Friends & Strangers

Before

short ride recommended · 7 min - Jamaica

Sybil Bernard-Kerrutt was a hairdresser from Guyana who started selling bread to friends, opened her first bakery in Jamaica in 1976, and later put this flagship in a yellow and turquoise triangular building on Liberty Avenue. Pine tarts, which are caramelized pineapple folded into a pastry triangle, are what to buy, by the half dozen. The currant roll is the other one. The savory side runs to pepper pot, the Guyanese beef stew made with cassareep, and goat roti. There is a counter line most of the day and it moves.

After

short ride recommended · 3 min - Jamaica

A pizzeria on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, run by the same family since 1956, known for a thin crust with a scorched underside from the deck oven. You order at the counter and eat at a table or take the slices out. It is a few minutes past the Aqueduct end of Rockaway Boulevard and it stays open to midnight every night. Bring cash.