Right across from McCarren Park, Turkey's Nest is a dive bar in Williamsburg known for serving drinks in huge styrofoam cups.

Famous in Dallas for its late charitable, coke-bottle-glasses-wearing bartendress, Lakewood Landing is a dive bar that serves up a killer burger and super-strong drinks.

Named one of the nation's top 100 beer bars, the Mayor of Old Town has 100 beers on tap and a passionate staff that'll help you find your ideal brew.

A matrimony of the Jewish delicatessen and the old-school diner, Eleven City Diner's a greasy spoon sans the grease, with awesome double-decker sandwiches and generally huge portions of pretty much everything.

A Philly roast-master runs Rotisseur, a brick-and-mortar ode to wood-fired bird, where you can get sandwiches and platters stuffed with melt-in-your-mouth chicken.

Old Original Nick's is an institution of Philly roast beef, serving up the sammies with au jus and Provolone, the way nature intended.

Central Standard is a casual, beer-backed spot in the Design District of Dallas.

Replacing the old Axiom sushi spot in Ilume, Ai Sushi is... another sushi spot!

Aiming to give Toby Keith a run for his bar & grill's money that he probably won't love, GMBNG's a Toby Keith-proximate, sprawling ode to music and great food from the dudes behind Discovery's Fast 'N Loud.

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OK, so they've got just about any topping you could realistically want (jalapeno hummus!), and they're putting their hot dogs in Empire Baking Company buns, and and and they've got a quartet of chilis (green, chicken, beef, vegan), but you've gotta go here for Samson's "9 Inch Wonder Weenies", which Samson calls "nine inches of fun in a bun" with almost no double entendre.

The dude behind Mr. Mesero (not, like, hangs-out-in-the-parking lot-in-back behind, but, like, behind behind) opened up this twin-storied Tex-Mex-topia in the old Cuba Libre/Alma spot; NOSH ex Jon Stevens pitched in an assist on a menu that includes everything from Wagyu steaks & burgers, to garlic-y offshore numbers, to tacos stuffed with duck confit.