TOP IT OFF The Upper West Side has a new pizza place. Dean’s Pizzeria Restaurant (215 W. 85th St. at Broadway, 212-875-1100) opened Monday with 200 seats, an extensive wine list, and a full bar. It is in the former ballroom of an art deco hotel and features an open kitchen and outdoor seating. Dean’s is owned by Mirene Angelis, the chef is Joe Maulo.

SOUTH ASIAN SENSATION Dillons Restaurant & Lounge (245 W. 54th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, 212-307-9797) has reworked its dining room into an Indian-accented restaurant and has been renamed as Purnima. Owner Mohammad Islam has hired Vikas Khanna, a consulting chef at Tamarind, to take over the kitchen and has been testing recipes on family and friends. The restaurant will open to the public tomorrow, serving dishes such as shrimp malai curry with coconut juice and mustard seeds, cuminrubbed grilled sirloin steak, and cardamomcrusted and ginger-infused rack of lamb with mango salsa. The bar itself will keep the name Dillons.

SWEDISH TREATS Aquavit (65 E. 55th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-307-7311) is celebrating its annual Herring Week through Saturday with an all-you-can-eat buffet featuring the fish in many forms, including a sugar-and-spice cured herring. The buffet also includes anchovies, calf liver pate, and Swedish meatballs. Lunch at the buffet is $27, and dinner is $48.

A DUTCH TURN Grand Central Oyster Bar (Grand Central Terminal, 89 E. 42nd St., between Vanderbilt and Park avenues, 212-490-6650) is also in the midst of a herring festival, albeit in a Dutch style. The menu features $6.25 herring fillets, and lasts until Friday, June 22. Like its counterpart at Aquavit, this herring celebration also inexplicably features meatballs — Dutch ones called bitterballen for $2.50 for an order of three.

AFTERNOON DELIGHT Insieme at the Michelangelo Hotel (777 Seventh Ave. at 51st Street, 212-582-1310), is now serving lunch from noon to 2 p.m.

Mr. Thorn is food editor of Nation’s Restaurant News. He maintains nrnfoodwriter.blogspot.com.