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Best Sausage and Peppers in New York
Where is the best sausage and peppers in New York?
The best sausage and peppers in New York City is served at the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street each September, with Faicco's on Bleecker Street and the Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx as the year-round standbys.
| City | New York City, New York, USA |
|---|---|
| Ask for it as | Sausage and peppers |
| Top 100 spots here | 7 |
| Best time to go | Mid-September, during the Feast of San Gennaro. Second-best is any Italian-American street feast in the outer boroughs from June through September. |
| Local rule | Butcher-shop sausage beats supermarket sausage everywhere, but in New York the gap is enormous. If the stand grinds its own, the fennel actually tastes like fennel. |
New York is where sausage and peppers stopped being a home dish and became street food. The Feast of San Gennaro has run on Mulberry Street since 1926, and for eleven days in September the whole neighbourhood smells like fennel, charred onion and griddle smoke.
The rest of the year the dish lives in butcher shops and markets rather than restaurants. Faicco's in the West Village grinds its own; Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is the more serious, less photographed version of Little Italy.
New York on Larry’s Top 100
| Rank | Where | Order this | Larry’s note |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Feast of San Gennaro — Mulberry Street | Sausage, peppers and onions on a roll | The cathedral. Eleven days a year, the whole street smells like this dish. |
| #2 | Faicco's Italian Specialties | Sweet sausage hero | Butcher-shop sausage means the fennel actually tastes like fennel. |
| #7 | Arthur Avenue Retail Market | Hot sausage with roasted red peppers | The real Little Italy, and everyone in the Bronx knows it. |
| #8 | Ferrara-side Mott Street counters | Sausage plate, extra onions | Eat standing up. Sitting down is for tourists. |
| #21 | Belmont Avenue butchers | House-made sweet sausage | Ask for the fennel-heavy batch. |
| #22 | Court Street pork stores | Sausage and peppers by the pound | Sunday tray. Feeds nine, or Larry. |
| #23 | Staten Island pork stores | Sausage, peppers, onions hero | The most underrated borough for this dish. |
Menus, feast dates and opening hours change. Call ahead before you travel.
How to order it in New York
- Sausage, peppers and onions on a hero roll — not a plate. In New York this is a walking dish.
- Sweet sausage if the peppers are the point; hot if you want the sausage loud. Half-and-half is a normal order at feast stands.
- Ask for extra onions. They cost nothing and they are what keeps the roll from going dry.
The local rule: Butcher-shop sausage beats supermarket sausage everywhere, but in New York the gap is enormous. If the stand grinds its own, the fennel actually tastes like fennel.
Best time to go: Mid-September, during the Feast of San Gennaro. Second-best is any Italian-American street feast in the outer boroughs from June through September.
Questions people ask about New York
Where is the best sausage and peppers in NYC?
The Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street in September is the classic. Year-round, Faicco's Italian Specialties on Bleecker Street and the Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx are the two Larry sends people to.
When is the Feast of San Gennaro?
Eleven days each September on Mulberry Street in Little Italy. Dates shift slightly year to year, so check before you travel.
Is sausage and peppers a New York dish?
It is Italian-American, and New York's street feasts made it famous. The pairing itself comes out of southern Italian home cooking.
Make it at home instead
You do not need a plane ticket. Larry’s own version takes about forty minutes in a cast-iron pan.
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