The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Maison Premiere
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Rank 1. Maison Premiere
New Orleans-Style Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #40 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Time Out #7 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The Infatuation The Best Cocktail Bars in NYC
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Rank 3. The Four Horsemen
Natural Wine Bar
The wine list moves with obsessive focus through natural varietals at this perpetually mobbed Williamsburg bar, where Nick Curtola's seasonal cooking—veal sweetbread skewers, crisp chickpea crepe studded with squash blossoms and lardon, fried skate wing—never overreaches. There is intelligence in the room, and in the glaze.
- 50 Best 2025 · #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 4. Aska
Scandinavian, Tasting
In a dark South Williamsburg room, Fredrik Berselius executes Nordic cooking with precision and intimacy—dry-aged quail with morels and truffle jus, langoustine with gooseberry, hake crowned in beluga and beer cream. The kitchen presents each course, the chef himself circulating, all of it built on local, seasonal sourcing that feels deliberate rather than decorative.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #24 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- The New York Times 2026 · #16 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 5. Bar Madonna
Italian-American
- 50 Best 2026 · #36 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 6. Shota Omakase
Omakase Sushi
Chef Cheng Lin guides diners through impeccably sourced nigiri and seared fish with the ease of a friend, refreshing rice between each piece. His transparency about Japanese sourcing and technique elevates what could be rote into something genuinely intentional.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Cheng Lin
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 7. Zaab Zaab
Isan Thai
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Bryan Chunton and Pei Shan Wei
- The New York Times 2026 · #38 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 8. L'industrie Pizzeria
New York-style Pizza
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #1 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In NYC
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
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Rank 9. Sauced
Natural Wine Bar
- Time Out #23 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants and Bars in Williamsburg
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Rank 10. Lilia Ristorante
Italian
At Lilia, pasta commands attention, but the opening moves—fried dough with cacio e pepe spice, blowfish in Sicilian lemon, charred focaccia with green garlic butter—arrive with equal ambition. These early dishes establish the restaurant's gift for marrying rustic Italian foundations with precise, burnished technique.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Missy Robbins
- The New York Times 2026 · #36 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 11. Antica Pesa
Roman Italian
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Rank 12. Francie
Brasserie French
In a limestone-fronted South Williamsburg corner, exposed brick and widely spaced tables frame an open kitchen where the real theater unfolds. Conchiglie arrives glossy with clam sauce, bacon, and sesame breadcrumbs; roast duck is wheeled tableside whole before carving. This is brasserie cooking rendered with enough precision to justify the attention.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Chris Cipollone
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Rank 13. I Cavallini
Regional Italian
Chef Nick Curtola works in clean, unadorned lines at this neighborhood trattoria—braised beef tendons shaved thin with acidic onions, handmade pastas balanced with restraint, a tiramisu so light it seems to dissolve. The room invites lingering, and the cooking, rooted in regional tradition, knows the difference between simplicity and emptiness.
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Rank 14. Eddie's Sweet Shop
Dessert
A narrow Queens storefront that looks more apothecary than parlor, Eddie's has scooped the same eighteen flavors since 1925 without apology or innovation. The vanilla fudge and maple walnut arrive in cones or atop sundaes built with the austere confidence of someone who knows exactly what a cherry on top should mean.
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Rank 16. La Bicyclette Bakery
French Bakery
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Rank 17. Xi'an Famous Foods
Xi'an-Style
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Rank 18. Peter Luger Steak House
Steakhouse
Wood-paneled rooms fill with generations of regulars and newcomers ordering the Porterhouse, dry-aged and broiled until it sizzles, then finished with butter. Peter Luger trades in uncomplicated pleasures: bratwurst, creamed spinach, cheesecake with schlag—and the particular ease of a room where the servers know the rhythm. A steakhouse that feels less like a destination than a birthright.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vogue 2026 · The 25 Best Restaurants in Brooklyn, According to Vogue Staff
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A rum-focused cocktail bar in Williamsburg where daiquiris anchor a menu that pivots between spirit-forward drinks and seafood snacks like oysters with tepache mignonette. The operators, both seasoned in craft cocktail culture, have furnished the space with intention—everyday pricing, basement rum bar included—suggesting they built this for regulars, not tourists.
