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.

Forget Naples: New York is the pizza capital of the world. Four new joints worth celebrating.

1st Annual Water-Taxi Beach Party.

For the next two weeks, excluding weekends, lunch at participating restaurants (see nycvisit.com) costs $20.12, in increasingly deluded support of New York’s Olympic bid.

Once strictly a destination for cut-rate clothing, gritty Orchard Street is following Clinton Street’s lead, becoming a veritable restaurant row.