I know this space is primarily about cooking, but when The Times publishes Pete Wells’s ranked list of the top 100 restaurants in New York, it’s time to eat out! The list, he writes, creates a composite portrait of the city “that captures the diversity and character of dining in New York.” Did he miss…
Restaurant meals have always been celebration meals for me, but a celebration doesn’t have to mean a birthday. When I was a graduate student, before big exam days, I would hole up in my apartment subsisting on Frosted Flakes and Cheez-Its, then emerge from the shadows to treat myself to what I called Brain Dinner…
Bun dau mam tom, the lunch that Hanoi lives for, is almost always bought on the street and often eaten there, too. Like many Vietnamese dishes, it is assembled by the individual diner from a somewhat flexible roster of components. Fried tofu and pressed cold bricks of rice vermicelli are indispensable, as are cucumbers and…
I have notifications turned on for only two Twitter accounts: One is for the city’s alternate-side parking days, and the other is @nymetrowx, an account dedicated to breathless coverage of New York City meteorology. To live here is to be incredibly attuned to the weather — after all, you’re probably going to be out in…
Headliner Mischa Location shaped Alex Stupak’s latest restaurant. With his flagship Empellón just two blocks away, Mr. Stupak, a former pastry chef, said he was “forced to make it not Mexican,” the cuisine for which he has become known. Drawing on his heritage (Ukrainian, Italian), a love for New York and the diverse American food…
Just before sunset on the first night of Passover, the sidewalks of Franklin Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, were packed with people toting bunches of tulips, branches of cherry blossoms and other souvenirs of spring. A few blocks away, Maria Geyman and Evan Seftel’s apartment was filled with the scent of long-braising…
If FOMO is worth $33.33 to you, then you will want to become a member of the loyalty program for early access to Nick Morgenstern’s latest venture, Morgenstern’s Bananas, a dairy-free soft serve store moving into what was his ice cream parlor on the Lower East Side. Starting Thursday, through April 30, members who pay…
WASSAIC, N.Y. — The Tenmile Distillery makes single malt whiskey, and only single malt whiskey. So it’s fitting that a visit to this facility in Dutchess County feels like being transported to the Scottish Highlands. Tucked into a narrow valley — the Scottish would call it a glen — about 90 miles north of New…
Remember Lemonheads? That flavor is my North Star when it comes to dessert. I’m a citrus-besotted, acid-obsessed sweet tooth who will always choose a sour bite over plain sweetness — lime over chocolate, tangerine over caramel, yuzu over vanilla, or even combined for the sublime. I’ll bet that a lot of you out there are…
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, dozens of cookie lovers descended on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They crowded into a small Crumbl storefront, which looked like an Apple store but smelled of Funfetti. They placed their orders on white tablets and snapped photos of their millennial-pink boxes of cookies. Down the street at the…