Benjy’s Kosher Pizza Dairy Restaurant & Sushi Bar
This mash-up of a meal combines two great street food traditions, New York City pizza and Israeli falafel, for one of the strangest specialty slices around. The result of this delicious marriage is best eaten with a little tahini and ruddy hot sauce. In the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood to several Israeli restaurants that serve falafel sandwiches with vast complimentary salad bars that run to 15 items, I find the ultimate New York City street food adaptation of the classic Middle Eastern street food. Benjy’s slice of New York City pizza is gilded with six falafel balls. Instead of the standard pizza toppings of crushed red pepper and garlic powder, this slice is messy, salty, nutty, crunchy, cheesy and spicy -- exactly what an amalgam of Middle Eastern and New York city street food should be.