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 | | The small savory plates, mainly around $5, include baby asparagus spears wrapped in grilled piquillo peppers, french fries with three Spanish sauces, and, arriving with the bread, a fabulous garlic mayonnaise. |
 | | This quintessential Puerto Rican lunch counter is one of the few vestiges of a Latin restaurant row that once thrived along Chelsea's Eighth Avenue, incorporating many distinguished Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Cuban-Chinese spots. |
 | | When it was founded by a maid of the guy who owned Carmine's and Ollie's, it was nearly unique, but now a plethora of good Mexican spots have poured southward from Manhattan Valley, and Gabriela's is forced to compete with places half as expensive. |
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