You almost expect to see a beet salad on every menu these days, but this one's unlike any other you've met. Forget the predictable goat cheese and walnuts. These roasted beet wedges are carefully layered with paper thin, shattery shreds of cocoa tuile. Chocolate and beets together? And you get to call it a salad? The sweet, earthy beets actually work really with the delicate, slightly bitter cocoa sheets. More

Most people, logically enough, think of macarons when they encounter Macaron Cafe. But don't stop there—Macaron Cafe also turns out made-to-order sandwiches and excellent salads during the day. More

The Hudson Valley is that beautiful, expansive chunk of land along the Hudson River that's home to many farms, some of which are represented at New York City's Greenmarket. The farmers trek into the city with their cherries, beets, goat cheese, and many other fresh goodies piled onto flatbeds to sell at farmers' markets and to some restaurants. We recently road-tripped with ABC Kitchen chef Dan Kluger, to meet some of the farmers that supply his ingredients. Here are snapshots of the goat cheese, squash blossoms, whiskey, radishes, and more from our day of cruising around in tractors (and convertibles). More

Now that our office is an easy 15-ish minute walk from Souvlaki GR in the Lower East Side, the souvlaki consumption in my life will increase exponentially, no doubt. But when I stopped in recently, I felt like going the deconstructed souvlaki route with the Horiatiki Salad ($7). It's the familiar Greek salad comprised of chopped tomatoes, cukes, red onions, salty feta, and oil-juicy kalamata olives, served with pillowy, warm pita on the side, the same starchy jacket that rolls up the souvlaki. You can add a souvlaki's worth of their charcoal-grilled meat, chicken or pork, for $2 to sit atop the salad. More

Iris Cafe doesn't have an official brunch menu. The sandwiches and salads are available all day, but it's especially hopping inside the Brooklyn Heights nabe cafe during prime weekend brunching hours. Look on the framed chalkboard for the Smoked Bluefish Salad ($9.50). The glistening little pieces of fish from Acme Smokehouse in Greenpoint (it's their only local fish) are salty, smoky, and buttery atop a bed of lettuce leaves, hard-boiled egg slices, and roasted asparagus. More

[Photographs: Erin Zimmer] Souvlaki GR, the winners of last year's Vendy for Rookie vendor, now have a wheel-less home on Stanton Street. Don't worry though, they're not ditching the mobile business. They'll still be parked at 21st and 6th... More

Here are eight light lunches for your Thanksgiving Eve consideration. (With some help from Kathy YL Chan's "Lunch for One" and our own "A Sandwich A Day.") More

[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] This salad is a mountainous tangle of shredded carrots and beef, piled high atop a single piece of lettuce, the only form of green in the "salad". If you're in search of bold flavors, this... More

To clarify, there is a french fry salad ($14) on the dinner menu at Market Table, as pointed out by Food & Wine's Kate Krader. But it's really not that crazy. The composition: salad greens, steak tartare, and french fries.... More

After watching a movie near Union Square, my friends and I headed to Bite for a quick vegetarian and wallet-friendly dinner. Bite's main offerings of sandwiches (cold or pressed) and salads may not sound like a unique concept, but... More