer should ensure to make the food delivery app more attractive and smarter for which a wide range of advanced tools are now available. The designing methods are entirely different for Android and iOS platforms. The tools provided by Google and iOS for tracking the orders are different. While iOS users can use the Core Location Framework, Android users can go for the API which is Google based. The iOS users can use MapKit for finding out the location whereas Android users can use Google Maps API. In the same way the app developer can select the best software, tools and techniques to make the app Smart and to ensure seamless functioning of the app. For addition of new restaurants into the list FourSquare’s API is one of the best tools and a social media page just like Facebook SDK can be used to log in. UI and UX Only an attractive as well as appealing UI can bring more traffic to the app and the app will be attractive if it has the UI of a sleek and thin design. As far as the on-demand food delivery app is concerned, its UI and UX are the most significant aspects. Cost of developing the online food delivery app It is very difficult to estimate the exact cost of developing a food delivery app similar to UberEATS. The various app development companies charge their clients on per hour basis and the hourly charges vary from country to country. In the US one has to pay $100 - $200 per hour to develop the app whereas it will be in the range of $50 - $150 in Europe. The app development companies from India offer the most affordable rates in the range $25 - $50. Though the approximate cost of developing the food delivery app depends on various factors, the predominant factors are the type of the app and the features that are to be included in the app. The approximate cost will be in the range $17000 - $25000. Of course, these figures may change. Those who want to know the cost of developing the online food delivery app can get free quotations from a few app development companies. Conclusion The food delivery apps such as UberEATS, Food Panda and Dineout have successfully established in the market and these apps are of great demand these days. Those who want to be on par with them can give priority to the on-demand apps. Those who want to develop new food delivery app must be prepared for an extensive research. During the research one will come to know about the cuisines that are ordered by maximum number of people and also which are the restaurants that attract maximum number of customers.

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Ethnic, International, and Foreign: Authenticity and Appropriation of Global Cuisines in DC Metro Area Grocery Stores

My Armenian-American grandmother brought me to various Armenian food markets during my childhood in the Boston suburbs. Lahmajoun and boereg were special treats that we could only find in one of these specialty shops. I roamed the aisles examining labels written in some combination of Armenian, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish. Going with my grandmother was one of the few times I would hear her speak Armenia, which I would pretend to understand as I would nod in silence. Even so, these were times when I felt wholly Armenian.

Grocery stores have an immense capacity to create cultural spaces for their patrons. My study of grocery stores and their “ethnic food” options in the Washington D.C. area stems from my own experiences growing up. However, shopping at supermarkets has also spurred further questions of what makes certain groceries “ethnic.” Nearly every supermarket, especially chain stores, has an “international aisle” where customers can find various products that are traditionally not American. I use Claude Lévi-Strauss’ theory of structuralism. Structuralism proposes that people think in set binaries that are culturally dictated. Binaries oppose each other and define it’s opposite. My observational study of five grocery stores examines how markets create and perform ethnicity, which produces a binary of ethnic authenticity and appropriation of implicated cultures mediated by the target consumers of the store.

For the purposes of my research, it was necessary to define my terms such as “ethnic,” “international,” and “American.” Because “international aisles” are so often labelled, it is easy to take this definition for granted. However, they do serve a purpose of creating defined spaces in the grocery store. Anything inside the international aisle and on its shelves is automatically not American, thus ethnic. By the same logic, everything in the rest of the store is American. What is particularly interesting about this classification is that a customer could pick up raw ingredients from all over the store and create food sold in the international aisle, but it is exactly how this labelling has become so powerful to the everyday consumer. Putting ethnicity on a shelf immediately commodifies it and makes it something one could buy and sell. The commodification of ethnicity is integral to its understanding in the context of the DC/Metro area study. American is the default, generic, standard that occupies the rest of the store. Being American does not have to be labelled.

Determining authenticity is complicated and contentious. In creating an international aisle, Grocery stores unknowingly navigate this tricky conversation and negotiate what “counts” as authentic ethnic food and what does not. Despite this ambiguity, it was necessary for me to evaluate a grocery store’s determination of what it markets as authentic and ethnic, which I found incredibly difficult. In fact, the word “authentic” itself is problematic in that it assumes there is only a single, true, iteration of a certain culture. For example, “Authentic Indian Food” would only mean one thing; there can be no variation, nor any deviation from a set of strict, hard and fast recipes. Assigning authenticity is a teleological approach to perceiving culture and ignores globalizing processes as well as internal cultural changes. Not only have societies exchanged ideas, concepts, and art across national borders for centuries, but food, too, has been shared and changed through these same processes.

However difficult it is to measure authenticity, it is necessary to do so to some degree when juxtaposed with cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is the adoption of certain aspects of one culture by another without honoring or respecting the original culture. It is all too easy for grocery stores to appropriate ethnic food and misrepresent or essentialize the culture of origin in order to make it more American, and therefore widely marketable. Authenticity and appropriation are a binary opposition because they cannot exist together. Because it is almost impossible to determine authenticity based on arbitrary factors in an observational study, those who do not appropriate culture will be considered authentic.

Four of my five stores are in Northwest Washington D.C.; the fifth is located in Arlington, Virginia but was only a short distance outside the city proper. The Foggy Bottom location of Whole Foods acted as a control for my study since it is a busy location of a popular chain supermarket. My second store was the Lebanese Taverna Market in Arlington, Virginia. Lebanese Taverna is a D.C. area restaurant chain but the Arlington location is the only one with a grocery store attached. My third store was the Mediterranean Way in DuPont Circle, a small storefront advertised as a gourmet specialty store. I went to Foggy Bottom Trader Joe’s for my fourth store as another example of a chain supermarket but without an explicit “international aisle.” Finally, I went to Rodman’s, an independent supermarket in the more residential neighborhood Friendship Heights. To conduct the analysis, I mostly examined products themselves, their labels, and placement. I also noted location of the aisle if applicable, decorations (i.e. flags, etc.), and organization of the products. As this was strictly an observational study, I did not conduct any interviews or collect any data on customers or employees.

           The chosen stores for my study appear to fall into one of two categories: general supermarket and specialty stores. The Lebanese Taverna Market and the Mediterranean Way are specialty stores whereas Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Rodman’s are general supermarkets. Rodman’s does occupy a special liminal space between the two categories as it is not a mainstream chain like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, but still has an extremely wide array of products including food, pharmaceuticals, liquor, and even housewares. It is important to note Rodman’s status as being structurally similar to a supermarket but not entirely a part of this category because it greatly affects how it treats ethnic food and imports. Specialty stores cater to a very specific market of consumers. In some ways, this allows for more freedom for the store’s products, but is also very limiting. While they a national headquarters does not dictate what they stock, by labeling themselves as a certain cuisine or specialty, they restrict themselves to a potentially small product selection. Additionally, they are beholden to the whims of the local consumers, which could also potentially be limiting.

These two categories of store do not explicitly dictate the treatment of ethnic food, but it does create two entirely different environments in which ethnicity is produced. They carry implicit expectations which adhere to the authenticity and appropriation binary. Since large supermarkets are stereotypically American, I would expect more appropriation of ethnic food. Since specialty stores brand themselves as selling a niche cuisine, I would expect them to be provide more authentic groceries.  Large supermarkets, such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, want to only be authentic enough to still be able to sell large quantities of products to a wide audience. Smaller specialty stores are already working with a smaller consumer base and may not be as concerned with appealing to a mass public. These expectations do not necessarily map onto reality.

Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods presented the most culturally appropriated “ethnic” products. Trader Joe’s uses the store name as the brand on nearly every product (i.e. “Trader Joe’s Vanilla Ice Cream,” there is no Ben & Jerry’s or other name brands). However, on Chinese, Italian, and Mexican themed products, “Trader Joe’s” is replaced by “Trader Ming’s,” “Trader Giotto’s,” and “Trader José’s,” respectively. It’s puzzling at first glance why they do this and why it only applies to these three cuisines. In fact, Trader Joe’s carries other international cuisines and labels them as such (“Indian Chicken Tikka Masala,” “Indian Fare: Jaipur Vegetables”) but continues to use the traditional branding. I propose that the blatant appropriation of Chinese, Italian, and Mexican foods arises from an American sentiment of comfort with these cultures. These three examples are popular cuisines in the U.S. almost universally. They have been heavily “Americanized” for decades. This becomes especially apparent in Whole Foods where Italian food, mostly just pasta and various sauces, has its own aisle separate from the “international” aisle. If Trader Joe’s attempted to rebrand other ethnic cuisines the same way they did with Chinese, Italian, Mexican then they might be criticized for appropriation more openly and publicly. Most consumers perceive Trader Ming’s, Trader José’s, and Trader Giotto’s as clever and witty but not offensive or indicative of appropriation because those cuisines are almost American in their own right. Though my study was observational and I did not interview or include interlocutors, Trader Joe’s markets itself as a truly American grocery experience, based on the common American name similar to the saying “just an average Joe” and the theme of the store being Californian.

The Whole Food’s “international” aisle is mostly made of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Mexican fare. The Asian and Southeast products are mostly boxed, pre-made, add water, instant dinner meals. Very few of them had a language other than English on the labels. The Mexican shelf had ingredients, but only for stereotypical Mexican dishes that fell in line with the “Trader José” products at Trader Joe’s. This includes tacos, burritos, fajitas, and enchiladas. Most of the brands for all of the International Aisle products were American brands producing “international” foods. Both in the case of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, labeling products a certain culture creates a restricted and reductionist view. Thai food is not just Pad Thai in a fake take-out box; Mexican food is not just tacos. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s stock what they know people will buy, and people buy what they are most familiar with. Of course, this method makes sense in terms of making the largest profit, but it constrains our ideas of ethnicity. Alternatively, Rodman’s, which has the size and breadth of products that other mainstream supermarkets have, avoids this appropriation. Though it does have a defined “international” aisle, marked by flags from around the world on top of the shelves, it does not limit its definition of cultures to one trademark item. Rodman’s carries novelty items and hard to find treats. Additionally, it had the largest range of cultures represented. Despite having a dedicated aisle, imports lined the shelves all over the store, sorted by type of product and not just where it came from. Rodman’s is an independent grocery store in a residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., which has its fair share of international transplants. Friendship Heights is also fairly close to the Embassy Row and other diplomatic outposts. It’s possible that a combination of these factors contributes to Rodman’s overcoming appropriation that has become standard in large supermarkets.

