Restaurant Review
May 22, 2016
Mimi Is a Pint-Size Bistro With a Daring French Soul Chef Liz Johnson, 25, serves up odd little wonders at Mimi, a restaurant that has been hiding in plain sight ever since it opened a few months ago.
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May 19, 2016
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May 9, 2016
The Absolute Best Peking Duck in New York Where to find the most exceptional version of this Mandarin delicacy.
Restaurant Review
May 8, 2016
Le Coq Rico Takes Its Poultry Almost Too Seriously At Antoine Westermann’s civilized new Flatiron District bistro, the topic is chickens.
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Apr. 10, 2016
Restaurant Review
Mar. 27, 2016
High Street on Hudson Excels at Just About Everything From breakfast sandwiches that look like they’ve been assembled by trained forager cooks to the high-minded barnyard fare on the dinner menu.
Restaurant Review
Mar. 13, 2016
Restaurant Review: Momofuku Nishi The chef describes Nishi as a mash-up involving Asian and Italian cuisines, but some experiments make you wonder why anyone would dare tinker with these classics.
The Ridiculous Rise of Viral Food and the Great Line Apocalypse “These days, you can’t walk five blocks in Manhattan without stumbling onto a rabble of poor deluded souls, desperate to try some new foodstuff they read about … “
Restaurant Review
Jan. 31, 2016
Restaurant Review: La Chine Chef Kong Khai Meng’s kind of elaborately sourced, “Pan Chinese” hotel cooking is a fairly recent development in the long history of Chinese cuisine
Restaurant Review
Jan. 18, 2016
Michael White’s Vaucluse Is Just What the Upper East Side Wanted With its nostalgic menu, its posh location, and its built-in clientele, it feels like a more permanent addition to the Altamarea Group portfolio.
Restaurant Review
Jan. 5, 2016
Restaurant Review: Sadelle’s The feeling you get here, especially at dinnertime, is that Major Food Group is running out of good ideas.
Where to Eat
Dec. 31, 2015
11 Dining Trends We’re Tired Of Smoke, hipster food halls, matcha powder, and more.
Where to Eat
Dec. 30, 2015
The Best New Chefs of 2015 Adam Platt on the most promising chefs of 2015, including Superiority Burger’s Brooks Headley, Mission Chinese Food’s Angela Dimayuga, and more.
Where to Eat
Dec. 29, 2015
The Best New Restaurants of 2015 Adam Platt on the most promising restaurants to open in 2015, including Santina, Untitled, Wildair, and more.
where to eat
Dec. 27, 2015
Adam Platt’s Where to Eat 2016 Your game plan for dining (and drinking) exceptionally well, starting tonight.
Restaurant Review
Nov. 11, 2015
Restaurant Review: L’Amico and Jams Laurent Tourondel brings casual Italian cooking to the Eventi Hotel and Jonathan Waxman revives his famous ’80s-era uptown restaurant in the 1 Hotel.
Restaurant Review
Oct. 25, 2015
At Gabriel Kreuther’s New Midtown Home, the Bar Outshines the Dining Room The lounge is one of the best new restaurants in the neighborhood, while the main room offers its own set of slightly more mannered pleasures.
Adam Platt on Danny Meyer’s Huge Tipping Announcement “I’m on the record as being anti-tip. The whole custom is absurd, and there’s really nothing that’s voluntary about it.”
Restaurant Review
Oct. 11, 2015
Restaurant Review: Bruno Pizza Along with some very tasty food.
Adam Platt on the Best New Breakfasts in New York Right Now Morning meals that are as deliciously eclectic as anything you’ll find at lunch or dinner.
The Next Generation
Sept. 27, 2015
A Kid Critic Weighs In on Teen Chef Flynn McGarry Adam Platt and his daughter visit the 16-year-old’s new Manhattan tasting room.
The New, Scruffy Wine Bars Are Some of the Best Restaurants in New York Adam Platt checks out a collection of spots that are rethinking the ancient wine-bar template.
Restaurant Review
Sept. 13, 2015
Restaurant Review: O Ya Sushi maestros Tim and Nancy Cushman clearly belong to the school of experimental fusion masters who dominated at the turn of the millennium.
