Dining: These tasty treats will fire up your mind, body and soul, just in time for the sexiest holiday of the year. Comment.

Dining: Here’s a breakdown of the world’s sexiest eats. Comment.

Dining: It’s the only holiday where grownups are allowed — nay, encouraged — to eat sweets with reckless abandon. Here are Brooklyn’s best sweet treats. Comment.

Dining: Four area restaurants double down, Bed Stuy loses brisket, and Carroll Garden’s builds a better burger in this week’s scrumptious serving of gossip. Comments (2).

Dining: An award-winning chef will open the East Coast outpost of his acclaimed Thai restaurant in the waterfront neighborhood — and some locals are saying the new eatery could bring big changes to the geographically isolated community. Comments (9).

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: It’s the greatest thing on sliced bread — literally. Comments (2).

Dining: The King of Vinegar Hill puts the crunch in this beloved dish at his popular restaurant. Comments (2).

Dining: We were already fans of Bravo’s “Top Chef Season 4” and “All-Stars” contestant Dale Talde going in — a fact we tried hard not to convey when interviewing him about Talde, his new Asian-fusion eatery on Seventh Avenue and 11th Street in Park Slope. Comments (1).

Dining: There are coffee houses — and then there’s Toby’s Estate. Comments (2).

Dining: These briny beauties represent the changing face of Brooklyn. Comments (1).

Dining: A bourgeois staple comes to Cobble Hill. Comments (1).

Dining: A new cheesesteak truck is serving up meaty hoagies to hungry foodies in North Brooklyn’s primary snack corridor. Comments (3).

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: Park Slope’s newest Italian restaurant serves one of the most authentic crostini this side of Milan — and there’s one reason why: owners brought the fresh, simple recipe straight from the food-centric city itself. Comment.

Foodie-in-Chief: Who would have guessed that an Argentina-born Queens resident would become such a pioneer of Italian food in Brooklyn? Comment.

Dining: It’s back to basics for a new suds, spirits and small bites bar on Graham Avenue. Comments (1).

Foodie-in-Chief: Hey bro — got a jones for some righteous SoCo-style eats? Make the drop into Bay Ridge, where Ho’Brah, Bay Ridge’s new surfer-inspired taco joint, is currently riding the sweet wave of success. Comments (2).