A highbrow-lowbrow stunt right out of Jeff Koons, it’s the star dish at one of the year’s most inventive restaurants. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Chefs”
Alain Sailhac, a Celebrity Chef Who Never Sought the Title, Dies at 86
By Gotham Rex on December 10, 2022
The mild-mannered, French-born chef cooked for presidents and stars at Le Cirque in New York and earned an early four-star rating at Le Cygne. Source: New York Times
Highlights From The New York Times Food Festival
By Gotham Rex on October 14, 2022
Some of the sharpest minds in food shared their insights on how American dining and cooking have evolved. Source: New York Times
T-Bar Opens With Elegant Fare in an Upper East Side Townhouse
By Gotham Rex on October 11, 2022
The latest in a restaurateur’s growing Prospect-Lefferts Gardens collection, a Brooklyn bar from the Grand Banks team, and more restaurant news. Source: New York Times
Colin Alevras, Inventive New York Chef and Restaurateur, Dies at 51
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2022
He popularized a farmers’ market cuisine at his and his wife’s tiny, quirky and acclaimed East Village establishment called the Tasting Room. Source: New York Times
How Kwame Onwuachi, Celebrity Chef, Spends His Sundays
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2022
The recent Los Angeles transplant is opening a restaurant at Lincoln Center. But he still finds time to “vibe out.” Source: New York Times
How, Nozomu Abe, Sushi Chef, Spends His Sundays
By Gotham Rex on July 29, 2022
After a morning swim, Nozomu Abe starts menu planning and negotiating with his fish broker. Source: New York Times
Restaurant Review: Rolo’s in Ridgewood, Queens
By Gotham Rex on April 19, 2022
Three chefs in the savory kitchen and a pastry chef with a knack for focaccia bring remarkable range to a new Ridgewood restaurant. Source: New York Times
Restaurant Review: Mena in TriBeCa
By Gotham Rex on April 5, 2022
The former chef of Chumley’s wasn’t put on this earth to cook bar food, as she proves with her striking new place in TriBeCa. Source: New York Times
At Di Fara Pizza, Domenico DeMarco Defined the New York Slice
By Gotham Rex on March 17, 2022
Domenico DeMarco, who founded Di Fara Pizza in 1965, has died. He was a link between the cooking of Southern Italy and the city’s corner-slice culture. Source: New York Times
Restaurant Review: Musket Room in NoLIta
By Gotham Rex on March 8, 2022
A changing of the guard at Musket Room, in NoLIta, brings border-hopping dishes that are worth putting on pants for. Source: New York Times
A Korean Tasting Menu With Verve and Polish, at Jua
By Gotham Rex on January 3, 2022
Hoyoung Kim joins a number of Manhattan chefs serving a modern, worldly vision of the cuisine. Source: New York Times
Batali & Bastianich to Pay $600,000 Settlement in Sexual Harassment Case
By Gotham Rex on July 23, 2021
An investigation by the New York State attorney general describes a culture of widespread sexual harassment and retaliation at the Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. Source: New York Times
A Good Choice for Diners Who Don’t Need Choices
By Gotham Rex on May 17, 2021
At Fradei in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the menu doesn’t appear until it’s no longer being served. Source: New York Times
Rosemary’s Takes Its Italian Specialties to Stuyvesant Town
By Gotham Rex on May 4, 2021
Bâtard reopens; an all-star roster comes to a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, apartment tower; and more restaurant news. Source: New York Times