Junior's Restaurant

The dish: Cheesecake
Nowadays, new restaurant openings don’t often offer cheesecake, but perhaps that’s because New York City already has Junior’s Cheesecake, an institution that’s synonymous with the dessert. Their landmark restaurant at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn, with its iconic signage and signature orange-and-white logo, has been open since the ‘50s. Here, you’ll find all the cheesecake you could ever want, with plenty of variety like the Original NY Plain and Brooklyn Crumb, to Pumpkin and Raspberry Swirl. For those in Manhattan, stop by the newer Midtown locations like in Times Square.