Modern Haitian cuisine is a marvelous mash-up of West African and French influences, with further inspiration coming across the border from the Dominican Republic on the shared island of Hispaniola. For the last decade, one has been well-advised to go to Brooklyn neighborhoods like East Flatbush, Canarsie, or Stuyvesant Heights to find the best Haitian food in town, though the city’s earliest Kreyol neighborhood was in Hell’s Kitchen, where a single restaurant remains, Le Soleil. But now the cuisine has enthusiastically reasserted itself in Manhattan on the Lower East Side at Rebel.
The bar at rebel is stocked with Haitian rums