The stretch of Greenpoint Avenue near Transmitter Park has seen a wave of openings in recent years, including the tapas bar El Pingüino, the Mexican restaurant Panzón, and 21 Greenpoint from the restaurateur Homer Murray, son of actor Bill Murray. Lingo landed on the scene last month, bringing “Japanese-influenced American food” to the block. Early hits include teeny tamago sandwiches and a whole fried chicken topped with chile gremolata.

Michael Solomonov is building a headquarters for his Philadelphia restaurants at the Hoxton Hotel in Williamsburg. First up was grill house Laser Wolf, which opened on the rooftop in last spring, and now there’s an outpost of his bakery and cafe K’Far on the ground floor. The pastel and plant-cloaked dining rooms are perfect for a special occasion dinner with out-of-town visitors or a hungover brunch with friends. In the mornings, look out for pistachio sticky buns, olive omelets, and breakfast sandwiches on chewy Jerusalem bagels.

North Brooklyn is home to some of the city’s best burritos right now, with help from New Mexican restaurant Santa Fe BK and the pop-up Border Town. Rounding out the scene is the new location of Super Burrito, which started with a stand on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk in 2017. The shop specializes in massive Mission burritos, stuffed with rice, beans, cheese, and salsa by default, with the option of meats like al pastor and carne asada. Keep an eye on the restaurant’s Instagram for weekly specials, like California burritos and this riff on Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme.

Even before the pandemic, the city’s old-school diners were becoming an endangered breed. Eisenberg’s and Odessa are no longer here, but a new crop of more modern restaurants is helping to fill the void. There was MeMe’s in Prospect Heights before it closed, and Golden Diner in Two Bridges, still home to some of the city’s best pancakes. Baby Blues Luncheonette is the latest, providing a Greek spin on the theme. The menu has everything you need, from an “HLT” sandwich (halloumi, lettuce, tomato) to fig jam toast and baklava banana bread. Coffee is unlimited.

Lula Mae recently opened on a crowded stretch of Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, giving the neighborhood a home for Cambodian cooking, still a rarity in most parts of the city. Helmed by Dan San, an alum of Manhattan restaurants Chinese Tuxedo and the Tyger, the restaurant’s atmosphere is casual, with dishes that run from oysters with fried shallots to a Chinese kway teow (fried pastry) served warm with tom yum butter and chicken pate.

Ursula is off to a hot start at its new location in Bed-Stuy, a much-needed expansion for a New Mexican restaurant that used to operate out of a small storefront in Crown Heights. The new space is bigger, but nowhere big enough for the hordes of customers who amass out front on weekends in search of enchiladas and burritos smothered in green chile: Show up on a Sunday morning, and don’t be surprised to be quoted more than an hour wait for a table of two. Things are slower at night, when a separate menu is served and a bar supplies the restaurant with cocktails.

Bobbi’s Italian Beef opened in Cobble Hill last fall, bringing Chicago dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, and other foods from the Windy City to the neighborhood. The restaurant used to operate out of the Dekalb Market Hall in Downtown Brooklyn, but a bigger storefront has made way for more sandwiches — there are 13 in total — and a 30-seat dining room. Order the Italian beef, a sandwich stuffed with thinly sliced top round that’s dunked in meat juices right before serving.

Egg, a breakfast favorite in Williamsburg for 15 years, closed during the pandemic, but the restaurant is back and littler than ever at this new storefront in Prospect Heights. Now run by Evan Hanczor, its longtime chef, Little Egg serves the greatest hits from the original restaurant, like pancakes, French toast, and eggs “Rothko” served with a side of broiled tomatoes. New to the menu are egg katsu breakfast sandwiches and a lineup of pastries that includes rhubarb crullers and Cara Cara orange olive oil cake.

New to the Crown Heights stretch of Nostrand Avenue is this Nigerian food counter specializing in veggie burgers made with black-eyed pea fritters. Patties are made from a mix of mashed black-eyed peas, garlic, ginger, onion, and chile, then fried and stacked with American cheese, mayo, and lightly pickled cucumbers on slices of soft, sweet agege bread. The burgers aren’t perfect, and you might think you’ve been catfished when you see one in person, but they’re a bargain at $6 for one or $10 for two.

The team behind the city’s only Michelin-starred Indian restaurant is back with another hit, this time in Park Slope. Masalawala & Sons is the second coming for a restaurant the team used to run on the Lower East Side under a similar name, but the menu’s been revamped with dishes that aim to bridge the gap between what’s eaten in Indian homes and what’s served in Indian restaurants. Highlights on the menu include macher dim (a sac of fish roe that’s poached in curry) and daab chingri (tiger prawns served in a young coconut shell).

Find Syrian and Korean food, not Syrian Korean fusion, at this popular Windsor Terrace takeout shop. The menu is divided in two sections — Korean dishes on the left, Syrian ones on the right — with kimchi fried rice, chicken shawarma, bibimbap, mezze, and banchan. One of the most popular dishes here is the bulgogi “fat boy,” a barbecue beef burrito wrapped in a greasy pancake that can also be ordered with chicken or tofu kimchi.