Articles

Annie Armstrong

Oct 13, 2026

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16 min read

Where the New York Art World Eats

Here are 35 restaurants that art types enjoy—or should. A Guide By Caper and Artnet News.

Annie Armstrong, +1

Articles

Oct 12, 2026

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5 min read

Propping Up Pop-Ups

How one company built the infrastructure behind the scenes.

Emma Orlow

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

Annie Armstrong

Oct 9, 2026

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3 min read

Ari Emanuel’s Appetites

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.

Annie Armstrong

Articles

Oct 7, 2026

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2 min read

The Immigrant Workforce

Volkan Guzey, a longtime Carbone front-of-house staffer originally from Turkey, was arrested and detained by ICE agents in Miami’s airport.

Chris Crowley

Articles

Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

Still Walking the Room

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.

Max Tcheyan

Articles

Sep 30, 2026

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3 min read

The Reservation Bot Arms Race

As AI agents flood booking platforms, the fight over who gets a table is turning into a war nobody asked for.

Chris Crowley

Articles

Sep 28, 2026

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3 min read

Killer Meals

True Crime dominates podcast charts. A new podcast, Outlaw’s Digest, promises to deliver one just for the food obsessed.

Emma Orlow

Annie Armstrong

Sep 25, 2026

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2 min read

Artistes Back In Residence

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.

Annie Armstrong

Sep 25, 2026

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2 min read

How Did That Joan Miró Get There?

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.

Annie Armstrong

Contributors

Sep 24, 2026

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8 min read

Confessions of a Chef on Ozempic

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.

Ryan Bartlow

Articles

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

Taco Sticker Shock

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.

Chris Crowley

Articles

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Mashama at the Museum?

Union Square Events applied to manage the restaurant at the forthcoming Canyon Museum on the Lower East Side with a “James Beard winning chef.”

Emma Orlow

Annie Armstrong

Sep 18, 2026

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2 min read

Daniel Humm’s Warholian Riff

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?

Annie Armstrong

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

Articles

A New Restaurant Checks Into the PUBLIC Hotel

Sep 14, 2026

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4 min read

A New Restaurant Checks Into the PUBLIC Hotel

Two Gjelina alums are working on a New York spot.

Emma Orlow

Contributors

Sep 12, 2026

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6 min read

How Food Ate the Culture

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.

David Kamp

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

Articles

Sep 11, 2026

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6 min read

Remembrance of Things Pabst

The U.K. can’t get enough of hyper-regional American food and Americana. They’ve even got dive bars?

Chris Crowley

Contributors

San Francisco’s Restaurants Are Feasting on the AI Gold Rush

Sep 9, 2026

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8 min read

San Francisco’s Restaurants Are Feasting on the AI Gold Rush

From secret tasting menus to maximalist playgrounds to investment checks, the Bay Area’s restaurant scene is being remade by tech’s newest nobility.

Flora Tsapovsky

Articles

Sep 2, 2026

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3 min read

Ban Bè Grows in Brooklyn

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.

Emma Orlow

Annie Armstrong

Aug 31, 2026

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3 min read

Oh My God, They Saved Casa Bonita

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.

Annie Armstrong

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

Articles

Aug 28, 2026

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4 min read

Souped Up Soft Serve Summer

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.

Chris Crowley

Articles

Windows on the World Was a Reflection of New York Dining

Aug 26, 2026

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9 min read

Windows on the World Was a Reflection of New York Dining

A new documentary revisits the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

Emma Orlow