TOKO RAME by ROSHEILA ROBLES
BEST RECESSION-BUSTER: AT LAST CAFÉ At Last Café’s menu is so obscenely affordable, you’ll almost feel compelled to plunk down extra change. There’s brick chicken ($9.25); stir-fried veggies ($7.25); French pot roast with red wine and honey-cured bacon served on fettuccine with fresh vegetables ($10.25!); a tomato and basil omelette with [...]

Softball-sized specialties at El Gallo Giro

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Just inside El Gallo Giro is a head full of color: strings of papel picado hung up in mismatched rainbows, booths edged in bright greens and reds and yellows. Out of the speakers comes a head full of music, too, horns casting out triumphant little soundtracks on [...]