What sticks strongest in the mind is Nosh’s long list of sandwiches. There are 16 regular recipes here and nearly every one is good enough for a repeat meal. Some stay satisfyingly simple (an excellent egg salad with shards of radish and a handful of greens, a surprising shrimp salad cooled with cucumber), while others [...]

As its name suggests, Heavenly Fish Palace is first and foremost about fish. You can get your plates grilled or fried, with straight-from-the-Bayou favorites like catfish, whiting and red snapper eating up most of the menu. In terms of pure flavor and texture, grilled is the way to go. And if you’re looking for something [...]

Whether you’re looking for something light enough to forget the effects of last night’s reunion with Jack and José, or you just want to indulge yourself before the clock strikes noon, an omelette is almost always the best choice—you can’t go wrong with a couple of eggs stuffed with whatever’s clever. But if you want [...]

Central to the restaurant’s neighborly enthusiasm is Plums’ excellent breakfast. Thanks to the restaurant’s cold-weather style, the menu brings a most welcome addition: fish. Unlike the café’s Oregon pepper bacon (heavy slabs outlined with black pepper), its seafood dishes (an alderwood smoked salmon hash, a Dungeness crab and asparagus omelet) still eat light and are [...]

North by Northwest at Plums Café

PHOTO by RICK POON
There’s a sharpness in the air around Plums Café, a clean scent that makes for the kinds of brisk breaths that usually only occur when flowers and trees all exhale at once. It’s hard to notice at first, but that crispness is part of Plums’ patio, a [...]

Nothing out of the restaurant’s country kitchen satisfies home-cooked cravings more than its ribs. The baby back pork ribs are perhaps the most pleasing of the bunch, colored such a potent pink from slow smoking that the meat almost seems unnatural. The beef ribs, however, are just as good, trading in the pork’s pink streaks [...]

For 30 years, Isaac’s has been hidden away on Fries Avenue, set up in a colorless building barely painted a blank beige. But that’s okay because at Isaac’s, simplicity matters. The easiest way to start is with the red burrito, which contains a pile of shredded beef drenched in a mildly spicy stew of red [...]

Paradise travels past the typical bar boundaries by offering the kind of casual American dining that allows for inspiration from every corner of the world—there’s everything from Moroccan-braised chicken to balsamic-marinated Portobello mushrooms. And the entrees keep that up, with pasta plates (pasta primavera, linguini with steamed clams) and a number of fish dishes, the [...]

Ambrosia has always had great choices for vegetarians (a falafel pita the size of a small nation, great garden burgers, an excellent veggie platter) and its meatless meals are still strong. One of the best bets on the vegetarian menu is the Combo for Two ($30), which comes piled with two falafel patties, two dolmas, [...]

The entrees, whether you visit at breakfast (look for the tofu scramble, chicken apple sausage scramble, and broiled French toast stuffed with Mascarpone and créme fraiche); lunch (try the ruby red smoked wild salmon sandwich or hand-carved turkey sandwich served with mouth-coating herbed cream cheese and cranberry sauce); or dinner (the moist, fall-off-the-bone coq au [...]