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The Arab Food Dynasties of New York

The city’s Middle Eastern food scene started with a handful of families cooking from memory along the same few streets. The earliest communities began downtown…

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When Eating Out Is Political

In the 2010s, Israeli chefs — some who made their name in the U.S., some famous–in–Tel Aviv restaurateurs — started racking up wins in New…

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The Chainlets Have Never Been Better

Ours is a town that supports its small businesses, especially those happy establishments that are able to replicate across the five boroughs (and occasionally over…

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A New Destination for Barbecue

The smell hits you halfway down the block, right around the custom-bra fitter the Rack Shack: fat, smoke, sweet. Bark is dead ahead, a new…

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How Bourdain Became the New Elvis

Midway through Tony, the new film about Anthony Bourdain, the title character, played with brash naïveté by Dominic Sessa, leaps off a pier in Provincetown,…

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Where to Eat in August

Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots our…

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Lucie Franc de Ferriere Drinks Hot Lattes During a Heat Wave

Lucie Franc de Ferriere says she grew up “surrounded by cake.” Her family’s chateau, just outside Bordeaux, France, was also a winery, tearoom, and bed-and-breakfast,…

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Is the Polo Bar Really Moving?

Spend enough time around chefs and restaurateurs and you will quickly find the main topic of any conversation tends not to be the state of…

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Mexico City’s El Califa de León Arrives in New York

Even people who aren’t familiar with Mexico City’s food scene likely know about El Califa de León, owing to the 60-year-old institution’s reputation as the…

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Pizza Studio Tamaki’s Pies Look Great. Do They Taste Great?

The Manhattan Pizza Wars of a decade or so ago are mostly over — they’re the stuff of bardic legend now. Anthony Mangieri of Una…

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