Category: Food & Restaurant
Mary Beth Barone Has Sworn Off Hot Coffee
Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne After coming off of the press tour for Benito Skinner’s comedy series Overcompensating, comedian and patron saint of gay guys Mary Beth…
Elephant & Castle’s Regulars Aren’t Ready to Say Good-bye
Photo: Courtesy Elephant & Castle The howls of despair and rending of garments began last week. Among a certain type of tenured New Yorker — downtown…
What Los Angeles Loses Without Its Fruteros
Photo: Ethan Noah Roy On a sidewalk outside a Home Depot in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, a few weeks ago, a fruit vendor was standing…
When Marcus Samuelsson Moved to New York
Photo: Courtesy Marcus Samuelsson Group It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning in Central Park, and Marcus Samuelsson is ready to Rollerblade. I meet him at 10…
A Chef Inspired by Nando’s and Her Nan
Photo: Natalie Black Chef Kwame Onwuachi remembers tough conversations he had with investors while trying to open a restaurant in Washington, D.C. It would be…
Chef Carlo Mirarchi Never Thought He’d Become a Pancake Guy
Illustration: Margalit Cutler In the 17 years it’s been open, Roberta’s has grown from a Bushwick pizza-and-tiki-bar pioneer to a citywide institution to a full…
New England Seafood That Goes Beyond Lobster Rolls
Video: Hugo Yu Summer on the Cape this is not. Dinner at Smithereens, which occupies a dark, subterranean space on East 9th Street, is closer…
Is Vanderbilt Avenue Cursed?
Photo: Sebastian Mejias/The New York Times/Redux Over the weekend, the chef Greg Baxtrom announced that he was closing his nearly decade-old Prospect Heights restaurant, Olmsted….
For the Best Iced Coffee, Get to Jersey City
Photo: Bread and Salt With good reason, American tourists are advised not to seek out iced coffee in Europe. Cold coffee does exist on the…
Olmsted Was the Perfect Restaurant for a Different Time
Photo: Nitzan Rubin When the restaurant Olmsted opened in Prospect Heights in 2016, it seemed designed to give a large contingent of Brooklyn diners of…