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Drink Nothing like its original incarnation as a slinky, becurtained makeout bar, today’s Tiger Bar is a brick shoebox heavy on the rock-and-roll attitude.   More

Food Reviews & Stories “Light on the butter?! Honey, you’re in a Southern restaurant,” the waiter at Clementine Bistro sassed a couple of regulars. A few minutes earlier he’d been cheerfully scolding ...   More

Food Cart Reviews The boss of North Korea can now claim a hipster signifier even more hilarious than his enormous spectacles: There’s a food cart named after him. But if Kim Jong Grillin’s owners ever seize ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Lunch 11:30 am-2 pm Monday-Friday and noon-3 pm Saturday, dinner 5-10 pm daily. $$ Moderate.[JAPANESE] An izakaya is a Japanese pub, and both the food and the atmosphere here are an upscale version of what you might find in a Kyoto roadhouse. The vast menu includes dishes you don’t see often a   More

Food Reviews & Stories 11 am-11 pm daily. $$ Moderate. Like the inside of a piñata, Puerto Marquez jabs at the senses with vivid blasts of color and cheerful pop-mariachi music (with videos!).    More

Food Reviews & Stories 11 am-2 am Monday-Saturday, 2 pm-midnight Sunday. $ Inexpensive.[KOREAN] Walking in here is like getting an unexpected, welcome hug. Anchoring a strip mall in bleakest suburbia, JCD (short for Jang Choong Dong) looks off-putting from outside, but indoors is a tiny universe of delight. A few wooden b   More

Food Reviews & Stories Consistency may indeed be the hobgoblin of small minds, but it’s a nice quality in a restaurant. The tricky thing, though, is that it takes practice to achieve. The sleek new City State Diner ha ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Guidelines for a nice dinner at Il Piatto: Order something that contains bacon, and go with someone you don’t mind talking to at length. It may take a while for your meal to arrive, so get a bottle of wine and an appetizer—go for the sweet-salty prosciutto-wrapped melon, not the squishy    More