New York City

=== Cuisine ===
{{Main|Cuisine of New York City|List of restaurants in New York City|List of Michelin starred restaurants in New York City}}
[[File:Lox-and-bagel-02.jpg|thumb|[[New York-style bagel]] with [[lox]]]]

New York City's food culture includes an array of international cuisines influenced by the city's immigrant history. [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]an immigrants, especially [[Jewish Americans|Jewish]] immigrants from those regions, brought [[New York-style bagel]]s, [[Cheesecake#North America|cheesecake]], [[hot dog]]s, [[knish]]es, and [[delicatessen]]s (delis) to the city. [[Italian diaspora|Italian]] immigrants brought [[New York-style pizza]] and [[Italian cuisine]] into the city, while Jewish immigrants and Irish immigrants brought [[pastrami]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Pastrami On Rye: A Full-length History Of The Jewish Deli |work = [[Public Radio International]] |publisher = [[The World (radio program)|The World]] |url = https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-31/pastrami-rye-full-length-history-new-york-jewish-deli |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160402133541/https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-31/pastrami-rye-full-length-history-new-york-jewish-deli |archive-date = April 2, 2016 |access-date = November 27, 2020 |url-status = live }}</ref> and [[corned beef]],<ref>{{cite web |first = Shaylyn |last = Esposito |title = Is Corned Beef Really Irish? |work = [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/ |date = March 15, 2013 |access-date = November 27, 2020 }}</ref> respectively. [[Chinese restaurant|Chinese]] and other Asian restaurants, sandwich joints, [[trattoria]]s, [[diner]]s, and [[coffeehouse]]s are ubiquitous throughout the city. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as [[falafel]] and [[kebab]]s<ref>{{cite news |last = Bleyer |first = Jennifer |date = May 14, 2006 |title = Kebabs on the Night Shift |work = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/nyregion/thecity/14vend.html |access-date = January 17, 2014 }}</ref> examples of modern New York [[street food]]. The city is home to "nearly one thousand of the finest and most diverse [[haute cuisine]] restaurants in the world," according to [[Michelin]].<ref>{{cite web |title = 27,479 restaurants selected by the Michelin Guide—Top Destinations |url = http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Restaurants |access-date = August 24, 2014 |publisher = [[Michelin Guide]] }}</ref> The [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene]] assigns letter grades to the city's restaurants based on inspection results.<ref>{{cite web |title = Restaurant Inspection Results (Letter Grades) |url = http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140122123431/http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml |archive-date = January 22, 2014 |access-date = January 19, 2014 |publisher = [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene]] }}</ref> As of 2019, there were 27,043 restaurants in the city, up from 24,865 in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |first = Jennifer |last = Tiedemann |title = $15-Per-Hour Minimum Wage Isn't What NYC Restaurant Workers Ordered |url = https://indefenseofliberty.blog/2019/04/08/15-per-hour-minimum-wage-isnt-what-nyc-restaurant-workers-ordered/ |work = [[Goldwater Institute]] |publisher = In Defense of Liberty |date = April 8, 2019 |access-date = June 1, 2019 }}</ref> The [[Queens Night Market]] in [[Flushing Meadows–Corona Park]] attracts more than ten thousand people nightly to sample food from more than 85 countries.<ref name=NYCWorld/>