Chef Rosie Batista has developed quite a local following in the last few years in Kingsbridge. Last year, she opened a large and modern restaurant open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with Dominican and Puerto Rican food featured on a long steam table, but also Afro Caribbean fare like jerk chicken and oxtails — one is encouraged to mix and match dishes from the cuisines represented.

This Filipino restaurant located in Inwood on the way to the Bronx mounts a limited menu in the fast-casual style, with plenty of comfy seating and a view of Broadway. The barbecue is a good choice for snacking or an entire meal, the dish of coconut milk and taro leaves is an exciting choice for vegetarians (or, indeed, anyone), while the fried pork belly with three dipping sauces can’t be beat.

Located right off the campus of Fordham University, this may be the quintessential college hang, with wood-clad walls carved with the initials of long-gone alums and a welcoming ambiance. Watch a pizza maker assemble the pizza, which is as great as one would hope. The chicken roll is fabled here, too.

This Hamilton Heights Jamaican bakery does lots more that just baked goods, though you can get great renditions of spiced bun, bulla cake, and pinch bread. If it’s early morning, go for breakfasts like cornmeal porridge or ackee and saltfish; lunch or dinner could be jerk chicken or oxtails, and a patty with coco bread is the perfect all-day meal or snack.

This 125th Street newcomer is a full-menu Yemeni restaurant, with dishes like salta, and lamb or chicken zurbian, both served in giant quantities fit for two diners. But most customers select the simple shawarma, shish kebab, or grilled fish, in platters or sandwiches. Baba ganoush and hummus served with a huge round bread hot from the oven is one of the best deals in Harlem. A separate breakfast menu is available after 10 a.m.

There are still plenty of budget-friendly pasta mills around, a fad that peaked late in the last century and lingered thereafter. These places encouraged you to pick a pasta and match it with a sauce. In a similar but simpler vein, Bigoi Venezia takes a single pasta — freshly made Venetian bigoi, tube-shaped spaghetti — and offers a choice of a dozen or so treatments, some particular to Venice, some not. Turkey sauce or peas, ham, and cream are two top contenders.

The noodle specialist is one of 11 stalls in the revamped subterranean, Golden Mall. The menu is offal heavy, the noodles freshly made, and the recipes originating in Guizhou, a region sandwiched between Sichuan and Yunnan. Three types of noodle are available with varying spice options.

Step up the the gleaming steam table and load up your square ceramic plate with any combo of the two dozen dishes displayed. Pay special attention to the ones called chicken roast (smothered in onions), beef kala bhuna (a curry), and the daily assortment of bhortas (mustard-oil-laced vegetable purees). Then sit in the sunny dining room and eat with your hands.

This modest spot just south of the Queens County Farm Museum concentrates on Mumbai-style street snacks and is strictly vegetarian. One favorite is bun chole, stuffed with chickpeas, potatoes, and onions sweetened with tamarind sauce. The menu also offers samosa chaats, vegetable curries, milk-based sweets, and snacks combining fried lentils, nuts, chips, and crunchy noodles.

The fruition of a decade-long series of films, TV shows, podcasts, and professorships from hamburger scholar, George Motz, this new spot in Soho channels the lunch counters of the past. Specimen regional burgers — currently in a smash burger vein — are offered, along with things like egg creams, french fries, icebox pies, and lemonade. For hamburger deniers, there are PBJs and especially good and inexpensive egg salad sandwiches.

Relax is a great place to relax, tucked away on a side street in the northeastern part of Greenpoint, and made to look like a cottage in a fairy tale. The inexpensive menu features Polish soups like borscht and tripe, a complete list of pierogies and blintzes, and main courses as pork schnitzel and the hunters stew called bigos. Wash everything down with Polish beers.

This halal Turkish restaurant is the successor to the long-closed Bereket, a late night favorite of clubgoers. Lots of salads, dips, and kebabs at bargain prices, but my preferred choice is a doner kebab in Turkish bread (other breads include pitas and flatbread wraps). Three rotating cylinders of meat are available: lamb, chicken, and veal, each with its own attractions.

The Lower East Side is home to many Hong Kong-styles cafes serving the hybrid Chinese-English cuisine called cha chaan tengs. S Wan is a charming walk-down spot offering a full range of breakfasts designated by letters that might includes fried eggs, waffles smeared with peanut butter, Spam, toast with butter and honey, and pork chops, in addition to lots of noodle soups and stir fries.

This Taiwanese restaurant run by Doris Yao is a cherished hangout in its East Williamsburg. Dash in for a cup of coffee or bowl of wonton soup, or stay for more specifically Taiwanese dishes like three-cup chicken; spoon on the chile oil! Don’t forget to order the  lou rou.

A few doors down from a mosque, this chandeliered restaurant occupies a lively corner location that was previously a diner. This place upholds diner principals, filling out its menu with Afghan kebab platters as well as Bangladeshi and Indian dishes, plus pizza and excellent hamburgers. The platter shown here features yogurt-marinated chicken and beef kofta with pulao rice, Afghan bread, and salad, with several sauces.

This Williamsburg Nepalese restaurant is crouched under the BQE, offering the standard Nepalese menu more commonly found in Jackson Heights, including dumplings, soups, and stir fries. But the best meal there is one of the thalis — all-in feasts served in trays with six or so small dishes accompanied by rice and flatbread.

