Bobby Flay has taken on any number of hotshots over the course of his Throwdown With Bobby Flay show on the Food Network. But we never thought he would go to Red Hook to challenge the Good Fork's Sohui Kim in the art of cooking dumplings. That was the case on Monday’s show, which ended, we are happy to report, with a resounding win by Kim on her home territory. Because your street cred is everything in Red Hook.

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New York’s little red book, the 2008 Zagat guide, is out today. It is more significant to the restaurant world than the Michelin guide, and for good reason: The same people who use it are the ones who write it. So what if it’s a popularity contest? Life is a popularity contest. There were some minor shakeups in this year’s rankings, such as Union Square Cafe retaking its sibling Gramercy as most popular restaurant, and Daniel retaking the top spot in cuisine from Le Bernardin. But the more interesting points required a slightly closer look.