Collard greens are cooked Southern-style – tender but not mushy, with a pot liquor that begs to be sopped up with a biscuit or piece of cornbread. Mac and cheese emerges from the kitchen bubbling hot, ...

Chrome gleams under fluorescent lights as the scent of maple syrup mingles with fried chicken in the air – welcome to Bel Aire Diner, Astoria’s crown jewel of comfort food. This corner establishment ...