Category: Food & Restaurant
We Shouldn’t Have Taken Cozy Soup ’n’ Burger for Granted
Nobody would call Astor Place the center of New York City, but for the people who start their lives here as students at NYU, it…
Two Status Burgers Just Got (a Little) Easier to Order
There are good reasons no one puts burgers into time capsules. If they could, there’d be few foodstuffs that more accurately oozed the juices of…
Kareem Rahma Starts the Day With Dum-Dums
You may know Kareem Rahma from riding the subway, but he spent the past week in a lot of cars. He was chauffeured (for the…
Lonnies, From the Couple Behind Ingas Bar, Opens This Week
Sean Rembold and Caron Callahan, the married couple who run Ingas Bar in Brooklyn Heights, are very deliberate when they name things. Perhaps overly so:…
SNL’s Jeremy Culhane Is an Uncrustables Purist
In the first few weeks of Saturday Night Live season 51, featured player Jeremy Culhane walked around like he’d landed on an alien planet. Everything…
Kaiseki Lite
The durational work of art will always have its day. Jeanne Dielman. Lonesome Dove. Ponderously weighty, they bring their own gravity. The dining universe is…
New York Restaurants Live Forever — in Tokyo
In late 2024, Brooklyn lost Buttermilk Channel, the long-standing Cobble Hill brunch spot that, for the 16 years it sold house-fermented pickles and cheddar waffles,…
Sea & Soil’s Sliding Scale for Sandwiches
The Zip Code 11217 is among the most expensive, highest-earning pockets of New York City, and the stretch of Atlantic Avenue that runs through it…
The Roots’ Black Thought Judges a Sandwich by Its Bread
As a middle-schooler, the Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter was known as “The Pretzel Guy” because he’d spend first period selling hot soft pretzels that…
Where Our Restaurant Critic Ate When He Was a Kid
Three feet high is a privileged vantage from which to scope out a city’s food scene. In the New York of my childhood, restaurants were…