This week in food events, Perbacco serves up a complimentary summer drink just in time for the season to end, Magnolia Bakery makes a special cupcake in honor of Fashion's Night Out, and eat all you want from Brooklyn's best restaurants during Hot Plates Live. more ›

Click through on the images for Perbacco's black truffle deals, the Knitting Factory's "Summer of Riesling" concert and wine bar crawl, and Shake Shack's hotly anticipated midtown debut. more ›

This week the Times’s Frank Bruni rhapsodizes about Perbacco (pictured), which has been open for about five years on East 4th Street, but has a much-buzzed about new chef: 26-year-old Italian hot shot Simone Bonelli, who comes from “the northern city of Modena and the kitchen of Osteria La Francescana, where Italy’s old guard meets Spain’s New Wave.” A two star rating from the Times is a slam dunk for a casual restaurant in this price range, and Bruni declares that “some of what I ate lingered in my thoughts for days: a special of agnolotti, for example. [Perbacco] has graduated to a whole new level, worthy of its name, which means “wow.” more ›