Your Trader Joe’s Dumplings Could Never
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QUEENS, NY·11 places

Your Trader Joe’s Dumplings Could Never

We get it. Trader Joe’s dumplings absolutely slap. But let’s be honest. They’re def not about to slap as hard as these do. Bookmark this for authentic spots surpassing the ordinary, leaving Trader Joe’s dumplings far behind.

look, sometimes you just need to cry, and the question is where. not your apartment (your roommates will ask if you're okay), not the subway (though respect to everyone who has cried on the L train), not a coffee shop (the ambient indie folk playlist will somehow make it worse). brooklyn has a specific geography for emotional processing that new york doesn't talk about enough — waterfront piers where the wind gives you a reason to have wet eyes, a 478-acre victorian cemetery where nobody is surprised you're sad, a botanic garden where crying next to the cherry blossoms is basically fine art, and a boardwalk at the end of the earth on a cold tuesday in november where you can be as loud as you want because the ocean doesn't care. this guide is not a joke — these are genuinely the best places in brooklyn to feel something, let it move through you, and come out the other side.

This is the one where you and your bestie eat your way across Copenhagen — world's-best-restaurant energy one day, taco-truck-in-a-meatpacking-district the next. Michelin tasting menus, cardamom buns that ruin all other pastries forever, and a hot dog cart that somehow slaps harder than fine dining. Come hungry, split everything, no skipping meals.