The Best Guyanese Restaurants in NYC: Pepperpot, Roti, and Pine Tarts (2026)
Guyanese food in New York is anchored on Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens — one of the most important Indo-Caribbean food corridors in the world. The stretch from roughly 116th to 133rd Street is lined with bakeries, roti shops, Chinese-Guyanese takeout counters, and Hindu and Muslim restaurants serving a cuisine that pulls from West Africa, India, China, and the indigenous traditions of the Guyanese interior.
In Brooklyn, a smaller but growing set of Guyanese kitchens have opened along Church Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, feeding the community that branched east from Richmond Hill. The five spots below are all verified listings on IslandVibes.nyc with full address and neighborhood notes. If you’re new to Guyanese food, start with a roti plate or a piece of pine tart and work outward from there.
1. Sybil’s Bakery & Restaurant
Where: 132-17 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill
The landmark of Guyanese baking in New York. Pine tarts, cheese rolls, pholourie, black cake, and a daily hot line — Sybil’s has been the Liberty Avenue anchor for the Guyanese diaspora since the 1970s.
2. New Thriving Restaurant
Where: 120-08 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill
The Guyanese-Chinese original. Richmond Hill’s version of Caribbean chow mein, fried rice, and chicken-in-the-ruff — a distinctly Guyanese take on Chinese food that’s its own cuisine at this point.
3. Kaieteur Restaurant
Where: 135-38 Hillside Ave, Jamaica (Queens)
Named for Guyana’s towering Kaieteur Falls. Full Guyanese menu — pepperpot, curry goat, dhal puri roti, metemgee — a Hillside Avenue anchor serving the community around Jamaica Avenue and Queens Village.
4. The Hills Restaurant
Where: 4706 Church Ave, East Flatbush
The Guyanese outpost east of the Queens corridor. A Church Avenue dining room doing roti, curry, and Sunday cook-up for Brooklyn’s growing Guyanese community.
5. Island Express Grill
Where: 998 Flatbush Ave, Flatbush
Flatbush takeout and grill with a strong Guyanese pull — cook-up rice, curry chicken, chowmein, and a quick lunch counter that draws from the whole Caribbean Flatbush block.
What to order, and where to go next
Guyanese cuisine has an unusually wide vocabulary for a first-timer: pepperpot (slow-braised meat in cassareep, traditionally Christmas Day), cook-up rice (a one-pot rice with meat and beans), dhal puri and sada roti, metemgee (a ground-provision stew with dumplings and coconut milk), pine tarts and cheese rolls from the bakeries, and Guyanese-style Chinese food — a full cuisine unto itself. The Richmond Hill corridor is the easiest place to try the full range in one afternoon.
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