Graciela Is a Win For Argentina
It was a hot Argentina summer — except in Argentina, where, being southerly hemisphered, it was a cool Argentina winter — when La Albiceleste surprised the world, meeting Spain to play for what mi...
It’s Toxic. It’s Smelly. It’s Le Canal Saint-Gowanus.
When the Carroll Street Bridge reopened earlier this summer — now fully pedestrianized after a five-year rehabilitation effort — I saw something I hadn’t recalled ever noticing before: a group o...
All You Can Eat in the East Village
A restaurant that celebrates the American South might seem like an unexpected follow-up from the restaurateurs behind C As in Charlie (a fusion of southern tapas and Korean bar food with “Seoul’sb...
Pay What You Can at Kabawa
As the free-market evangelist Milton Friedman famously noted in his 1975 book of the same name, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. At the time he was agreeing with generations of saloon keepers ...
The Bloody Mary Is a Night Drink
We are few, we are passionate. We are the drinkers of evening Bloody Marys. We are used to be being scoffed at; we are used to even our compliments coming with a breeze of backhand. “My grandmother ...
Brooklyn Heights Is Getting a Late-Night Pizza Bar
When chefs Brendan Kelley and Daniel Grossman moved their restaurant Confidant from Industry City to the Brooklyn Heights space that had been Colonie, they expected to see more strollers and foot tr.....
When Eating Out Is Political
In the 2010s, Israeli chefs — some who made their name in the U.S., some famous–in–Tel Aviv restaurateurs — started racking up wins in New York. This was a falafel- and bagel-literate society,...