The place setting and menu at Leo

Leo serves of Neapolitan style pizza in Brooklyn, a trend thats more than two decades old.

The chicken biscuit has still got it

Pies -n- Thighs helped popularize fried chicken sandwiches in gentrified Brooklyn almost two decades ago. We stopped in for lunch to see how whether it still holds up.

The classic lounge-style cocktail menu reminds me of places my grandparents would visit

The Commodore in Williamsburg is one of the few places for a light-night meal. I ordered the classic hot breast.

It was my wife’s birthday. We decided to have lunch at a new Chinese restaurant.

Our child’s daycare celebrated Rosh Hashanah this year with a two-day closure so we did the only sensible thing: we shipped our 18-month-old to New Jersey for an overnight and made dinner reservations.