Tahaza Hummus Kitchen closed Thursday in East Cambridge, a victim of a slowdown in customers from Covid-19 after six years serving Mediterranean fast-casual food.

PlantPub is a cool little eatery in Kendall Square with a select beer and vino menu and satiating comfort food such as burgers, fried chicken sandwiches and pizzas – with no meat anywhere.

Waypoint, which feels like a cozy yet pleasingly eccentric Spanish tapas joint but specializes in seafood, has clam and smoked whitefish pizzas and mains such as squid ink and Jonah crab pastas – and one of my favorites: Smoked & Salted Peel & Eat Shrimp.

What’s happening in Cambridge’s kitchens? Bambara wants to help you carbo load Sunday, Miyoko’s Creamery wants to prove the quality of its Revolutionary Liquid Vegan Pizza Mozzarella and CambridgeSide is selling the Afro-Continental Cuisine collection of spices by Debbs Kitchen.

It was a pleasure to rediscover Taco Party in Ball Square, where this flexitarian was quite satisfied with the double-wrapped Crispy Fried Tofu, Chorizo Seitan, and Chimichurri Tempeh options.

A roadblock for New Republik was cleared this week, accelerating an opening for the relocated, reimagined People’s Republik bar after months of delay.

I’m still smiling on the inside from having walked into Andala Coffee House and discovering its falafel sandwich, on grilled thin pita with very green, flattened falafels and veggies inside.

Loyal Nine is an intimate and cozy place to have dinner but also a nifty place to have lunch or brunch. I dig its smooth and creamy nitro cold-brewed coffee, but one of the more recent reasons I’ve been popping in is the simple things it does with chicken and eggs.

Bar Enza is expected to open before October in Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel, serving the Italian brasserie food of Mark Ladner in a space that until April hosted Benedetto (and Rialto for 22 years until June 2016).

There’s several good reasons to visit Grendel’s Den, a Harvard Square institution celebrating its 50th year. One is that the boho eatery won a Supreme Court case in 1982 that could become the precedent to flip the recent Texas abortion ban.