# Caper

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## Posts
- [Farmstand Gatekeeping](https://caper.media/p/august-8-2026-newsletter): Plus: Caper hosts the hosts.
- [How Pop-Ups Became Big Business](https://caper.media/p/august-7-2026-newsletter): And a subsidized marketing machine no one is complaining about. 
- [The Pop-Up Industrial Complex](https://caper.media/p/restaurant-pop-ups-business): 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.
- [The Hosts Get Hosted](https://caper.media/p/caper-host-the-hosts-event-august-2026): 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.
- [Frog Club’s Life After Death](https://caper.media/p/august-5-2026-newsletter): Plus: The designer behind the Korean restaurant boom.
- [The Buffet Designer](https://caper.media/p/junho-choi-two-point-zero-country-time-country-buffet-hand-hospitality-interior-designer): 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. 
- [Trading Places](https://caper.media/p/eli-sussman-gertrudes-dineamic-hospitality): Eli Sussman, the master of memes and Gertrude’s chef, tells Caper about his big move.
- [The American Psycho of Reservation Apps](https://caper.media/p/august-3-2026-newsletter): Patrick Bateman couldn’t get into Dorsia. Now you can—for a price.
- [Bateman, Party of Two](https://caper.media/p/dorsia-founder-ceo-marc-lotenberg): 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.
- [A 500-Pound Tuna & Two Dogs Named Zeus](https://caper.media/p/august-1-2026-newsletter): A dispatch from the North Fork.
- [Eli Sussman Has Left the Kitchen](https://caper.media/p/july-31-2026-newsletter): The master of memes and Gertrude’s chef tells Caper about his big move.
- [Burrito Bros Take Manhattan](https://caper.media/p/july-29-2026-newsletter): Plus: That was fast! Chef exits New Museum restaurant.
- [On a Roll](https://caper.media/p/20-blocks-sandwich-shop-east-village-opening): Homemade scrapple and more at this new East Village sandwich shop.
- [Kwame Onwuachi, Grant Achatz, and Gabriela Cámara are all here.](https://caper.media/p/july-27-2026-newsletter): Las Vegas is rolling the dice on a new wave of superstar chefs.
- [Vegas Doubles Down on Chefs](https://caper.media/p/las-vegas-new-restaurants-chefs): 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.
- [Eat, Drink, and be Merry](https://caper.media/p/july-25-2026-newsletter): My lunch with Anthony Bourdain
- [A Cyclosporapacolypse for Salad Chains?](https://caper.media/p/july-24-2026-newsletter): And the head chef at Ambassadors Clubhouse bolts for a rival.
- [Healthy Solutions](https://caper.media/p/zohran-mamdani-open-for-small-business-reforms-restaurants): 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?
- [Ryan Bartlow Unfiltered](https://caper.media/p/july-23-2026-newsletter): The chef-owner of Bartolo and Ernesto's writes about the chaos, calls, and choices nobody sees from the dining room.
- [Open Kitchen](https://caper.media/p/ryan-bartlow-bartolo-ernestos-chez-noir-residency): 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).
- [A Century of Theatrics, Kitsch, and Caviar](https://caper.media/p/july-22-2026-newsletter): The Russian Tea Room at 100
- [A Century of Theatrics, Kitsch, and Caviar](https://caper.media/p/russian-tea-room-isabella-biberaj-100-year-anniversary-restaurant-history): 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 Bowery Is Getting the Vitagliano Treatment](https://caper.media/p/july-20-2026-newsletter): The twins behind Raf’s are about to reinvent F&B at the celebrity hotspot hotel.
- [The Vitagliano Twins Are Taking Notes On You](https://caper.media/p/jennifer-nicole-vitagliano-profile-bowery-hotel): 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.
- [Confessions of an Oyster Addict](https://caper.media/p/july-18-2026-newsletter): And what you missed this week at Caper.
- [Simon Kim’s Secret Weapon](https://caper.media/p/july-17-2026-newsletter): From Wall Street to peeling carrots to helping build a restaurant empire.
- [The Hidden Hand](https://caper.media/p/alejandro-munoz-suarez-coo-gracious-hospitality-interview): How a former J.P. Morgan banker went from peeling carrots at Esca to running the operations behind Cote, Coqodaq, and Bar Chimera.
- [SCOOP: Wild Cherry & Bridges Alums to Open New Restaurant](https://caper.media/p/july-15-2026-newsletter): Plus, another major app defection escalates the Reservation Wars.
- [The Fyre Festival of Membership Clubs is Back](https://caper.media/p/july-13-2026-newsletter): Plus: L.A.’s hottest art gallery is...a Sizzler?