N.Y. Dosas

Before there were artisanal food trucks in Hell's Kitchen, or mobile Milk Bars at the Brooklyn Flea, there was this humble Greenwich Village vendor dishing out New York City's best dosas. The word is out on Thiru Kumar's (or Dosa Man, as he is often called) popular street snack, which parks on the corner of Washington Square Park and attracts a long line of South Asian ex-pats, hungry college students and stylishly unkempt hipsters. The crowd-pleasing Pondicherry masala dosa combines curried potatoes, chopped peppers and diced carrots in a paper-thin, lentil and rice flour crepe, and the lentil soup is hearty and homey. At less than $6, it's one of the best bargains in New York City.