Home-style pleasures from Wafa’s kitchen.

Grilled sweetbreads and lamb rib kebabs are delicious and satisfying.

Sue Perette is a welcome newcomer on Smith Street.

Marco Polo opens a pizza-and-wine hangout in Brooklyn.

A couple months out of the gate, Jack the Horse Tavern is earning a following in Brooklyn Heights with refined chow and a comfortable neighborhood vibe.

A Flushing food-court standout resurfaces.

Bistro standards done right.

Bar Minnow, a once-promising Park Slope seafood house, has finally gone under after months of decline.

Locally raised food, simply and skillfully prepared, is winning early raves at the Farm on Adderley.

Mexican newcomers in a neighborhood that needs them.

Ecuadoran chow at Tropical II, Bolivian chow at Club Kabu and International Restaurant, and Colombian pork at Las Camelias.

Fiery, funky Isaan style.

Near Flushing’s Chinatown, there’s a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut outlet where you find tapioca tea drinks.

I went at Tantris and got a 8 course, 150€ tasting menu, with mostly amazing wines and perfect cheeses. The place is from outer space, very exciting, the service took forever, and the cooking was very well mastered, flawless,...

Öko’s Greek-style product contains minimal sugar, allowing actual yogurt-y sourness to come to the fore.