On our radar this week: Daniel Boulud’s DBGB conquers downtown Manhattan, and Sir Terence Conran gets back in the game with The Boundary in London. Plus, where to eat when you’re craving gravy...

This week’s roundup includes a terrific new menu at a Boston-area standby, Anne Quatrano’s latest venture in Atlanta, and a great spot to drink away your sorrows when you can’t get a...

(RALEIGH) - In the land of biscuits and homestyle “meat and three” lunch joints, a restaurant named Gravy conjures a certain school of Southern savor.

(CAMBRIDGE, MA) - This Cantabrigian haunt serves exceptional, inexpensive farm-fresh fare.

(ATLANTA) - Abattoir’s mod/retro atmosphere fits well in the adapted space—a former meat-packing plant in the city’s Westside neighborhood.

(SPAIN) - Since late spring, there’s been an added attraction: The hotel bar has been renamed Raspa & Wine, outfitted with new furnishings, and given an irresistible new menu of, as we say in the States, “little plates.”...

(NEW YORK CITY) - With the opening of the huge, hip, new Bowery emporium, DBGB, the Americanization of Daniel Boulud is finally complete.

(LONDON) - Sir Terence Conran gets back in the game with a new, spectacular complex in East London.

This week, we discover neighborhood gems in Chicago and Los Angeles and get a taste of Heston Blumenthal’s revamped Little Chef rest stops in the U.K.

(CHICAGO) - It has all the makings of a perfect neighborhood restaurant: A terribly charming and adorable staff, a prime corner location right down the street from the hood’s best bar (Skylark), and a gorgeous, semi-rustic dining room that seems to...