Brooklyn Brisket

Rome Sentinel's Genesee Street guide and the Utica University Tangerine both cover Brooklyn Brisket, a downtown smokehouse turning out halal, slow-smoked brisket. The brisket is the reason to go, cut from a menu built around low-and-slow barbecue on Genesee Street, and the halal kitchen makes it a rare fit for diners who cannot eat at most barbecue joints.

Picks from Rome Sentinel and Utica University Tangerine