Ricardo sits on the line where a kiss goes from chaste to gasp. With its hedonic aesthetic and strong takes on steakhouse standards, Ricardo is best for a date with a carnivore. More

You could say we've been on a taco binge here at Serious Eats. After biking through Brooklyn and Queens last Sunday eating tacos along the way (wait for the video coming next week), I decided that Monday should be devoted to East Harlem, another hotbed of Mexican tortilla-wrapping activity (and yes, we'll be getting out of New York for Project Taco. West Coast, Midwest, South, get your tacos ready!) Check out the best tacos in the 'hood. More

There is a two-block stretch of Lexington Avenue in the low 100s that's filled with charming little dining establishments; one of them is Itzocán Bistro, which promises and delivers Franco-Mexican fare. True to its name, Itzocán is more of a bistro than a Mexican restaurant, and you won't find chips and salsa here. Rather, bread and butter are brought to the table. Mexican ingredients and flavors impart a lively, subtly assertive twist to a traditional French bistro repertoire of dishes, putting Itzocán Bistro in a class of its own. More

About the size of a catcher's mitt and packed with enough ingredients to stock a small bodega, the juancho cemita ($10) at Café Ollin is closer to a meal than a grab-and-go sandwich. More

It isn't always easy to find really great tacos in this city that are made purely out of vegetables. Many places have a vegetarian offering, but it's just whatever veggies happen to be laying around. At Café Ollin, a... More

[Photos: Sara Markel-Gonzalez] East Harlem is one of Manhattan's better taco neighborhoods, so for this week's Taco Thrusday, I explored two taco stops on East 116th Street—Taco Mix and the Tacos de Arroz Grocery Cart. Taco Mix Taco Mix... More

The pizza was awesome, as you can imagine. But the tiramisu, firm and solid, with cake in place of ladyfingers, and chocolate syrup squiggled over the surface, was a letdown. Especially after our waiter declared it "delicious" and told... More

La Marqueta. Photo from Around Harlem What a great use for civic space. The City of New York has just announced an initiative to create a "kitchen incubator"—a 4,000 square foot commercial kitchen, at the site of La Marqueta... More

New York Post Mobster Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito, consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, can no longer get his fat on at four old-school Italian eateries in New York City, according to the New York Post. Just released from... More

When I stepped out of the quiet 110th Street 6 train subway station, it seemed unlikely that I would find a Michelin-quality private dining experience less than a block away. But just past the nondescript facade of the Food... More