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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Thomas Straker’s SoHo restaurant have one thing in common: You’ll need good luck getting in.
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Almost a decade ago, Mario Batali fled New York for Michigan after a sexual misconduct scandal ended his career. Is he auditioning for a second act? The author went to Traverse City to find out.
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A real Dalí, a fake On Kawara, and a painter in the kitchen: Inside DFW, the artist-run bar and restaurant—or hotel lobby without any hotel rooms—in Margaretville, New York.
Horn & Hardart was a symbol of affordable, quick-service dining in New York for over a century. Now, the heritage brand is getting a reboot.
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Chefs, writers, and Ryan Bartlow’s family packed Ernesto’s to celebrate his cookbook Essentially Basque on the day it hit shelves.
Fresh off opening Saint Denis and grabbing the former Donohue’s lease, Jon Neidich’s Golden Age Hospitality has hired veterans from Simon Kim and Stephen Starr’s restaurant groups, with more projects on the horizon.
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Caper’s Chef in Residence spent years wandering through the cookbook aisles, imagining a day his own book would sit on those shelves. This week, with the release of Essentially Basque, it was.
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The reservations platform Ande, which has raised $52 million, is betting that a corporate-only marketplace can fill restaurants’ empty PDRs.
Here are 35 restaurants that art types enjoy—or should. A Guide By Caper and Artnet News.
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How one company built the infrastructure behind the scenes.
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A new book tells the story of 50 years of London restaurants, including critic A.A. Gill’s legendary feud with Gordon Ramsay, a reminder of what we lost when influencers took over the dining room.
The superagent’s new memoir, Roll the Calls, is a frenetic ride through Hollywood’s heyday, and a running log of his dining habits and restaurant loyalties.
Volkan Guzey, a longtime Carbone front-of-house staffer originally from Turkey, was arrested and detained by ICE agents in Miami’s airport.
Sebastien Silvestri, the CEO of Dinex, Daniel Boulud’s restaurant group, believes hospitality is still built the same way it always has been: By showing up.
As AI agents flood booking platforms, the fight over who gets a table is turning into a war nobody asked for.
True Crime dominates podcast charts. A new podcast, Outlaw’s Digest, promises to deliver one just for the food obsessed.
A new team, an old name, an iconic space. Ariel Arce and Max Katzenberg are reviving the Upper West Side’s beloved Café des Artistes.
A Miró from a Paris flea market, a Calder from an Alabama yard sale, and a family portrait watching over it all—inside Chez Fifi, the Foulquer brothers’ tribute to their mother.
Opening restaurants, and the grueling hours and bad habits that come with it, made Caper’s Chef in Residence gain weight every time. A shot in his love handle fixed the problem—until it created a new one.
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The Michelin-starred Mexico City import El Califa de León has New York griping about its taco prices ($19), but the real story is skyrocketing beef prices.
Union Square Events applied to manage the restaurant at the forthcoming Canyon Museum on the Lower East Side with a “James Beard winning chef.”
The Eleven Madison Park chef-owner is launching his “elevated” take on boxed mac and cheese for the people. But is he also, maybe, taking a cue from Andy Warhol?
Caper’s second Host the Hosts traded a West Village basement speakeasy for a SoHo penthouse patio. Same result, different altitude.
Two Gjelina alums are working on a New York spot.
20 years ago, the author’s book, The United States of Arugula, argued that food deserved a seat at America’s cultural table. Now it’s hard to remember a time when it didn’t have one.
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The U.S. Open has become less a tennis tournament with food and more a food tournament with tennis. This didn’t happen overnight.
The U.K. can’t get enough of hyper-regional American food and Americana. They’ve even got dive bars?
From secret tasting menus to maximalist playgrounds to investment checks, the Bay Area’s restaurant scene is being remade by tech’s newest nobility.
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.
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.
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.
A new documentary revisits the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
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.
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.
Inside a Greenport weekend of tangled lines, tomato season, and a 500-pound tuna that upstaged a room full of professional cooks.
Ryan Bartlow heads out East.
As Chicago’s contract with the James Beard Awards winds down, cities are quietly weighing whether the "Oscars of Food" are worth a $4 million entry fee.
Why is it so hard to sell a restaurant cookbook?
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.
At Jeff Bell's subterranean new Greenwich Village bar, Kees, Caper and Human Ventures brought together the industry's own hosts, for once, as guests.
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Junho Choi is the go-to-designer behind New York’s Korean restaurant boom. His latest project: An all-you-can-eat country buffet with carpeted floors.
Eli Sussman, the master of memes and Gertrude’s chef, tells Caper about his big move.
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.
Homemade scrapple and more at this new East Village sandwich shop.
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.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a set of 50 reforms that aim to reduce bureaucracy and support small businesses, half of which will impact mom-and-pop restaurants. Will he actually be able to cut the bullshit?
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).
Ghosts in the basement, a real Chagall on the wall, and a 15-foot bear-shaped fish tank—at 100, the Russian Tea Room is now run by a 30-year-old trying to keep the Midtown institution afloat and relevant.
The sisters behind Raf’s and The Musket Room built a reputation on impossibly high standards and an 86’d list 275 names deep. Next, they’re taking over food and beverage at one of downtown’s most storied hotels, The Bowery.
How a former J.P. Morgan banker went from peeling carrots at Esca to running the operations behind Cote, Coqodaq, and Bar Chimera.
Snarling at Ned Baldwin’s Houseman is a dog drawing by Joan Jonas. The chef and restaurateur takes us back to his Yale art school days, where he first encountered the seminal video performance artist.
The World Cup has animated New York into one joyous public square–except, maybe, at Italian restaurants like Via Della Pace.
