Grub Street’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2025
One of our mandates at Grub Street is to take an obsessive approach not only to the pleasures of restaurants but the business of building and running restaurants. The year’s most popular stories dem...
Keith McNally and Graydon Carter Finally Make Up
You go to the trouble of arranging the rapprochement of the century, and the clouds open up. Four years after an Instagram-fueled contretemps threatened to founder their 40-year relationship, Keith Mc...
She’s Still Fighting Starbucks Four Years Later
Honey’s Bistro, a fast-casual café just steps away from the LIRR in Glen Head, features many of the telltale signifiers of 2010s design and menu planning. A letter-board menu lines the wall, plasti...
Fette Sau Calls It Quits
When Brooklyn barbecue mainstay Fette Sau opened in a former auto garage in 2007, it drew immediate crowds: Customers in skinny jeans and thick-rimmed glasses lined up along Metropolitan Avenue for a ...
How Raoul’s Invented the Downtown Bistro 50 Years Ago
Raoul’s — “Restaurant Francais,” per its famous outside sign — is celebrating its 50th birthday. Inside the long, narrow room, with its pressed-tin ceiling, art-covered walls, and vertiginou...