This relative newcomer to the Fresh Pond scene offers a revival of the Cuban cuisine that was common in the city 50 years ago, but now less so. There’s a Cuban sandwich, of course, along with bacalao fritters, fully sided vaca frita, and some very solid black beans and white rice. Also, it’s a very nice place to hang for a cub of Cuban coffee on Ridgewood’s most iconic street.

If you miss the kind of rollicking modern taqueria more commonly found in Los Angeles, then Nenes is your place. Owned by Andrés Tonatiuh Galindo Maria and his mother, It jumped on the beef birria bandwagon a few years ago, and then underwent a transformation more recently, and now offers a full roster of tacos. Don’t miss the chile relleno burrito, with an entire chile squeezed inside the flour tortilla wrapper.

This decades-old Trinidad and Tobago roti shop was closed for a time and recently renovated, and you probably won’t be able to tell the differences as the line snakes out the door at lunchtime. The list of rotis is expansive, but I still prefer the bone-in goat or chicken, and conch, which adds the taste of the sea to its potato-and-chickpea curry filling. Other vegetables may be optionally added to the filling like pumpkin and spinach.

This Guatemalan double-storefront dining room and barroom (no beer so far) boasts a short steam table just inside the front door, where standards of the country’s daily dining are displayed. There is always a luscious tamale, wrapped in a big banana leaf and almost soupy — a meal in itself; a stew or two with rice and beans; and fritters, sometimes including pacaya, the flower of a palm tree. Meal-size soups are always an option, served with freshly made tortillas.

This wonderful Nigerian restaurant is located in the Weeksville section of Crown Heights, with a tiny bar in one corner serving West African beer and soft drinks. Joloff rice is a good choice, pepper soup for an incendiary one, and you can’t go wrong with fufu and soups like okro or ogbono. Finally, there are bar snacks in big heaps like chicken suya coated with spices.

Open since 1956, New Park is one of Queens’s most cherished pizzerias, as a pit stop on the way to the beach or a drop-in during Saturday errands along the commercial strip of Cross Bay Boulevard. The pizzas come out hot and fast and oozing cheese, and lines form to buy slices (the line inside moves faster). Don’t go expecting to find anything but pizza and calzones, and what a scene!

This descendant of David’s Brisket House in Bed-Stuy serves an expanded menu that also includes burgers, but stick with the three forms of brisket on a roll or on rye: pastrami, corned beef, and baked brisket, with the latter preferred, especially when doused with gravy. Sandwiches are available in three sizes, which is an economic (and probably health-wise) boon.

Specializing in Chicago-style hot dogs, Dog Day Afternoon is named after an Al Pacino movie about a bank robbery that was partly shot on the same block of Windsor Terrace. The hot dog boasts a couple of small innovations (New York style pickles, for example, and sweet miniature plum tomatoes), but otherwise the genre remains intact. Get a free bag of chips with every red hot, and the jambalaya is not bad, either.

Located a short bus ride straight uphill from the Staten Island Ferry, New Asha, founded in 1999, is a funky sort of place with excellent Sri Lankan food. A glass case displays heavy tubular fritters that are good for snacks, but why not sit and chow down on halal meats like mutton or jackfruit curries, poured over rice and served with yellow dal and a chopped vegetable salad.

This breezy spot on the southern border of Kensington describes itself as “authentic Uzbek cuisine.” The kebabs are nicely smoky from charcoal, but be forewarned that some don’t look like your idea of a kebab — such as kazan kebab, which is a full meal including potatoes. The usual manti, lagman, and plov also available, and all meat is halal. Did I mention they’re open 24 hours?

This 24-hour Midwood Pakistani cafe with a chile-pepper logo has it all, from snacks like samosas and stuffed breads that are great for rapid snacking to full meals that include meat and vegetarian dishes served with rice, bread, or both. Go for the ground meat kebabs, which absorb lots of smoke in the clay oven, or haleem, a delicious porridge of lamb, wheat, and lentils. The steam table offers many vegan dishes.

Mona’s Cuisine, in the hilly Clifton neighborhood, serves up massive portions of Liberian, Jamaican, and African American dishes. Mona herself stands behind the counter during the lunchtime rush as a line snakes out the door. There is always one West African-style stew, served with white rice or fufu. Other choices include oxtails, barbecue chicken, and mac and cheese on a menu that rotates weekly.

Open since the early 1970s, Roll N Roaster is the anchor of Sheepshead Bay’s restaurant row facing the bay. It specializes in roast beef sandwiches on kaiser rolls, the meat rich, moist, and deliciously rimmed with fat. Dip it in meat juices (small extra charge), or eat it plain. And don’t neglect the hot dogs, onion rings, clam strips, and turkey sandwiches, but ignore the imprecation to put “cheez” on everything.

A stone’s throw from the beach, Little Georgia is a convenience store in front and a bakery in back. It can get pretty crowded on weekends as patrons line up for multiple forms of khachapuri — often hot out of the oven — along with roast chicken, stout smoky sausages, and other beach-friendly tidbits. Lamb or chicken shawarma sandwiches of mind-boggling volume are also available.