Category: Food & Restaurant
Tom Colicchio Won’t Travel for a Bagel
Illustration: Margalit Cutler Tom Colicchio is in the midst of celebrating some important milestones: His seminal cookbook, Think Like a Chef, just turned 25, and…
Can 12 Perfect Burgers Still Draw a Huge Crowd?
Photo: Mike Bagale Over the summer, the chef Mike Bagale introduced a new burger at the 19-month-old Sip & Guzzle, and he was clear with…
A City of Swankstaurants
Photo: Landon Nordeman The pendulum swings from cheap to swank and back again. I’ll leave it to the economists to tie the trend to jobs…
Lucien Smith’s Food Is Already Messy
Photo: Colin Clark/The New York Times/Redux The artist Lucien Smith has said that his new Canal Street restaurant, Food, is a sort of revitalization of…
What Does Gabrielle Hamilton Have Left to Tell Us?
Photo: Jennifer S. Altman/The Washington Post/Getty Images Gabrielle Hamilton has given me a number of things — before Prune, a signal New York City restaurant…
The War at Zabar’s
Photo: New York Magazine Editor’s note: Saul Zabar, the elder of the brothers who built Zabar’s from a local Upper West Side grocery shop into…
Chef Alexia Duchêne Can Only Wait So Long for Matcha
Illustration: Ryan Inzana After moving here two years ago from her native France, Alexia Duchêne hasn’t had to venture far from La Chêne, the old-school,…
What Is Zabar’s Without Saul?
Photo: Michael Gold/Getty Images On more than one occasion, I had heard people mistakenly refer to Saul Zabar as the founder of his family’s famous…
Le Creuset Is Cheugy
Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos Getty Images When my friend Chris finished college, he asked his parents for a Le Creuset Dutch oven as a graduation…
Pietro’s Is Open Again
Photo: Pietro’s All it took was two phone calls, and “everyone” knew that Pietro’s, the 93-year-old Midtown East institution, was back in business. “You tell…