A good kebab is not hard to find in a city where hundreds of thousands of Iranians and their families have settled.

These drinks are made with coconut, but they're not your usual tropical cocktails.

You might not need a bamboo tub to hold 25 pounds of sushi rice, but there is plenty for the home kitchen at the Japanese Culinary Center, a retail and wholesale showroom for a major importer. They have elegant knives, porcelain dishes that start at $1.50 and simple slicers for around $35. There’s hand-crafted plastic sushi ($8.30 to $38.90 a piece), as well as real edibles, like organic tamari, $26.50 for two quarts, and earthy purple sweet potato vinegar ($33.20 for 16.6 ounces), which also comes honey-sweetened ($39.70 or $9.40 for four ounces) and is good in iced tea.

The United States has developed over the years a disarming way to put its foreign guests at ease: serving hot dogs.

The austere appearance of Japanese Premium Beef’s first retail outlet belies the richness of what it purveys: beef called washugyu, a Black Angus/wagyu cross.

Bracelets for SoHo.

Americans have discovered what Mediterranean cultures knew all along: rosé is the quintessential daytime wine. To assess this summer’s offerings, the wine panel recently sampled 25 bottles.

Small and friendly, sophisticated but not scary, Recipe wraps local ingredients and refined cooking in a modern-rustic package.

The low-key charms of Savoy, which has exalted all things organic, sustainable and humanely raised a full decade before Blue Hill opened, haven’t faded over time.

The three fish represented in these recipes have different stories, but none are in danger of being overfished.