Chef Michael White, a master of high end Italian cuisine, has been making his mark with seafood as well, albeit with the coast of Italy in mind. At Marea, White’s temple of seafood on Central Park South, delicacies from the sea are exalted in dishes like the Adriatic seafood soup (with clams, langoustines, scallops, prawns and snapper); porcini dusted scallops with soppressata and celery root; and seaweed marinated swordfish with charred peaches and baby eggplant.

There’s no need to prolong opening up those coveted bottles of wine because we’ve found a stunning, limited edition, decanter named simply “The Touch.”

Chef Adriano Ricco’s heart may be in his homeland of Brazil but his cuisine runs the gamut from Latin to American to his current passion: French Canadian.

French bistro food gets some unexpected twists at Bistrot Bagatelle in the Meatpacking District, thanks to chef Nicolas Cantrel’s unique take on traditional French cuisine.

You might feel as if you’ve been swept away to another era, such as the decadence of Vienna, when attending a dinner and live cabaret show at Café Sabarsky. The location at The Neue Galerie, a museum noted for its 20th-century Austrian and German art, sets the tone. Each Thursday evening during the month of April, at 7 p.m., Austrian chef Kurt Gutenbrunner prepares a modern Viennese three-course prix-fixe dinner, which is then followed by a performance at 9 p.m. by a renowned cabaret singer such as scintillating German chanteuse Ute Lemper.

Chef/owner John Fraser brings his love of fresh farm ingredients, his culinary training in Europe, and his experience working at some of the best restaurants in the world, (including the renowned French Laundry as well as Taillevent in Paris) to his critically acclaimed NYC eatery, Dovetail on the Upper West Side.

Award-winning Chef Floyd Cardoz has been at Tabla’s helm since its inception in 1998. At this Madison Avenue mainstay, you’ll find elegant dishes such as tandoori sweetbreads, chicken liver masala, Goan fish curry, spice-crusted sirloin for two, and vanilla bean kulfi—bewitching dishes for food lovers who enjoy the bold and aromatic flavors of India coupled with masterful cooking. Check out our interview with the culinary king.

Have you ever wondered if chefs create menus with food that they actually love to eat themselves? With Chef Jesse Shenker of recently opened Recette, which sits tucked away on a quaint corner in the West Village, that is absolutely the case.

For over 20 years, San Domenico was one of the “it” places to go for classic Italian cuisine. Run by father/daughter team, Tony and Marisa May, the restaurant closed its doors on Central Park South and reopened in a new, updated incarnation near Madison Park in the fall of 2009.