In celebration of Chanukah, which began yesterday at sundown, many city restaurants and markets are cooking up festival favorites. During the holiday, it is tradition to eat foods fried in oil — commemorating an ancient miracle in which a day’s worth of oil lasted for eight days.

A Lower East Side deli, Noah’s Ark (399 Grand St., between Clinton and Suffolk streets, 212-674-2200) is offering “colossal and golden brown” plate-size latkes in sweet potato or corn scallion varieties. (An order of two potato pancakes is $3.95.) Meanwhile, My Most Favorite Food (120 W. 45th St., between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, 212-997-5130), a kosher dairy restaurant in Midtown, has holiday fare including housemade applesauce ($8 for 16 ounces), and made-to-order sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts, in two sizes ($2 each for regular size, $12 for a dozen mini doughnuts).

At Whole Foods Market (4 Union Square South, 212-673-5388, and other locations) the kosher “Adventures in Hanukkah” specialties include roasted brisket ($14.99 a pound), potato latkes and carrot-parsnip pancakes (both, $6.99 a pound.). For dessert, there are double chocolate ganache cakes ($18.99 for a 6-inch cake, and $26.99 for a 9-inch cake). Orders must be placed 48 hours in advance. And the kosher-style Chanukah menu at Fairway Market (2127 Broadway at 74th Street, 866-392-2897, and other locations) has on it a smoked salmon platter ($85/serves 10), an assorted Mediterranean dip platter ($70/serves 10), sweetened and unsweetened applesauce ($3.99/pint), and a chocolate fudge “Hannukah log” ($10.99/serves 8).