Category: Food & Restaurant
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…
L.A.’s Maru Coffee Will Open in Williamsburg Next Week
Photo: Maru Coffee When any Los Angeles establishment plants its flag in New York, I let the West Coast diaspora go first so they can…
Kyp Malone Wants His Servers to Have a Good Time
Illustration: Adam Mazur Before making his home in Williamsburg and later the East Village, Kyp Malone, an artist and musician best known as a guitarist…
Step Into the Brewtique
Illustration: Kate Dehler For years, Astor Place was the corner of Starbucks and Starbucks. Two outposts were located a few hundred feet apart, both thriving…
He’s Opening a Gourmet Grocer in Tribeca. Maybe You’ve Heard?
Photo: brokebackcontessa Tribeca’s newest gourmet grocer, Meadow Lane, has everything one of its neighbors might desire: Dog treats made from dehydrated bone broth. Hanger-steak breakfast…
A24’s First Restaurant Is an Art-House Supper Club
Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux The other week, chefs and longtime business partners Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr were sitting in a plush green…
Her Soul-Food Restaurant Opened 11 Years Ago. The Lines Arrived This Summer.
Photo: Katie O When Katie Owes opened her Brooklyn soul-food restaurant in 2014, “Tik Tok” was still just a Kesha song and her customers consisted…
Zoe Dubno Enters a Fugue State When Eating Sauerkraut Soup
Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne At the center of Zoe Dubno’s novel Happiness and Love is the New York literary scene — a scene that she, having grown…