1. Little Rascal
7.9
163 Elizabeth St (at Kenmare St), New York, NY
Turkish Restaurant · NoLita · 67 tips and reviews
Michelle N: Awesome spot with delicious food. Everything I tried hit the spot in my stomach that screams "Yum!" Lentil soup, cacik, eggplant salad, babaghanouge, and meatballs. More people should be eating here!
Eytan Daniyalzade: Awesome place that happens to be turkish as well :) try out the lentil suppe
Sean Wilkins: It's a well priced and delicious go to in lower SoHo. Get the lentil patties and meatballs.
Carmen K: I'm addicted! Lentils and rice are great. Take advantage of the special, Billu sang a beautiful suffi love song for us at 3 AM!
Shermans Travel: Follow the line of taxi drivers parked outside and you'll discover flavorful veggie dishes like chana (chickpeas), fat samosas (stuffed savory pastries) topped with lentils - both for a whopping $2 Read more.
Jackie Ferrer: If the lentil or kidney beans dishes are available, ORDER. THEM. Have them add yogurt and it's HEAVEN
3. Kalustyan's
9.3
123 Lexington Ave (at E 28th St), New York, NY
Gourmet Store · Rose Hill · 133 tips and reviews
Lauren Gilchrist: Great place if you're starving. $10 gets you 3 dishes plus pickled veggies, pita, and sauce. Order the mujadarra - fried lentils and onions. Amazing.
Dayna Sessa: Have some lentil soup upstairs and then bundle some kachu burfi and Turkish mini pistachio baklava downstairs for dessert.
Alex Hennessey: The nice fellow at the counter will let you sample the options before you decide. In the end, you'll probably choose the Majuddara-- lentils, grains, lots of spices, fried onions. Impossible to resist
4. Awash
7.9
947 Amsterdam Ave (btwn 106th & 107th St.), New York, NY
Ethiopian Restaurant · Upper West Side · 31 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The Vegetarian Combo piles include beets, red lentils, yellow split peas, cabbage, gomen (collards cooked with garlic and onion) and shiro (ground and spiced chickpeas) sitting atop injera.
Sameepa Shetty: Proportions are huge, but injetta their flat bread is great!! Make your own combos r better - red lentils are great if u can handle mild spice! Service slow in the afternoons.. but great food!!
Manjunaath Thiyagaraajan: The lentils
5. Dual Specialty
8.5
91 1st Ave (btwn 5th and 6th St.), New York, NY
Grocery Store · East Village · 32 tips and reviews
Ben Mackey: All the spices, legumes, lentils, rice and other Indian foods you could think of. They also have Marmite and Vegemite tucked away on a shelf here
Loren Worsley: Possibly my favorite place in this whole city. A phenomenal spice cavern. If you be fan of mung beans, ghost peppers, frozen parathas, spicy toothpastes, and the like, then prepare to shit yoself.
Nancy: Great selection of herbs, spices, lentils etc. Only downside is sometimes moths or other insects in packages.
7. Sant Ambroeus
8.6
265 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Italian Restaurant · SoHo · 55 tips and reviews
Erika Perzi: Def could eat here every week for BLD. Fantastic coffee, love the lentil salad and arribata. Egg Benedict is perfect, by far best in town. Great wine, lots of pretty people.
Marie La Rue: SoHo scene epicenter and people watching destination . Food quality consistent with all other San Ambroeus locations. Love the beluga lentil salad and the biscotti assortment.
Clarissa Blanco: Love the art nouveau ambience. The food is great. Absolutely get the winter sangria.
8. Meske
7.6
468 W 47th St (btwn 9th & 10th Ave), New York, NY
Ethiopian Restaurant · Hell's Kitchen · 29 tips and reviews
Village Voice: This Ethiopian restaurant boasts an amazing vegetarian combo of seven dishes, including azifa-a cold lentil salad flavored with ginger and mustard that climbs right up your nose. Read more.
Evangelia Giakoumatos: The meskerem combo and lentil samosas were amazing!
Eater: Order an Ethiopian lager and the combination platter, a heady pile of berbere spiced lentils, collards, and meats on injera, the traditionally sour and spongy bread that doubles as an edible utensil. Read more.
10. abcV
8.6
38 E 19th St (btwn Broadway & Park Ave), New York, NY
Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurant · Flatiron District · 101 tips and reviews
Morgan McKee: Liked it, but is I️t the best veggie place I’ve been? Probably not 😬 standouts were hummus (pic’d), fried ramen, carrots and beluga lentils. Flavors are well developed, but meal left us wanting more
Paul Gauger: Mushroom pasta, yam dish, lentils dish
Nidhi Kay: Wow amazing food and i’m not a vegetarian so that’s saying a lot, have the foccasio bread, melon salad, lentils, wonton with chili, mousse parfait
14. Table d'Hote
8.4
44 E 92nd St (Btwn Madison & Park), New York, NY
French Restaurant · Carnegie Hill · 20 tips and reviews
Nour Haddad: One of our favorite brunch in NYC. Try the salmon with lentil salad and the croque madame with its potato salad. Perfectly cooked authentic and well seasoned.
Joo Ro: Small, lovely brunch spot in the UES. The french toast with berry compote and fresh cream melts in your mouth.
Gothamist: This hidden gem isn’t necessarily as cheap as some of the other places on this list. But what it loses in economy is saves in ambiance, plus you get complimentary muffins before your meal. Read more.
15. Buvette
9.2
42 Grove St (btwn Bedford & Bleecker St), New York, NY
French Restaurant · West Village · 533 tips and reviews
Andres Moran: If they have the lentil special, GET IT.
Mario Batali: Try the lentils w the classique aperitif!!
abby: such an adorable place, right down to the design of the menu. the hits: pesto di nocciola tartine, lentils, beef bourguignon, and chocolate mousse