Alaska Gem Lab & Fine Jewelry sits between the Flying Dutchman pasty shop and Lahn Pad Thai at 2101 Abbott Road, Unit 8.

Five-dollar tacos during a cost-of-living crisis? Sign us up. Also, Chi Cho Gelato’s new tiramisu has us drooling.

For decades, Hawthorne’s New Hope Methodist Episcopal Church met in a small, steepled building. Built in 1907, it was the ...