Geeta Bansal's spicy habanero lamb vindaloo, a favorite at her Clay Oven restaurant in Irvine. The restaurant is closing and moving locations in December. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times) ...

Smithtown, Hauppauge, Port Jefferson Station, Selden — Lubna Habibi has graced large swaths of central Suffolk with her homey Indian-accented restaurants. Last week she returned to Selden — where she ...

Food, service, décor — all are critical to a restaurant’s success. But there’s another consideration — equally critical — that flies under the radar: parking. Good restaurants have died for want of ...