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Article: The ultimate Underground Gourmet: New York's best cheap eats from #1 to #101; And introducing our second hairsplitting, new five-star ranking system.
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- July 31, 2006
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SOME MONTHS BACK, our colleague Adam Platt bestowed New York Magazine's first restaurant stars and has been enlightening diners and infuriating chefs ever since. For the most part, the worthy recipients of his inaugural ratings were the big-ticket, deep-pocket establishments you might expect--the Masas and the Per Ses, the Escas and the 'Cescas. But who's to say that New York's best cheap eats--the burgers and dogs, the noodles and ribs, that most of us, including those celestial chefs themselves, eat every day--don't deserve the same starry treatment? Certainly not two obsessive eaters as ourselves, who, truth be told, spend most waking (and sleeping) hours joyfully ...