With 40 seats, a restaurant is a jewel box — apropos, you might say, since Zimmi’s is named for the Arts and Crafts jeweler and metalsmith Marie Zimmermann. Forty people is a party. Forty people can ...

Chef Cristian de Leon serves up his version of hilachas featuring short rib in a tomato-chile demi, root vegetable pave and a housemade tortilla at Xelas by El Sazon in Stillwater. (Nancy Ngo/The ...