Immigrants from those Mediterranean countries carved out of the former Yugoslavia have added measurably to New York’s food culture, not least in the last decade when a plethora of Italian restaurants and steakhouses have been opened by Albanians, Slovenians and Montenegrins.
Croatian restaurants, however, are still rare––about 24,000 Croatians live in the five boroughs––but none that I know has the deserved longevity of Dubrovnik, which has been a success in the boom town suburb of New Rochelle for the past twelve years.