The Lebanese Taverna Market and Mediterranean Way, despite both being small specialty stores, represent two sides of the binary opposition. It is worth noting that the Lebanese Taverna Market is part of a small chain of restaurants in the Washington D.C.-Metro area but the Arlington location is the only fast casual restaurant with a “market.” Many of the products were imports with predominant labels in Arabic. Interestingly, there was a cookie shelf with British shortbreads and others. As per class discussion, the presence of these was probably a result of British dominance in the region for decades that left a demand for British goods. This is a great example of how authenticity is a complicated label; British cookies are not “authentic” Lebanese food, but through global processes have become a popular treat. Also, the market had mostly ingredients, as opposed to instant or pre-made meals, in the market section, unlike Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. The market was filled with customers eating at the adjoining café or doing light shopping on the weekend afternoon when I visited. The Mediterranean way, however, was deserted. There were some imported spices and coffees but they were displayed in fake import crates and the prices were prohibitively expensive. Olive oil and balsamic vinegar stations advertised expensive bottles, but they were not specialty brands or imports. The store had very few products all in all, and did not appear to be targeting a niche market for specific cuisines. Rather, they used a vague label of “Mediterranean” to sell a few expensive imports and generic, stereotypical food items, such Greek Spanakopita or Turkish Coffee that one would expect from a supermarket. The Lebanese Taverna Market may not have been a perfect representation of Lebanese market, but it lacked the cultural appropriation presented in the Mediterranean Way.

My research on ethnicity in grocery stores would have been strengthened by participant observation, interviews, and perhaps surveys. Individuals make up ethnic groups, and lacking voices from these groups leaves out what they might think about representation in grocery stores. Specialty stores and supermarkets shape ethnicity, but to what degree is hard to determine without the perspectives of shoppers. Appropriation of cultures has become a rampant problem in large and small stores that simplifies and reduces what it means to be a part of that culture. Though more “authentic” stores might create an inclusive identity, they still control the definition and evaluate what it means to be authentic.

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Where To Eat Outside In Santa Monica (3) added to Google Docs

Where To Eat Outside In Santa Monica (3)

Santa Monica has a lot going for it: The beaches, the dive bars, Bob Dylan’s weird boxing gym. Oh, and a whole bunch of restaurants with patio dining. So we put together this list, which includes incredible French food, killer lamb tacos, and even - possibly - LA’s best sports bar.

We’ll continue to update it as spots reopen around Santa Monica, and if there’s a patio you think needs to be included, email us at [email protected].

We’ve also got a full neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to LA Restaurants Where You Can Eat Outside Today, and a running list of some of The Most Unique Outdoor Dining Options In LA.

   Featured In The LA Socially Distant Summer Guide Everything you need to enjoy some semblance of summer. THE SPOTS  Art's Table $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1002 Montana Ave

Santa Monica neighborhood spot Art’s Table has always had a great patio, and they’ve just reopened it with a wide-ranging menu that includes fish tacos, burgers, and salads.

 Bardonna $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1601 Montana Ave

Located on Montana Ave. in Santa Monica, Bardonna is an all-day cafe specializing in salads, sandwiches, and a brunch menu that’s available all dang day. There’s now outdoor seating wrapped around the entire exterior, too.

Bergamot Cafe $$$$ 2525 Michigan Ave #A3

Bergamot Cafe is an ideal place for a quick, affordable weekday lunch. This daytime spot off Olympic in Santa Monica not only serves an excellent veggie burger - a black bean and corn patty topped with chipotle aioli and cheddar - and a killer roast beef and avocado sandwich, but nearly everything on the menu is $10 or less. And, if you’ve got the time, It’s also a fun, low-key place to drink outside for an extended lunch, thanks to their beer and wine list.

 Big Dean's Ocean Front Cafe $ $ $ $ Bar Food ,  Bar  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1615 Ocean Front Walk

The classic Santa Monica hangout - located steps from the beach and basically, like, kinda behind the Pier? - has both their front and back patios open, and while you have to order food, you would’ve done that anyway. After all, Big Dean’s double cheeseburger is one of the best in the city.

 Birdie G’s $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2421 Michigan Ave

One of our favorite restaurants of 2019, Birdie G’s in Santa Monica has reopened with an expanded outdoor space in the front corridor that wraps around to the back of the restaurant. They have a new seasonal menu (with plenty of old favorites), hand sanitizing stations, and virtual menus you can access through your phone as well.

 Blueys Kitchen $ $ $ $ Cafe/Bakery ,  Brunch $$$$ 1814 Berkeley St

Formerly known as Bondi Harvest, Bluey’s is an Australian cafe in Santa Monica that’s open for patio dining 7am-9pm (8am-9pm on weekends). They’ve got a great breakfast plate involving eggs, bacon, Tabasco kale, roasted tomatoes, and avocado, along with a bunch of sandwiches (like coconut-marinated chicken) you’ll want to order, and a new dinner menu. Plus, the coffee is phenomenal. First-come, first-served.

BOA Steakhouse $$$$ 101 Santa Monica Blvd

Clubby steakhouse BOA is on the corner of Ocean and Santa Monica in one of the busiest parts of the Westside. They’ve got sidewalk seating for you to eat all the lobster tails and ribeyes you can afford. So, like, one of each, maybe. Reservations recommended.

 Chez Jay $ $ $ $ Santa Monica $$$$ 1657 Ocean Ave

The classic Santa Monica dive bar is back with a new patio in its parking lot, plus a recently renovated back porch as well. Though the quirky, nautical-themed interior will forever be one of our favorite places to drink on the Westside, being able to eat a buttered steak and lobster in their back parking lot is equally as odd... and exactly what we want at a place like Chez Jay.

 Chinois On Main $ $ $ $ Fusion  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2709 Main St

Open since 1983, Wolfgang Puck’s Santa Monica staple Chinois On Main serves what they call Chinese-French fusion cuisine. They’ve got limited outdoor seating available - reserve here.

Citrin and Melisse $$$$ 1104 Wilshire Blvd

Upscale spot Citrin - and the tasting counter in the back, Melisse - have reopened with an all-new, crossover restaurant in their recently-astroturfed parking lot. In addition to a four-course, $145 tasting menu, they’ll also have a la carte offerings like lobster Bolognese, lamb sugo, and truffle risotto. Reservations available online.

 Esters Wine Shop & Bar $ $ $ $ American ,  Wine Bar  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1314 7th St.

The Santa Monica wine bar has always had a great patio, but after expanding along 7th St., it’s even greater (both literally and figuratively). If you want to know where we’ll be sipping wine, eating charcuterie, and remaining socially distant this summer, it’s here.

 Fia $ $ $ $ Italian  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2454 Wilshire Blvd

They took over the old Wilshire spot in Santa Monica last year, and remain one of the city’s best-kept secrets, thanks in no small part to their fantastic, tree-filled back patio. Now’s your chance to see it for yourself. While the Coastal Mediterranean menu’s not the most inventive (plenty of burrata, handmade pastas, and a raw bar), Fia makes the kind of crowd-pleasing food that absolutely anyone will enjoy. And, again, the patio …

 Gilbert's El Indio $ $ $ $ Mexican  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2909 Pico Blvd.

Gilbert’s El Indio has been serving Mexican classics on Pico in Santa Monica for almost 50 years - and the pandemic hasn’t slowed them down. Their patio is open for combo platters, margaritas, and more.

Golden Bull Restaurant $ $ $ $ American ,  Steaks  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 170 W Channel Rd

Santa Monica Canyon’s Golden Bull is an iconic spot that’s been around (almost) since the real Will Rogers lived next door. They’ve got steakhouse classics like crab cakes, French onion soup, and a burger, along with, of course, a bunch of different steaks.

 Lanea $ $ $ $ Mexican ,  Bar  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 217 Broadway

The Santa Monica cocktail bar just opened up an outdoor seating area along the front sidewalk. All the tables are six feet apart, making it a great option for some al fresco drinking and tacos courtesy of Barbakush in East LA.

Loews Hotel Santa Monica $$$$ 1700 Ocean Ave

Blue Streak, the outdoor lounge at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, is back open for dining with ocean views and firepits, serving cocktails, light bites like tacos and sliders, and brunch on the weekends. Reserve here.

Lunetta All Day $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2420 Pico Boulevard

Lunetta All Day is an (all day) spot in Santa Monica with three separate patios open for quarantine dining. Their breakfast and lunch menu includes sandwiches, salads, and bigger plates like steak frites, and at dinner they add options like house-made pasta. Make a reservation online.

Ma'Kai Lounge $$$$ 101 Broadway

Makai Lounge is a clubby spot on the corner of Ocean and Broadway in Santa Monica. They’ve reopened their patio for dine-in, with wide-ranging options like sushi rolls, shrimp skewers, and cheeseburgers.

 Margo's $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1534 Montana Ave

All-day Santa Monica spot Margo’s has reopened their patio - it’s dog-friendly, too - serving a wide range of comfort food like smoked bacon mac & cheese and medjool date BBQ ribs on their Montana Ave. patio.

Massilia $ $ $ $ Spanish ,  French ,  Italian  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1445 4th St

On Fourth St. in Santa Monica, Massilia has a covered patio where they serve a mix of French, Moroccan, and Italian food. This means options like tagliatelle with morel mushroom cream sauce, couscous with merguez sausage and lamb, and pizza with prosciutto. No matter what, don’t skip the white Negroni, made with Aviation gin and Lillet.

The Misfit Restaurant + Bar $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 225 Santa Monica Blvd

One of the best places to eat on the Third Street Promenade, The Misfit is open daily for lunch, Happy Hour, and dinner. They’ve got burgers, sandwiches, salads, and stellar cocktails. Happy Hour until 6pm daily.

