Can’t get a reservation at Peter Luger except for 4:30 P.M. on a Monday? Try one of these unaffiliated but proliferating clones opened by the legendary steakhouse’s former employees.

Where once there was just Dojo and Khyber Pass, now there’s a gourmet glut. St. Marks Place (and vicinity, in Realtor-speak) is the latest Restaurant Row.

A Mexican-restaurant boomlet spices things up.

Like grapes, new wine bars tend to come in clusters.

The Beard House’s annual charity bash returns. Chefs & Champagne 2005.

The Minnow’s Blue Crab Festival. Run sideways, don’t walk, to this Park Slope seafood fest.

What culinary trend-spotters would describe as regional-food revivalism, some wags might peg as the rise of the Redneck Diet. Either way, American food, in all its deep-fried, cheez-glopped, hickory-smoked glory, is having its moment.

Where to revel in la joie de la liberté—not to mention a certain nation’s presumption of cultural superiority—this July 14.

The venerable Munson and Jones diners may be no more, but their all-American food—and the home-fry-addicted folks who love it—is forever.

Chinese food: It’s not just for takeout anymore. A few examples of the new wave.