Heights Cafe

Brooklyn locals (like John Turturro and FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta) keep coming back to this pleasantly reliable neighborhood place, where the menu’s strongest entries are the simple seafood and chicken dishes. Summertime brings 40 extra sidewalk seats, so all can linger over caloric titans such as the caramelized banana napoleon with vanilla gelato, warm chocolate torte and gingered apple-pear compote in a cinnamon wonton crisp.