Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.