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758 Lydig Ave. Bronx, NY 10462

718-822-8955

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Village Voice
Recommended
Best Albanian
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Albanian

Hours: Daily 8am-8:30pm

Price: $
Payment Types: cash

Features: Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly

Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Snack Food
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: No Parking

Description

The simplicity of this tiny coffee shop is refreshing, with a menu limited to three kinds of bureks (cheese, spinach, and ground meat), homemade yogurt to dip them in, and the standard permutations of espresso. The contraption the bureks fly out of looks like a miniature pizza oven, and these round filo pies appear with clockwork regularity. Though they outwardly resemble the Bosnian bureks of Astoria, the Albanian examples are less greasy; the spinach version lacks cheese, but is more powerfully flavored with dill; while the cheese is extra-cheesy and even tastes good stone-cold.

2011 | Best Albanian

The foremost Albanian contribution to New York cuisine is the burek, a spare tire of a flaky filo pie, stuffed with spinach, cheese, meat, or a combination. Although many Albanians now run pizza parlors and turn out delicious bureks as a sideline (sometimes they're not even on the menu), Burektorja Dukagjini specializes in them and serves virtually nothing else except coffee beverages. You can sit in the pleasant but small premises right off White Plains Road and wash your warm wedge of... More »
2008 | Albanian

Albanian joints make the best bureks--round, flaky pies stuffed with spinach, cheese, ground lamb, or a combination thereof. We're in love with the cheese burek at Burektorja Dukagjini, located near one of the Bronx's best food corners. More »
2003 | best espresso

Anyone who's motored up Italy's Autostrada knows that even truck stops generate amazing espresso. Not so in this country, where great coffee has to be searched out. Pay homage to the Platonic ideal of espresso by pilgriming to the Pelham Parkway neighborhood, where BUREKTORJA DUKAGJINI squirts out the city's best. More »

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thevillagevoicebestof | New York, NY | 84 Reviews

| Sun, May 10, 2009

Albanian joints make the best bureks - round, flaky pies stuffed with spinach, cheese, ground lamb, or a combination thereof. We're in love with the cheese burek at Burektorja Dukagjini, located near one of the Bronx's best food corners.