Headliner The Beer Garage Marina Charny, the owner of Wild, a gluten-free Italian restaurant, planned to use a former garage she acquired next to her Park Slope location as a party room. But then she had another idea: a beer hall. She kept one roll-up door, and, for now, this spot is open with outdoor…
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — Krewe, a restaurant in this small central-Minnesota city, is a tribute to Mary Mackbee, a former high school principal who raised four children in a Twin Cities suburb on the cooking of her native New Orleans. “More than anything, gumbo is the smell I remember,” said Mateo Mackbee, one of those…
MINNEAPOLIS — Before the coronavirus decimated the restaurant industry, Minneapolis and St. Paul were being hailed around the country for their up-and-coming culinary scene. Ann Kim, the owner of three acclaimed restaurants including the Korean-influenced pizzeria Young Joni, won a James Beard award last year for Best Chef Midwest. Lauded chefs like Tim McKee, Alex…
Travel is tamped down for the time being, but I’m daydreaming in my kitchen — Spain, and especially Italy, tempt me. So off I go with a raft of unfamiliar recipes to try, thanks to “Friuli Food and Wine: Frasca Cooking from Northern Italy’s Mountains, Vineyards and Seaside.” Frasca cooking? Frasca is a restaurant in…
Yohei Ishida is not simply packing up his various ramens for pickup and delivery from his restaurant on the Lower East Side. He’s organized them into special kits designed for reheating at home. He offers two varieties, a black truffle shoyu ramen — with a soup base made with locally raised Bo Bo chickens —…
Kitty Keller, the founder of the importer KL Keller Foodways, has a favorite French maker of pâte de fruits in Provence, François Doucet. Over a dinner at King, she persuaded him to make a paste she had been thinking of for years: quince (like the Spanish membrillo, often served with cheese) seasoned with espelette, a…
Like cheese makers, those who cultivate oysters along America’s coastlines have also felt the loss of restaurant business during the pandemic. Though it’s long been possible to order fresh oysters, shipped to your door, from some of these oyster farms, there are more to choose from now. (Oysters keep in the refrigerator, unopened, for more…
For a way to get out of the house, you can now gather friends and family from your quarantine bubble and take a personal wine tour of the North Fork of Long Island or the Hudson Valley led by New York Wine Events. Open to groups of two to 12, the tour hits the road…
A month ago, the chef Kwame Onwuachi reopened Kith and Kin, the restaurant on the Potomac River in Washington where he established himself as a national talent and a leading voice for Black workers in the culinary profession. Today, he said that he has resigned from the restaurant in order to seek an opportunity to…
By the end of the year the International Culinary Center, formerly the French Culinary Institute, will close its doors in SoHo and will become part of the Institute of Culinary Education in the Brookfield Place complex in Battery Park City. The two largest private professional cooking schools in New York City have planned to collaborate…