(Gift certificate)

You and a guest will savor an elegant dinner for two at this buzzed-about Gowanus restaurant. In his recent two-star review, Pete Wells at the New York Times said, “With half-grown chefs around the country getting attention for the two weeks they spent fondling beets at Noma, it’s something of a relief to learn that the highlights of Mr. Shaner’s career were jobs at Union Square Cafe and BLT Prime. Neither place has been in the vanguard of culinary innovation recently, but somewhere along the line, Mr. Shaner learned to cook food that really tastes good.”