Nobody wants to know how the sausage gets made — but I do! So I took a class.

The Three Decker Diner reinvented the classic Greenpoint restaurant, modernizing the menu, and serving up American nostalgia. We ate lunch and dinner there.

In A Taste of Upstate New York, Chuck D’Imperio explores the foods of New York State, looking into the history and stories behind some famous dishes.

New York City has slowly become a barbecue town, and one of the destinations that continues to deliver is Hometown Bar-B-Que. Despite its location in Red Hook far from subway stations, the restaurant regularly has long lines extending out the door. We showed up on a warm September Saturday in the late afternoon before the dinner rush and still had a 40-minute wait time. But in the end, it was probably worth it.

We ate at Bonnie’s, a Cantonese-inspired, Chinese American restaurant embracing some Italian American influences.