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The northernmost of Japan’s main islands inspires the menu, featuring jingisukan, for which lamb is cooked on tabletop grills, and buttery scallop risotto.

Made-to-order smash burgers—beef or vegan; single-, double-, or triple-patty—are the specialty of a new Lower East Side shop.

Save this story for later. Soon after Fan-Fan Doughnuts, in Bed-Stuy, opened, in October, a young girl came in with her parents. Fany Gerson—who started Fan-Fan after parting ways with Dough, the doughnut brand that she co-founded, in 2010—asked if she’d like a demonstration. When she took the girl behind the counter, “the mom was sobbing,” Gerson recalled recently. “She’s, like, ‘It’s just been such a hard time.’ And then I started crying.” At left: an éclair-inspired doughnut filled with yuzu custard and iced with torched meringue. A...

Save this story for later. If there’s an image of pandemic dining that will stay with me years from now, it may be one posted on Instagram by Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns for their pop-up, Ha’s Đặc Biệt. In it, the couple, who met while working at Mission Chinese Food, in 2015, are standing at the hood of a car that’s covered with a magnificent spread of takeout containers. Chopsticks poised near their mouths—Ha’s mask pulled down to his chin, his shirt pocket stuffed with napkins—they wear goofy, deer-in-headlights expressions. The photo is both p...

Save this story for later. Recently, I had an unusually exciting Friday night. While frantically switching between recipes for chicken curry and chocolate chai affogato, I smelled something burning. The culprit: the paper tabs on the Lipton tea bags that I’d added to a pot of boiling water for the chai. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to let them dangle over the side—as evidenced by the fact that they were on fire. Crisis was, fortunately, averted. On my laptop screen, a dashing fortysomething was completing the same tasks without breaking a sweat. I was watching “Bollywood Kitchen,” ...