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The Golden Globes of Food Is in Turmoil

The Golden Globes of Food Is in Turmoil

An International Association of Culinary Professionals director made a sudden exit amidst awards season.

Chris Crowley

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2 min read

Knives Out

Knives Out

Ryan White spent 20 years behind the camera. Now he runs New York's fastest-growing knife-sharpening fleet—building something sharper than a side hustle.

Emma Orlow

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4 min read

The Good Taste Industrial Complex

The Good Taste Industrial Complex

Meet some of the dishware designers, lighting consultants, playlist curators, and uniform designers quietly dictating what “cool” restaurants feel like.

Dalya Benor

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5 min read

The Spice Wars

The Spice Wars

Burlap & Barrel makes your favorite chef’s favorite seasoning, turning single-origin spices into $10 million in sales last year. It’s also suing the Trump administration over tariffs.

Chris Crowley

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5 min read

A Whiff of Restaurant Nostalgia

A Whiff of Restaurant Nostalgia

El Morocco, once a legendary nightlife haunt of Manhattan, has long been closed. Can this perfumery channel its spirit again?

Emma Orlow

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4 min read

Sole! For $175!

Sole! For $175!

At Marcel, the new restaurant in Sotheby’s Breuer Building headquarters, the phones connect to the auction floor and the price of chicken will give your city councilman a nosebleed.

Annie Armstrong

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3 min read

The Case for Cheaper Wine (Lists)

The Case for Cheaper Wine (Lists)

As wine lists have gotten significantly more expensive, a few restaurants are betting that generosity is better business.

Bodhi Landa

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5 min read

You Deserve a Better Sports Bar

You Deserve a Better Sports Bar

New York’s top taqueria goes all in on soccer. Sorry, football.

Chris Crowley

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3 min read

The Great Pearl Diner Scramble

The Great Pearl Diner Scramble

Across New York, legacy diners are getting new stewards—operators intent on preserving their soul while reinventing them. The iconic Pearl Diner might become the latest prize.

Emma Orlow

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6 min read

Ghetto Gastro Lays Down Roots in SoHo

Ghetto Gastro Lays Down Roots in SoHo

The roving Bronx-based chef collective is opening its first brick-and-mortar with a $307 tasting menu.

Annie Armstrong

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2 min read

The Math Isn’t Mathing at Time Out Market

The Math Isn’t Mathing at Time Out Market

Just six months after the Union Square location opened, splashy stalls including Kwame Onwuachi’s Patty Palace, have already exited.

Chris Crowley

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3 min read

Chef’s Table Cashes In

Chef’s Table Cashes In

The Netflix show is breaking the fourth wall with branded dinners, airline menus, and festivals—turning prestige TV into a sprawling, high-end experiential business.

Chris Crowley

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2 min read

The Restaurant Collector

The Restaurant Collector

Art collector Andre Sakhai and his Spicy Hospitality group are turning Miami into the launchpad for a fast-growing, blue chip art-filled restaurant empire, with New York and Los Angeles next.

Adam Robb

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6 min read

A Pastry Case Like No Other

A Pastry Case Like No Other

Canyon Coffee made New York’s pastry chefs an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Emma Orlow

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3 min read

The Hidden Hands of New York Pastry

The Hidden Hands of New York Pastry

The Native Bread and Pastry has long baked for others—quietly. Now, they’re opening a restaurant of their own.

Emma Orlow

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4 min read

How Water Became the New Wine

How Water Became the New Wine

As diners drink less alcohol, restaurants are turning to high-end water programs—complete with sommeliers, pairings, and $100 bottles—to make up the difference.

Annie Armstrong

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4 min read

A Dive-bar Soap Opera Heads to Court

A Dive-bar Soap Opera Heads to Court

As the notorious 169 Bar fights eviction, its landlord moves to take not just the space, but the brand itself.

Chris Crowley

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6 min read

The Genie’s Out of the Bottle

The Genie’s Out of the Bottle

Allocation was once a behind-the-scenes wine industry term, but now, it’s entered the conversation as the latest status signal.

Bodhi Landa

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5 min read

Barney Greengrass’s Hypebeast Era

Barney Greengrass’s Hypebeast Era

Almost 120 years after opening, iconic Jewish deli Barney Greengrass is stepping into a new era—launching a clothing line that aims to bring the Upper West Side institution to a global audience, while looking to expand their footprint.

Emma Orlow

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2 min read

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

How a FiDi Greek restaurant became the fringe internet’s favorite hangout.

Annie Armstrong

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4 min read

The Private Dining Room Boom

The Private Dining Room Boom

Once a corporate afterthought, now a pillar, private dining rooms have become New York’s most coveted tables—prized by diners for their privacy and exclusivity, and increasingly vital to restaurants’ bottom lines.

Eliza Dumais

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7 min read

Can The Ten Bells Get Its Groove Back?

Can The Ten Bells Get Its Groove Back?

The once-influential bar brought natural wine into the mainstream in New York, but has since lost its luster. Can new owners restore it?

Emma Orlow

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8 min read

Brooklyn’s Restaurant Row Reset

Brooklyn’s Restaurant Row Reset

On Smith Street, signs of life—tacos!—return to a faded dining strip, just as Ayat, one of the borough’s biggest success stories, confronts an uncertain future in Bay Ridge.

Chris Crowley

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7 min read

The New Masters of Museum Dining

The New Masters of Museum Dining

With buzzy openings at the Breuer, Amant, and the New Museum, the art world’s next power players might be restaurateurs.

Annie Armstrong

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7 min read

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