Sammy's Restaurant

Alcohol: Full Bar

The Extras: The chopped liver is a whole show, with the waiter mixing all the ingredients tableside.

What to Drink: Vodka will come to your table frozen in ice. Be careful drinking it though: Sammy's charges dearly for it.

This LES "heartburn city" brings on "old-fashioned" Jewish staples "covered in schmaltz" and vodka in ice blocks in a "grungy basement" setting where a keyboardist spouts "nonstop shtick"; like being in a "perpetual bar mitzvah", the clamorous "cavorting" could cause "cardiac arrest" – but it's a "great way to go."

Old school Jewish steakhouse serving up signature overflowing, garlicky slab of beef accompanied by potato pancakes and vodka frozen into individual blocks of ice. Extroverted staff livens up no-budget basement. Atmospheric bonus of live shows that make you wonder if this isn't really the Poconos, if 1947 never ended, and if you have a heart-shaped hot-tub just waiting for you and your new...

Every night's a bar mitzvah at this Lower East Side landmark, where the combination of frozen vodka bottles, immense garlicky skirt steaks, the strains of a Casio keyboard playing ""New York New...