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From secret tasting menus to maximalist playgrounds to investment checks, the Bay Area’s restaurant scene is being remade by tech’s newest nobility.
Sep 2, 2026
Doris Hồ-Kane is crowd-funding her Vietnamese American bakery’s Cobble Hill expansion, after turning down investors who wanted to put her on chain store shelves.
Aug 31, 2026
Matt Stone and Trey Parker sank more than $40 million of their South Park fortune into resurrecting Colorado’s most beloved, most unhinged restaurant slash dinner theater. Somebody had to.
Aug 28, 2026
Keith McNally helped build New York’s downtown dining scene. Now, the family recipe has been passed down to the next generation, as his son George is opening his first restaurant blocks from where it all began.
From corn sundaes to tomato-topped cups, New York's ice cream scene has entered its maximalist era, one viral line, one collab, one Instagram-ready topping avalanche at a time.
Aug 26, 2026
A new documentary revisits the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Aug 24, 2026
MoMA PS1’s long-empty cafe space is getting new life this fall, with chef DeVonn Charles Francis bringing his French-Caribbean cooking to Long Island City.
How Resy, OpenTable, and their credit-card benefactors turned the once-scrappy restaurant pop-up into a subsidized marketing machine—and why nobody’s complaining.
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8 min read
Dorsia was a joke about status and unattainability in American Psycho. 35 years later, it’s a members-only app that gatekeeps tables the old-fashioned way: Money.
6 min read
From Kwame Onwuachi to Gabriela Cámara to Grant Achatz, casinos are competing for chefs the way they once competed for whales, betting that great restaurants will drive Las Vegas’s next era.
15 min read
The pioneering food site once set the terms for how Americans talked about restaurants. Now, it’s fighting for survival in a media landscape it helped shape—and can no longer control.
14 min read
How a former J.P. Morgan banker went from peeling carrots at Esca to running the operations behind Cote, Coqodaq, and Bar Chimera.
3 min read
From a sweltering West Village dining room to a farmers market in Carmel, the chef and owner of New York’s Bartolo and Ernesto’s reflects on a broken AC, cooking in California, and the real reason he can’t say no to guest-chef gigs (hint: It’s not just about the money).
