Wash Heights Dominican Restaurant Named Among NYC's 'Essential' Spots

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — In some pride for Washington Heights, a neighborhood eatery just earned some serious praise from a popular publication that covers restaurants.

Malecon, a Dominican restaurant at 4141 Broadway (near West 175th Street), was just named by Eater NY as one of "the 38 essential restaurants in New York City."

For those who don't know, Malecon serves up Dominican-Caribbean cuisine that includes empanadas, calamari, half chickens, fried pork, and much more.

It also has a location on the Upper West Side at Amsterdam and West 97th Street.

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Here is what Eater NY had to say about the Malecon in Washington Heights.

"This restaurant with an elegant ambiance named for a Havana corniche is an anchor of the Washington Heights neighborhood known as Little Dominican Republic," editors from Eater NY wrote. "Its menu offers all the Dominican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican mainstays, including paprika-rubbed rotisserie chickens, garlicky pernil, peerless Cuban sandwiches, and other sandwiches turned out in the warm embrace of the sandwich press, savory scoops of mofongo, and steaming bowls of asopao, along with snacks that include empanadas and cuchifritos."

Other well-known restaurants included on Eater's list of the 38 essential eateries in NYC were the incredibly well-reviewed Indian spot Semma, the Italian eatery I Sodi, the Ukrainian East Village restaurant Veselka, and the Four Horsemen in Williamsburg.

You can read the full list on Eater's website.