Helen Rosner

Contemplating life’s mysteries over a seafood tower at Zig Zag Oyster Bar.

At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance.

Antonio Banderas on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.”

Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard.

Sanwits, in the East Village, serves a glorious mashup of American sandwich styles and frank Filipino flavors.

Zoli, which now anchors the sprawling East Williamsburg art space Amant, earns its experimental flourishes by delivering pleasure at every turn.

The best frozen-yogurt spots in town aren’t necessarily the ones that draw long lines.

At the new restaurant in the Sotheby’s-owned Breuer building, money, in its most indiscreet sense, is everywhere.

Theatricality goes only so far at the ambitious new restaurant from the group behind London’s Gymkhana.

With a soaring new complex in midtown, the restaurateur Simon Kim continues to turn his Korean-barbecue-meets-steak-house concept into a high-status luxury chain.