Food in Bedford Park

The covered market Fiorello La Guardia built in 1940 to get the pushcarts off Arthur Avenue, still running as a row of independent stalls under one roof. Mike's Deli is the big one, with mozzarella, sandwiches and a counter you eat at. There are butchers, a produce stall, a cigar roller and a pasta maker in there too.

Mon to Sat, 9am to 5pm. Closed Sunday. Mike's Deli inside runs Mon to Thu 7:30am to 6pm, Fri to 7pm, Sat 7am to 8pm, closed Sunday

Dominick's opened as a bar in 1962 and still works the way it worked then. There is no printed menu and no printed bill, both of which arrive spoken, the seating is long communal tables and it is cash only. The cooking is Italian-American standards done plainly and in quantity. You will very likely wait on the sidewalk, because nobody takes a reservation, and the wait moves.

Thu to Sat, noon to 9pm. Sun, noon to 8pm. Closed Monday to Wednesday. Cash only

A slice-and-pasta place on Bedford Park Boulevard East, right under the elevated 4 at Jerome Avenue. Slices, pies, baked dishes and a short list of beer and wine. It is a counter with tables, the kind of place students and hospital staff eat at on the way somewhere else.

Daily, 10am to 10pm

The slice place at the corner of East 187th Street and Arthur Avenue, open under the name Full Moon Pizza from 1976 until a change of owner renamed it in 2023. New York slices, Sicilian squares, rice balls and potato croquettes over a counter, with tables at the back. It is where people on Arthur Avenue eat when they are not sitting down to a meal.

Mon to Thu, 11am to 8:30pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to 9:30pm. Sun, noon to 8:30pm

A Bainbridge Avenue coffee shop that serves breakfast all day and stays on until eight at night, which almost no diner up here does. Booths, a counter, and a menu that runs from eggs to burgers to a dinner special. It sits on the old Little Belfast strip, most of which has turned over to other things.

Mon to Sat, 7am to 8pm. Sun, 7am to 4pm