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Dana Brown
Dana Brown
LockSimple

Sep 19, 2026

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3 min read

The Restaurants That Beat the Odds

Two 10-year restaurant anniversaries and one triumphant return.

Dana Brown

Sep 18, 2026

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2 min read

Host the Hosts Goes Up

Caper’s second Host the Hosts traded a West Village basement speakeasy for a SoHo penthouse patio. Same result, different altitude.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Sep 12, 2026

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4 min read

A Cult Food Book Turns 20

A look back at the moment food took over culture.

Dana Brown

Sep 11, 2026

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3 min read

How Food Won the U.S. Open

The U.S. Open has become less a tennis tournament with food and more a food tournament with tennis. This didn’t happen overnight.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Sep 9, 2026

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9 min read

SF Restaurants Feast on the AI Gold Rush

Tech’s new nobility is reshaping Silicon Valley’s dining landscape.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Sep 4, 2026

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4 min read

How Food Won the U.S. Open

Inside the evolution of sports and food.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 29, 2026

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5 min read

McNally Family Values

A restaurant dynasty has a new heir, and he’s opening blocks from where it all began.

Dana Brown

Aug 28, 2026

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3 min read

McNally Family Values

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.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 22, 2026

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3 min read

Need Restaurant Recs

Plus, who wants to cook for Mamdani?

Dana Brown

Aug 20, 2026

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2 min read

There’s a Catch

Inside a Greenport weekend of tangled lines, tomato season, and a 500-pound tuna that upstaged a room full of professional cooks.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 17, 2026

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6 min read

What’s Eating the Hamptons?

Ryan Bartlow heads out East.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 15, 2026

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3 min read

Boom, Bust, Repeat

The lifecycle of food culture.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 8, 2026

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3 min read

Farmstand Gatekeeping

Plus: Caper hosts the hosts.

Dana Brown

Aug 6, 2026

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1 min read

The Hosts Get Hosted

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.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Aug 1, 2026

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2 min read

A 500-Pound Tuna & Two Dogs Named Zeus

A dispatch from the North Fork.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 27, 2026

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16 min read

Kwame Onwuachi, Grant Achatz, and Gabriela Cámara are all here.

Las Vegas is rolling the dice on a new wave of superstar chefs.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 25, 2026

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3 min read

Eat, Drink, and be Merry

My lunch with Anthony Bourdain

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 23, 2026

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9 min read

Ryan Bartlow Unfiltered

The chef-owner of Bartolo and Ernesto's writes about the chaos, calls, and choices nobody sees from the dining room.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 18, 2026

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3 min read

Confessions of an Oyster Addict

And what you missed this week at Caper.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 17, 2026

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5 min read

Simon Kim’s Secret Weapon

From Wall Street to peeling carrots to helping build a restaurant empire.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 11, 2026

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2 min read

The Caper of Record

Le Dive watch party, jobs in food, and a natural wine mystery.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 4, 2026

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4 min read

Booze & Books

Caper staff recs for your weekend.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jul 1, 2026

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15 min read

The Rise & Fall of Eater

“It’s impossible to talk about Eater now without it feeling like a eulogy.”

Dana Brown

Jul 1, 2026

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14 min read

How Eater Lost Its Bite

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.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Jun 27, 2026

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3 min read

$80 Pies & Fast Food Diplomacy

Thought for food.

Dana Brown
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