Ryan Sutton

A passion for meat will cost you at Costata, the newest venture by Ahmass Fakahany, a former executive at Merrill Lynch & Co., and Italian chef Michael White.

Jungsik, a New York restaurant whose $155 menu includes mysteriously-named dishes like “Scent of Jeju Island” and “Champs Elysees,” has become the first stateside Korean spot to receive two Michelin stars, the famed Red Guide announced.

Mighty Quinn’s, an East Village barbecue spot run by a former hedge funder, was named New York’s best new restaurant by the Zagat survey today.

The classic New York clam shack, with its pale beer, red-stained Dixie plates and bivalves on the half-shell, has generally resisted the forces that make everything in this city unaffordable.

We’ve been eating out on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem (with everyone else it seems).

Del Posto, the priciest restaurant in the New York branch of chef Mario Batali’s empire, is boosting wages for some staff and prices on its high-end dinner menus.

The $500 tasting menu at the Restaurant at Meadowood, in St. Helena, California, begins with a leaf. Four leaves, actually, stuck to two stems and seasoned with salt. “Borage,” my waiter says.

Know any good cooks?

Around 2 1/2 hours into dinner at Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, I was presented a bowl filled with sticks, leaves and stones.

ABC Cocina, with its $12 burger tacos, makes me wonder how much stoner talk preceded the opening of this curious effort from the Jean-Georges Vongerichten global restaurant empire.

Bear is back. The German shepherd returned to active service today after recuperating at the Animal Medical Center in New York.

Dinner at Manon, the new nightlife hang and restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, is an onerous undertaking.