New York’s Best New Restaurants Of 2022

Located in the new Radio Hotel in Washington Heights, Jalao NYC is a glamorous Santo Domingo restaurant with dazzling, rich colors everywhere, Carnival masks, a palm motif, rattan and upholstered booths, beautiful painted tables. A lot of the food you will never have seen before: chicharron y casaba of amazingly crispy pork belly; Bombones de yuca filled with cheddar in a sauce of pineapple and chipotle. Very tasty, juicy goat’s meat-filled croquets are served with an avocado spuma.