Brett Scott, who comes from a family of restaurateurs, is a lover of Hispanic food and culture, and that becomes abundantly clear when you visit La Cocina, the Cuban-style restaurant he opened this winter in the old Washington County courthouse.

It doesn’t take much of a leap to imagine you’ve been spirited off to the seashore as you peruse the menu board at Ocean Blue Fish Fry in Halfmoon.

Veneto's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton Park serves excellent chicken wings.

Gazette restaurant reviewer Caroline Lee reports on a wonderful dining experience at a Guilderland restaurant.

“Zaika” is a word from the Urdu language, mother tongue of the Indian subcontinent, and it means “flavor.” It’s also the name of Sonny Brar’s new Indian restaurant in Clifton Park.

The Hungry Spot Cafe in the Collamer Building on Broadway is a good place to choose if you’re hungry and in a hurry.

The Mr. Fuji restaurant in the Village Plaza strip mall in Clifton Park has a lot of repeat business. It’s no secret why — it serves tasty Tokyo-style Japanese food in a warm and welcoming setting.

In The Cannon Building on Monument Square is a small, European-style cafe serving light meals to eat in or take out. It is the Illium Cafe.

If you’re in the mood for vegetarian fare, allow me to recommend a place where the food is both tasty and imaginative, the ambience funky-eclectic and the mood music comes from vinyl records that spin all day.

There’s clearly something exciting going on in downtown Glens Falls in this, its centennial year as a city, and part of the evidence of the renaissance is the growing number of interesting places to eat.

The dining room at the new Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina chain restaurant in Clifton Park is much bigger than I expected, but they’re going to need the room. Mom and I visited for lunch, and we can assure you that the food is fresh, tasty, and reasonably priced.

The beautifully restored Proctors theater on State Street has a worthy new neighbor, Aperitivo Bistro, which opened last November.

The idea of having lunch in a bakery, basking in the sweet aroma of freshly baked bread and pastries, lured us to The Bread Basket Bakery on a recent Saturday.

My mother has been a big — maybe even the biggest — fan of Paolo Lombardi’s for years.

Folks are lining up to eat at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro in Colonie Center, where the food isn’t a whole lot better or worse than your neighborhood Chinese restaurant.