Photo: Michael Harlan Turkell In early 2022, wife-and-husband restaurateurs Caron Callahan and Sean Rembold opened Ingas Bar in a residential nook of Brooklyn Heights. Very…

Photo: Karissa Ong What is a “wine bar”? At this point, the term is, at best, up for debate and, at worst, totally arbitrary, essentially…

Photo: Dolly Faibyshev/Redux When the ferociously spicy Ugly Baby closed late last year, it drew crowds of people to Carroll Gardens desperate to burn their…

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

Photo: Jeenah Moon/The Washington Post/Getty Images The behind-the-scenes battle at Chinatown’s oldest restaurant looked, for a while, as though it might have settled down. But…

Photo: Hugo Yu Can a diner be 86’d in advance? That’s the interpretive riddle at the heart of the Eighty Six, the new tenant at…

Illustration: Ryan Inzana Much of Angela Flournoy’s second novel, The Wilderness, recently longlisted for the National Book Award, was written at Little Dom’s, a tiny,…

Photo: Tammie Teclemariam Since I first looked at the State of the Smoothie in New York in 2024, I’ve seen ever-more Erewhon dupes entering this…

Photo: Scott Eells/Bloomberg/Getty Images What’s the latest in the will-they-won’t-they world of global food tariffs? Last week, The Wall Street Journal sent fusilli freaks scrambling…

Photo: Courtesy Elbow Bread In this takeout-dependent town, there is nearly equal valor in showing up to a gathering with a pie from the latest…