PATERNOSTER, South Africa — Reaching Wolfgat, a restaurant in a small seaside cottage seating only 20 in this fishing village, takes a good two hours plus by car to reach from Cape Town, about 100 miles away. The payoff is a singularly memorable multicourse dinner that tastes more of the sea than anything else and…
Talking about how good the chef Thomas Keller’s new restaurant is would be easier if it weren’t also painfully out of step with the city’s mood. TAK Room is so determined to be “timeless,” as Mr. Keller has often called it, that it seems clueless. TAK Room opened in March, one of 11 restaurants inside…
Image Julius during Gay Pride in 2016.CreditChristian Hansen for The New York Times The Stonewall Inn is probably the world’s most famous gay bar. It opened in 1967, a year after laws forbidding night life establishments from knowingly “serving alcohol to homosexuals” were overturned. Although it was Mafia-owned, the constant police raids were not targeted…
Headliner Mission Ceviche Restaurant & Bar Peruvian tastes have a new home on the Upper East Side. José Luis Chavez, a native of Peru who was raised in Venezuela, works out of an open kitchen in this stylish restaurant, which has an arresting wall sculpture of a black sea bass. Here, he gives a more…
After announcing the KKW Beauty Body Collection (featuring foundation for your body) last week, Kim has returned today to announce her newest endeavor, Kimono by Kim Kardashian West. After failing to find shapewear that blended with her skin tone and provided support, Kim Kardashian started to develop Kimono by Kim Kardashian West, a collection she…
Melissa Beth Berger and Jonathan Marc Reinstein are to be married Feb. 18 in Florham Park, N.J. Rabbi Robert L. Tobin is to officiate at the Park Savoy, an events space. Ms. Berger, 33, a lawyer, until January worked as a trademark counsel for American Express in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from…
Scientists say they have conducted ‘the first study in humans to show that something like a cup of coffee can have a direct effect on our brown fat functions.’ A simple cup of coffee may hold the key to tackling obesity and diabetes, suggests new research. Brown fat — which people sometimes refer to as…
On Nantucket, stilettos and valet parking have become the norm, along with other signifiers of the immense wealth now summering on the New England island. As Marianne Stanton, the native-born editor of the Inquirer and Mirror (est. 1821), recently opined, the place “has become way too fancy.” My husband and I bought our rather plain…
The White House released an executive order Monday afternoon intended to require insurance companies, doctors and hospitals to give patients more information about precisely what their care will cost before they get it. President Trump announced the new policy at a signing event, flanked by doctors and patients who had been hit by unexpected medical…
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For advanced stages of head and neck cancer, one of the best treatments is so aggressive that it could bring tooth decay, speech loss, constant nausea or all of the above. That’s because the treatment combines two therapies – chemotherapy and radiation – which means double the cancer-killing power, but also…