King Souvlaki • 1979

From a food cart in Astoria to a Bay Ridge brick-and-mortar, this Greek street food stalwart has spent over four decades perfecting hand-skewered souvlaki and hand-stacked gyros. The Kalogeris family cooks everything over open flame and fries their hand-cut potatoes in Greek extra virgin olive oil—a detail that keeps lines forming on Third Avenue. Order the pork souvlaki with a side of those golden, oil-kissed fries and taste why this operation outlasted the cart era.