Enough With the Caesars — Please
There is nothing wrong with a nice Caesar salad. In fact, one might argue that too much about it is right. Its combinati...
Trudie’s Tavern Is Ready to Be Carroll Gardens’s New Go-to
Before he opened Gertie and Gertrude’s, Nate Adler was a camp counselor in New Hampshire. During the summer nights he was off duty, he’d head to a spot called Peter Christian’s Tavern for cold b...
Restaurateur Henry Rich Used to Order the ‘Quickie’
Henry Rich spent his earliest years in Cobble Hill, nearby where he now lives with his own family and a block away from his restaurant June. “I was named after Henry Streeet while my mom was on a wa...
Noma’s Premature Comeback
Just three months after the staggering New York Times report that led René Redzepi to announce — tearfully and cinematically — he would “step away” from his roving restaurant, More »...
Voodoo Doughnut Arrives in New York
The world was a very different place in 2003 when a scrappy storefront squeezed between two nightclubs in Portland, Oregon’s Old Town started serving bacon-maple doughnuts next to vegan fritters. Th...
Zoli Encourages Diners to Get a Little Uncomfortable
Of all the alerts and inquiries I’ve received from restaurants — soliciting my preferences, my allergies, my aversions, my occasions — one recent text caught my attention. “Zoli here,” it re...
Faux Is a Real McNally Restaurant
There are many different ways to interpret the name of the upcoming Tribeca restaurant, Faux. It could refer to the essential restaurant skill of creating a make-believe space that evokes the romance ...
George Motz Reaches for the Bone
Whenever he has a memorable meal, burger expert George Motz snaps a photo. That way, if someone asks for, say, a lunch place in Tokyo, he can search through a years-spanning archive of Google photos f...
A Brutal Summer of Restaurant Closings Has Begun
Here is an abbreviated list of restaurants that have either closed in the past few weeks or will shutter before the end of the month: Enrique Olvera’s Atla. Saint Theo’s in th... More »...