Zoe’s Emilio’s Kitchen
An exemplary Mexican restaurant without gimmicks and with a focus on purity, freshness and respect for ingredients settles in to a Bayshore borough that reflects its style and soul. Family, first, second, third and always.
Soul Bowls
Fruits and their friends unite, vivid colors giving way to buoyant flavors that are a sure step up from the chains that may serve more, but do not serve better.
The Fab 5 of ’22
Cherry-picking the best eats every other week is a gut-wrenching task; too many worthy dishes get left on the cutting room floor. Following that formula to cull from a year’s worth of F5s a Final 5 is beyond painful. (Eliminating the already-named fave restaurant dishes of 2022 helped.) So, take it away … and CONGRATULATIONS in 96-point neon type to the winners!
Accent Addict
New Year’s Resolution: Make a dent in ungainly collection of spices/condiments/et al by using what’s already on hand. First up: Fried Spicy Desiccated Coconut.
A Talented Twenty
As 2022 draws to a close today, we take stock of those honored by their peers with induction into TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques.
A Baker’s Dozen
Herewith, the 13 dishes of 2022 that cannot be forgotten. Nor should they.
New Year’s Eve: Dining In
Dinner-and-a-movie – a celebration at home, where slippers-and-a-fuzzy-sweater are in style, and food can be equal parts festive and flavorful without engaging in too much fuss. Own your farewell to 2022 by shopping smart and mastering the art of the put-together.
New Year’s Eve: Dining Out
If you’re ringing in the New Year somewhere out there in the wide world of Garden State restaurants, we offer a Fine 15 for your consideration. Looking for in-depth reports? Each has just that in our RR columns of 2022.
Duck Eggs
There’s an awful lot of yolk in these larger-than-chicken eggs, and they’ll serve to make devilishly good stuffed eggs. Not your basic summer picnic one-biter, either, but a hearty, protein-rich three-bite snack. Take two and call it a meal.
Sunday Gravy
“Mozzarella spiedini” is one of a number of dishes on the menu at this South Shore newcomer where Italian-American classics get a sure-handed lift. Why not? The genre’s bloodlines run through all parts of the Garden State.
Fishing for Ideas
Hosting or contributing to a traditional Feast of Seven Fishes this Christmas Eve? Planning a seafood fest during these holiday weeks or sometime in early 2023? The team at Sweet Amalia’s has a blueprint for success mapped out and ready to inspire.
Hatch 44 Café
Welcome to the exact-right café for today: Andrea Perez’s latest incarnation of her breakfast-brunch-lunch spot in a town with a core of culinary enterprises that is drawing the kinds of diners this energetic entrepreneur had in mind when she wrote her menu and designed her space.