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Tom Bergin's Tavern

Urban Garden

Cortez

We love the straightforward, vegetable-heavy dishes served at this Echo Park restaurant. The rabbit escabeche salad makes doubly good use of the vinegar-and-olive-oil braising liquid the meat is cooked in: It lends the rabbit its punchy edge, and is repurposed to dress the salad greens.

Krescendo

San Francisco chef Elizabeth Falkner (formerly of Citizen Cake and Orson) has relocated and opened a pizza spot in Boerum Hill with two pizza ovens and Southern Italian pastas and desserts.

Maysville

Avec

With a new chef at the helm (Erling Wu-Bower, formerly of The Publican and Publican Quality Meats), this go-to is better than ever. Go tonight for salmon with sorrel vinaigrette and wild chickpeas, spicy squid-ink pasta with shrimp, and chicken thighs with spiced apple salad and crispy rice reminiscent of the best edges of a paella.

The Hakka Cookbook: Memoir, Cultural History, Cookbook

The Hakka Cookbook chronicles Linda Lau Anusasananan's identity quest through personal anecdotes and well-tested recipes.

Cellar Rat

This Wicker Park wine shop will close its doors on Thurs., 11/15. Go now to score some great closing deals.

Blue Duck Tavern

This perenially popular, stylish restaurant in the Park Hyatt has recently expanded its hours, offering later dining hours. Pop in to try roasted duck with pumpkin relish. Then go for the roasted pear and blackberry crumble with toasted oats.

Minibar By José Andrés

Trenchermen

Hudson Made Kitchen Goods And Edible Gifts

Shop this online botique of sweet edible offerings and expertly crafted, locally sourced kitchen goods. Read more!

Taïm

Downtown lunchtime seekers break out your happy dance: Taïm has opened a new (and larger!) outpost in Nolita. The shop is rightfully famous for its falafel (one of the best in the city), but we gravitate towards the sabich pita--a tremendously delicious combination of hardboiled egg, pickled mango chutney, cabbage, hummus, parsley and lightly fried eggplant.

Per Se

Lure Fishbar

Is there any restaurant with more flattering lighting? Get to this subterranean Soho spot tonight for one of the best oyster happy hours ($1.50 each from 5 to 7 p.m.) in town.

Ootoya

The affordable Japanese food at this restaurant (a chain in Japan) will have you hoping that it colonizes the United States with multiple locations. Natto with a slow-cooked egg is wonderful, and a plate of tori aji--broiled fatty jack mackerel--is stunning for the number of sides (squash, grated daikon, soup and more) that accompany the plate.

Pork Slope

Fight Sandy With Food And Drinks

Join us for an open bar, trotter stew and meatballs at our Sandy Relief fund-raiser on Wed. One hundred percent of ticket sales will be donated to the Food Bank for New York City , and TT will match the donation.

Farmers Fishers Bakers

The old Farmers & Fishers space is now this farmhouse-inspired restaurant with a giant menu and an on-site bakery and dessert studio. The "Fishers" element shows up as a reservations-only sushi bar.

Bravas Bar De Tapas

Mark Stark opened this Spanish restaurant in Healdsburg late last week, serving small plates, cocktails and hand-sliced jamón ibérico.

Hawk's Tavern

After several rounds of chef changes, this one-year-old Mill Valley restaurant has closed.

St. Vincent

Orenchi Ramen

Aziza

Tortas Los Picudos

If you stop by this Mission shop for a torta--and you should--make it a multi-pork sandwich. Pierna desebrada (shredded ham) plus carnitas, for example, or ham, egg and chorizo. Pork forms the savory center of a fat, crusty sandwich, the bread smeared thickly with mayonnaise and sour cream and the whole plumped out with shredded cabbage and tomato. Grab a squeeze bottle and squiggle lines of salsa roja? overtop.

Front Café

Lao Ma La