If you’ve subscribed to this newsletter long enough, then you know my motto: Holiday weekends in New York City are the best. The city becomes a little bit hushed, a little bit slow-going, a little bit laid-back — descriptions that are very rarely applied to this string of islands and isthmuses. It’s also a perfect…
In December, the chef Yuji Tani opened a second edition of the highly seasonal French-Japanese restaurant he owns in Tokyo. The original, now 15 years old, is called House. The new one, in Greenpoint, is House Brooklyn. For what it’s worth, neither House is in a house. The first is in a black-glass cube in…
Headliner Restaurant Yuu Multicourse, high-priced omakase counters with limited seating continue to proliferate. Is it because New York’s intimate sushi counters can’t meet the demand? Whatever the reason, the latest example in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with 18 seats at a black marble counter facing an impressive open kitchen, follows a playbook that’s as French as it…
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Heavenly Buffaloes, a chain of restaurants with locations in three North Carolina college towns, would seem tailor-made for QR-code menus. Its customers tend to be young and tech-savvy. Most come in hungry, many tipsy. And the menu isn’t exactly complicated. “It’s chicken wings and beer,” said Bo Sayre, the company’s district manager. “That’s what we…
Genesis House, the Manhattan flagship for the Korean automobile company that last year opened its restaurant Genesis House Restaurant Curated by Onjium, now has a serene tea pavilion in its building where Korean teas — green, red, black, blue, white and herbal — are served and available for purchase. Now, on Saturdays and Sundays there…
Spring has been bashful this year in the Northeast, beaming with sunshine one minute, only to cover up with sheets of clouds and dampening rain the next. But, as Kay Chun reminds us, summer is just around the corner, “ready to encourage breezy communal dining under the glow of the sun and the grill,” she…
The crowds streaming into Highland Park Village are hungry for luxury. At this open-air shopping center in suburban Dallas, they valet-park their Porsches, sport Yves Saint Laurent handbags, flit in and out of Audemars Piguet and pause for brunch at Sadelle’s, the fancy new deli from Major Food Group in New York. Sadelle’s has been…
Good morning. J. Kenji López-Alt went full Kenji recently and dove deep into the process of dry-brining salmon to achieve firmer, juicier, less albumin-stained cooked fillets. I admire the tenacity of Kenji’s reporting, and I’m absolutely thrilled to report that while he calls for an overnight cure on the fish, I’ve achieved excellent results in…
The flame-shaped neon archway was visible from miles away, which was good since there was little other reason for anyone to be in that part of town, an expanse of fields outside an industrial city in eastern China. The lights flickered between icy blue and red-hot, leaping toward the night sky beside a jumbo sign:…