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Isle McElroy Swears by Bar Goto’s Celery

admin — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:00:38 +0000

Illustration: Maanvi Kapur

The title of Isle McElroy’s sophomore novel, People Collide, reflects the larger themes of the book: body-switching, self-expression, learning to navigate the world in a new way. But it could also be described as a testament to how McElroy spends their days. “I definitely orient my life around hanging out,” they say, laughing.

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Everything Is a Kids Menu Now

admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:00:24 +0000
Photo: Getty Images
The other night at a new Manhattan restaurant, I ate a bowl of soft ricotta gnudi under a blanket of salty Parmesan cream. There were some mushrooms and the requisite black truffle somewhere in there, but the pleasure of this dish was so uncomplicated and gentle that I wouldn’t even use the overworked phrase “mac ’n’ cheese for grown-ups” to describe it. This was more elemental.
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Kellogg’s Diner Is More Timely Than Timeless, for Now

admin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:00:17 +0000
Photo: Jeremy Liebman
To everything, there is a season, and to every season, there is a diner. It’s an odd irony that the most long-lived of restaurants — good diners are aged in decades, not years — can feel so particular to a particular time of life. Proust had his madeleines; I have my cheese fries.
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The Art Bar Goes Vegan Above Eleven Madison Park

admin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:05:43 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
It’s been nearly 80 years since the doors swung open on Bemelmans Bar, the Upper East Side’s sui generis marriage of permanent art — the wall murals of Ludwig Bemelmans — and artful drinking. Inside the Carlyle Hotel, Bemelmans has in recent years started to draw an increasingly young crowd — could the city be ready for another such space?
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A Final Trip to Stock Up at Perelandra

admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:20:04 +0000
Photo: Perelandra
On Friday morning, “Love Stinks,” by the J. Geils Band, was playing inside Perelandra while customers shuffled around the increasingly empty aisles. A young mother examined a bag of Counter Culture coffee while, a few aisles away, the juice bar’s smoothie machine whirred away. Another customer asked an employee about the lack of products.
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At the Otter, Alex Stupak Does Seafood

admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:00:50 +0000
Photo: Yudi Ela
The most important thing to know about the lobster roll that Alex Stupak will make at his new seafood restaurant, the Otter, is that it is, in his words, “not creative.” Each roll starts with a one-and-a-half-pound lobster, broken down into tail, knuckle, and claw meat. The shell is used to infuse lobster butter, to dress only certain parts of the meat.
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Chloe Fineman Got Hooked on Pedialyte This Summer

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:00:42 +0000
Illustration: Margalit Cutler
At any given moment, Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman has her apartment stocked with Swedish banana-chocolate Bubs, strawberry licorice, and gummies galore. A couple of years ago, she started making a candy bowl whenever her best friend would come to visit. Now, it’s become her signature. “I don’t buy flowers,” she says, laughing.
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Bridges Opens With Eel Dumplings and Comté Tart

admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:05:04 +0000
Photo: Eric Helgas
The chef Sam Lawrence has been thinking about pastry crust. The Melbourne native had worked in Paris and Hong Kong before ultimately landing a job as chef de cuisine at Estela.
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Cafe Mado Is a Worthy Return to Locavore Cooking

admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:18 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
Lately, it seems like half the ingredients served to me in restaurants have more frequent-flier miles than I do: Wagyu beef with a Japanese-stamped passport, Australian ocean trout, tortillas made from milled-in-Mexico corn. I’m surprised anyone can still get a seat in the Centurion Lounges of the world’s airports with so many groceries flying around.
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KC Black Owned’s fall summit returns this weekend with corporate backing, tools for Black entrepreneurs

admin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:59:49 +0000

A summit planned for Saturday at the Kansas City Convention Center aims to inspire Black business owners and equip them with the resources, strategies, and connections needed to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace.
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‘True’ Bangladeshi Cooking Comes to Queens

admin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:43 +0000
Photo: Courtesy of Mezban House
In this beef eater’s town, there is always some new cow to go on about: the steaks, dry-aged and otherwise. Faddish new burgers. Barbecued ribs, both southern and Korean. Pastrami, hot dogs, French-dip sandwiches. The beef I want to talk about, though, is at Mezban House, a new Bangladeshi restaurant that’s been making a lot of noise in an otherwise-quiet corner of Elmhurst.
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For the Very Best Granola, Get to a Bakery

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:55:50 +0000
Photo: Courtesy of Culture
On the Upper East Side, it’s easy to find the tiny gourmet store Madison Fare, since there’s usually a line stretching outside. Owner Amin Kinana can thank a viral frozen yogurt for that, but he says that for the two years he’s been open, he’s had a different best seller: granola.
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Soho Is Getting a New Artists’ Restaurant

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:05:13 +0000
Photo: Jeremy Liebman/Copyright 2024 Jeremy Liebman [email protected]
“Color is so important,” says Ewan Venters, CEO of the globe-spanning megagallery Hauser & Wirth and its hospitality offshoot, Artfarm. He’s here in New York to try a handful of dishes at Artfarm’s first restaurant in the city, Manuela.
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Hy-Vee’s small biz competition sends Midwest entrepreneurs racing for $50K checkout; Here are the winners

admin — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:37:48 +0000

BaKIT Box, a Chicago-based subscription service offering baking kits inspired by diverse global cuisines, took home the $30,000 grand prize at the 2024 Hy-Vee OpportUNITY Inclusive Business Summit.

Shelley Gupta, the founder and CEO of BaKIT Box, was thrilled to receive the grand prize, she said.
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How city dollars could help crime victims get back to business; Mayor unveils new fund to support struggling entrepreneurs

admin — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:31:33 +0000

A newly introduced fund aimed at helping KCMO small businesses recover from and prevent property crimes — offering grants up to $3,000 for damage repairs and $5,000 for security upgrades — is a step in the right direction, said Joe Giammanco, whose pizza shop was recently hit by criminals.
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