Food in Penn District
Things to do in this neighborhood
Places
8 placesEverything we cover in Penn District, A to Z. Pick a stop for somewhere to be before or after.
Sesame semolina loaves cut to order and filled with prosciutto and fresh mozzarella, from the SoHo shop that opened on Sullivan Street in 1986. No substitutions, and they mean it.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 8pm. Sat and Sun, 10am to 4pm
The burger that hid behind a curtain in a Midtown hotel lobby for twenty years, now at a counter in the food hall. Cheeseburger and fries. The line moves.
Daily, 9am to 10pm
Twenty-four hour Koreatown standby. Order the ggomtang, the beef broth they have been pulling since 1978.
Open 24 hours
Sul lung tang around the clock, the milky ox bone broth you salt yourself at the table. Ten minutes from the Garden and it has never closed.
Open 24 hours
Salvatore Riggio opened this counter in 1964 and his son Joe runs it now, out of a building the family still owns. Order the plain slice first. For twenty-four years that was the only slice they would sell you.
Daily, 10:30am to midnight
Hand-cut pastrami on rye from the deli that started in Kew Gardens in 1956. The sandwich arrives the size it has always been and one of them will do two people.
Daily, 9am to 9pm
A West 32nd standby that opens at nine in the morning and does not stop until one, or until six on a weekend. Order the budae jjigae and let the table share it.
Sun to Thu, 9am to 1am. Fri and Sat, 9am to 6am
Pay-by-weight Korean steam table with a cold case of kimbap and banchan next to it. Ten dollars gets you dinner and you are back out in fifteen minutes.
Daily, roughly 7am to 11pm