Category: Food & Restaurant
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…
Chef Hasung Lee Is Going Full French Laundry at Oyatte
To millions of Netflix viewers around the world, Hasung Lee is better known as the Culinary Monster. That was the burly 37-year-old’s nom de guerre…
10 Rules for Eating With Kids
Nobody’s telling you how to parent, but these guidelines — gleaned from conversations with restaurant workers all over town — will optimize your family’s experience…
Jacques Pépin Makes the Best Roast Chicken in the World
The most delicious roast chicken I’ll ever eat came from a Stop & Shop near Madison, Connecticut, where the bird cost $12 raw. I took…
The Soho Local
To love the pub is to lament the pub. It’s never as good as it was. Kingsley Amis, the greatest of the 20th-century British drunks,…
Caputo’s Is Kaput. Now Everyone Needs to Find New Bread.
If you want to hurt a neighborhood, close one of its favorite restaurants. If you want to hobble a neighborhood, eliminate one of the pillar…
Houseman’s Ned Baldwin Expands to Brooklyn
More than a decade ago, long before Google and Disney moved to the neighborhood, Ned Baldwin opened Houseman and drew a devout following to a…
Richie Moriarty Arrives on Set With Cinnamon Rolls
Richie Moriarty has spent the last five years split between two lives. Most weekdays, he’s in Montreal filming CBS’s Ghosts, where he plays the spirit…