The Chainlets Have Never Been Better
Ours is a town that supports its small businesses, especially those happy establishments that are able to replicate acro...
A New Destination for Barbecue
The smell hits you halfway down the block, right around the custom-bra fitter the Rack Shack: fat, smoke, sweet. Bark is dead ahead, a new Dominican-inflected barbecue joint in Bushwick, whose hangar-...
How Bourdain Became the New Elvis
Midway through Tony, the new film about Anthony Bourdain, the title character, played with brash naïveté by Dominic Sessa, leaps off a pier in Provincetown, Massachusetts, into the Cape Cod Bay at d...
Where to Eat in August
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots our food team thinks everyone should visi...
Lucie Franc de Ferriere Drinks Hot Lattes During a Heat Wave
Lucie Franc de Ferriere says she grew up “surrounded by cake.” Her family’s chateau, just outside Bordeaux, France, was also a winery, tearoom, and bed-and-breakfast, all serving homemade desser...
Is the Polo Bar Really Moving?
Spend enough time around chefs and restaurateurs and you will quickly find the main topic of any conversation tends not to be the state of Greenmarket kohlrabi or the best way to roast a chicken. It�...
Mexico City’s El Califa de León Arrives in New York
Even people who aren’t familiar with Mexico City’s food scene likely know about El Califa de León, owing to the 60-year-old institution’s reputation as the first taqueria to be awarded More »...
Chad Robertson Is Building Brooklyn’s Next Great Bakery
Anyone who knows anything about bread knows Chad Robertson’s name. And anyone who knows Robertson has been praying he’d grace this city with a location of Tartine, the California-based bakery he c...
Chef Stefano Secchi Takes His Tea With Cheese
In the last year, Stefano Secchi lived through every chef’s nightmare: His Flatiron restaurant, Massara, was starting to hit its stride (and had just become profitable) when a kitchen fire turned in...