Fans of affordable dining, mark your calendars. New York City Restaurant Week returns for its winter engagement January 25–February 7, 2010. For those days, once again hundreds of local restaurants will be offering $24.07 three-course lunches and $35 three-course dinners. If you don't have your calendar handy though, don't worry. We'll remind you!

If you’re thinking of taking to the seas in the near future, you’ll want to check out the just-released results of Zagat's first-ever Cruise Lines survey. Drawing on the insights of 2,379 cruisegoers, the survey names favorites in three different ship sizes – large (Royal Caribbean), mid-size (Crystal Cruises) and small (Windstar Cruises) – and also offers rankings in everything from cabins and service to dining and activities. Looking for a deal in these lean times? The "Best for Budget Cruises" winners are Carnival, Costa and Norwegian. For the full results, click here.

Photo: Ion Sokhos

A Thanksgiving dinner where you don't have to clean up afterward is truly something to be thankful about. Find out which restaurants are offering meals for gobbling on November 26 in the following cities:

• Boston
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco
• Washington, DC

Finally, something that both the iPhone and the Droid does: Zagat To Go, our popular smartphone application for finding ratings and reviews of over 40,000 restaurants, hotels, nightlife and shopping worldwide, has come to Google's Android phone OS. And not only can you search for your favorite spots, the home-screen widget will offer you a randomly selected nearby restaurant for you to try. To get the app, which costs just $9.99, point your finger to the Android Marketplace.

In cities as foodie-friendly as New York and Philadelphia, sometimes even locals need a guide for eating adventures. Enter City Food Tours, run by Joyce and Robert Weinberg (who owned Beyond Measure in Philly), which leads walking tasting tours seven days a week in both cities. The tours themselves vary dramatically, with everything from a Top Chef tour to an ethnic-food trip around NoLita to a craft beer and artisanal cheese tasting in Philly. All include access to good food, good company and a touch of exercise. Interested? Book now and mention Zagat to get 20% off two or more tickets (prices vary; call 215-360-1996 for Philadelphia tickets; 212-535-8687 for New York tickets; for more information click here).

Green Truck on the Go

Photo: courtesy of the truck

With so many food trucks using Twitter these days, keeping track of all those tweets can make your head spin. But by utilizing Twitter's new lists feature, we've made the truckin' life a little easier. With a combined 63 food trucks and counting, our Food Truck lists for NYC, LA and Austin are your one-stop shops for street-meat tweets.

David Chang's pork neck with succotash

Photo and recipe: courtesy of Phaidon Press

For its latest cookbook, Coco, Phaidon Press turned to 10 world-leading chefs – Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Yoshihiro Murata, Gordon Ramsay, René Redzepi, Alice Waters and Jacky Yu – to each pick 10 contemporary chefs from around the world. In turn, each of those chefs then wrote a menu and recipes for the book. The final product is more than 400 pages of gorgeous photographs, mouthwatering recipes and interesting tidbits from kitchens around the world. Want a taste? After the jump, get the recipe for pork neck with succotash from New York chef David Chang (of the Momofuku empire).

Read the latest Twitter entries on ZAGAT.mobi

ZAGAT.mobi just got Twitter-fied. Now when you look up restaurants on our award-winning mobile website, not only can you access our trusted ratings and reviews, you can also read up-to-the-minute comments about the restaurant on Twitter. You don't have to download or install anything to get in on the fun – simply visit ZAGAT.mobi on any web-enabled phone, be it an iPhone, a BlackBerry or a Pre, and see what people are saying about your favorite spot. Now that's something to tweet about.

Photo: Hanna Horwarth

No need to OD on candy this Halloween – we've picked out some spots in the following cities offering treats of a more grown-up flavor:

• Boston
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco
• Washington, DC