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Rank 21. Mesiba
Levantine Middle Eastern
Chef Eli Buliskeria's Levantine cooking honors a sprawling regional cuisine with precision—crispy whole striped bass, charred-onion kreplach, properly executed falafel—in a sleek, minimalist dining room that channels Tel Aviv. The lively ground-floor space at the Moxy hotel crackles with the kind of appetite and noise that makes eating here feel like an event, not an obligation.
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Rank 22. Sunday in Brooklyn
American
A second-floor dining room of palms and whitewash sits above the rustic bar, where on-site baking and unhurried lingers define the rhythm. The signature skillet pancake—fluffy, topped with hazelnut-maple praline—arrives with brown butter and syrup; crusty sourdough with creamy beer butter follows naturally into the day.
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Rank 23. Apollo Bagels
California-Style
- BagelUp #14 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
- The New York Times The 16 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now
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Rank 24. La Superior
Mexico City-Style Mexican
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Rank 25. Devoción
Colombian Coffee
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Rank 29. Joe's Pizza
NY-Style Pizza
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Rank 30. Fette Sau
Central Texas Barbecue
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Rank 31. Meadowsweet
Mediterranean
Meadowsweet sits in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge behind glass and whitewashed brick, where a steady crowd gathers for nimble, reasonably priced cooking. The kitchen moves from crispy baby artichokes to spiced duck with corn polenta with equal grace, served in a room that feels both urbane and welcoming.
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Rank 33. Kellogg's Diner
Retro American
- Eater 2026 · Where to Eat Brunch in New York City
- Eater The Best Breakfasts in New York
- The New York Times 2024 · Passion Fruit Tajín Icebox Pie · Here Are Our Top New York Dishes
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Rank 38. Enso Omakase
Omakase Sushi
In a sleek Williamsburg room, Chef Nick Wang's omakase unfolds with discipline and restraint. Cured mackerel from Chiba arrives perfectly seasoned; Hokkaido uni melts on the tongue with barely a whisper of salt. This is edomae sushi executed without flourish or apology.
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Rank 39. Restaurant Yuu
Contemporary French
The kitchen emerges from darkness like a stage reveal, all whites and precision, as Chef Yuu Shimano orchestrates a tasting built on French discipline and Japanese refinement—smoked clam against celeriac, abalone risotto dusted with nori. Each plate moves between restraint and indulgence, anchored by the duck and foie pastry that tastes like a relic, punctuated by the mojito that tastes like now.
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Rank 40. Bonnie's
Cantonese Chinese
A nondescript corner spot in Williamsburg channels retro Hong Kong diner aesthetics while Chef Calvin Eng interprets Cantonese regional cuisine with modern precision. Crispy yeung yu sang choi bao stuffed with shrimp and mustard greens, salt-and-pepper shrimp lacquered with melted onions, and cheung fun dressed in X.O. sauce reveal a kitchen unafraid of both tradition and invention.
- Esquire 2023 · MSG Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Calvin Eng
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Calvin Eng
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Rank 41. Shalom Japan
Jewish fusion Japanese
A narrow South Williamsburg kitchen steers between Japanese and Ashkenazi traditions with casual precision, marrying matzoh ball ramen and lox bowls studded with avocado and pickles. Wagyu pastrami on caraway shokupan and toro tartare over sake-kasu challah suggest a chef thinking in flavors rather than categories.
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Rank 42. Lamonte
European
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- Grub Street 2026 · The 40 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Parents!)
