Tuna-stuffed Eggs
This Super Bowl munchie is game-day ready, thanks to a couple of power players you likely have stashed in your kitchen.
Toasting Lunar New Year
By all means, go to a personal favorite spot and have all your personal favorite dishes. Then consider, as well, one of the Garden State’s destinations and keep ringing in the Year of the Dragon.
Café Basilico
A new concept from an experienced chef who has proven he can cook at a high level falls flat largely because of poor sourcing and careless execution. It’s a disappointment for fans and it calls for immediate remedy.
Can Cauliflower Be Cathartic?
If you use Barkha Cardoz’s masalas and let her culinary wisdom seep into your consciousness, yes – eating cauliflower can be a seriously transformative experience.
Known Quantities Revisited: 2-5-24
It might be a classic given a fresh look or perhaps simply the ultimate in respect. Either way, the favorite eats of the past two weeks more than pass the endurance test.
Under the Moon
A community-building hub with food that’s often Latin-leaning, this downtown café has vintage vibes and a spirit of inclusiveness. Come as who you are and eat what makes your tummy purr.
La Tabatiere
The relaxed friendliness of this bakery in Closter belies the behind-the-scenes precision and concentration needed to produce pastries such as a stellar canelé, exquisite vanilla diamant cookies and a milk cake of mystery.
The Hill
Classics with well-executed spins are where this upscale and relaxed roadhouse shines. Fixes of flaws would be worth the time as would making connections with a borough farm that could and should inspire even more invention.
The Anti-Deprivation Bowl
What to eat when everyone else is not eating some major food grouping in the name of reversing holiday-dining damage? A big bowl of nutritious comforts customized to what’s on hand and what’s striking the mood.
Luis Blasini-Sinchi, 7 Doors Down Ramen Co.
His life and cross-cultural experiences are expressed on the plates the newest member of TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques serves forth at his destination restaurant in Bloomfield. It’s a Luis Blasini-Sinchi moment and it’s destined to endure.
Mauka
What’s it called when a pre-proportioned feast of many parts is presented as a kind of culinary harmonic convergence? Thali time. At this suburban hub for Indian classics, you’ll also want a prelude of poori.
Arepa Pizza & Market
Focus on the cachapas, the arepas and the empanadas and let yourself be taken in by a monster sandwich called The Pepito. Then it’ll be obvious to you why the name of this corner storefront must be changed.