Katie Daly's Restaurant   

Most of New York's homesick Irish would give anything to taste their mother's cooking, which explains why Katie Daly's is so popular with ex-pats -- and well-known for steaming plates of bangers and mash with caramelized onion gravy, and corned beef and cabbage. If you want the Irish works, call and ask about the live Irish dinner show on Sunday nights, when you'll get an earful of The Shamrocks or Tommy Mulvihill to accompany your steak on garlic bread, which goes down a treat with a pint of something black and smooth. In a neighborhood dominated by Italian bistros, this is one restaurant where old fashioned Irish gravy is the sauce of choice, and comes splashed over the sorts of dishes your ma made for you after school all those years ago.