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The Procrastinator’s Guide to Foodie Gifts This Holiday Season
Combining Nick Morgenstern’s love of ice cream and aesthetics, his Rivington Street parlor has dropped a 2017 “Sorbaes” calendar shot by Blaise Cepis, and flush with cheeky, ice cream-themed pin-up shots. The calendar is on sale for just $10, and the shop’s open until 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Plus, last-minute shopping is a great excuse to […]
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Tim Ho Wan, World’s Cheapest Michelin-Starred Restaurant, Opens in NYC With Long Lines and Tasty Bites
Mak Kwai Pui wasn’t surprised by the blocks-long line to enter his first American outpost of Tim Ho Wan. “In Singapore and Taiwan the waits were four hours,” he says. But he was impressed that they were willing to stand all day (and night) in the cold for one of the dining room’s sixty seats. […]
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Why Geoffrey Zakarian Yanked His Restaurant From Trump’s Hotel: ‘My Buddy Donald, He Fucked Up’
One day ahead of the 2016 presidential election, celebrity chef and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian is returning to the capitol. It’s round two of restaurant-location hunting for Zakarian, who made headlines when he pulled his third location of the National from Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Food Network fixture’s grand brasserie would have operated […]
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Wolfgang Puck Finally Opens a New York Restaurant: ‘New York Is the Center of the World’
Wolfgang Puck never thought New York needed him. The celebrity chef behind supermarket soups, Oscar galas, and “California cuisine” spent decades circumventing the city. Instead, Puck developed an intercontinental restaurant group spread across hotels, casinos, and airports throughout the western United States, Europe, and Asia (most recently at the Four Seasons in Bahrain). Now the […]
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Exclusive: Tim Ho Wan — the World’s Cheapest Michelin-Starred Restaurant — Opening in New York City
Mak Kwai Pui is exhausted. The Hong Kong chef and restaurateur has spent the past few months rapidly expanding his empire of casual dim sum parlors across Southeast Asia, with no end in sight. See, Mak operates Tim Ho Wan — the world’s cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant — and now he’s coming for the rest of the […]
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Mario Batali Wheels in His Most Extensive Bar Program at La Sirena
You won’t find chef Josh Laurano’s plump, homemade burrata — bursting with tender cubes of cream-soaked butternut squash — offered at the central bar dominating Mario Batali’s latest restaurant, La Sirena (363 West 16th Street, 212-242-4300), now open at the Maritime Hotel. The same goes for the briny aroma of linguine with clams, also relegated […]
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Le Boudoir Brings Gilded Parisian Glamour and Cocktails to a Brooklyn Basement
There’s a false bookcase opposite the bar at Chez Moi, Tarek Debira and Patricia Ageheim’s Brooklyn Heights bistro, and every night after 6 p.m. it opens to reveal a stairwell leading to what used to be the restaurant’s subterranean prep kitchen, an area that at one time may have provided access to the Atlantic Avenue tunnel. […]
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Aunt Jake’s Aims to Deliver a Little Italy Experience to a Take-Away Crowd
In Little Italy, on the southern end of Mulberry Street, Aunt Jake’s (151 Mulberry Street, 646-858-0470) blends in quietly with the neighborhood’s sidewalk hawkers. What draws diners in for their first visit is a long stretch of kitchen counter, abundantly arranged with fresh pasta, which is made on site throughout the day. It’s as photogenic as […]
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Bushwick’s Yours Sincerely Opens the Door to Cocktails on Tap
The name of the new bar Yours Sincerely (41 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn; no phone) may read like the conclusion to a night at Dear Bushwick, the bohemian English dining room next door that co-owners Julian Mohammed and Darren Grenia opened in 2012, but the anonymous storefront – all this time an Airbnb rental hidden in plain sight […]
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Drink in Hunt Lodge Vibes at Jersey City Cocktail Den the Archer
It’s been a good year for resurrecting the lost soul of Newark Avenue’s Ox, the forerunner to Jersey City’s downtown dining boom. Earlier this fall the restaurant’s former chef and partner, Ed Radich, made a return to Jersey City (you can find him cooking up paella down the block at Raval), and last month — […]