Category: Food & Restaurant
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…
What Does MAGA Taste Like?
Photo: Hawkeye Johnson “Where are all the red hats — am I going to run into Steve Bannon?” asked one of my guests as we peered…
Bring Back the Coffee Shop Tip Jar
Photo: Catherine McQueen/Getty Images The other day, the company Square shared some interesting data with me: For the first time since 2015 (as far back…
Where to Eat in October
Illustration: Naomi Otsu Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are…
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…