Category: Food & Restaurant
Donohue’s Steak House Will Close in June
Yet another old-school New York dining icon is leaving us, and this departure is particularly wrenching. It’s Donohue’s Steak House, the railroad-car-size Upper East Side…
Is Goop Good?
On Monday, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Kitchen opened the first of seven planned New York locations. True to its name, the 245 West 46th Street branch…
The After-School Special
At 3:30 p.m. on a recent Monday, inside the Starbucks on the corner of 66th and Amsterdam, backpacks and instrument cases were strewn across every…
A Longtime Long Island Bar Server Is Taking Over a Red-Sauce Staple
Fans of Sam’s, the pizzeria that has been around since 1930, have long viewed the restaurant as a ticking clock. Louis Migliaccio, the beloved curmudgeon…
Chef Hillary Sterling Wants Her Peter Luger Burger Delivered
“I’ve always loved extreme things,” says Hillary Sterling, executive chef of the “Italian-inflected” restaurant Ci Siamo in the newly minted neighborhood of Manhattan West. “I…
Confidant Is a Neighborhood Joint That’s Found Its Neighbors
If at first you don’t succeed, location, location, location.” Isn’t that how it goes? Confidant, a gamely ambitious restaurant, opened last spring in Industry City…
Marcel Moves Into the Breuer
When Robin and Stephen Alesch decided to include a restaurant in their plans for Roman and Williams Guild, the Soho retail wing of their design…
Cleo Highlights Lebanese Flavors and West Village Vibes
When Halley Chambers and Kip Gleize saw a small storefront on the corner of Hudson and Jane Streets, they knew it was the right place…
After I Posted a Video of Garlic Bread, TikTok Took Over
For the past few years, I’ve celebrated my birthdays with my Parisian friend Jeanne, whose annual work conference brings her to town every March. The…
Patrick Radden Keefe Wants His House to Smell Like Bolognese
Patrick Radden Keefe’s journalism has taken him into the unscrupulous world of big pharma, back in time to the land of the Troubles in Northern…