 Pasjoli $ $ $ $ French  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2732 Main St

Santa Monica’s excellent French spot Pasjoli is back open, with a newly redesigned back patio and a pared-down menu that still includes many of our favorites. That means house-baked brioche with chicken liver mousse and shaved truffle, a caramelized onion tart with gruyere, and crispy duck breast with duck leg bread pudding. Reservations recommended for lunch and dinner.

 Rustic Canyon $ $ $ $ American  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1119 Wilshire Blvd.

Rustic Canyon has been one of Santa Monica’s best dinner spots for years now, and with new and expanded seating along the sidewalk, you can safely take advantage of this classic spot all summer. Expect seasonal summer dishes to be added each night.

Socalo $$$$ 1920 Santa Monica Blvd

Santa Monica Cal-Mex spot Socalo reopened (and expanded) their outdoor dining area. They’ve also got margaritas and some Mexican craft beer available all day, as well. Reservations are recommended for dinner, but it’s first-come, first-served at lunch.

Solidarity $ $ $ $ Eastern European  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 1414 Lincoln Blvd

Santa Monica Polish spot Solidarity has a secret back patio that’s a great place to eat pierogies and drink a few too many Warsaw Mules (made with Zubrowka). If you’re looking for something a bit bigger, the golabki (stuffed cabbage, beef, and jasmine rice) is one of our go-tos, but with comfort classics like schnitzel, stroganoff, and handmade gnocchi in mushroom cream sauce on the menu, you can’t go wrong.

Sonny McLean's $ $ $ $ Bar Food  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 2615 Wilshire Blvd

The popular pub in Santa Monica has reopened with a gigantic back patio that used to be their parking lot. Expect picnic tables, astroturf, a lot of day drinking, and plenty of Celtics and Red Sox fans now that sports are back (sigh).

Spumoni Trattoria & Pizzeria $$$$ 713 Montana Ave.

Spumoni is an Italian spot in Santa Monica with an absolutely massive menu, which includes handmade pastas, pizzas, and a gnocchi bar (yes, you read that right). Reserve here.

 Tallula's $ $ $ $ Mexican  in  Santa Monica $$$$ 118 Entrada Drive

This Mexican-Burmese-Indian cantina in Santa Monica has always had one of our favorite spaces in the neighborhood, and with their brand new front patio a block from the beach, we’ll double-down on that statement. Because at the end of the day, drinking margaritas and eating masala tacos by the ocean is a combination you can’t really pass up.

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Seattle’s New Restaurant Openings

If you tried to keep track of every brand new restaurant in Seattle, you might go a little bit crazy. So just read this list instead. These are the new restaurant openings that seem like they have the most potential - although keep in mind, for the ones we haven’t tried, we make no promises. Go forth and be a pioneer.

Editor’s Note 7/28: All restaurants listed below are currently open for carryout, delivery, or outdoor dining.

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Fogon Cocina’s new sister spot, La Josie, is a tequila bar that took over the former East Trading Company space on Pike. They have a huge lineup of margaritas made with infused tequilas (like watermelon and hibiscus) as well as a short food menu of tacos, tortas, salsas and chips, and tostadas. Plus, their sidewalk patio is open for dine-in service.

 Frankie & Jo's $$$$ 2623 NE University Village St

The best vegan ice cream in town has opened their third location at University Village, and their excellent plant-based scoops and pints are available for carryout.

Jack's Chicken Shack $$$$ 228 9th Ave

The Jack’s BBQ team has set up a fried chicken window at their SLU location. You can purchase quarter pound chicken tenders, sandwiches, and sides for takeout or delivery.

Red Arrow Coffee $$$$ 424 NW Market Street

The team behind Brimmer & Heeltap opened a coffee shop in their Ballard garden patio space, where seating is available. Red Arrow serves Caffe Umbria espresso and a food menu full of breakfast sandwiches, snacks, and Brimmer & Heeltap’s signature thick-cut toasts.

Sai Sushi & Sake $$$$ 25 W Mercer St

Sai is an omakase-only, reservation-only sushi restaurant in Queen Anne with a preset tasting for $135 per person. The meal starts with a few appetizers, then moves on to 11 pieces of nigiri, a handroll, miso soup, and dessert.

Sazon D'la Baja $$$$ 2232 Queen Anne Ave N

Sazon D’la Baja’s second location in Queen Anne has seven different types of ceviche, including smoked salmon, in case you’re craving raw fish on a patio this summer. You can also get tacos, tortas, espresso, and dishes like chilaquiles and shrimp omelettes with chorizo sauce.

JUNE 2020 Biang Biang Noodles $$$$ 601 E. Pike

This Xi’an spot on Capitol Hill is open for dine-in service with a menu of spicy hand-pulled noodles, dumplings, soup, sauerkraut boiled fish, and crispy bao filled with things like fried chicken or tofu.

The Ballard Cut $$$$ 5313 Ballard Ave NW Ste A

Taking the place of Carnivore is a new farm-to-table restaurant called The Ballard Cut, where you can find fresh seafood, homemade pasta, and a bunch of cocktails with Japanese whiskey. They are serving takeout, but you can also make a dine-in reservation here.

Tyger Tyger $$$$ 114 Republican St

The team behind Lionhead has opened another Sichuan restaurant, this time in Queen Anne. Their menu has everything from pork dumplings in chili oil and rice cakes with bacon to five-spice duck and chili cumin beef, and they’re open for limited seating dine-in service as well as takeout and delivery.

MAY 2020 Di Fiora $$$$ 1320 University St

This Capitol Hill restaurant specializes in Thai/Malaysian food with some European influences, like pad cha made with squid ink linguine, steak with rosemary truffle oil and tamarind, and an Italian basil burger with sticky rice for buns. They’re also open for dine-in service.

The Spot $$$$ 2920 SW Avalon Way

The Spot is a new coffee shop in West Seattle that serves a full menu of espresso drinks as well as breakfast sandwiches and homemade waffles with toppings ranging from syrup and cinnamon to berries and Nutella.

APRIL 2020 SUSU Dessert Bar $$$$ 665 S King St

Susu used to be at various farmers’ markets around the area selling rolled ice cream, and now they have a curbside pickup operation in the International District. They stopped doing ice cream during the pandemic, but they’re serving beautiful homemade pastries, coffee, wine, and beer to go.

 Sunny Hill/Facebook Sunny Hill $$$$ 3127 NW 85th St

The Stoneburner team has opened a second pizza spot in Sunset Hill serving both round and thick Detroit-style pies. You can also find burgers, waffle fries, salads, and roasted chicken.

Surrell $$$$ 2319 E Madison St

This farm-to-table restaurant on Capitol Hill is open for dine-in service on their patio, serving a preset tasting menu on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as takeout packages involving different meats for grilling. You can find out more information at their website.

MARCH 2020  Donburi Station $$$$ 5503 Airport Way S

Donburi Station is the sister spot to Fremont Bowl, and the menu is pretty similar, featuring sashimi bowls, katsu, sukiyaki, and appetizers like gyoza and edamame.

Panino Taglio $$$$ 6003 12th Ave S

Last year, the Hitchcock Deli team sold the deli, only to move back into the space again in March and make it a pizza shop. Panino Taglio is the Georgetown offshoot of Bar Taglio, specializing in thick Roman-style pies topped with everything from fresh mozzarella and basil to potatoes and mangalitsa pancetta. You can also buy pantry staples and par-baked pizzas to cook at home.

El Buho $$$$ 9640 16th Ave SW

El Buho is a Mexican spot in White Center that’s open for dine-in service on their patio from 4-10pm daily. You’ll find things here like tacos, burritos, fried chicken sandwiches, quesadillas, carne asada fries, and a cocktail menu featuring a lot of tequila and mezcal.

FEBRUARY 2020 Grillbird $$$$ 6501 35th

This casual counter-service, takeout-only spot in West Seattle has a menu of teriyaki, Hawaiian lunch plates, fried vegetables, chicken sandwiches, and noodles.

 Meet Korean BBQ $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 500 E Pike St.

Something is finally open in the old Trove space - Meet Korean BBQ is from the same team behind Chan and serves meats to grill like gochujang pork belly, wagyu beef, honey-marinated skirt steak, and short rib. They have other plates on their menu, too, like bibimbap, chili-caramel chicken wings, and a bulgogi, corn, and cheese appetizer.

Niles Peacock Kitchen & Bar $$$$ 4025 Stone Way N

Niles Peacock in Wallingford is a new bar that serves classic cocktails like gin rickeys and Manhattans. They also have bar snacks and pizzas topped with everything from nutella and blue cheese to capicola and mushrooms.

JANUARY 2020  Mount & Bao $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Lake City $$$$ 12534 Lake City Way NE

Taking the place of Yummy Space in Lake City is a casual sit-down dumpling spot called Mount & Bao. The menu’s full of different wontons, potstickers, bao, noodles, and stir-fried vegetables.

 Petite Soif $ $ $ $ Bar Food ,  French ,  Wine Bar  in  Beacon Hill $$$$ 3309A Beacon Ave S

This is a new wine bar on Beacon Hill from the same team behind Vif. They serve exclusively-natural wine as well as French snacks like chicken liver mousse and ham tartines.

 Revel $$$$ 403 N 36th St

Revel is finally back in Fremont. The Korean restaurant and one of our Greatest Hits was temporarily located in South Lake Union while their permanent location finished renovations. They’re serving the same menu of rice bowls, kimchi pancakes, dumplings, salads, and noodles, but their liquor license is still pending.

Rondo $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Sushi  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 224 Broadway E

This is the third restaurant from the same team behind Suika and Tamari Bar. And while those other two spots specialize in small plates and drinking snacks, Rondo is all about larger entrees, like mazemen, ramen, rice bowls topped with sashimi or katsu, and bento boxes. Plus, it’s also open for lunch.

 Musang $ $ $ $ Southeast Asian  in  Beacon Hill $$$$ 2524 Beacon Ave S

Musang used to be a pop-up, but now this Filipino restaurant has a permanent location inside of a renovated house on Beacon Hill. Everything on the menu, from pork sinigang to whole grilled fish, is less than $25. You can also expect a bunch of desserts like chocolate goat milk pudding and leche flan.

