Food Reviews & Stories The venerable Tuk Tuk serves high-quality versions of Thai-American comfort standards, in giant-sized portions. A big, to-go tub of spicy red panang curry, packed with green beans and chicken chunks, will set you back $8. Or hunker down in the brightly colored dining room for a fiery, chewy tangle o   More

Food Reviews & Stories Step away from the beguiling bakery case—filled with moist cakes, crumbly scones and Earl Grey shortbread cookies—and focus your attention on the stellar brunch menu at the new Kerns neighborhood outpost of this sweet cafe (the Water Street shop recently closed and will soon become Bunk    More

Food Reviews & Stories This Clinton-area Italian house has been quietly churning out solid, tasty plates of pasta and hot, bubbly pizza ($12-$18) and pouring glasses of inexpensive vino for its neighbors since 2005. Owner Mary Ann Archambault welcomes everybody with a smile and a big serving of penne topped with a super-f   More

Food Reviews & Stories Tucked into the pyramidal building on Northeast Sandy Boulevard that last housed Pho Oregon, Pho An is a fluorescent-lit oasis of homey Vietnamese chow—complete with warbling Asian standards in synth strings on the speakers and every kind of pig and beef part imaginable bobbing in the restaura   More

Food Reviews & Stories Perched on a stool, listening to the line cooks merrily shout along to Run-D.M.C. while you detach your jaw in order to shovel in another forkful of the Reggie Deluxe (Pine State’s bacon, fried chicken, gravy, biscuit, cheddar and—sweet Jesus—fried egg stack, $8). Does morning get    More

Food Reviews & Stories Call it “banh mi for beginners.” The big, tasty sandwiches at this Vietnamese drive-thru sub shop and bakery on Southeast Powell Boulevard lack the vinegary punch and funkier meat flavors of our favorite banh-mi shops, but a house-baked loaf filled with tender grilled pork or fatty Saigo   More

Food Reviews & Stories Call it “banh mi for beginners.” The big, tasty sandwiches at this Vietnamese drive-thru sub shop and bakery on Southeast Powell Boulevard lack the vinegary punch and funkier meat flavors of our favorite banh-mi shops, but a house-baked loaf filled with tender grilled pork or fatty Saigo   More

Food Reviews & Stories Want big portions of spicy Indian fare at cheap prices? Get in line at lunchtime at this downtown dining room, where a hungry queue of worker bees shuffle ever closer to Tandoor’s fragrant buffet bins of creamy spinach curry; light, bright tikka masala; and fresh garlic-cilantro naan ($5 to go   More

Food Reviews & Stories The hot-pepper-bath chicken ($10) is a rite of passage for newbies at this shoebox-sized Szechuan joint: A shallow bowl is filled to the brim with dried red peppers and tender chicken bits, wildly spiced with mouth-numbing Szechuan pepper, that bloom in the belly like firecrackers. Don’t stop    More

Food Reviews & Stories The po’ boys are bland and the kindly service can be glacial. But this dimly lit Cajun restaurant and sports bar, stuffed in the back corner of a multi-ethnic strip mall on Southeast 82nd Avenue, is rightfully revered for its steaming vats of Louisiana mudbugs ($11 a pound) served swimming in    More