The crop this season ranges from modest roadside cafes to elegant dining destinations.
The island is abundant in both restaurants offering competitively-priced daily menus and – increasingly – with fine dining destinations.
(This continues an occasional series focusing on affordable restaurants in some of the city's popular dining destinations).
On a recent visit to the region, I decided to pay each a visit, and found two worthy dining destinations with plenty in common.
And because Chinese restaurants stand as popular family dining destinations, she noted, normally big profit generators like wine and liquor don't contribute much.
With this column, Good Eating begins an occasional series focusing on affordable restaurants in some of the city's popular dining destinations.
Hot dog and sausage consumption around the majors has remained remarkably steady during the last decade or so, even as teams have turned their stadiums into designer dining destinations, with steakhouses, themed restaurants, brew pubs and waiter service.
Giant Asian dining destinations keep coming, but Megu Midtown, right, which is to open tomorrow in the Trump World Tower, is a bit more intimate and less striking than its TriBeCa sibling, which opened in 2004.
It is easy to overlook the restaurant scene in eastern Chelsea because it is surrounded by long-established dining destinations like Tenth Avenue, the Flatiron district and the West Village.
The back wall of Le Bernardin, one of the world's top fine dining destinations, is occupied by a 24-foot-wide painting of a roiling ocean called Deep Water No 1.
Where to Eat Almost from the moment it opened a year and a half ago, Hosteria del Pesce, Via di Monserrato, 32, (39) 06-686-5617, has been one of the historic center's hottest dining destinations.