DECEMBER 2019 Olmstead $ $ $ $ American ,  Sandwiches  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 314 Broadway E

Broadway Grill was a huge diner that closed in 2013. The space was never cleaned out, so you’d walk past and still see tables with (probably haunted) pepper shakers on them. Olmstead is now open in the space serving an upscale diner menu of things like sandwiches, poutine, toasts, brunch, and cocktails.

Cafe Hagen $$$$ 1252 Thomas St

Cafe Hagen is a new Scanadavian all-day cafe in South Lake Union that serves sandwiches, avocado toast, and “tasting flights,” aka steamed milk and espresso served separately and together along with a cup of chocolate.

 Zaika $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 1100 Pike St

Zaika is a new Indian restaurant on Capitol Hill where Tango used to be. This big, colorful spot is already open for both lunch and dinner serving dishes like fried paneer sticks, apricot chicken kebabs, tacos, and burrata.

Noodle Legend $$$$ 3642 33rd Ave S

This new takeout-only spot in Mount Baker specializes in xi’an-style food like cumin lamb noodles, stewed pork burgers, and dumplings. The most expensive thing on the menu is a dumpling/burger/soda combo for $14.

 Taurus Ox $ $ $ $ Laotian  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 1523 E Madison St

Replacing Little Uncle on Capitol Hill is Taurus Ox, a place that specializes in Laotian food like homemade sausage, khao soi, laap (which is similar to larb), and even a smash burger with provolone and taro.

Chung Chun Rice Dog $$$$ 502 S King St

Rice hot dogs (picture a corn dog but with crispy rice wrapped around it instead of cornmeal batter) have arrived in the ID, and they’re so popular that lines are already out the door at Chung Chun. You can choose between types of sausages (or even a vegetarian option full of mozzarella) and toppings (like fried sweet potato, crushed ramen noodles, or cheddar).

NOVEMBER 2019  La Dive $ $ $ $ Wine Bar  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 721 E Pike St.

We’re still sad that the Other Coast Cafe on Capitol Hill closed. But La Dive, a natural wine bar serving frozen Beaujolais slushies and pork pelmeni, replaced it and we suddenly feel hopeful.

Schmaltzy’s Deli $ $ $ $ Deli ,  Cafe/Bakery  in  Fremont $$$$ 928 NW Leary Way

Schmaltzy’s is Jewish deli that serves pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, matzo ball soup, smoked fish salad, and latkes. They’re only open for breakfast and lunch, from 8am to 2pm.

Johnny Mo’s Pizzeria $$$$ 3272 Fuhrman Ave E

If you ever had trouble deciding between New York-style and Chicago-style pizza, now you can go to Johnny Mo’s and order both. This pizzeria in Portage Bay serves everything from thin pies topped with vodka sauce and peas, to deep-dish ones filled with sausage and pepperoni.

OCTOBER 2019  Rupee Bar $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Ballard $$$$ 6307 24th Ave NW

It can be hard to find a place in Ballard to have drinks and a light bite - most of the bars in the neighborhood are American pubs that serve burgers and wings. However, Rupee Bar is a cocktail spot that serves Sri Lankan and Indian small plates like tandoori cauliflower and panko-breaded mutton rolls. The whole operation is from the same team behind Manolin, one of our Greatest Hits and favorite places in the city for seafood.

We checked out Rupee Bar and added it to our Hit List.

 Carrello $ $ $ $ Pasta ,  Italian  in  Capitol Hill $$$$ 622 Broadway E

The same team behind the Italian tasting-menu restaurant Altura opened a smaller pasta spot across the street from it on Capitol Hill. In addition to pastas that cost around $20 and entrees like braised lamb neck and ribeye steak, dim sum-like carts come around to your table to offer you appetizers ranging from charcuterie to rabbit meatballs.

Don Lucho’s $$$$ 7919 Roosevelt Way NE

Don Lucho’s started out as a food truck, but now has a brick and mortar location in Maple Leaf. It’s a Peruvian spot that specializes in things like empanadas, lomo saltado sandwiches, and french fries.

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The NYC Vegan And Vegetarian Delivery Guide (1)

It’s been weeks of cold tofu, ramen packets, and back-to-back recipes from an article titled “10 Simple Ways to Cook with Eggplant.” So whenever you’re ready for a vegan or vegetarian meal that came from somewhere other than a drawer in your fridge, use this guide. It has 24 great plant-based options all over NYC that offer delivery or takeout.

For more ways to support the restaurant industry right now, you can find some ideas and resources here. And for a list of great NYC restaurants supporting people in need, read our guide to 30 NYC Restaurants Giving Back To The Community.

If you’re looking for a list of all of the delivery options near you, check out our neighborhood directories for Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Jersey City. For takeout options that work for just about any mood, check out our guide to NYC’s Delivery & Takeout Options For Every Situation.

THE SPOTS  Avant Garden $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  East Village $$$$ 130 E 7th St 8.4 /10

If the veggie burgers and canned beans routine is getting old, try takeout from Avant Garden. From 4-9pm, you can order interesting combinations of vegetables, toast, and pasta to your door. Everything at this East Village spot is vegan and you’ll get 20% off if you call the restaurant directly to place your order.

Blossom $ $ $ $ Vegetarian ,  Vegan ,  Italian  in  Chelsea $$$$ 187 9th Ave Not

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If Buddy the Elf were vegan, he’d order pasta from Blossom. The quality Italian dishes here are creamy, gooey, and savory enough to delight anyone who loves a mountain of sauce-covered noodles. See for yourself and order a plate of rigatoni alfredo online from either the Chelsea or UWS location - both are open from 12- 8pm daily.

 Beyond Sushi $ $ $ $ Sushi  in  Midtown $$$$ 62 W 56th St Not

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This vegan mini-chains Sushi rolls filled with things like mango or sweet potato have earned somewhat of a cult following. But even if you’re not in the mood for sushi, they have hummus mezze plates, mushroom dumplings, and seitan skewers available for takeout and delivery as well when you order from their Upper East Side location. Plus, they’re delivering all the way from Houston to 100th Street - and if you’d like to help them provide plant-based meals for healthcare professionals on the frontlines, you can donate here.

Chote Nawab $$$$ 115 Lexington Ave

Once you accept that the tofu scramble you’ve been eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is contributing to your depression, order some dal or baingan bharta from Chote Nawab. All of the vegetable curries and kebabs here taste like they came straight from the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve ruined everything over a piece of fruit. Order a few online and be sure to get some extra naan too because you can never have too much naan.

 Bunna Cafe $ $ $ $ Ethiopian  in  Bushwick $$$$ 1084 Flushing Ave 8.2 /10

If you live in Bushwick, you’ve probably been to Bunna Cafe. But just so that everyone is on the same page, this Ethiopian spot is affordable, healthy, and so satisfying that you’ll probably forget everything is plant-based. When you order online, you can choose between five, seven, and nine vegetarian dishes including things like squash, kale, cabbage, and potatoes - plus tons of injera to sop it all up with.

Clementine Bakery $$$$ 299 Greene Ave

Clementine Bakery does vegan cakes like Sacha Baron Cohen does political satire. Plus, they’ve got a great breakfast burrito and sandwiches with things like tempeh bacon and sage aioli on their all-day vegan menu. They’re open from 9am-5pm daily.

 by CHLOE $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Greenwich Village $$$$ 185 Bleecker St. Not

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Several locations of this vegan fast food chain are doing delivery and takeout right now. So if you want some french toast, a meatball sub, or mac and cheese with tempeh bacon delivered to your door, head to their website or download their app to order.

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This cafe in Bushwick has an entirely vegan menu of things like cinnamon rolls, everything croissants, and donut holes available for delivery and takeout. So the next time you need to be reminded of the circle of life, try one of their sweet, round pastries. And if you’re hungry for a full meal, Brooklyn Whiskers also has entrees like biscuits and gravy and a caprese salad with vegan mozzarella and focaccia bread.

 Champs $ $ $ $ American ,  Diner  in  Brooklyn ,  East Williamsburg $$$$ 197 Meserole St Not

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Maybe being alone in your apartment with a seitan philly cheesesteak is your idea of the perfect Friday night in. We support you. Make it happen by ordering takeout from Champs Diner, the go-to spot for vegan junk food in Brooklyn. You can call the restaurant from 10am-10pm, or get delivery.

Gordo's Cantina $$$$ 140 St Nicholas Ave

If you’re looking for more Mexican takeout or delivery in the Bushwick area, you can order Gordo’s online. They have a separate vegetarian section of their takeout menu with chile rellenos, enchiladas with roasted peppers, and a guacamole trio.

 Dhaba $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Murray Hill $$$$ 108 Lexington Ave Not

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This is one of the best Indian restaurants in NYC and the menu has sections devoted to both vegan and vegetarian dishes, respectively. Whether you’re in the mood for spicy potatoes cooked with cumin and green chilies or cheesy paneer in a creamy pepper sauce, you’ll find it here.

Honeybee’s $$$$ 95 Avenue A

This Southern vegan spot in the East Village is offering 20% off your takeout order when you call it in. But if delivery is your only option, you can still order dishes like chick’n and biscuits, a pulled pork sandwich, or an apple pie sundae straight to your door.

 JaJaJa- Plantas Mexicana $ $ $ $ Mexican ,  Vegetarian  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 162 E Broadway 7.1 /10

The LES and West Village locations of Jajaja are offering takeout and delivery right now. So if you’re looking for a vegan chorizo burrito, sweet potato tacos, or nachos large enough to pass as an offering to the God of Nachos herself, get a meal from them.

Loving Hut $$$$ 76 Bushwick Ave

We’ve all got more time on our hands these days. So if you’re in the mood to scroll through a huge menu until you see something you like - try Loving Hut in East Williamsburg. They have everything from tacos and risotto to curry udon soup and pad thai on their very long menu - and it’s all vegan. You can call 718-388-7567 or order online.

