Not so long ago, the $160 tab on a four-course Ducasse dinner gave the fine-dining community fits. Today, that price seems almost reasonable. Where to go when someone else is picking up the check. (Tax, tips, and drinks not included, of course.)

Eric Ripert teaches New Yorkers how to cook in a tiny kitchen.

The next best thing to cooking over an open flame is dining next to one.

During the ten-day Dine in Brooklyn celebration (April 11 through 20), $19.55—in honor of the only year the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series—will buy you a multicourse dinner. The full list of participants is at brooklyntourism.org; a few of the best selections appear here.

A menu of holiday-entertaining ideas sure to make the season more pleasant.

Why we love the 7 train’s route through Queens.

Dumbo Art Under the Bridge comes to Brooklyn this weekend, and even if the artists are starving, you needn’t be. A gourmet guide for gallery-hoppers.

A seventies wine makes a comeback.

If you’re daring (or foolhardy) enough to brave the gawkers and visit the Rockefeller Center tree, you’ll need to refuel soon after.

So October, it turns out, is National Pizza Month—as if we needed an excuse.