Last Night’s Top Chef Featured Sarsaparilla and Lots of Jokes About Being High The end is near. Not only for us, as a society, but also for this season of Top Chef. “Now we’re in the finals,” announces Joe, gravely.…
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10 Iconic Taiwanese Dishes and Where to Find Them in New York Post-civil war immigration from all corners of mainland China, a half-century of Japanese occupation, food-crazed night markets and indigenous island traditions conspired to make the cuisine of Taiwan…
The Most Inspiring Lines From Salt Bae’s ‘Sunday Routine’ Living meme and sexy seasoning sultan Salt Bae has been Instagrammed roughly 2 billion times, but until now, one question has always remained: Does he speak? The answer, apparently, is yes,…
Todd Snyder Knows There’s Never a Bad Time for Great Wine Todd Snyder launched his namesake menswear label in 2011 and has been on an upward trajectory ever since. (GQ recently called him “the most influential menswear designer of his…
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup Is Hot, Heady, and on the Rise in New York If you’re up on your Asian noodle soups, you know that New York has entered its niu rou mian phase. If not, and you require proof,…
Top Chef Is Going to Kentucky Next Season There are still four more episodes left for Top Chef: Colorado, but Bravo has already announced the location for the show’s next season. Top Chef’s 16th season will take place in the…
Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot Just Secured Million in Funding It’s not exactly HAL 9000 or Wall-E, but Flippy the robot does leave an impression, as it hauntingly scrapes burger patties off a flat-top grill. It has apparently left an impression…
Chipotle Announces Taco Bell’s CEO Will Run the Company Here’s an interesting development in the world of mass-market Tex-Mex-ish eating: Taco Bell CEO Brian “Foodie Experiences” Niccol will take over as CEO of burrito-war adversary Chipotle. Niccol replaces company founder…
Lower East Side Food Notes: Two Stars For Hwa Yuan, Teen Chef’s LES Debut, Bar Belly Relaunches Bar Belly has relaunched on Orchard Street. Here’s what’s happening on the Lower East Side food scene: –Just in time for Chinese New…
Slice, Everyone’s Sixth-Favorite Soda From the ’90s, Is Back — Sort Of You remember Slice, right? Maybe? The erstwhile fruit-flavored soda line is the latest addition to the slew of throwback soft drinks (Surge, Clearly Canadian, Crystal Pepsi) that have lately…
Applebee’s That Racially Profiled Customers Will Close for a Bit to ‘Regroup’ Applebee’s is temporarily shutting down a Missouri location after staff harangued two totally innocent black customers who a server claimed had dined and dashed the night before. Alexis…
New York Baking Destination NY Cake Will Close at Its Current Location More than anywhere else in the city, NY Cake is the baking store in New York — a store from a bygone era before online retail, when wonderful…