Peacefood Cafe $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Upper West Side $$$$ 460 Amsterdam Ave. 7.6 /10

None of the dishes at Peacefood Cafe are necessarily healthy, but everything on the menu is delicious and vegan. So if you’re social distancing on the UWS, consider some crab cakes, focaccia cheeseburgers, and strawberry cheesecake - we recommend ordering all three to go along with a home screening of Call Me By Your Name this weekend.

Queens Brewery $ $ $ $ Bar  in  Ridgewood $$$$ 1539 Covert St Not

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Going on your daily walk in Ridgewood? Stop by Queens Brewery’s takeout window and pick-up something from their rotating menu of vegetarian breakfast options. They’ve done grilled cheese sandwiches, breakfast tacos, and Spanish tapas so far. Check out their Instagram to see what they’re serving today.

Rip's Malt Shop $$$$ 10 Clermont Ave

The vegan double cheeseburgers, loaded potato salads, and sauerkraut-covered hot dogs from Rip’s Malt Shop are the kinds of things you’d want to eat out of a helmet at a MLB Game. But since you’ll be enjoying this plant-based junk food from home, we suggest a large mixing bowl, a long highlight reel, and a rootbeer float from Rips’ menu to wash it all down. If you live in Brooklyn or Manhattan put down the tofurky and order a few sports stadium dishes online from their Brooklyn Navy Yard location.

Planted Cafe $$$$ 333 Smith Street

Even if your blender is still on back-order and most of the fruits and vegetables at your local grocery store are gone by 9am, you can still drink a smoothie or eat a colorful bowl of health from this cafe in Carroll Gardens. They also have vegan huevos rancheros, “egg” sandwiches, and jackfruit tacos available for delivery and takeout right now.

Seasoned Vegan $$$$ 304 W 117th St

It’s no secret that this place serves the best vegan soul food in NYC. And everything from baked mac and cheese and collard greens to BBQ “crawfish” and po’boys are available for delivery and takeout right now. Call 212-222-0092 if you’re near Harlem and excited to eat something that will have you happily rubbing your belly on the couch.

Sol Sips $$$$ 203 Wilson Ave

Sol Sips is offering vegan Caribbean dishes like sweet potato fritters and collard green salad for pick-up and delivery within a five-mile radius of their Bushwick restaurant. And since nothing on the menu costs more than $15, we highly recommend ordering an extra vegan mac and cheese for later. You can call in or order online via website.

Spicy Moon $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  East Village $$$$ 328 E 6th St Not

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Want our advice? Get the dan dan noodles and steamed dumplings from this vegetarian Szechuan spot delivered before your next all-day sleep binge. And even if you don’t plan on going nocturnal anytime soon, you should still get takeout from either the East Village or West Village location of Spicy Moon the next time you want dinner at home to be exciting again.

Teranga $ $ $ $ West African  in  East Harlem ,  Harlem $$$$ 1280 5th Ave Not

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If you’re looking for an uptown spot where you can get a one-bowl meal, Teranga specializes in West African-inspired grain bowls. We’re partial to their joloff bowl with salmon and black eyed peas, but you can always just mix and match ingredients to make whatever you want. Just be sure to get the fried plantains.

Toad Style $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Bedford-Stuyvesant ,  Brooklyn $$$$ 93 Ralph Ave Not

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Toad Style is the right place to get your basket of deep-fried cauliflower in Brooklyn. They also do things like a veggie burger, pizza fries, and a banh mi. It’s sort of like By Chloe, with a little more character. If you’re in the mood for vegan junk food, order some now using their website.

Familiars Vegan Coffee Shop $$$$ 94 Ralph Ave,

This cafe from the people behind Toad Style is a great option for a bagel with vegan prosciutto or balsamic “caviar.” They also have coffee, soups, and other sides available for delivery or takeout starting at 8am every day.

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It’s been weeks of cold tofu, ramen packets, and back-to-back recipes from an article titled “10 Simple Ways to Cook with Eggplant.” So whenever you’re ready for a vegan or vegetarian meal that came from somewhere other than a drawer in your fridge, use this guide. It has 24 great plant-based options all over NYC that offer delivery or takeout.

For more ways to support the restaurant industry right now, you can find some ideas and resources here. And for a list of great NYC restaurants supporting people in need, read our guide to 30 NYC Restaurants Giving Back To The Community.

If you’re looking for a list of all of the delivery options near you, check out our neighborhood directories for Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Jersey City. For takeout options that work for just about any mood, check out our guide to NYC’s Delivery & Takeout Options For Every Situation.

THE SPOTS  Avant Garden $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  East Village $$$$ 130 E 7th St 8.4 /10

If the veggie burgers and canned beans routine is getting old, try takeout from Avant Garden. From 4-9pm, you can order interesting combinations of vegetables, toast, and pasta to your door. Everything at this East Village spot is vegan and you’ll get 20% off if you call the restaurant directly to place your order.

Blossom $ $ $ $ Vegetarian ,  Vegan ,  Italian  in  Chelsea $$$$ 187 9th Ave Not

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If Buddy the Elf were vegan, he’d order pasta from Blossom. The quality Italian dishes here are creamy, gooey, and savory enough to delight anyone who loves a mountain of sauce-covered noodles. See for yourself and order a plate of rigatoni alfredo online from either the Chelsea or UWS location - both are open from 12- 8pm daily.

 Beyond Sushi $ $ $ $ Sushi  in  Midtown $$$$ 62 W 56th St Not

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This vegan mini-chains Sushi rolls filled with things like mango or sweet potato have earned somewhat of a cult following. But even if you’re not in the mood for sushi, they have hummus mezze plates, mushroom dumplings, and seitan skewers available for takeout and delivery as well when you order from their Upper East Side location. Plus, they’re delivering all the way from Houston to 100th Street - and if you’d like to help them provide plant-based meals for healthcare professionals on the frontlines, you can donate here.

Chote Nawab $$$$ 115 Lexington Ave

Once you accept that the tofu scramble you’ve been eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is contributing to your depression, order some dal or baingan bharta from Chote Nawab. All of the vegetable curries and kebabs here taste like they came straight from the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve ruined everything over a piece of fruit. Order a few online and be sure to get some extra naan too because you can never have too much naan.

 Bunna Cafe $ $ $ $ Ethiopian  in  Bushwick $$$$ 1084 Flushing Ave 8.2 /10

If you live in Bushwick, you’ve probably been to Bunna Cafe. But just so that everyone is on the same page, this Ethiopian spot is affordable, healthy, and so satisfying that you’ll probably forget everything is plant-based. When you order online, you can choose between five, seven, and nine vegetarian dishes including things like squash, kale, cabbage, and potatoes - plus tons of injera to sop it all up with.

Clementine Bakery $$$$ 299 Greene Ave

Clementine Bakery does vegan cakes like Sacha Baron Cohen does political satire. Plus, they’ve got a great breakfast burrito and sandwiches with things like tempeh bacon and sage aioli on their all-day vegan menu. They’re open from 9am-5pm daily.

 by CHLOE $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Greenwich Village $$$$ 185 Bleecker St. Not

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Several locations of this vegan fast food chain are doing delivery and takeout right now. So if you want some french toast, a meatball sub, or mac and cheese with tempeh bacon delivered to your door, head to their website or download their app to order.

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This cafe in Bushwick has an entirely vegan menu of things like cinnamon rolls, everything croissants, and donut holes available for delivery and takeout. So the next time you need to be reminded of the circle of life, try one of their sweet, round pastries. And if you’re hungry for a full meal, Brooklyn Whiskers also has entrees like biscuits and gravy and a caprese salad with vegan mozzarella and focaccia bread.

 Champs $ $ $ $ American ,  Diner  in  Brooklyn ,  East Williamsburg $$$$ 197 Meserole St Not

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Maybe being alone in your apartment with a seitan philly cheesesteak is your idea of the perfect Friday night in. We support you. Make it happen by ordering takeout from Champs Diner, the go-to spot for vegan junk food in Brooklyn. You can call the restaurant from 10am-10pm, or get delivery.

Gordo's Cantina $$$$ 140 St Nicholas Ave

If you’re looking for more Mexican takeout or delivery in the Bushwick area, you can order Gordo’s online. They have a separate vegetarian section of their takeout menu with chile rellenos, enchiladas with roasted peppers, and a guacamole trio.

 Dhaba $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Murray Hill $$$$ 108 Lexington Ave Not

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This is one of the best Indian restaurants in NYC and the menu has sections devoted to both vegan and vegetarian dishes, respectively. Whether you’re in the mood for spicy potatoes cooked with cumin and green chilies or cheesy paneer in a creamy pepper sauce, you’ll find it here.

Honeybee’s $$$$ 95 Avenue A

This Southern vegan spot in the East Village is offering 20% off your takeout order when you call it in. But if delivery is your only option, you can still order dishes like chick’n and biscuits, a pulled pork sandwich, or an apple pie sundae straight to your door.

 JaJaJa- Plantas Mexicana $ $ $ $ Mexican ,  Vegetarian  in  Lower East Side $$$$ 162 E Broadway 7.1 /10

The LES and West Village locations of Jajaja are offering takeout and delivery right now. So if you’re looking for a vegan chorizo burrito, sweet potato tacos, or nachos large enough to pass as an offering to the God of Nachos herself, get a meal from them.

Loving Hut $$$$ 76 Bushwick Ave

We’ve all got more time on our hands these days. So if you’re in the mood to scroll through a huge menu until you see something you like - try Loving Hut in East Williamsburg. They have everything from tacos and risotto to curry udon soup and pad thai on their very long menu - and it’s all vegan. You can call 718-388-7567 or order online.

Peacefood Cafe $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Upper West Side $$$$ 460 Amsterdam Ave. 7.6 /10

None of the dishes at Peacefood Cafe are necessarily healthy, but everything on the menu is delicious and vegan. So if you’re social distancing on the UWS, consider some crab cakes, focaccia cheeseburgers, and strawberry cheesecake - we recommend ordering all three to go along with a home screening of Call Me By Your Name this weekend.

Queens Brewery $ $ $ $ Bar  in  Ridgewood $$$$ 1539 Covert St Not

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Going on your daily walk in Ridgewood? Stop by Queens Brewery’s takeout window and pick-up something from their rotating menu of vegetarian breakfast options. They’ve done grilled cheese sandwiches, breakfast tacos, and Spanish tapas so far. Check out their Instagram to see what they’re serving today.

