Fodor's Expert Review Karla's

A casual hangout in the heart of New Hope, Karla's has been open since 1978, offering hearty American food (meat loaf, burgers, and sandwiches) enlivened with some interesting international ingredients. Dine on dishes like panko-crusted mac and cheese, Korean barbecue tacos, and short ribs in cozy rooms with an assemblage of mismatched tables under a corrugated-plastic ceiling, with plants in retro macramé hangers. Part indoors and part out, half restaurant and half bar, some shabby and some chic, Karla's feels like an old comfortable pair of jeans.