Category: Food & Restaurant
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…
Cafe Gitane Was ‘a Vanguard of Cool.’ Now Employees Say They Can’t Get Paid
Photo: Yadid Levy/Anzenberger/Redux In its 1990s heyday, Cafe Gitane was an impossibly hip place where it wasn’t uncommon to run into David Bowie or Helena…
Tony Shalhoub Takes It Easy on the Croissants
Illustration: Maanvi Kapur For an actor with a new CNN docuseries called Breaking Bread, Tony Shalhoub’s typical routine involves shockingly few carbs. (He’s also an…
A Spot That Should Be Hotter
Photo: Hugo Yu “You have to help me understand,” a friend emailed recently. We’d run into each other at Dolores, the Bed-Stuy taqueria that routinely…