11 Excellent Things to Eat, Drink, and Do in New York City This February Every month in New York, there are a bewildering number of new dishes to eat, drinks to imbibe, and food-themed events to attend. Often, the hardest…
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J. Kenji López-Alt Says He’ll Ban MAGA Hats at His California Restaurant Restaurants and Trump supporters haven’t exactly jibed over the last two years, so it comes as no surprise that a restaurateur finally banned patrons from wearing the “Make…
Ben Sinclair Likes His Bo Ssam Trippy Ben Sinclair plays America’s most famous weed delivery man on High Maintenance, the web series turned HBO show he co-created, which is currently in its third season. Narrated from the perspective of Sinclair’s…
Greenpoint Favorite Enid’s Will Close on March 31 Pour one out. Twenty-year-old Greenpoint bar Enid’s will close on March 31. The home of Meatloaf Monday announced the news on its Instagram, asking fans to come “celebrate with us these next…
Where to Celebrate the Lunar New Year in New York City Next Tuesday, February 5, marks the start of the Lunar New Year. (Xīn nián kuài lè!) And like all great holidays, this one is as much about the food…
Internet Convinced Gordon Ramsay Is a Furry Something’s coming… Gordon Ramsay (@GordonRamsay) January 31, 2019 There are really only two possibilities: Either Ramsay just got cast in an Animorphs movie, or, well… Did Gordon just come out as a furry?…
Teranga Takes a Fast-Casual Approach to Pan-African Cuisine Ever since the phrase “the Chipotle of” went from convenient prefix to industry category, the fast-casual model has been applied to cuisines from Lebanese to Vietnamese. But this irresistibly scalable model has…
What If You Could Sell Squash Like an iPhone? Yesterday afternoon in Red Hook, Christian Puglisi, who runs Relae in Copenhagen, was vigorously stirring elderflower vinegar and beet juice into oversized bowls of gently cooked egg yolks. He was in…
Denmark Wins the 2019 Bocuse D’Or Two years ago, the United States made fancy-food history by winning its first Bocuse d’Or in the competition’s 30-year history. This year’s biennial cooking competition, named for the late Paul Bocuse and arguably the…
America Is in the Middle of a Chicken Nugget Crisis Nuggets may not be an actual part of chickens’ anatomies, but that doesn’t make them any less near or dear to our hearts. So it is with great concern that…
The Absolute Best Matzo Ball Soup in New York Jewish penicillin. Golden broth. Ambrosia. Whatever you call it, a bowl of glistening chicken soup with matzo balls is Jewish comfort food par excellence. But not all soups are created equal.…
How Starbucks Made Its Baristas Hate Hamilton You have to look pretty hard to find someone who doesn’t like Hamilton, the Broadway smash that revolutionized musical theater and made Lin-Manuel Miranda an international superstar. That is probably why, for the…
At the Psychedelic New Mission Chinese Food, Get the Riblets “You might not want to be too stoned when you eat here,” one of the possibly already-quite-stoned guests at my table said as we attempted to orient ourselves in the…
Bakery’s ‘Build That Wall’ Cookies Go Over About As Well As You’d Expect Plenty of people fantasize about quitting their jobs to open a bakery, something personal and fun, where the misery of the real world can largely be forgotten…
RIP to Brian Bui, ‘the King of King Street’ Brian Bui’s laugh was infectious. “Bwah-ha-ha-hah!” That is what it sounded like, crinkling his cheeks and eyes, hidden behind Roy Orbison frames and a similarly ink-black side-part. The blowout laughter defined…