No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon.

Merge
142 West 10th Street (212-691-7757).
"Gino's Soprano Style Sunday dinner" 4 to 10 p.m.
$25 prix fixe. A.E. only
Marylou's
21 West 9th Street (212-533-0012).
"Grandma B. Cooks Italian" Tuesdays 5 p.m. to midnight.
Appetizers, $6 to $9; entrées, $9 to $18. A.E., M.C., V.

Ixta and Trinity open this week. Plus, Gael explains why MetroCafé & Wine Bar can be light on your wallet.

Opening this week: Big Cheech, Quartino's, Diner 24, Brasserie ICB, and more. Plus, sour cherries and an ethereal take on strawberry shortcake.

This week's restaurant openings include: Mary's Dairy, Swish Cafe & Shabu Shabu and Le Quinze. Plus, rhubarb has reached the city's greenmarkets and Gael tests the new menu at Morrells.

A guide to what's coming this fall to the New York restaurant scene. Plus, upcoming cookbooks by celebrated New York chefs.

There’s nothing like a properly made lobster roll (bring out the Hellmann’s, please) to chase away the winter blues.

Barbara Lynch, guest chef this week at Tribeca Grill, isn’t the only visiting toque in town. Her sister members in the French society known as Les Nouvelles Mères Cuisinières are taking up temporary residence in New York to mark D’Artagnan’s twentieth anniversary.

Week of Feb. 21, 2005: Zozo's Juice and Grille, De Vino, Lassi. Plus, fresh mozzarella bars.

If it had any interest in jumping on the current menu-concept bandwagon, Chino's could label its multiethnic small plates “Asian tapas.”