The chef Colin Alevras will open Permanent Brunch, a forthcoming East Village spot that will serve staples of morning eating all day, and all night on weekends.

A look at restaurant openings in New York this season, which are beginning to require the kind of planning that went into the Beijing Olympics.

Susur Lee, the face of high-end culinary dazzle in Toronto for more than 20 years, will open Shang, his first restaurant outside his adopted Canadian hometown.

This year fewer people are ordering lobster, driving down prices and making times harder for lobster fishermen already reeling from the high cost of fuel and bait.

Aaron McCargo Jr., a Camden native, is the winner of the fourth season of “The Next Food Network Star.”