Chūka (or chukka) is Japanese-Chinese fusion, and at Mimi’s that’s exactly what's cooked up in a comforting and classically retro-hip diner space.

Back home in Washington, D.C., The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and his wife, Jess, cook “constantly and elaborately,” he says. (Their home is conveniently sandwiched between ...

Bar Kabawa . In the old bar area of Momofuku Ko, this tropical bar has the lively but precise 4/4 energy of a soca band.