Three years ago, Irene Siderakis, a stay-at-home mom, suddenly inherited Kellogg’s Diner, a 24-hour go-to for eggs, burgers, nachos, Greek staples and more in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Chris Siderakis, her husband and the diner’s previous owner, had died unexpectedly, at 49. “I had no idea how to run a diner or if I could,” she said.…
Have you thought about preparing something different for your friends and family members? You’re not the only one. A lot of people have decided to take advantage of recipe boxes for this reason. Using a recipe box is an excellent way to come up with new dishes for yourself and your loved ones. In addition…
Roosevelt Island, which perfectly but rather anonymously bisects the East River, has been home to a several hospitals over the years. Soon, however, it will dispense a different kind of medicine. Graduate Roosevelt Island, which opened in June and is the only hotel on the island, will in mid-August open Panorama Room, a sprawling, glass-enclosed…
In a twinkling black dress with feathery sleeves and high heels, Paris Hilton is in the kitchen making a steak dinner with her mother and sister. Before they arrive, she digs a spoon into a tin of caviar and gives a bite to her dog. Flakes of 23-karat gold stick on her fingers as she…
Almost a year ago, Gemma Tao Greenspan was born, and I became a grandmother. I also became the person you couldn’t trust to remember a thing about her own child’s life. When my daughter-in-law, Linling Tao, called to ask when Joshua, my son and her husband, first slept through the night, I didn’t know the…
As long as the restaurant business is examining its assumptions about the way it operates, maybe it is time to ask whether experience in famous kitchens is overrated. The thought has been on my mind since I started eating at Cadence, a vegan restaurant in the East Village. The chef is Shenarri Freeman, and Cadence…
Headliner Bar Blondeau Occasionally, the pandemic has had salutary results, and this new bar on the sixth floor of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg is one example. When they opened Le Crocodile, the French brasserie on the hotel’s ground floor, the partners, Jon Neidich and the chefs Aidan O’Neal and Jake Leiber, had their eye…
BUTTE, Mont. — Danny Wong had a system for catching thieves. The longtime owner and face of Pekin Noodle Parlor, the oldest family-owned, continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, ordered servers to lock the front door at the sound of fast footsteps rattling the floorboards. Diners trying to flee the second-story dining room…
Years ago, in response to the demand for sweet vinegar that wouldn’t stain lettuce, producers introduced white balsamics. Most are made from the cooked, sweet unfermented must of white grapes, the basis for genuine balsamic, with white wine vinegar and, often, sugar added. Now Carandini, a centuries-old producer of balsamic vinegars in Modena, Italy, has…
Before the pandemic, Monica Muzzo Romero, a native of Venezuela, owned Arepa Factory restaurants in the East Village and in the Turnstyle Underground Market at Columbus Circle. Both closed. Now Ms. Muzzo has opened a compact food shop in Brooklyn as a homage to her grandmother Graciela Romero (the store’s logo is a sketch of…