Latin fusion in Long Island City.

Offering classic northern and southern Italian cuisine with world-class service at reasonable prices and an elegant atmosphere that includes nightly entertainment. Chef Fabio—you can see his name up there on the restaurant—has had a globe-trotting career of nearly three decades, starting off with his formative years in Rome and New York, giving him a rare insight into marrying the Old Country with the New World, a feat he accomplishes with alacrity: a truffle or scampi risotto that never misses, a filetto di manzo in a cognac reduction, a veal scaloppini with artichoke hearts, blue cheese and truffle, and all the pasta and fish dishes you'd expect from an Italian joint, all done the way they were meant to be done.

A nice selection of dishes and good service make Tamarind well-worth the visit. New York Times food critic Sam Sifton has called Tamarind Tribeca "the best thing to happen to Indian food since Hemant Mathur and Suvir Saran opened Devi in 2004."

The proprietors of Greenpoints' Five Leaves bring a new restaurant to Williamsburg, featuring a Latin menu of small plates and a cocktail program. Favors a hip crowd, but those people can be smart as the food here is excellent.

Always trust the seafood of a man who owns his own processing company, as owner Luke Holden does. Emboldened by that fact and the connections it necessarily requires, Holden claims to have the ability to bring the freshest lobster possible to new York City, including diabolical lobster rolls that range in price from $6-14.

Brought to you by a defector from the (in)famous Magnolia Bakery, here you will find a dizzying array of gaudily-frosted cakes and cupcakes and enough sugar to achieve nirvana. Lovely wallpaper and jaunty tables make the eat-in experience even more dizzyingly cute. For those chroniclers of the lives of famous cupcake bakers, do note Billy himself is no longer here, nor even still Billy; Billy became Bertha, and now lives in Topeka, Kansas.