Menu Changes
Apr. 11, 2014
Platt Chat: Multi-Starred Restaurants and the Post-Gourmet Era of Dining How should star designations play out when every new restaurant has two-star ambitions?
Foodievents
Apr. 10, 2014
Frieze Art Fair 2014 Restaurant Partners Include Roberta’s, Mission Danny Bowien’s burritos, a beer garden from Prime Meats, and tons more at the Randall’s Island art event.
Greenmarket Ramps Are Here Hype-backlash aside, this is a very welcome sign.
Coming Soon
Apr. 10, 2014
Watch a Highlight Reel From Last Night’s Incredible wd~50 Tribute Dinner The world’s most amazing surprise dinner gets an instant video highlight reel.
Temporary Closings
Apr. 9, 2014
Why Is Paulaner Brauhaus Closed? The beer hall cited the ever-popular “refurbishments,” even though it’s been open for just five months.
World’s Chefs Honor wd~50 With Instantly Legendary Surprise Dinner Thirty chefs from around the world worked together to throw a secret anniversary party for Wylie Dufresne.
Hardcore Coddling: How Eleven Madison Park Modernized Elite, Old-School Service Eleven Madison Park’s every-last-detail style of service is a throwback to a more civilized style of dining.
The Feeding Tube
Apr. 8, 2014
Top Chef Extreme Got a New, Far Less Extreme TitleIt will be called Top Chef Duels . Bravo also adds a show called Best New Restaurant to the slate.
The Other Critics
Apr. 8, 2014
Health Concerns
Apr. 8, 2014
Inspection Issues: NYC Chefs on the Realities of Dealing With the DOH Some of New York’s most prominent chefs discuss what they think could be done to help restaurants and diners better understand the Department’s sometimes-arcane rules.
Fergus Henderson Awarded World’s 50 Best Lifetime Achievement Award The most surprising part of the announcement is that the St. John chef hasn’t won yet.
Quote of the Day
Apr. 7, 2014
So Vidalia Onions Are Sort of Like Ramps? People care more about Vidalia onions than you might think.
The Comeback: Dominique Ansel Bakery Reopens Tomorrow at 8 a.m. With After a DOH closure, the bakery reopens Tuesday morning at 8.am. with ‘Rocky’-themed pastries.
Health Concerns
Apr. 7, 2014
DOH Speaks Out on Dominique Ansel Closing [Updated] “What made the infestation severe was that the health inspector found several hundred mouse droppings.”
Hollywood Big Shots
Apr. 7, 2014
Nigella Lawson’s Pals Blame Ex-Husband for U.S. Entry Ban One friend tells a British tabloid that Charles Saatchi is still out to get the celebrity chef.
City’s Most Renowned Restaurant Not Actually a Filthy Rat Hole After a subpar health inspection, Per Se emerges from an administrative tribunal with many of its violations overturned.
Temporary Closings
Apr. 4, 2014
DOH Closes Dominique Ansel Bakery, Ansel Aims to Reopen Monday It started after a customer posted video to YouTube of a mouse running in the bakery.
Platt Chat: Empire Building and the Necessity of Restaurant-World Stars New York ’s critic discusses Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Michael White, and the Torrisi team.
The Fame Game
Apr. 2, 2014
How Dedicated Cooks Became the New Celebrity Chefs Like Ed Hardy clothes and songs featuring Ja Rule, the conventional idea of a celebrity chef feels desperately outdated.
Platt Chat: Ego-Driven Chefs and the Constant Search for New Experiences New York ’s Adam Platt and Alan Sytsma discuss the fascination with restaurants where chefs run the show, regardless of what diners might want.
What to Eat
Mar. 10, 2014
Aska Closes March 19, Will Move to New Location Chef Fredrik Berselius will likely open a new restaurant in Williamsburg.
Watch Jon Stewart Lay Into Supporters of Food-Stamp Cuts “What’s the right mixture of quality and class-based shame poor people should aim for in their meal planning?”
Paula Deen Compares Herself to Michael Sam; World Reacts Accordingly Could Paula Deen possibly compare herself to the openly gay football player without knowing exactly how people will react?
Watch a Quartet of Super Chefs (and a DJ) Battle in a Nacho Cookoff Can Alex Stupak defeat Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony, Seamus Mullen, and a food-loving DJ?
Raspberry Swirls
Feb. 21, 2014
Junior’s Cheesecake and the Enduring Appeal of Mediocre Food It turns out that something appealingly unexceptional can provide a great deal of pleasure.
Venti Leaks
Feb. 21, 2014
Cold Hard Cash
Feb. 12, 2014
Paula Deen’s New Company Just Got $100 Million in Funding Paual Deen Ventures teams up with the same company that brings us SkyMall and the Phoenix Suns.
Here’s the Restaurant Owner Who Won’t Serve ‘Gays’ and Gary James is about to become your new least favorite person.
McDonald’s Reveals How It Makes McNuggets — And You Won’t There’s no pink slime, but it’s pretty much all beige slime.
Marco’s Will Reopen Tomorrow They fixed the pipe troubles that closed the restaurant last week.
Temporary Closings
Jan. 27, 2014
Dinner and a Show
Jan. 20, 2014
Here’s What Everyone Is Eating at ‘Queen of the Night’ Basically imagine incredibly theatrical versions of all your favorite foods.
This Again?
Jan. 14, 2014
Turns Out Kids Are Still Capable of Ruining Meals at Nice Restaurants Grant Achatz sets off yet another round of the kids-in-restaurants debate, even though there is really nothing left to debate.
The Feeding Tube
Jan. 13, 2014
Speedy Romeo’s Co-Owner on His Restaurant’s Role in Girls What happens when HBO decides your shop is the perfect place for character growth.
Grocery Grudge Match
Dec. 17, 2013
Whole Foods Brooklyn vs. Eataly Chicago: Which New Megamart Is the Most Mega? When two giant grocery stores open at the same time, the only thing to do is decide which one is best.
Time to Make the Cronuts
Dec. 16, 2013
What Dominique Ansel’s (Extremely, Absurdly) Early Mornings Look Like “The best time in a city is when everyone’s asleep. You have the whole city to yourself.”
Dec. 13, 2013
7. Because We Suffer for the Cronut Dominique Ansel—pastry chef and baker, inventor of the Cronut™—rolls out of bed a little before 4 a.m., and by 5:40, later than usual, he’s off, […]
Start Getting Scared… Immediately
Dec. 12, 2013
Grub Street’s Guide to Coping With Your New Sriracha-Starved Existence Grub Street has spent years assembling a worst-case-scenario, six-step sriracha-shortage preparedness plan. If we all make it out of this alive, you can thank us later.
The Grub Street Diet
Dec. 6, 2013
Bird Is the Word
Dec. 6, 2013
The Bird Boom: Luxury Chicken Conquers New York The newest chicken dishes at New York restaurants are grand birds competing for prime menu space with steaks and other large-format dishes.
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