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Rob Patronite

  1. What to Eat
    Here’s a First Look at Upland’s Dinner DownstairsJustin Smillie’s dining series launches Tuesday with pasta al forno and slow-cooked lamb shoulder.
  2. The Underground Gourmet Quick Bite
    Italian Sandwich Mecca Alidoro Serves Its First Hot Hero One of New York’s most iconic, despotic shops breaks its own biggest rule.

  3. What to Eat
    What to Eat at Momofuku Nishi, Dave Chang’s New ‘Noodle Joint’It’s Italian without being Italian, Noodle Bar without being Noodle Bar, and somehow familiar while still seeming new.
  4. The Dish
    How Llama Inn Reinvented the Peruvian Favorite Lomo SaltadoThe venerable recipe has undergone a playful transformation at the Williamsburg restaurant, where chef Erik Ramirez reinterprets it as a sort of Peruvian fajitas.
  5. Lists
    The 15 Best Sandwiches of 2015This past year was (almost) all about porchetta, eggs on rolls, and porchetta-and-eggs on rolls.
  6. Gift Guide 2015
    18 Cookbooks for Every Appetite on Your Gift ListVeggies from April Bloomfield, Alex Stupak’s tacos, Dale Talde on sausage-egg-and-cheese fried rice, and more.
  7. Openings
    Taavo Somer and Carlos Quirarte Open Le Turtle With a Chef From Blanca and aThe modern French menu features vegetables prominently, along with heartier options like grilled wagyu and braised oxtail. Bread comes from Roberta’s.
  8. Openings
    High Street on Hudson Opens Next WeekChef Eli Kulp expects the new spinoff of the Philly original to establish its own identity.
  9. The Dish
    The Dish: Brooklyn Bread Lab’s Panettone“I definitely white-trashed it up a little bit and put chocolate in it — that good old hit-you-over-the-head kind of flavor idea.”
  10. Pop Ups
    Get Ready for Chocolate-Spiked Bone BrothNick Morgenstern and Marco Canora will unleash their new creation next week.
  11. Underground Gourmet Review
    Bunk and Southside Coffee Enter New York’s Sandwich PantheonBunk is all about the glory that is the sandwich.
  12. Pop-Ups
    Inside Brooklyn Bread Lab, the Pop-up Flour Mill and BakeryWhole-grain breads, pastries, and Roman-style pizza al taglio.
  13. The Dish
    Allow Back Forty West to Introduce You to the Fish RibChef Mike Laarhoven cures, smokes, and serves them not with barbecue sauce but a za’atar-spiked crème fraîche.
  14. Underground Gourmet Review
    Underground Gourmet Review: MapleThe problem with the new delivery start-up that claims David Chang as chief culinary officer, investor, and presumable spiritual adviser, is that it threatens to turn the normally peripatetic Underground Gourmet into a shut-in.
  15. Openings
    What to Eat at CombinaSalt-cod doughnuts, eggplant escabeche, and persimmon carpaccio.
  16. Truckin’
    An Excellent, Hard-to-Find Burger Truck Is Now Set Up in South WilliamsburgThe Hard Times Sundaes Truck is now set up at Brooklyn’s Pfizer building.
  17. The Dish
    No. 7 Veggie’s Broccoli Taco Is a Multitextured MarvelAn architecturally advanced creation inspired by none other than Taco Bell.
  18. Just Desserts
    5 Thanksgiving Pies That Break the Traditional MoldFor those who dare to break the holiday-dessert stranglehold, here are a new array of pies to finish your feast.
  19. What to Eat
    Sadelle’s Launches Dinner With Caviar, Candlelight, and Spicy FriedHold the bagels, bring on the blini.
  20. Spicy
    Beyond Sriracha: 6 Hot Sauces You’ll Want to Put on EverythingFrom squeezable harissa to a habanero-and-pineapple Hawaiian concoction.
  21. Seasoning
    5 Salts for Every Type of Home ChefA long way from Diamond Crystal.
  22. The Desert Island Gourmet
    6 Discerning Eaters Pick Their Desert-Island FoodsAlex Stupak’s chile pepper, David Chang’s MSG, and more items that pros can’t live without.
  23. Collaborations
    The Ultimate Ice Cream PieThree pints of Nonna D’s ice cream meets one Salty Honey pie on equally delicious terms.
  24. Home Cooking
    50 Pantry Essentials for the Modern GourmetAn all-inclusive, chef-inspired, food-trend-monitoring shopping list, from achaar to za’atar.
  25. The Dish
    A Raclette-Stuffed, Bacon-Topped Baked PotatoLike the entire USDA food pyramid on a plate.
