Patricia Cobe

Coffee drinkers jam the counters at Starbucks waiting to jump-start their day. But more than half of customers come in after 11 a.m., many looking for something to eat.

Pret A Manger gives banh mi a meatless makeover.

Turn a simple dish into a menu signature by pumping up flavor and presentation with a housemade sauce. These six recipes demonstrate how to elevate everything.

Almost every food media and critic issues a list of top restaurants. A new ranking uses the standouts among those lists as the basis for what it says is the authoritative rundown of the industry's best places. Here's our analysis of how they earned that distinction.