Rip's Malt Shop $$$$ 10 Clermont Ave

The vegan double cheeseburgers, loaded potato salads, and sauerkraut-covered hot dogs from Rip’s Malt Shop are the kinds of things you’d want to eat out of a helmet at a MLB Game. But since you’ll be enjoying this plant-based junk food from home, we suggest a large mixing bowl, a long highlight reel, and a rootbeer float from Rips’ menu to wash it all down. If you live in Brooklyn or Manhattan put down the tofurky and order a few sports stadium dishes online from their Brooklyn Navy Yard location.

Planted Cafe $$$$ 333 Smith Street

Even if your blender is still on back-order and most of the fruits and vegetables at your local grocery store are gone by 9am, you can still drink a smoothie or eat a colorful bowl of health from this cafe in Carroll Gardens. They also have vegan huevos rancheros, “egg” sandwiches, and jackfruit tacos available for delivery and takeout right now.

Seasoned Vegan $$$$ 304 W 117th St

It’s no secret that this place serves the best vegan soul food in NYC. And everything from baked mac and cheese and collard greens to BBQ “crawfish” and po’boys are available for delivery and takeout right now. Call 212-222-0092 if you’re near Harlem and excited to eat something that will have you happily rubbing your belly on the couch.

Sol Sips $$$$ 203 Wilson Ave

Sol Sips is offering vegan Caribbean dishes like sweet potato fritters and collard green salad for pick-up and delivery within a five-mile radius of their Bushwick restaurant. And since nothing on the menu costs more than $15, we highly recommend ordering an extra vegan mac and cheese for later. You can call in or order online via website.

Spicy Moon $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  East Village $$$$ 328 E 6th St Not

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Want our advice? Get the dan dan noodles and steamed dumplings from this vegetarian Szechuan spot delivered before your next all-day sleep binge. And even if you don’t plan on going nocturnal anytime soon, you should still get takeout from either the East Village or West Village location of Spicy Moon the next time you want dinner at home to be exciting again.

Teranga $ $ $ $ West African  in  East Harlem ,  Harlem $$$$ 1280 5th Ave Not

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If you’re looking for an uptown spot where you can get a one-bowl meal, Teranga specializes in West African-inspired grain bowls. We’re partial to their joloff bowl with salmon and black eyed peas, but you can always just mix and match ingredients to make whatever you want. Just be sure to get the fried plantains.

Toad Style $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Bedford-Stuyvesant ,  Brooklyn $$$$ 93 Ralph Ave Not

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Toad Style is the right place to get your basket of deep-fried cauliflower in Brooklyn. They also do things like a veggie burger, pizza fries, and a banh mi. It’s sort of like By Chloe, with a little more character. If you’re in the mood for vegan junk food, order some now using their website.

Familiars Vegan Coffee Shop $$$$ 94 Ralph Ave,

This cafe from the people behind Toad Style is a great option for a bagel with vegan prosciutto or balsamic “caviar.” They also have coffee, soups, and other sides available for delivery or takeout starting at 8am every day.

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Bars and restaurants in Chicago are closed for dine-in service, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit in a corner and eat beans out of a can until you forget what plates look like. You can still order takeout and delivery - and help support a lot of businesses while you do it. If you need some ideas, here are a bunch of places that are perfect for everything from a Big Night In to When You Want Something Vegetarian or Vegan. Scroll down for all the spots (organized by situation), and stay tuned for updates.

For restaurants offering delivery and takeout for the first time and serving new specials, read our guide to Chicago Restaurants With New Takeout & Delivery Options.

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When you Want To Have A Big Night In RPM Steak $ $ $ $ American ,  Steaks  in  River North $$$$ 66 W Kinzie St 8.4 /10

Nothing says “I do what I want” like getting an entire over-the-top, upscale steakhouse meal delivered to your house. This is also a good opportunity to wear a suit while eating at your Ikea coffee table.

Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab $ $ $ $ American ,  Seafood ,  Steaks  in  River North $$$$ 60 E Grand Ave 8.8 /10

OK, we stand corrected. Eating an over-the-top steak and seafood meal also says, “I do what I want,” Don’t forget to include a piece of Joe’s famous key lime pie.

Club Lucky $ $ $ $ Italian  in  Bucktown ,  Wicker Park $$$$ 1824 W Wabansia Ave Not

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Club Lucky is an old-school spot known for its martinis and great Italian food. And not only can you get their fantastic pastas (like the handmade cavatelli) sent straight to your door, but they’re also delivering “quarantinis” so you can make their signature cocktail at home. Basically, you can pretend that your James Bond for the night, only not at all.

RPM Italian $ $ $ $ Italian  in  River North $$$$ 52 W Illinois St 8.0 /10

RPM has always done a great job with delivery. Everything is carefully packaged, and the food available on the delivery menu travels really well. But if you want to go all out, order the family-meal. It comes with housemade bucatini, truffle garlic bread, salad, and chocolate budino.

Alinea $ $ $ $ Experimental ,  Molecular Gastronomy  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 1723 N Halsted St 9.4 /10

That’s right. We’ve come to a point in our society when Alinea is offering to-go. The menu changes regularly, but you can expect family-style meals like Beef Wellington with mashed potatoes. So no, it’s not an edible balloon, but you probably weren’t going to Alinea anytime soon, anyway.

Aba $ $ $ $ Mediterranean  in  West Loop $$$$ 302 N Green St 7.8 /10

Before ordering Aba, take a moment to measure your coffee table. Then order as many spreads, hummuses, and mezze dishes that you think can reasonably fit on it. Don’t forget to request extra pita.

Siena Tavern $ $ $ $ Italian  in  River North $$$$ 51 W Kinzie St Not

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Siena Tavern’s entire menu is available for delivery (get the truffle gnocchi). Or you can order one of their family-style meals where you choose your entree and pasta (get the truffle gnocchi). More importantly, don’t forget to ask them to select a bottle of wine to go with your dinner.

Sunda $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Fusion ,  Sushi  in  River North $$$$ 110 W Illinois St 8.0 /10

We used to go ato Sunda despite the fact that it’s sceney sushi spot in River North. But since we’re all forced to eat in our apartments, this means we can focus on what Sunda does best: slightly ridiculous but also very delicious rolls. Like the Crouching Pig Hidden Lobster (filled with creamy lobster and draped with wagyu), or a shrimp tempura roll that’s the size of your couch.

Maple & Ash $ $ $ $ American ,  Steaks  in  Gold Coast $$$$ 8 W. Maple St. 8.3 /10

This steakhouse in the Gold Coast is determined to make sure we can all still have fancy-ass meals despite being on lockdown. They have steaks, fire-roasted seafood, truffle-filled sides, and expensive bottles of wine available.

Avec $ $ $ $ American  in  West Loop $$$$ 615 W Randolph St 8.6 /10

We always tell people to order the truffle and taleggio focaccia and the bacon-wrapped dates when they go to Avec. Thankfully now you can get these things delivered, along with a full-on chicken dinner, and a bottle of wine from their long bottle list.

When you Want Something affordable Qing Xiang Yuan Dumpling $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Chinatown $$$$ 2002 S Wentworth Ave 8.1 /10

Qing Xian Yuan specializes in handmade, broth-filled dumplings that start at around $10, and you can get in orders of 12 or 18. Choose between steamed, boiled, or fried, with fillings like pork and pickled cabbage, shrimp and leak, or egg and pepper. And if you’d rather cook them yourself, you can buy them pre-made and decide how you’d like them prepared.

The Spice Room $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Logan Square $$$$ 2906 W Armitage Ave 8.2 /10

Before we were all under house arrest, we could generally judge the difficulty of a day based on how many containers of Spice Room were in front of us. We still like ordering from here to comfort us, and thankfully, their Indian food is reasonably priced. Get the malai kofta, tikka masala, and both the garlic and kashmiri naan - which they’ll thoughtfully put in separate wrappers, so you don’t have garlic leaking into everything.

Athenian Room $ $ $ $ Greek ,  Mediterranean  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 807 W Webster Ave 8.4 /10

Athenian Room has delicious, incredibly affordable Greek food. Almost everything on their menu is under $13, including the kalamata chicken - one of the best roast chicken dishes in Chicago.

Tempesta Market $ $ $ $ Sandwiches ,  Deli  in  West Town $$$$ 1372 W Grand Ave 8.2 /10

Sure, you can easily make a sandwich yourself. But recreating the sandwiches from Tempesta Market would involve a lot of work, and specialty ingredients cost a lot of money. You’re better off just ordering directly from this West Town sandwich shop. Get The Dante (which has an entire deli counter’s worth of house-cured meat and a spicy ’nduja aioli) or the Beet Streets (thinly-shaved beets and apples with homemade almond butter).

Irazu $ $ $ $ Latin  in  Bucktown ,  Palmer Square $$$$ 1865 N. Milwaukee Ave. 7.8 /10

Irazu’s Costa Rican food is both extremely affordable and incredibly good. Most things on the long menu range from $5-$12, and we’re pretty sure eating gallo pinto and sweet plantains will help you feel like your on a tropical vacation instead of sitting in your living room.

The Momo World $ $ $ $ Nepali  in  University Village $$$$ 727 W Maxwell St 8.6 /10

Spoiler alert: “The Momo World” specializes in momos. They have a wide variety of these Nepali dumplings, including the classic chicken or vegetable, jhol (served in a spicy soup), and options like tandoori, which are steamed then fried. It’s all delicious, and each order is under $10. So, you better get all of them.

Carnitas Uruapan $ $ $ $ Mexican  in  Marquette Park $$$$ 2813 W. 55th Street Not

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Arranging an entire pig roast might be fun, but it’s not always practical to play Lord Of The Flies in your apartment. So we suggest calling Carnitas Uruapan instead. Here you can get either belly, shoulder, or rib meat, and it’s all priced by weight. Even better, your order will come with some fantastic handmade tortillas.