  26. Guides
    Parsing the Newest Trends in New York PizzaIt’s not just about New York versus Neapolitan anymore.
  27. Coming Soon
    A Murray’s Cheese Vet Will Open a Gourmet Grocery in BushwickPrepare for Cabot Clothbound cheddar and country-ham bánh mì at Foster Sundry.
  28. Sweets
    5 Ways to Reinvigorate the Stale Old Black-and-White CookieThere’s ice cream, snickerdoodles, and black vegetable ash involved.
  29. Carbo-Load
    Check Out Sara Jenkins’s Marathon Weekend Prix-fixe Pastavore MenuYou don’t have to be willing to run 26.2 miles in short shorts to get it.
  30. The Dish
    The Dish: Orange Tart Made Out of ApplesMaury Rubin gets back to his “strictly French” roots, with pastries like this Orange Tart Made Out of Apples.
  31. openings
    First Look at Brazilian-Inspired Cozinha Latina, Opening Next Week in GreenpointCaipirinhas all around.
  32. Openings
    First Look at Tacombi Bleecker Street and Its PanuchosThe taqueria opens this weekend.
  33. Openings
    Paris Comes to Brooklyn in the Form of New Bushwick Bistro Le GarageIt’s a collaboration between veteran chef-restaurateur Catherine Allswang and her interior-designer daughter Rachel.
  34. The Dish
    Introducing Superiority Burger’s New Vegan Cold Pizza SaladBrooks Headley has managed to conjure a slice of pizza in the form of a juicy, crunchy, “cheesy” vegan side.
  35. Underground Gourmet Review
    The Tuscan Gun Takes a Low-Key Approach to Celebrity ChefdomGuy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar this is not.
  36. Coming Soon
    Taïm’s Einat Admony to Open Spanish-Israeli Combina in SohoIf you’ve never had a salt-cod doughnut before, now’s your chance.
  37. Moving
    Brooklyn’s Best Burger Truck Is Moving On Up and Rolling Out BreakfastHard Times Sundaes has found a new parking spot.
  38. What to Eat
    Sadelle’s Is Now Serving LunchGet ready to try an inverted-bagel tuna melt.
  39. Urban Forager
    Mast Brothers’ New Shake Shack Chocolate Bar Comes Out This WeekPlus, From the Ground Brewery brings ultra-locavore beer to the Greenmarket.
  40. What to Eat
    Here Are (Almost) All of Sadelle’s PastriesThe babka is pretty amazing, but the chocolate-chip loaf may turn out to be the sleeper hit.
  41. The Dish
    How Mulino a Vino Puts an Avant-Garde Spin on Spaghettoni al PomodoroPasta + Pomodoro² is a pasta-stuffed tomato that comes on a crisp Grana Padano frico slicked with basil purée.
  42. Trendlet
    New Flames: Why Cooking With Wood Is the Hottest Trend in TownFrom Salvation Burger to Jams, it looks like just about every chef in town is going to be cooking in, over, or around a roaring wood fire this fall.
  43. The Underground Gourmet Quick Bite
    Gui Lin Mi Fen Brings a Seldom-Seen Rice-Noodle Soup to Queens’ ChinatownThe bone broth is served on the side.
  44. Coming Soon
    How Sadelle’s Baker, Melissa Weller, Plans to Revive the Bagel“Melissa is to bagel baking as the Neapolitan Pizza consortium is to pizza making,” says Mario Carbone.
  45. Fall Preview 2015
    44 of Fall’s Most-Anticipated Restaurant OpeningsNew spots from David Chang, Dan Kluger, Carla Hall, and more.
  46. Fall Preview 2015
    Lilia Will Explore Italy’s Lighter Side This SeptemberMissy Robbins and the Smile’s Matt Kliegman plan to focus on fish and vegetables at their upcoming Williamsburg restaurant.
  47. Fall Preview 2015
    Online Bakery Mah-Ze-Dahr Is Going Brick-and-Mortar This FallWharton MBA Umber Ahmad has built a national reputation on the strength of perfectly textured brownies, brioche doughnuts, and a version of magic bars drenched in salted-caramel sauce.
  48. Fall Preview 2015
    This Will Be the Year of the BagelSadelle’s, Black Seed, and others revive the dying art of Jewish appetizing.
  49. Fall Preview 2015
    Dan Kluger’s Post–ABC Kitchen ProjectThere will be lots of vegetables, plus grilled fish, wood-oven pizza, and maybe a whiff of Indian spice.
  50. Openings
    Jonathan Waxman’s ’80s-Era Jams Redux Will Open This WeekYes, there will be grilled chicken.
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