- Vogue 2026 · The 25 Best Restaurants in Brooklyn, According to Vogue Staff
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Rank 45. Taqueria Ramirez
Mexican
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- Roadbook The Best Restaurants in New York City
- Grub Street 2025 · The 43 Best Restaurants in New York
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Rank 46. Salsa Pizza Napoletana & Street Food
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 47. Qahwah House
Yemeni Coffee
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Rank 48. Uzuki
Noodles
Chef Shuichi Kotani's soba shop occupies a raw Greenpoint warehouse, where hand-cut noodles arrive in ceramic vessels he has thrown himself. The buckwheat preparations are spare and exacting, though prices run high for what amounts to disciplined simplicity.
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Two Williamsburg bartenders who cut their teeth at Grand Army channel dive bar rowdiness and late-night diner whimsy into cocktails that blur savory and sweet—a guava Negroni with malted milk, a martini built on tomato vodka and brine. The drinks arrive without ceremony, suggesting a place more interested in spontaneous invention than craft-cocktail theater.
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Rank 50. K'Far
Israeli Middle Eastern
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Rank 51. Laser Wolf
Middle Eastern
A rooftop skewer house where Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook have engineered something genuinely convivial: salatim arrive first—babaghanoush, harissa beans, pickled vegetables—followed by lamb kofta and grilled vegetables that justify the kitchen's open-flame fervor. The room pulses with string lights and music, reservation-worthy precisely because it refuses to feel exclusive.
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Rank 53. Chez Ma Tante
Canadian French
Aidan O'Neal and Jake Leiber run a compact French-Canadian kitchen where pork preparations and offal terrine anchor a menu that refuses apology. Fennel sausage over beans and bacon, gnocchi with blue cheese, maple crème brûlée—the cooking is forceful, richly flavored, and worth the weekend crowds.
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Rank 54. Mable's Smokehouse
Central Texas-Style Barbecue
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Rank 56. Bamonte's
Red-Sauce Italian
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Rank 57. Oxomoco
Mexican
A lively Greenpoint room where casual surfaces hide serious ambition: tacos arrive loaded with chanterelle or the day's catch, but the kitchen roams Mexico's regions with equal conviction, from tropical hamachi agua chile to smoky tlayuda to brined and smoked chicken. Vibrant, balanced, never showy.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Time Out 2026 · The 45 best restaurants in NYC right now
- Roadbook The best restaurants in Greenpoint, New York
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Rank 59. Hotel Delmano
New Orleans-Inspired Cocktail Bar
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Rank 60. Win Son Bakery
Taiwanese-American Bakery
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Rank 61. Rose Marie
Southern New American
Rose Marie trades Yellow Rose's structured Tex-Mex for a looser, rustically charmed contemporary American menu with Southern edges. Saltine-crusted fish and a bacon-laden patty melt justify lingering over cocktails in this Williamsburg sibling's freeform groove.
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Rank 62. Patisserie Tomoko
Japanese Bakery
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Rank 63. Pierozek
Polish Eastern European
In a Greenpoint storefront adorned with hand-painted Polish pottery, Alexandra Siwiec and Radek Kucharski turn out delicate pierogi—jalapeño and potato, raspberry and cheese—alongside borscht, golabki, and kielbasa that tastes as though it knows its own purpose. The casual room feels less like a restaurant than a kitchen that happens to sell what it makes, which is precisely the point.
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Rank 65. Taqueria El Chato
Mexican
A narrow storefront with a few stools and a counter, where handmade tortillas cradle tender al pastor, chorizo, and melted cheese beneath salsa verde and raw onion. The vampiro—a fried tortilla shell loaded with cheese and toppings—justifies the cramped quarters and absence of pretense.