Birrieria Zaragoza $ $ $ $ Tacos ,  Mexican  in  Archer Heights $$$$ 4852 S Pulaski Rd 8.2 /10

Birrieria Zaragoza makes ordering very easy because they only focus on one thing: goat. The meat is tender and juicy, and has just the right amount of funkiness that’s nicely balanced out by their delicious salsa. Plus, the handmade tortillas are a great goat delivery system.

Hing Kee Restaurant $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Chinatown $$$$ 2140 S Archer Ave Not

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You should order Hing Kee for one reason: the handmade xiao long bao. Get the pork or pork with crab, and make sure to throw in a scallion pancake, too. Since everything is so reasonably priced, you might as well.

5 Rabanitos $ $ $ $ Tacos ,  Mexican  in  Pilsen $$$$ 1758 W 18th St 8.6 /10

Not only is everything at 5 Rabanitos really good, but it’s also all pretty affordable, ranging from $3-$18 per dish. There’s no such thing as a bad order here, but a good starting point is some guacamole, the green tamale, some tacos, and maybe a torta.

D Cuisine $ $ $ $ Chinese ,  Dim Sum  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 2723 N Clark St 7.6 /10

Our favorite thing to focus on at this Chinese restaurant is the dim sum. And while the dim sum menu at D Cuisine is pretty short, what they do have is consistently delicious. You’ll find excellent pork buns, smooth and creamy steamed egg buns, shrimp dumplings, and sesame balls that are crispy on the outside and perfectly chewy inside.

Tank Noodle $ $ $ $ Chinese ,  Vietnamese  in  Uptown $$$$ 4953 N Broadway St 7.7 /10

Tank Noodle in Little Vietnam has friendly service and very tasty Vietnamese food. There’s an extensive menu, but the combination pho with sliced beef is the best thing here. Get a bowl of that along with some spring rolls.

Honey Butter Fried Chicken $ $ $ $ American ,  Southern  in  Avondale $$$$ 3361 N Elston Ave 7.6 /10

Honey Butter Fried Chicken makes fried chicken topped with honey butter, and you should order extra butter. Your order will come with little corn muffins, which benefit from extra honey butter as well. Feel free to get a small salad, too - although honey butter’s effect on salad is still unknown.

Szechwan JMC $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Chinatown $$$$ 243 W Cermak Rd Not

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Everything on this Szechuan menu - from the excellent shrimp dry hot pot to the fatty beef to the chili wontons - has the perfect amount of mouth-numbing spice. Plus, their take on chongqing chicken, which includes french fries, is currently edging out Athenian Room for the most delicious chicken and fries in the city.

Strings Ramen Shop $ $ $ $ Japanese ,  Ramen  in  Chinatown $$$$ 2141 S Archer Ave 8.1 /10

Strings is one of our favorite ramen spots, and under normal circumstances doesn’t do delivery or takeout. But nothing’s “normal” anymore, so now you can get the delicious ramen delivered to you. There are four different types of broth (shoyu, miso, shio, and tonkotsu) with fantastic hand-pulled noodles, and a bowl is around $15.

When you Want Something Vegetarian Chicago Diner $ $ $ $ American ,  Diner  in  Logan Square ,  Palmer Square $$$$ 2333 N. Milwaukee Ave. 7.3 /10

“Meat Free Since ’83” is the motto at the Chicago Diner, so if you guessed that this place is vegetarian, you’d be correct. There’s a long menu with a lot of diner-style vegan options, like a reuben sandwich made with seitan, lentil mushroom meatloaf, and desserts like a carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting.

Healthy Substance $ $ $ $ Mexican ,  Vegetarian ,  Vegan  in  Garfield Ridge $$$$ 6852 W. Archer Ave Not

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Not only is the Mexican food at Healthy Substance vegan, but it’s objectively great. Everything from the shredded cashew cheese to the spicy al pastor, chorizo, and steak is made in house, and none of it feels overprocessed. Order the chilaquiles, tacos, burritos, or basically anything that sounds good.

Handlebar $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Wicker Park $$$$ 2311 W. North Ave. Not

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Handlebar’s menu is filled with vegan American comfort food, like a buffalo seitan wrap with ranch dressing, mac and cheese, and a Chicago-style tofu dish that’s inspired by our city’s obsession with hot dogs. Because right now, vegans need comforting too.

Ground Control $ $ $ $ Vegetarian  in  Logan Square $$$$ 3315 W Armitage Ave Not

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Ground Control’s vegetarian menu is eclectic. There are appetizers like fried green tomatoes, plus banh mi sandwiches made with tofu and a torta ahogada with seitan. If you can’t decide what you’re in the mood for, this is a good place to start.

When You just want dessert Sweet Mandy B's $$$$ 1208 W Webster Ave

Any treats you wanted as a kid - from Oreo dirt cups to edible cookie dough to banana pudding with Nilla wafers- are available for delivery from Sweet Mandy B’s. And while the nostalgic desserts are great, this place also has an excellent selection of cookies, pies, and cakes.

Molly's Cupcakes $ $ $ $ Cafe/Bakery  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 2536 N Clark St Not

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Sure, Molly’s has desserts besides cupcakes, but don’t concern yourself with those. What you want to order from this bakery are the specialty cupcakes. You’ll find choices filled with cake batter, cookies and creme, and ganache. There’s nothing subtle happening here, but when you’ve been in your apartment for 10 days, sometimes you just want to eat a cupcake filled with Nutella.

Spinning J $ $ $ $ American ,  Sandwiches ,  Vegetarian ,  Cafe/Bakery ,  Ice Cream ,  Dessert  in  Humboldt Park $$$$ 1000 N California Ave 7.8 /10

If you do want a dessert with a bit more nuance than a Kit Kat, order a pie from Spinning J. The menu changes daily, with options like key lime hibiscus, coconut cashew, and purple sweet potato.

Baker Miller $ $ $ $ American ,  Cafe/Bakery  in  Lincoln Square ,  Ravenswood $$$$ 4655 N Lincoln Ave 8.2 /10

Baker Miller takes its baked goods very seriously - they mill their own grain for God’s sake. This same thoughtfulness goes into their pastries, cookies, and pies. Just call ahead to see what they have available. No matter what it will be good.

Pretty Cool Ice Cream $ $ $ $ Ice Cream ,  Dessert  in  Logan Square $$$$ 2353 N California Ave Not

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Pretty Cool Ice Cream makes fancy popsicles with incredibly rich ice cream. They have fantastic flavor combinations like coffee pretzel toffee, peanut butter potato chip, and caramel horchata. Everything has a great balance of sweet and salty, and you should probably order extra - just see how much room you have left in your freezer first.

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Readers and friends of The Infatuation often ask for one very specific request: they want to know about the city’s best new restaurants before we review them. We get it, it’s the age of instant information. But that wasn’t information we gave you, until now. We’re happy to present The Infatuation Hit List, a regularly updated guide to the new Chicago restaurants we think are worth your time.

On this list, you’ll find new places we’ve recently reviewed and places we’ve enjoyed and will likely have good things to say about in the future.

One thing you can always rely on: we’ll only put places on this list that we have genuinely vetted. That means every brand-new opening doesn’t automatically make a restaurant worthy, nor does a team of ten publicists and an army of Instagrammers who insist it’s good. We don’t care if Oprah endorses it, we’ll only add it to the list if we think it’s actually a place you should spend your time and money in search of new favorite things.

New to The Hit List (as of 2/2020): Chile Toreado, Chef’s Special

The Spots  Chile Toreado $ $ $ $ Mexican $$$$ 2022 W. 35th Street Not

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5 Rabanitos in Pilsen is one of Chicago’s best Mexican restaurants. So when we found out that they were opening a new spot in McKinley Park, we were excited. And it turns out that we were right to be because Chile Toreado is just as good as it’s predecessor. The menu is similar, with a selection of tacos, entrees (like an enchilada topped with a rich mole), and an incredibly spicy ahogada torta. But there are some differences, like a roasted vegetable tlatlaya that stays magically crispy till the end of time. The space is brightly colored and casual, and exactly where we want to be eating delicious Mexican food.

Chef’s Special Cocktail Bar $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Bucktown ,  Wicker Park $$$$ 2165 N Western Ave Not

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This is a new Chinese spot that came from another one of our favorite restaurants in Chicago - Giant. And Chef’s Special Cocktail Bar is just as much a very good Chinese restaurant as it is a bar. It’s loud and crowded, and the large space is full of people who are clearly at least three drinks ahead of you and having a great time. The food menu is long, and you’ll find tasty versions of everything from hand-pulled dan dan noodles to shrimp toast to sweet and sour chicken. Most dishes are between $10-$12, and the cocktail list has affordable drinks like the $8 Manager’s Special (whiskey and cherry soda). Just know this place is busy, so plan on waiting a while for a seat at the bar (which is first-come, first-served) and definitely make a reservation if you want to eat at a table.

 Sandy Noto Time Out Market Chicago $ $ $ $ Fulton Market ,  West Loop $$$$ 916 W Fulton Market Not

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Some food halls are worth knowing about because of a specific restaurant (i.e Italianette in the now-closed Fulton Galley). And others are great because of the sum of their parts, like Time Out Market in Fulton Market. It has 19 restaurants and we’ve yet to find a bad one, which isn’t surprising because they’re all new locations of successful places that already exist - like Mini Mott, the Duck Inn, Fat Rice, Lost Larson, and Pretty Cool Ice Cream. The industrial-feeling space is huge, with two levels (including three separate bars) and lots of communal tables. Basically, when the human race has to flee to outer space, this is what we want our spaceship’s food court to be like.

Lao Peng You $ $ $ $ Chinese  in  Ukrainian Village ,  Wicker Park $$$$ 2020 W Chicago Ave 8.2 /10

Lao Peng You is a small, BYOB Chinese spot in West Town with a short chalkboard menu of primarily handmade noodles and dumplings. They don’t take reservations, you order at the counter, and you should expect a wait - this place is already popular, and people tend to hang out while they finish their booze. But the food is really good, and you’ll probably want to linger in the relaxed space for a while, too. We’ve liked everything we’ve tried, but our favorites are the cold noodles, beef noodle soup, and the excellent xi’an bing (lamb and cumin bread). The food isn’t very spicy, so make sure you take advantage of the housemade chili oil and vinegar they bring you.

