From John Roleke,
Your Guide to Queens, NY.
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Queens is one of the best places in the world for excellent food at good prices. Plus there's cuisine from practically every place on earth. Tonight it's green curry from Thailand, tomorrow for lunch it's Italian heros, and for dinner it's mezze from Egypt. It's all available in this borough, but finding the right restaurant is the key.

Queens.About.com's Restaurant Picks and Reviews

• All Queens Restaurant Reviews
• Astoria Restaurants
• Eating Out in Flushing Chinatown
• Forest Hills Restaurants
• Restaurants Along the 7 Subway
• Best Breakfasts in Queens

Top Three All-Star Choices for Best Eating in Queens

Best Fancy and Best Italian
Douglaston's Il Toscano (42-05 235th St, Douglaston), an upscale Italian restaurant, cannot be beat for an all-out feast. The service and food are exceptional (though, unfortunately, the prices are too).

• Full Review -Il Toscano

Best Off-the-Beaten Track, Best Vegetarian
Flushing's Dosa Hutt (45-63 Bowne St, Flushing) serves fast snack food from southern India. The specialty masala dosa is a fried lentil crepe wrapped around curried potato goodness. At once, exotic and homey, odd and familiar, delicious and more delicious, the Dosa Hutt is what exploring the far-flung tastes of Queens is all about.

• Full Review - Dosa Hutt

Best Beer Garden
In Astoria, close to the elevated subway, there is a garden of pure delight that serves delicious Czech beer, roasted meats, potato dumplings, and sauerkraut. When the sun is shining, the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden (29-19 24th Ave, Astoria) is the best place in all of NYC to sit outdoors at picnic tables and enjoy food and drink with friends and family.

• Full Review - Bohemian Beer Garden

Don't take my word for it that these are the three best restaurants in Queens. Try them yourself. And please tell me about your favorite restaurants.

• Updates - Every Thursday check in at Queens.About.com for the weekly restaurant roundup with the latest on reviews and openings
• More - Queens Restaurant Reviews - There are Indian, Thai, Italian, Polish, and Mexican for starters.

More Resources for Eating Out in Queens

Chowhound: The best and most dynamic restaurant resource is Chowhound. The Outer Boroughs discussion board is full of serious eaters on a quest for the best curries, best steaks, best desserts, best plain old eats anywhere in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx. If you've ever felt like you've tried it all, this is the site to check out to resuscitate your taste buds.

Village Voice: Another great resource is the Village Voice's list of the Top 100 Cheap Eats, top Asian Eats, and top Latin Eats. With all of these lists, you can search for restaurants by borough or by keyword (including neighborhood). The Voice's restaurant critic Robert Sietsema does a tremendous job of capturing a restaurant's character in just a couple lines.

NY Times: The Dining section of the New York Times covers Queens more than ever before, though coverage of our borough is scant compared to that of Manhattan. What it lacks in quantity of Queens reviews, however, it makes up for with quality and depth.

Enjoy!