From Eastern Edge Food Hall to Tigerbaby: Boston-area restaurant openings abound in February

February has been packed with new restaurant openings across the Boston area.

• Eastern Edge Food Hall opened in Kendall Square with Clover, Việt Citron and Chatty Patty among the tenants.
• Tiffani Faison opened Tigerbaby at High Street Place, offering fast-casual dishes reminiscent of her last concept, Tiger Mama.
• Copley Place is replacing Neiman Marcus, its anchor tenant that declared bankruptcy, with an Italian food marketplace and the Greek seafood restaurant Estiatorio Milos, as well as luxury boutiques.

Yes, and: It's not just in the food halls and malls.

• 212 Kitchen opened in Cambridge's Riverside neighborhood after a nearly five-year wait.
• Oregon-based ice cream brand Salt & Straw will open a shop at Commonwealth Pier in the Seaport later this year.
• There's even new life in the corner of Downtown Crossing that long housed the shuttered robot-operated salad bar Spyce: The Halal Guys opened there to a line of fans Saturday morning.