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New York Can’t Quit Grits
It was 11 a.m. on a damp and blustery Saturday, a nor’easter was bearing down on New York, and a line had already formed outside
Chef Ryan Bartlow Takes the Night Off to Watch the Bears
Twenty-five years ago, Ryan Bartlow was a young cook fresh out of culinary school who decamped for San Sebastián. There, he worked at Akelarre, one of Spain’s most storied, Michelin-starred restaurants, but his fondest food memories of his time there are not of the duck foie gras or ... More »
5 Things to Eat This Weekend
If you’re like us, you’re thinking about what you want to do this weekend. To help with that, we’re debuting our newest guide. Every Thursday, we will offer you exactly what the column’s name promises: five things to eat this weekend. We’ve sifted through the newest restaurant openings, events, a... More »
A New Bread Basket With Koji Baguettes and Seaweed Croissants
Bread is a basic staple in many parts of the world, but it can still cause a fuss. Martin Auer’s $60 loaves of sourdough rye might be the most talked-about food of the year; bagels are
Lil’ Deb’s Oasis Was a Party for Everyone
Lil’ Deb’s Oasis in Hudson is the rare small-town restaurant famous enough to earn its own Wikipedia page, where it’s described as “an interactive art project, performance venue, and commu... More »
Anthony Falco Is Opening a Brooklyn Pizzeria
A decade ago, Anthony Falco abandoned his life as the “pizza czar.” It was the made-up title he was given in his role as pizzaiolo and director of pizza operations at Roberta’s in Bushwick (and the name of his latter cookbook). Falco was ready to branc... More »
J Lee Has Dim Sum in His Carry-On
J Lee, the host of the food and culture podcast Expense Account and critic-at-large for Feed Me, did not expect to be making food videos full-time; he also did n... More »
New York Subscribers Can Get Free Food This Month
For the entire month of October, New York subscribers will be able to get some food, absolutely free, from a few of the Chainlets we love: a cheese slice and a soda from Lucia Pi... More »
Ugly Baby Is Still the Best Place For Tongue-Incinerating Thai
Vide the spice bros. You notice them as soon as you walk in. Full tables — a foursome here, a sextet there — egging each other on, dapping each other up. They ratchet their bites from spicy to spicier to spiciest. Their mecca is Ugly Baby, the lo... More »
The Case for Cooking (Almost) Everything From Scratch
I am not a religious person, but the best way I can describe my approach to the act of making dinner is as a kind of spiritual devotion. Some rituals require places of worship, clergy, costumes, songs, and ancient texts. Others require nothing more than repetition and the inescapable knowledge th... More »
Where to Eat in October
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots that our food team thinks everyone should visit, for any reason (a new chef, the arrival of an exciting dish, or maybe there’s an o... More »
What If You Never Cooked Again?
I am standing in the Long Island City commissary kitchen for the Upper East Side grocery sensation Butterfield Market, facing an unfathomable quantity of chicken. There is chicken rubbed with herbs and heaped in trays the size of sleds. There are m... More »
Min Jin Lee Will Order Everything on the Menu
“I publish a new novel once a decade, and now, I will have published three,” says author Min Jin Lee, whose book American Hagwon will be released next week. Lee lives in Harlem with her husband, Christopher Duffy, and in addition to the p... More »
Welcome to Little Ritaly!
In the beginning, there were Italian sandwiches, and it was good. But ambition tends to grow beyond what can be contained on a roll. In Ridgewood, two former lunch spots,
The Ultimate Grub Street Diet
For 20 years, “The Grub Street Diet” has tracked the daily eating habits of every kind of New Yorker. The famous actress whose equally famous husband is a Bean Guy. The
Why Is Daniel Humm Selling Boxed Pasta?
I don’t spend a lot of time watching the Food Network show Chopped; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a full episode start to finish. (Is it still on?) But some cursory research tells me that at least once, in 2015, the show’s producers ch... More »
Danny Meyer Drops Into Wu’s Wonton King
The last time Danny Meyer shared his Grub Street Diet with us, it was 2008 and the world was a very different place. The iPhone was less than a year old. Barack Obama hadn’t yet been elected... More »
Chef Mark Ladner Is Out at Babbo
Less than a year after Stephen Starr reopened Babbo with Mark Ladner running the kitchen, the chef has left, according to sources inside the restaurant. Ladner’s involvement was considered a major coup for Starr when the word broke last year that
A Food-Court Star Moves on From the Mall
Why not Burmese? The country of Myanmar — widely known until 1989 by its colonial name, Burma — is larger than Thailand and more populous than South Korea, but its representation in city kitchens and dining rooms is next to none. You can find 100 pad see ews for every lahpet thoke, Myanmar’s ferm... More »
James Caputo, Carroll Gardens Royalty, Gets Into the Bagel Game
When the 122-year-old Caputo’s Bake Shop closed this spring, it sent a thunderclap through Carroll Gardens and the New York food world. Loyal customers laid flowers outside, and many more mourned the loss ... More »
A Tasting Menu in Central Park
Tasting menus, even at their best, can feel like a trap. If a couple of dishes in a long procession begin to waver, the fuss, formality, and length (not to mention the cost) of a meal become flaws, not features. This is not the case at Reverence Phoenix... More »