But, for those in the know, many incredible, older, not quiet hole-in-the-wall, food merchants still exist.
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Dr Mitra is most famous for hole-in-the-wall computers which he put in the slums of India.
Just don't curl your lip at the hole-in-the-wall barbecue joints they are the ones that are always packed.
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Plac Nowy, a square lined with market stalls, cafes and hole-in-the-wall food stands, where locals snack on Krakow's best zapiekanka, toasted half baguettes topped with cheese, mushrooms and sometimes ham and onions.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
Add to that the extraordinary talent in the kitchens of Dublin's Michelin-starred restaurants as well as in hole-in-the-wall cafes in the countryside, and you have nothing less than a culinary rebirth, a phoenix rising from the coal ash, deliciously.
Make sure to stop by Hashem, the finest falafel cafe in the country bar none (it has a picture of King Hussein dining here on its wall, if you need any further recommendation) and Habibah, a hole-in-the-wall baker selling Palestinian knafeh, a syrupy vermicelli-like pastry that locals swear by.
The staff in the restaurant is professional and pleasant, the by-the-glass wine list is decent, and my linguine with clams last night was much better than the linguine with radicchio I had at that little hole-in-the-wall (with a great sense of place) near the Grand Hotel Gianicolo yesterday before heading for the station.
In TriBeCa, Terroir (24 Harrison St, near Greenwich Street, www.wineisterroir.com) is the sister of a much-loved hole-in-wall wine bar of the same name in the East Village.
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Ten years from now you will probably have forgotten the name of that authentic hole-in-wall local bistro you found, or the off-the-beaten path residential neighborhood you strolled through, but you will remember that gondola ride.
Alas, renters are out of luck unless their landlord approves a three-inch hole in the exterior wall.
La Cova Fumada, a family-run, hole in the wall bodega, is rarely less than bursting with locals.
And in the process give the reviewer, who is probably ignored by his peers when he punches into work each morning, and by the general public who may not know his name from a hole in the wall, Brad Pitt or Beyonce-level recognition.
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