 Ciccio Mio $ $ $ $ Italian  in  River North $$$$ 226 W Kinzie St 8.3 /10

Ciccio Mio is a new Italian spot from the same team as Bavette’s and Gilt. It’s located right in between those two spots in River North and has the same kind of dimly-lit atmosphere and across-the-board excellent food. The menu has antipasti, pasta, and mains, and everything - from melty cheese wrapped in phyllo to the crispy chicken parmesan - is delicious. Since this place is incredibly popular, don’t expect to walk in and get a table right away unless you like eating at 5pm.

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Gaijin is a new Japanese restaurant in the West Loop specializing in okonomiyaki (savory pancakes) that you’ll be thinking about for weeks after you eat them. Even though there are flat tops on the tables here, it’s not a cook-your-own experience - the griddles exist to keep the pancakes warm as you eat. Our favorites are ones topped with chicken and schmaltz, and octopus with a honey gastrique. As far as the non-okonomiyaki options on the menu, both the pork belly yakisoba (stir-fried noodles) and kakigori (shaved ice with sweetened condensed milk) need to be on the table. Gaijin’s also open for lunch, so you can come back the next day when you can’t get your mind off the fried shrimp pancake you ate for dinner.

 Mistey Nguyen Gadabout $ $ $ $ American ,  Latin ,  Mediterranean  in  Andersonville $$$$ 5212 N Clark St 7.6 /10

When a restaurant has an all-over-the-place menu full of dishes like empanadas with blueberry salsa, lingonberry-glazed beef heart, and Japanese seafood pancakes, it seems unlikely that everything on it will work. But at Gadabout in Andersonville, it somehow does. Everything we’ve eaten here makes sense - even the roasted corn with black pepper mascarpone, bacon, sweet pepper vinaigrette, lima beans, and spicy cornflakes. If that combination sounds weird and complicated, that’s because it is - but it all comes together. And the space is decorated with furniture from the Brown Elephant, so it feels like you’re hanging out at a friend’s who really likes old bookcases and vintage Parcheesi boards.

 Amaru $ $ $ $ Latin  in  Wicker Park $$$$ 1904 W North Ave 8.0 /10

This fun Latin American restaurant in Wicker Park has great food with complex flavors. We’re big fans of the chicken skewers served in a spicy huancaina, the tender roasted octopus in poblano sauce, and the yuca gnocchi with rabbit bolognese. It’s a great neighborhood spot for grabbing dinner during the week, or for a reasonably priced date night when you want to have dinner, drinks, and an argument over who gets the last tentacle.

 Jacquelyn Trezzo Good Fortune $ $ $ $ American  in  Logan Square $$$$ 2528 N California Ave 7.6 /10

At first glance, the menu at Good Fortune in Logan Square isn’t very exciting. It looks a little like it was created from a 2019 New American Restaurant starter kit - you’ll find ceviche, salads, roasted vegetables, some pastas, and both meat and seafood entrees. But most of it is very good (like the perfectly cooked ribeye with short rib croquettes and the black garlic rigatoni), and even when dishes fall short (like the slightly rubbery halloumi or the delicate char that’s overwhelmed by soupy carrot ponzu), the enjoyable atmosphere makes up for them. The dark space has two levels: the main level feels like a neighborhood bar, while the second floor is smaller and gives you a view of the open kitchen and its wood fired oven. It’s the kind of place where you’ll find yourself ordering an extra cocktail or a dessert just to hang out a little while longer.

 Perilla $ $ $ $ Korean  in  Fulton Market ,  West Loop $$$$ 401 N Milwaukee Ave 7.7 /10

Perilla took over a space that used to be a Korean BBQ restaurant, and you can still get BBQ here if you want. But we like coming to this West Loop spot for the other Korean items on the menu. The best dishes here are the rich and tender fire chicken, the cheese corn with caramelized kernels under salty cotija, and the kimchi pancake, which is one of the best we’ve eaten in Chicago. This place is ideal for date night in the neighborhood, or a casual group dinner if you do decide to go the Korean BBQ route.

D Cuisine $ $ $ $ Chinese ,  Dim Sum  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 2723 N Clark St 7.6 /10

The main reason to come to this Chinese restaurant in Lincoln Park is for dim sum, which they serve all day. D Cuisine has a limited selection compared to the other dim sum spots in the city, but what they have is fresh and delicious. You’ll find excellent pork buns, smooth and creamy steamed egg buns, shrimp dumplings, and sesame balls that are crispy on the outside and perfectly chewy inside. There’s a long menu of other Chinese dishes that run the gamut from noodle soups to General Tso chicken, and those are all worth having on the table, too. The space is sleek and on the smaller side (you won’t find any giant lazy Susan tables here), but it works for any small group that’s serious about its shu mai.

 Superkhana International $ $ $ $ Indian  in  Logan Square $$$$ 3059 W Diversey Ave 7.9 /10

Superkhana is an upbeat and fun new spot in Logan Square that does fusion-y takes on Indian street food. This means you’ll find dishes like a butter-chicken-filled calzone, French fry Manchurian, and a naan pizza made with mozzarella, spinach, and garam masala. Everything tastes really good, which keeps it from coming across as unnecessary or gimmicky. Plus, there’s a cute outdoor courtyard you should definitely take advantage of.

 Wherewithall $ $ $ $ American  in  Avondale ,  Logan Square $$$$ 3472 N Elston Ave 8.7 /10

This restaurant is from the team behind Parachute, one of our favorite restaurants in the city. Wherewithall is right down the street and has a similarly cute space and friendly atmosphere, but the style of food is way different. It’s a $65 four-course tasting menu that changes daily, with some surprise snacks in between courses. Dishes here have a variety of influences and range from cornmeal beignets to seared tuna to duck breast with cauliflower and currants. Like its sister restaurant, Wherewithall’s food is expertly prepared and delicious.

 The Momo World $ $ $ $ Nepali  in  University Village $$$$ 727 W Maxwell St 8.6 /10

If you haven’t had them before, momos are Nepalese steamed dumplings, and it probably won’t shock you to find out that a place named “The Momo World” makes them very well. There are a lot of varieties here, including the classic chicken or vegetable, jhol (served in a spicy soup), and some creative options like Tandoori, which are steamed then fried. They’re all delicious, and each order is under $10.

 Brian Willette Cafe Cancale $ $ $ $ Seafood ,  French  in  Wicker Park $$$$ 1576 N Milwaukee Ave 7.8 /10

This is a new spot in Wicker Park from the same owners as The Publican and Avec. The menu at Cafe Cancale is French-inspired with a seafood focus, and like Avec and The Publican, the food here is across-the-board delicious. We love the charred leeks with mussels and the well-balanced shared plate of clams, boudin blanc, and escargot in a buttery sauce. The space is light and bright, nice enough for a date but also good for a casual night of oysters and wine at the bar.

 Sandy Noto Galit $ $ $ $ Middle Eastern  in  Lincoln Park $$$$ 2429 N Lincoln Ave 8.8 /10

Galit is a Middle Eastern small plates restaurant in Lincoln Park, and you should make a reservation here immediately (maybe even before reading the rest of this caption). The food is across-the-board great - from the creamy hummuses (the one topped with brisket is a standout), to the light and crispy falafel, to a rich and spicy shakshuka. The space is large, and works well for groups, dates, and even dining solo at the long chef’s counter. In fact, the only problem with this spot so far is that you’re going to be tempted to try everything on the menu, and the costs can add up. But it’s worth it.

 Cabra $ $ $ $ Peruvian  in  West Loop $$$$ 200 N Green St 8.3 /10

You can always count on two things in Chicago. One, there will be a snowstorm in April. Two, people will lose their sh*t whenever the Girl & The Goat group opens a restaurant. Cabra is the newest restaurant from that same team, on the roof of the Hoxton Hotel in the West Loop, and as expected, it’s already incredibly busy. It also serves some very good Peruvian-inspired food, and has a great view. The menu is mainly small plates, and the best things here are the ceviches (the bass with leche de tigre and the duck are stand-outs), a tender and spicy skewered beef heart, and the shrimp tacu tacu which comes on a delicious crispy rice cake. It’s a great spot for a fun date night, or a group dinner outside (as long as there’s no surprise snowstorm to deal with).

 Barry Bresichen Mako $$$$ 731 W Lake St

Mako is the fourth omakase-only sushi spot to open in Chicago over the past few months (and the third one in the West Loop). Instead of wondering why this is all happening at once, we’re just going with it, since these places are really good. Mako is from the same chef as Juno, and charges $175 for around 25 courses of delicious nigiri, sashimi, and small plates (like perfectly seared duck breast with enoki and duck sausage, and buttery sea bass with charred frisee and seaweed). Compared to the other new omakase-only spots, Mako is the largest (it seats 22 people, with 12 at the bar and the rest at tables), and dinner here is long. Plan on a very enjoyable three-hour experience.

Jeong $ $ $ $ Korean  in  West Town $$$$ 1460 W Chicago Ave 8.4 /10

This upscale Korean spot is one of the best new restaurants in West Town. You can do an $87, seven-course tasting menu, or go a la carte with options like tteokbokki with a quail egg, and kalbi with confit turnips and a carrot veloute. Either approach is a good one, and this is a great spot for a special occasion dinner (whether it’s date night or something with more of a group). Just don’t expect to walk in - it’s very busy right now, and books up fast.

 Kumiko $ $ $ $ Japanese  in  West Loop $$$$ 630 W Lake St 8.5 /10

Kumiko is an upscale cocktail bar in the West Loop from the owners of Oriole. And this place is kind of like Oriole-lite, in a good way. Meaning it’s fancy, with attentive service, and has two seatings a night for a tasting menu at the bar (involving five courses of cocktails and food for $130). But there’s also an a la carte food and drink menu, which makes things more affordable. And even though the dishes are prettily plated and fancy-looking, it’s all still good drinking food - with small bites like shrimp tempura and a miniature pork belly bao that’s so good you’ll wish it was bigger.

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