TWO SAVORY NEW UWS RESTAURANTS GET ECSTATIC REVIEWS Reviewers drooled all over two Upper West Side restaurants last week, using descriptions like “rapturous,” and “a species of heroin.”
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People Are Now Using Coke As a Self-tanner Instead of Drinking It Coke: It’s gotta be good for something, right? With so many bottles nowadays gathering dust on supermarket shelves, it seems like a good time to test out some…
Starbucks Baristas in Trouble for Putting ‘Build a Wall’ on Trump Supporter’s Cup A North Carolina woman says baristas at a Starbucks in Charlotte made fun of her for ordering coffee while wearing a Donald Trump campaign T-shirt. According to…
Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for .7 Billion Amazon announced today that it will buy Whole Foods. The online retail giant declared that it would acquire the company for $42 a share, or a total of $13.7 billion, in an…
Novelist Emma Straub Treats Doughnuts Like Appetizers Only six weeks have passed since Emma Straub — the author of Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and Other People We Married — opened Books Are Magic, an independent…
Ikea’s Smart, New Recipes Double As the Pouch You Cook In Everybody’s favorite Nordic home-furnishings emporium has come up with a brilliant and very Ikea-y way to lure skittish cooks into their kitchens. The company’s Canadian arm has debuted a…
French Fries Linked to Higher Risk of Death, Still Being Goddamn Delicious People have known since forever that French fries aren’t good for you, but a new study has linked eating them with a particularly un-fun consequence: an increased risk…
7 Percent of American Adults Believe Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows Sometimes, even in these dark days, you feel a momentary twinkle of optimism. Then you find out that 7 percent of fully grown Americans believe that chocolate milk…
Transgender Worker Claims McDonald’s Banned Her From Both Bathrooms An ex-employee is suing McDonald’s for sexual harassment and discrimination, claiming that she got mocked and groped by co-workers and barred from using both of the restrooms because she’s transgender. According…
A New Citrus-Coffee Soda Is a Surprisingly Great Summer Alternative to Cold Brew There are some universal markers of summer. Comic-book movies. Grilling accidents. The start of iced-coffee season. As you no doubt know, cold brew has taken over the…
Famed Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Finally Honored With His Own Beer Neil deGrasse Tyson can’t complain about his week. The beloved astrophysicist became the first American to win the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication on Tuesday, and now comes…
Feast Your Eyes on This Enviable Elizabethan-Inspired Banquet This year’s Vulture Festival attendees got a little taste of Shakespeare. To celebrate the upcoming premiere of Will, TNT’s new drama following the raucous life of a young Bard, guests feasted on…
This Is What a ‘Florida Noir’-Themed Brunch Looks Like TNT’s latest dark comedy Claws premieres June 11 at 9 p.m., and to celebrate, the network threw a pretty insane brunch at this year’s Vulture Festival. The show revolves around a…
This Failed Dunkin’ Donuts Robbery Is Very Boston Quick PSA for anyone considering a doughnut-shop robbery: If you’re dead-set on this life decision, don’t do it in Boston at a Dunkin’ Donuts where there’s an on-duty police officer inside ordering…
Grub Street’s Restaurant Power Rankings: Emily, aRoqa, E.A.K., and More Welcome to Grub Street’s weekly survey of the most-talked-about, must-visit restaurants in New York City. The list below features spots both new and old ranked according to one important, ever-fluctuating…