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The chicken bastilla arrives dusted with powdered sugar and rose petals, which sounds precious until you taste it and understand why the New York Times critic put it on her favorites list. This is a modest, neighborhood Moroccan cafe in Astoria where the cooking is traditional and the prices are gentle. The pastry crackles, the filling runs sweet then savory, and the two never quite separate. A $12 dish that requires a hundred paper-thin layers to pull off.
The awards strongest first
- The New York Times #78 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- The Infatuation #12 · NYC’s Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2025 · Chicken Bastilla · Our New York Restaurant Critic Names Her Favorite Dishes This Year
One number, weighted & current 72
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Chicken bastilla
“A traditional, communal-size chicken bastilla might be built of as many as a hundred layers of warqa, pastry sheets stretched thin by repeatedly slapping the dough by hand against a hot griddle.”
The New York Times, 2025
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