This Week’s At Home Hit List: Bessou, Saigon Social, & Sons, Frankies, and More

Maiko Kyogoku knows her way around a bento box, so it’s no shocker that she’s slaying the prepared-foods and takeout game. Her rice and udon bowls come with toppings ranging from shrimp balls to chickpea curry, and then there are 12-piece buckets of Bessou’s fantastic kaarage, plus pork chashu, and Japanese crab cake sandos, and pounds of frozen marinated meats like soy-ginger ribeye and miso-rubbed salmon to cook at home. Indulge here.

Whether you’re missing your garganelli fix or you’ve struggled to nab a reservation in pre-COVID times, this popular Italian eatery is back on the map with plenty to offer. Beyond pasta and vegetable dishes to go, they’re also selling jarred sauces, homemade pints of gelato, and for big-time fans: L’Artusi branded face masks.

Once you’ve tried Joloff’s namesake rice, you’ll be back for more in no time. This Senegalese spot serves traditional takes on dishes ranging from mafe ganar (chicken cooked in a silky peanut stew) to yassa tofu (stir-fried vegetables in a lemon-onion sauce), always with a side of couscous or that deeply tomato-flavored rice. Order here.

Not enough of you got to treat yourselves to Kunihide Nakajima’s sushi before he had to close his counter. Now the omakase destination, which opened in early March after the Tokyo-born chef had clocked in time at acclaimed sushi spots throughout the city (Uogashi, Inoue), currently serves up edo-style sushi, sashimi, and chirashi for takeout and delivery.

Beer-battered Saigon wings, garlic noodles with soft-shell crab, and Hanoi-style vermicelli with grilled pork are calling your name. After Daniel alum Helen Nguyen realized in late March she wouldn’t be able to welcome diners into her LES spot, she got to cooking. Try her Vietnamese comfort food by calling (646) 609-3202 for pickup or order delivery via Caviar.

A combo of ABC’s top hits are being whipped up from Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Flatiron hub. Spring-pea guacamole from abc Cocina, whole-roasted cauliflower with turmeric tahini in the style of abcV, and abc Kitchen’s classic mushroom and farm-egg pizza all made the remix cut. Order here.

Craft the cheese plate of your dreams with fixings from & Sons. Sommelier André Hueston Mack’s American ham and wine bar is the spot to pick up top-notch charcuterie, fantastic cheese, and other high-quality pantry goods — pasta, olive oil, Rancho Gordo beans, and the like. Schedule your order here.

MCF classics have never been your typical classics, and that’s a very good thing, especially in these takeout times. Think cabbage salad with seaweed, buckwheat, and tehina-yuzu vinaigrette; mapo tofu made with mushrooms instead of ground meat; out-of-this-world BLT rice cakes; and for dessert, panna cotta with mango, chili oil, and rock candy. Spring for a combo for two — you’ll have leftovers and won’t regret it. Takeout only.

Cavatelli with hot sausage and browned sage butter. Gnocchi marinara with fresh ricotta. Maltagliati with Lucanian pork Bolognese. Their sister pizzeria F&F has been serving up pies-to-go for a while from its takeout window, and now Frankies 457 will again deliver their iconic dishes direct to your door — or you can place an order for the ingredients at the Frankies Pantry x FRANKS Bottle Shop, swing by to scoop the goods, and cook them yourself at home.

Because fluffy, sugary crullers and BECs with Berkshire bacon on brioche buns are the fancified bodega food New Yorkers still crave. Thankfully, Danny Meyer’s Daily Provisions has just opened back up for pickup, to provide those very things.