Julia Spalding

Featuring the ultra-sugary Pralines from Newfangled Confections (the makers of Frittle).

The staff of Late Harvest Kitchen holds a late-night lunch once a month.

Including deviled eggs piled with fat salmon roe at Eat + Drink.

Including smoked salmon eggs Benedict, sporting textbook poached eggs and sunny yellow hollandaise, at Dufour’s in Irvington.

Including a soul-warming Maple-pecan Hot Toddy, made of infused Maker’s Mark, maple syrup, and muddled orange, at Eat + Drink, Taste Cafe & Marketplace’s new conjoined cocktail lounge.

Including Thirsty Scholar’s fluffy S’mores Cupcake.

The bar hummed with Cream Ale–sipping hipsters, those coal-mine canaries of emerging commercial pockets.

Jayne Nolting cobbled together this hearty dish that plays equally well as a side or main course. Plus, a video demonstration by Plum’s executive chef Jeremiah Clark.

Including the crispy, sauced-to-order duck wings (try the chimichurri) from Shoefly Public House.

Inside, it’s a low-lit den of charmingly old-school Bavarian motifs with dark-paneled walls, dangling antique farm implements, and barstools upholstered in deep ruby and avocado—fancy digs for an 11,000-square-foot converted chicken coop that opened last year on the 141-acre Walhill Farm.

Farm-to-fork cuisine gets a minimalist treatment at this spare, open restaurant tucked inside the just-added clubhouse at LaPorte’s Legacy Hills Golf Club.

Foodies find their happy place in this small-town farm-to-fork spot that came to be when “a shaggy-haired chef from Florida’s Gulf Coast” fell in love with a country girl from Indiana.

Sarah Wolfe’s menu rolls with the whims of the local produce surrounding her home base of Princeton.

Tony Yamazaki (endearingly referred to as “Crazy Tony”) runs the show at this college-town sushi house.

Including a scoop of dense, sweet pumpkin ice cream from Wyliepalooza’s Ice Cream Emporium.