Try the electric-blue AMF cocktail and smoke paradilla del mar, a sky-high flaming skillet heaped with lobster tail, scallops, shrimp and mahi.
Love charbroiled chicken? Run to Mi Corralito. "It's a hole in the wall but people don't really expect the kind of food coming from my kitchen." ...
From Queens to Manhattan, these restaurants are setting the pace for the year ahead.