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Dana Brown
Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 31, 2026

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3 min read

The October surprise is...Cheesecake Factory?

How the humble chain became a political hot potato.

Dana Brown

Oct 27, 2026

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2 min read

You Can Eat Everything

Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Thomas Straker’s SoHo restaurant have one thing in common: You’ll need good luck getting in.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 26, 2026

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11 min read

Mario Batali in Exile

Is the disgraced chef plotting a second act?

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 24, 2026

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3 min read

You Can Eat Everything

Starring Nathan Fielder and Thomas Straker.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 17, 2026

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2 min read

Fashion, Food, and Rage Bait

Plus, celebrating Ryan Bartlow.

Dana Brown

Oct 16, 2026

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2 min read

A Basque Night on East Broadway

Chefs, writers, and Ryan Bartlow’s family packed Ernesto’s to celebrate his cookbook Essentially Basque on the day it hit shelves.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 15, 2026

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10 min read

So You Want to Write a Cookbook?

Ryan Bartlow’s Essentially Basque, from pitch to print.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 10, 2026

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7 min read

Twilight of the Restaurant Critic

A.A. Gill vs. Gordon Ramsay, and the end of criticism.

Dana Brown

Oct 10, 2026

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5 min read

The Twilight of the Restaurant Critic

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.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Oct 3, 2026

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3 min read

Food’s $1.5 Trillion Year

And why restaurants matter more than ever.

Dana Brown
LockSimple

Sep 26, 2026

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4 min read

A Cocktail Confession

Plus, dining 60 stories above Manhattan.

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

Covering the inside story of the restaurant business

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