Restaurant Review
Aug. 23, 2015
Restaurant Review: Babu Ji and Dirt Candy “You’d better give this place three stars,” cried Mrs. Platt in between bites of tandoori-charred rainbow trout and lustrous butter chicken.
Restaurant Review
Aug. 2, 2015
At Lupulo, the Portuguese-Inspired Cooking Is Almost Too Good for the Setting It’s ambitious food like this that makes you wish George Mendes had decided to open a slightly less expedient casual restaurant.
Cheap Eats 2015
July 16, 2015
The Best $25-and-Under Feasts at New York’s Newest Food Courts Budget eating at City Kitchen, Hudson Eats, Vendy Plaza, and more.
Adam Platt Ranks 6 of Our Favorite New Tasting Menus Over the last several months, newly refurbished tasting ateliers, discreet dining bars, and elaborately conceived chef’s menus have been popping up with such frequency that it’s hard to keep track of them all.
Restaurant Review
June 21, 2015
With Untitled, Danny Meyer Brings Simple Seasonal Cooking to the New Whitney The new restaurant will do fine, with an abbreviated menu that packs a considerable punch.
Platt: How Paris Became the Perfect Antidote to New York Bloat ‘New York’ Magazine’s restaurant critic on why both cities’ strengths and weaknesses dovetail, these days, in a complementary way.
Restaurant Review
May 25, 2015
Restaurant Review: Noreetuh and Oiji Fusion on First Avenue, at Noreetuh and Oiji.
Restaurant Review
May 10, 2015
Platt Remembers Ozersky: A True Grub Street Intellectual “He was the closest thing to a real Liebling-esque figure in this increasingly gaseous world of food writing that we have.”
Restaurant Review
Apr. 26, 2015
Restaurant Review: Platt on Santina Two stars for Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi’s latest high-concept restaurant.
Restaurant Review
Apr. 12, 2015
Restaurant Review: 3 Stars for Momofuku Ko Three stars for David Chang’s rebooted tasting counter.
Restaurant Review
Mar. 29, 2015
Restaurant Review: One Star for the Polo Bar The professionally executed, middle-of-the-road menu could be an awful lot worse.
Restaurant Review
Mar. 15, 2015
Review: 3 Stars for Mission Chinese Food The chef’s real genius is for creating a grand sense of occasion, and his restaurant finally gives him the space to do just that.
In Praise of the Deli
Mar. 5, 2015
A Trip to David’s Brisket House, the Jewish Deli That’s Run by There’s an elaborate backstory behind every venerated deli in New York, but the story behind David’s Brisket House is more elaborate and convoluted than most.
This Is Almost Certainly the World’s Best Bloody Mary There’s no pepper, no garnish of lemon or celery, and — heaven forbid — no horseradish clogging things up, either.
One Afternoon and Two Lunches With Former White House Chef Sam Kass He’s a new Brooklynite after six eventful years as, among other things, the Obamas’ gardener, craft brewer, and private chef.
My Woozy, Primal Meal at Tokyo’s Transient Culinary Wonderland New York ’s restaurant critic grabs a seat at chef René Redzepi’s breathtaking “restaurant internship.”
Restaurant Review
Feb. 1, 2015
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Jan. 18, 2015
Restaurant Review
Jan. 11, 2015
Restaurant Review: Shuko’s Omakase Surprises and Delights No expense has been spared to track down the kind of trophy items that sushi snobs covet.
Restaurant Review
Nov. 16, 2014
The Tipping Economy
Nov. 4, 2014
Is It Time to Topple Tipping? Adam Platt Tries (and Fails) to Go Gratuity-Free I decided to conduct a rash experiment: I would try to dispense cash based on merit rather than out of obligation.
Restaurant Review
Oct. 26, 2014
Restaurant Review: Marta Even if the space isn’t much to look at.
Institutions
Oct. 21, 2014
Above the Fray: How Restaurants Become Impervious to Criticism To be above a certain threshold is to enter a kind of realm of immortality and myth, immune to the random quibbles of everyday life.
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