The bread bakeries, seafood markets, salumerias, pasta stores, cheese makers, butchers, and produce vendors located in this Belmont, Bronx neighborhood will send your senses reeling. Plus, you'll be drawn to the conviviality, warmth and exuberance of the neighborhood denizens who will make you feel like part of the family . This thoroughfare runs straight through Brooklyn into Queens. Wonderful restaurants and bakeries serve Lebanese and Yemenite delicacies.
Shopkeepers sell imported spices, nuts, coffee and cheeses.
Numerous antique stores offer great deals. Plus, old time bars and top-notch restaurants can be found in the surrounding area. The tiny, crooked streets which were once part of colonial New York are now filled with smells, sights, and sounds that will transport you to the Far East. Along streets like Mott and Canal you will see a variety of unique and wonderful shops such as traditional herbalists, antique shops, Asian produce and dry goods stores, and fish and meat markets. With cuisine from half a dozen Asian countries, this is the place for the most delectably inexpensive dining this side of Hong Kong.