West Village

A buzzy new Italian-ish spot from Harold Dieterle doesn’t seem to know what kind of restaurant it’s trying to be.

If a self-consciously clubby restaurant suddenly becomes easy to get into, what’s the point of going at all?

At her new venture in the former Les Trois Chevaux space, the chef returns to her downtown roots, leaning into vivacity and drama.

Mourning Queen Elizabeth II, or not, with the lovers of pork-and-Stilton pies, Scotch eggs, and Batchelors Chip Shop Style Mushy peas at a British specialty store in the West Village.

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, from the Texas band Spoon, shot some pool to kill time ahead of a gig on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” before COVID rearranged their plans.

The actor, who played Howard Wolowitz on “The Big Bang Theory,” used his childhood as an aspiring pianist to land a role in Leos Carax’s musical film “Annette,” with Adam Driver.

Julia Fox, the “Uncut Gems” star who appears in Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move” on HBO Max, visits Our Lady of Pompeii to discuss abuse, addiction, sex work, and starring opposite Adam Sandler despite having no acting experience.

The restaurateur Angie Mar, who recently closed the Beatrice Inn, visits Jacques Pépin with a chicken pie and a pair of cured pheasants to test the menu for her new brasserie, Les Trois Chevaux.

After temporarily shutting down because of the coronavirus, Casa Magazines has returned as a living shrine to print culture in New York City.

The show was shot in a studio in Los Angeles, but tourists keep coming to 90 Bedford Street, seeking a fictitious location in an idealized version of the West Village and often feeling disappointed to find a real place instead.

At the Greenwich Village taproom, which has been around since 1880, paintings and photos of bacchanalian beatniks have grown over the walls like bougainvillea.

Diana Tandia worked in fine dining for years before courting repeat customers at her unpolished, homey new establishment inspired by the various cuisines of Africa and its diaspora.

The chef Einat Admony’s newest restaurant evokes North African and Middle Eastern home cooking.

Günter Seeger is a new European-accented place that serves ten-course meals with exquisite simplicity.

It is the latest tavern to be housed in the former home of James Brown, an African-American tobacconist who fought in the Revolutionary War.

I found myself fantasizing about somehow destroying the dog and walking away with the cash.

The ambitious menu at this tiny bistro on a sleepy West Village block reads like an ode to Escoffier. But many classics have been tampered with.