The current lunch menu at James in Prospect Heights is a celebration of vegetables, with enticing-sounding salads and vegetarian plates and sandwiches, but I couldn't resist the Cured Salmon & Beets ($12) sandwich. More

Pastry chef Karen DeMasco is living the sweet life. By day, she's in the kitchen at Locanda Verde alongside fellow Ohioan Andrew Carmellini, where she's whipping up seemingly simple yet inventively flavored desserts like her signature maple budino. When she goes home (right next door to the new Nets stadium), she's taking her husband and two daughters out for pizza, ice cream, or burgers and hot dogs—without ever having to leave the neighborhood. Read on for Karen's droolworthy tour of Prospect Heights. More

Kombit on Flatbush Avenue bills itself as a "Bar & Restaurant," so you can expect items like mozzarella sticks and Buffalo wings on the menu. But most of the non-bar food is Haitian, and it is very good. More

We're itching to spend a lazy afternoon in our favorite parks—ideally with a nosh from somewhere nearby. Here are some of our favorite portable bites for impromptu picnics in the New York parks we love. More

There are three kinds of falafel at Chick-P on Bergen Street, and all three show up on the "Deluxe Sandwich" ($8). That's a spinach and mushroom falafel, a red pepper falafel, and a classic green herb-flecked green one. More

The suspicious among you may think we're a little kale crazy at Serious Eats HQ, but really we're just giving credit to a vegetable that more than deserves our thanks. Here are 11 kale dishes in New York that have won our hearts. More

I love me a good breakfast sandwich—especially when it's a block from my place. The ham and gruyere breakfast sandwich ($12) at 606 R&D in Prospect Heights is priced as you'd expect on a brunch menu, rather than a breakfast one, but it's available seven days a week. More

"To have two dreams come true in one lifetime is pretty cool," says Ilene Rosen, chef and co-owner (with Sarah Dima) of 606 R&D, a new bar-restaurant-café-doughnut shop in Prospect Heights. More

The inclusive menu, ranging as it does from the Caribbean to Asia to North Africa, extends to the conscientious service ("I sound like your mother," a server said, after gently teasing us about filling up on bread). Cheryl's emphasizes the connections between cuisines and between people, and it's best for: a welcoming date. More

Park Slope restaurant al di la is about as beloved as a neighborhood restaurant can get. So we're guessing that more than a few people will be excited about Bar Corvo, a slender, good-looking restaurant from the same owners, over on Washington Avenue. More

Come to Franny's for the pizza but don't leave without trying their non-pizza items, like this plate of sunchokes. More

Good-looking soccer bar Woodwork in Prospect Heights is a great place for a pickleback and an Arsenal game, but it's not a bad place for a sandwich, either. More

I'm a lover of kale whatever the form, but the kale salad ($7) at Chuko in Prospect Heights is truly remarkable. More

I'm going to have to try the falafel at Chick-P on Bergen Street a few more times before I decide if I prefer it to neighbor and fellow newcomer Kulushkät, but so far, I'm quite happy with Chick-P's sabich ($8). More

[Photo: Carey Jones] Here's a use of Kickstarter we can get behind. 606 R&D, a soon-to-open market-restaurant in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights, has decided their shop needs a killer doughnut machine—in particular, the Mark I Donut Robot, a fully automated... More