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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.
Aug 21, 2026
A veteran of Theodora, The Modern, and Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is bringing tucupi, cupuaçu, and a rainforest’s worth of ingredients to a new Allen Street Brazilian restaurant this fall.
Aug 20, 2026
Inside a Greenport weekend of tangled lines, tomato season, and a 500-pound tuna that upstaged a room full of professional cooks.
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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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).
