Caroline Shin

A traditional Brazilian buffet-style restaurant serving stews, salads, and meats hot off the grill for 26 years.

“The food here tastes like home," one patron said.

Muoi Trong has sold fruit at the corner of Mulberry and Canal for 27 years. Her children have attended Ivy League schools.

A guide to specialty markets and street vendors that are destinations in their own right.

For New Yorkers who grew up in Little Italy, the nearly century-old festival is a homecoming.