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Feeling adventurous? Sushi Yasuda offers delicious lessons in seafood anatomy

"Squid face," says chef Naomichi Yasuda, as he sets down a gnarled, pearly-white piece of sushi. If they frequent enough good sushi places, even buri buffs come across something...

Uptown Girl

Missy Robbins brings her peerless pasta to the UWS

Missy Robbins has never been one to shy away from a challenge. When she was asked to move here last fall from Chicago to replace A Voce's previous chef, Andrew Carmellini, the...

Classic Tables: Five Points

Before the Bowery was trendy, there was this shining star

It's hard to imagine a time when you could walk within 100 yards of a restaurant without tripping over the seasonal, farm-related adjectives pouring out the doors. But that was the...

Slurp Until Chilled

Survive the season's final heat wave with a K-town favorite

BCD Tofu House, the international Korean chain with an outpost on 32nd St., is famous for its soon sundubu: a hellfire-hot stone pot of soft tofu that bubbles away in a spicy,...

Hola, Brooklyn

Fonda opens on the sly in Park Slope

It's unclear why New York's Mexican food scene lags behind that of other cities. But Los Angeles can have its legendary taco trucks--and Chicago can keep Rick Bayless--as long as...