Austin Johnson left One White Street’s Rigor Hill Market. Now, he’s starting again and doubling down on a gourmet grocer while leaving behind fine dining.
Why this food influencer returned his Meta glasses already and what new policies around the glasses mean for restaurants.
Inside the premium Italian ingredient importer’s warehouse, only open to the public twice a year.
Zoli, Marcel, and now Oberon: Three major art-world institutions have opened restaurants this year alone. Inside the New Museum’s new Bowery spot, and what it says about the state of museum dining.
It’s basically as if the Costco sample stations were a conference.
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.
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A negative New York Times review of Eddie Huang’s Baohaus 2.0 sent the chef on a tirade.
The author, who has spent perhaps too much time in dive bars from New Orleans to Chicago to New York, asks what happens when they begin to vanish.
Expertise is dead, influencers are in charge, and wine is firmly in its QVC era. How a new generation of sommeliers and creators is using social media to blow up a century-old system—and open wine up to people it never reached before.
John Early’s Maddie’s Secret peels back the food influencer fantasy, and exposes the cost of performed appetite.
The Larry Gagosian-favorite restaurant has closed in Miami Beach after 17 years. It’s the third location of the legendary, art-centric restaurant to close in the U.S.
Jerald and Nhung Dao Head turned one downtown New York block into a Vietnamese food destination with Mắm, Lai Rai, and Phê. Now, art imitates life as the couple stars in a film based on their lives.
The World’s 50 Best has been telling the story of global dining since 2002, one list at a time. In 2025 it added North America to its list of lists—this year, five of the top ten restaurants were Canadian, finally giving America’s polite neighbor to the north a seat at the table.
A $40K dining table? A beloved restaurant’s wine cellar? The auction circuit reveals a new chapter to the story of closed restaurants.
An unflattering review of Marcel, the restaurant inside Sotheby's headquarters, has revived the lost art of restaurant review rage.
Danny Meyer has invested in, advised, and abandoned nearly every major booking platform. With his recent move away from DoorDash-owned SevenRooms to OpenTable, his Union Square Hospitality Group is back where it started, and the reservation wars have never been messier.
Gabrielle Buffong moved to New York to work in fine art. Through an illustrious hosting career at institutions like The Polo Bar, Metrograph, Frenchette, and now Wild Cherry, she’s been able to do just that.
London’s popular Indian restaurant Dishoom—best known stateside as the place every one of your friends claims to have discovered—is landing in Manhattan in 2027.
Developers and deep-pocketed landlords have spent millions luring ambitious restaurants to Hudson Square, betting that chefs can turn an in-between office district into New York’s next destination dining neighborhood.
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“Splitscreening” is the cafe concept finding a new revenue stream for dinner-only restaurants by taking over their dining rooms when nobody’s home.
At Alpine Courtyard, developer Jingbo Lou is disrupting the landlord-tenant paradigm: Smaller spaces, shared costs, and rent tied to restaurant success—giving young chefs a rare chance to survive in L.A.’s brutal dining economy.
Not one, but two Stellas hang quietly inside the East Village wine bar darling Stars.
Grant Reynolds built Parcelle into a cool-kid wine empire. Now he’s quietly helping other independent restaurants flourish with his hospitality group’s behind-the-scenes support.
After bankruptcy drove Dean & DeLuca out of New York, it continued to thrive in Japan. Now, a U.S. trademark battle, rumors of a SoHo return, and a booming market for gourmet grocers are fueling speculation: Is a comeback close?
With The New York Times naming Kabawa the best restaurant in New York, it isn’t just a win for its chef Paul Carmichael, it’s a lifeline for the Momofuku restaurant brand.
Extreme weather and volatile supply chains are turning basic vegetables into luxury ingredients, forcing chefs to rethink menus, food costs, and obsess over the price of cauliflower.
“When Tony started, there were ten years between Kitchen Confidential and when his show became a major cultural force. Now your show has to work in year one.”
As online wine auctions boom, a wine shop offers an alternative way for restaurants to thin their cellars and make some cash back.
Caper hosted a dinner-slash-cooking competition with four up-and-coming chefs, and some of New York’s top food and hospitality insiders as our guests—and judges.
A former employee has brought a lawsuit against Ignacio Mattos’s restaurant group.
Every Thursday, the Estonian House, a members club on East 34th Street, welcomes non-members for dinner—complete with Soviet-era home cooking, Estonian vodka, and a choir rehearsing upstairs.
A Maximalist Florence import lands in Chinatown with confessionals, gnomes, and a bat-phone guest list, rejecting quiet luxury in favor of absurdist excess.
An International Association of Culinary Professionals director made a sudden exit amidst awards season.
Ryan White spent 20 years behind the camera. Now he runs New York’s fastest-growing knife-sharpening fleet.
Meet some of the dishware designers, lighting consultants, playlist curators, and uniform designers quietly dictating what “cool” restaurants feel like.
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.
El Morocco, once a legendary nightlife haunt of Manhattan, has long been closed. Can this perfumery channel its spirit again?
At Marcel, the phones connect to Sotheby's auction floor and the price of chicken will give your city councilman a nosebleed.
As wine lists have gotten significantly more expensive, a few restaurants are betting that generosity is better business.
New York’s top taqueria goes all in on soccer. Sorry, football.
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.
At a packed Chinatown bash for Caper, media types, downtown fixtures, and first-time-out new parents squeezed into Bar Oliver—proving New York’s party spirit is very much alive, even on a Monday.
The roving Bronx-based chef collective is opening its first brick-and-mortar with a $307 tasting menu.
Just six months after the Union Square location opened, splashy stalls including Kwame Onwuachi’s Patty Palace, have already exited.
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.
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.
Canyon Coffee made New York’s pastry chefs an offer they couldn’t refuse.
