AJ Capella, Summit House
Unabashedly in love with the Garden State’s abundant and diverse ingredients, the newest inductee into TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques isn’t shy about speaking out on behalf of New Jersey’s glorious foods.
Pals’ Night Out
Gather your besties at least once during this stretch of holidays that leads up to the annual turn of the calendar and dine out on dishes that match the spirit of the occasion you are heralding.
Dale & Dollops
A salute to a retro era takes a different tack when it comes to its menu, which is proudly plant-based and all about 21st-century classics.
Vegetable Pot Pie
It’s fit for a Thanksgiving potluck, adaptable to a variety of vegetables, right as a main course for guests who prefer plant-based foods and also suitable as a side for meat-eaters. It’s a heavenly savory pie.
Krishna’s Kitchen
The foods of Gujarat are the soul of the menu at a warm, yet modest storefront that stands as the home kitchen of a daughter-father duo. They’ll be your guides to a lesser-known Indian cuisine built on grace and ineluctable balance.
Que Ricas
Come for the Venezuelan arepas, don’t miss the cachapa and ease on to the finish with a guava-jammed empanada. How delicious, indeed.
Touching All Bases: 11-13-23
A sandwich, sweet potatoes, sashimi, a curry and a new rice for a risotto take the lead in another U.N. of eats from the two weeks just past.
To Spice, with Love (Part Two)
All-pro masalas and a novella-like cookery book are all you need to bring the magic of Barkha Cardoz’s flavors to your home kitchen.
Mangia Toscano
Cosmopolitan-chic and sporting a well-edited menu that covers divergent needs, this downtown draw exudes sincerity and sophistication.
Ichi Sushi
Purist sushi-eaters: This one’s not for you. But if you like fishing for your fishes under robes of avocado and buckets of eel sauce, all lit like a Christmas tree and garnished like a showhouse garden, read on.
Brussels Parm
An easy-all-around supper gets an update that turns it into a suitable and more universally likable side dish for the Big Bird on the horizon.
Morgan’s Island Grill
The best ever, anywhere jerk wings top the lineup at a Jamaican storefront that brings heart and soul to a prized historic district. It’s all happening thanks to chef-owner Kenroy Morgan.