“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…

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…

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…

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…

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’s journalism has taken him into the unscrupulous world of big pharma, back in time to the land of the Troubles in Northern…

On a Sunday afternoon in March, a stream of young people and families flowed continuously through the second-floor food court at Tangram, Flushing’s largest shopping…

History only takes shape in retrospect, but to me, there’s always been something Obama-era about the saga of serial ice cream entrepreneurs Brian Smith and…

In the nine years since he opened Cote, the Flatiron District mash-up of an American steakhouse and a Korean-barbecue joint that remains jammed each night,…

Michael Cruz Kayne is on the verge of a few send-offs: His daughter is heading to high school (“La Guardia, brag”), his job as a…