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14 New Restaurants for You to Try on Fourth of July Weekend

By Emilie Ruscoe | July 3, 2015 9:27am | Updated on July 3, 2015 10:24pm
 Churro ice cream, lobster corn dogs, vegan empanadas and other perfect Fourth of July weekend treats.
14 New Restaurants for You to Try on 4th of July Weekend
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If you're staying in town for the Fourth of July weekend, there are plenty of delicious things to sink your teeth into before watching the fireworks. Here are a few choice spots.

► NatureEs, 21 East 1st Street in the East Village
NatureEs, located on the former site of Mars Bar, offers a mostly vegetarian menu, yoga, meditation classes and skincare services as well as organic beers, biodynamic wines and specialty cocktails that use tonics infused with extracts from the Amazon, Asia and Siberia.

► Vspot Organic, 12 St. Marks Place in the East Village
The East Village outpost of this Latin vegan-kosher eatery is similar to the original Park Slope Vspot location, but with a slightly pared down, organic menu that has fewer wraps and sandwiches, focusing instead on Latin American-inspired offerings, like its “Philly Style” and "Colombian" potato-and-seitan-stuffed empanadas.

► Dante, 79-81 MacDougal St. in Greenwich Village
The controversial replacement of 100-year-old Greenwich Village mainstay Caffe Dante serves coffee, pastries, breakfast and "a light lunch."

► Boots and Saddle, 100A Seventh Ave. South in the West Village
Boots and Saddle served its first brunch in its new location over Pride Weekend. Brunch is from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and features $15 pitchers of screwdrivers or mimosas and $15 entrees that come with a complimentary screwdriver, mimosa or Bloody Mary, with a second drink for $3. Brunch dishes include chicken and waffles, omelets, bagels and lox and pulled pork sliders. They have a brunch drag show scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

► Cafemarie, 120 MacDougal St. in the West Village
This offshoot of TriBeCa eatery Delimarie doles out New Orleans-style beignets and chicory coffee and will soon be serving eggs, omelettes and sandwiches.

► The Queens Kickshaw Ice Cream Cart, 40-17 Broadway in Astoria on Saturdays and Sundays
The Kickshaw's in-house ice cream cart serves flavors that include espresso, matcha and strawberry yuzu (a citrus fruit). Future flavors will be red bean, pistachio, orange creamsicle and choco-churro stout.

► Maiella, 46-10 Center Blvd. in Long Island City
The menu at this "trendy trattoria" features house-made pasta, a number of fish dishes, like branzino, and steaks, like a dry-aged beef for two. The eatery also serves pizza and focaccia bread cooked in an oven that sits in its main dining area.

► Sundance Cafe, 120-36A Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens
Sundance features an on-site bakery and open kitchen. The cafe will offer 10 different wraps, such as low-fat tuna with greens, and the Health ‘Wich, with avocado, cucumber, carrots, tomato and Swiss cheese, as well as fajitas, quesadillas, burritos, pastas and salads.

► Perfect Potato, 173 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope
This mostly takeout shop serves Belgian-style french fries, baked potatoes, milk shakes and the Canadian culinary invention, poutine. Toppings include coconut curry smoked with Darjeeling tea and brown sugar, cashew lime with Thai chili, Sriracha ketchup, smoked beef barbecue meat, hot cheese sauce, and the classic malt vinegar. The milk shakes include a banana cream pie flavor made with bananas grilled in butter, salt and sugar with a graham cracker crumble on top.

► C’mon Everybody, 325 Franklin Ave. in Bed-Stuy
C'mon Everybody hosts local theater, dance parties and a monthly bingo night and serves specialty cocktails.

► Tepache, 361 Halsey St. in Bed-Stuy
This restaurant, which serves 'traditional' northern Mexican fare, takes its name from the popular fermented drink made from brown sugar and pineapple peels. Tepache offers fresh, table side-made guacamole, beef tongue taquitos and oxtail stew. Try the cactus salad, queso fundido, as well as fresh guava, horchata and watermelon drinks.

► Oleanders, 160 North 12th Street in Williamsburg
This "nostalgic," restaurant that serves classic dishes like coq au vin, a red wine-braised chicken with bacon lardons, and Beef Wellington with mushroom mousse and foie gras are intended to be upscale versions of American food that fern bars used to serve in the 70s and 80s.

► Bunsmith, 789 Franklin Ave. in Prospect Heights
This Korean fusion eatery serves steamed buns, which cost $5 to $7 each, and are filled with classic pork belly, Korean fried chicken, grilled artichoke, steak, tofu with shiitake mushrooms or freshwater eel. Bunsmith also serves three different sides for $5: smoked paprika-flavored French fries, kimchi and edamame covered in pork fat. The menu also includes beer, wine and Korean spirits.

► Greene Grape Scoops, 680 Fulton St. in Fort Greene
This shop serves ice cream from local creameries including Blue Marble, Adirondack Creamery, Ronnybrook and Phin & Phebes Ice Cream. The shop also be features specialties like sundaes, ice cream sandwiches and ice cream soda floats.