Photo: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images Vijay Kumar is on a roll right now. Last night, Kumar took home the James Beard Foundation Chef and Restaurant Award…

Illustration: Clay Hickson While some of us continue to mourn the loss of fowl-centering fine-dining destinations like Le Coq Rico or Rotisserie Georgette, the truth…

Photo: Scott Semler Something exciting is happening inside the city’s supermarkets, bakeries, spice emporiums, Italian grocers, butcher shops, and Korean delis: They’re becoming eating destinations…

Illustration: Maanvi Kapur “You can make a great taco out of anything,” says chef Enrique Olvera. “All you need is a tortilla made from heirloom…

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times/Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Since the New York Times posted a “Help Wanted” ad in November, rumors about who would…

Photo: Hugo Yu When Jeremy Salamon, of Agi’s Counter in Crown Heights, opened a second restaurant, I would not have guessed that the standard-bearer of…

Photo: Courtesy of the subject Since opening in 2016, Bushwick’s Ops has become a destination for its sourdough, Neapolitan-ish pizza. The pies are wood-fried and…

Photo: KC Armstrong/Deadline via Getty Images Eddie Huang is a wife guy now. After time in Taiwan and L.A., Huang is back in New York,…

Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne Times veteran Erik Piepenburg came of age — and came out — in the ’90s, a time when, he says, gay restaurants were…

Photo: Daniel Krieger Victoria Blamey is back on Bond Street. The chef, late of Blanca, has taken on the job of culinary director of Donna…