Purists may balk at Zuzu’s unorthodox ramen—a recent special involved a broth made with dashi and beets, and hunks of sweet-tender duck confit—but that would be the wrong approach to take here. This small, cozy Park Slope noodle shop [...]

While Nobu and Morimoto and Masa and a handful of sushi chefs hog the local (and national) spotlight and preside over blingy, self-titled restaurants, the enormously talented Yuji Sano—who moved to NYC after training at his parents’ sushi place in Tokyo—toils away at Taro Sushi, a nondescript little spot [...]

That crowd jamming into Franny’s just about every night (show up early to avoid it) is pretty much here for the pizza. And the pizzas deserve the neverending buzz this place has gotten ever [...]