The thing to have at Koshari Mama is the Mushroom Shawerma Sandwich, a glorious, overflowing medley of sautéed mushrooms, sweet peppers and onions seasoned with garlic and a housemade spice blend.

Harvard Square has lost two makers of creative and healthy grain bowls but still has Dig Inn, Henrietta’s Table and Bluestone Lane, where – along with the Russell House Tavern – good, savory bowls can be found alongside other brunchy menu items.

An Alewife-area beer garden won approval Monday from the License Commission to take over part of the Fresh Pond Mall parking lot.

The must-have at Gustazo is the Guacamole Cubano, a creamy, zesty guac that puts most others to shame and comes with perfectly crisp plantain dipping chips.

With food delivery waning with the pandemic, the acclaimed Season to Taste restaurant is looking to make up for that revenue with more seating, trading up to a 70-seat space being used by another eatery from its current 20 seats, the License Commission heard Thursday.

If you want a lunch that’s relatively healthy and light, fast and easy to eat (no fork or plate, and low mess), to me that’s a falafel wrap with hummus and a lot of veggies, pickles and banana peppers. But not all falafels are the same.

Café Pamplona, which closed in May 2020 after six decades in Harvard Square, is inspiring another business not far away: Faro Café at 5 Arrow St., which owner Henry Hoffstot hopes to have open in late June or early July.

North Point will be the new home of Passage to India as of dinnertime Wednesday, owner Narinder Guhania said Tuesday, and its former longtime Porter Square restaurant space will go dark for at least a while.

Part of the Main Street eatery portfolio that includes high-end Italian spots Sulmona and Amelia’s Trattoria, Mex can be different things depending when you arrive and what you’re looking for: Come late for a club ambiance, come early for the casual taco cafe or chill tequila bar aura.

The family-run Turkish eatery Lavash Bar & Grille is in a soft opening on New Street with dishes from a classic shish kebabs, islak burger and iskender to mezes such as manti dumplings, sigara borek cheese snacks and kibbeh of ground lamb so perfect and neat it feels like a crime to bite into one.