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Rank 66. Lingo
Japanese-influenced New American
In a Greenpoint corner, chawanmushi meets rock shrimp and sea grapes; bone marrow steak tartare gets dressed in black sesame cream. The beef pie—Hokkaido curry inside a golden pastry shell—is where Lingo's casual American template and Japanese sensibility stop negotiating and start singing together.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Emily Yuen
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 67. Carnitas Ramirez
Mexican
At Carnitas Ramirez, a taqueria on East Third Street, you sit on buckets and confront the entire pig—snout to tail—in tacos that demand you reckon with what you're eating. Tongue, brain, skin, cartilage: each texture arrives in fried tortillas, a lesson in anatomy that never lets you forget the animal's former life.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Giovanni Cervantes
- Eater Best Counter-Service Spot
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Rank 69. Border Town
Mexican
- The Infatuation The 21 Best New Restaurants In NYC
- Eater 2026 · The Best New Restaurants in Brooklyn Right Now
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Rank 71. Le Crocodile
French
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Rank 72. Kru
Thai
A sleek dining room of exposed brick and polished concrete frames the contemporary take on Thai cooking by husband-and-wife chefs Ohm Suansilphong and Kiki Supap. Braised beef shank arrives in a broth balanced between sour and spice, while red curry branzino steams atop egg and cabbage on a banana leaf. The lesson here is tradition made urgent.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Esquire 2022 · #37 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 73. Ensenada
Seafood Mexican
- Bon Appétit 2023 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Luis Herrera
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- The New York Times 22 of the Best Bakeries Across the U.S. Right Now
- The Infatuation Our Favorite Bakeries In The Country Right Now
- The Infatuation The Best Bakeries in NYC
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Rank 77. Fortunato Brothers
Italian Bakery
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Rank 80. Ammazzacaffè
Italian
A spare, welcoming Italian trattoria where a handsome wood bar and garden patio set the stage for seasonal pastas and grilled fish. The ondine—shrimp in tomato sauce—and branzino with roasted grapes arrive with the precision of a kitchen that understands restraint.
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Rank 83. Bagel Point
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 86. Brooklyn Ball Factory
Japanese
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Rank 88. Superbueno
Mexican-American
- 50 Best 2025 · #12 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #9 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- VinePair 2023 · Bar Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
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- Time Out #15 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Lower Manhattan
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Rank 90. Bar Miller
Sushi
A cramped counter splashed with bold color and custom ceramics, Bar Miller channels relaxed informality into nontraditional omakase built on sustainable North American fish and New York-grown rice. The chefs treat trim and offcuts as material—pressed into house-made tostadas—with the same inventiveness they bring to Montauk fluke and Maine uni, a philosophy the wine and sake list mirrors entirely.
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Rank 92. House
French/Japanese
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Rank 93. The Hidden Pearl
Japanese-Inspired
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Rank 94. Bagel Joint
NY-Style Bakery
- Eater The Best Bagels in New York City
- BagelUp #16 · The Definitive 30 Best Bagel Shops in New York City
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What began as a roving truck in 2008 has calcified into something more durable: a brand whose creamy, plainly made scoops now occupy freezer cases across the city and beyond. The vegan iterations are genuine alternatives rather than afterthoughts, and the seasonal flavors—a Kraft mac-and-cheese confection among them—suggest a kitchen unafraid of whimsy.
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Rank 96. Ernesto’s
Basque Spanish
Ernesto's pairs sleek midcentury-modern design with Basque cooking that transforms humble ingredients—tripe, squid, jamón—into silken, communal pleasures. The wine list mines small organic Spanish producers with the devotion of an archaeologist, matching the restaurant's electric, perpetually crowded dining room.
- USA Today 2024 · Restaurants of the Year
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater 2026 · The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City
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Rank 97. Schmuck
European/Middle Eastern
- 50 Best 2026 · Three Cents Best New Opening Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2025 · #59 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #4 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 98. Win Son
Taiwanese Chinese
A light-filled room of blonde wood and exposed brick channels bodega warmth through a modern lens, serving Taiwanese dishes with unfussy confidence. The briny clams in Shaoxing wine, the pillowy bao, the chewy zha jiang mian with lamb and Sichuan heat—each arrives without pretense, meant to be eaten.
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Rank 99. Frijoleros
Mexican
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