Headliner Perivoli Social distancing is not a huge challenge when your dining room is on a sprawling rooftop. Even with well-spaced tables, there are 100 seats. This restaurant, with partial views of the Queensboro Bridge and a view across the East River, has had more than one identity. Now it’s a Greek restaurant. The chef…
On Oct. 22, 2018, at 8:59 a.m. Pacific time, Jenny Gao, the Los Angeles-based chef and founder of the Sichuan condiment company Fly By Jing, posted a photo on Twitter: an advertisement she saw at a shop in Chongqing, China, featuring a towering swirl of soft-serve vanilla ice cream, a slick of crimson-red, debris-studded chile…
Last week, a worker at one of my favorite bakeries in Los Angeles tested positive for Covid-19. Bub and Grandma’s, which provides wonderfully crackly sourdough to restaurants, coffee shops and grocery stores all over the city, posted the news on Instagram: Staff members believed they had taken every precaution, but somehow the virus had still…
Beatrice Ajaero grew up on Roosevelt Island, where she still lives, and has an African food and gift stall, Ibari, which she opened after obtaining a law degree and an M.B.A., in the Saturday market. Her new store, Nneji, in Astoria, Queens, has a limited menu, for takeaway, featuring West African red stew with chicken,…
Hop Kee is a basement Cantonese eatery offering $9.50 shrimp lo mein. Hwa Yuan Szechuan is a three-story, white-tablecloth restaurant where the whole fish with hot bean sauce is $45. Both have long histories in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and a deep aversion to delivery apps. Hop Kee’s owner could not afford the services’ high fees. Hwa…
For years, people have been calling for John T. Edge to step down as head of the influential Southern Foodways Alliance. They say he is a kingmaker. They say he is a white man — however charming — who has too much power over who tells the story of food in a region where so…
Milène Jardine, a New York chocolatier, has added something new to its online store: the option to buy a box of chocolates ($38.50) for a health care worker. Send them to a worker the chocolatier chooses or to someone you know. To treat yourself, friends or family, there are other delights. A collection of square…
In Hudson, N.Y., steelhead trout, a delicious salmon wannabe, are thriving. And Hudson Valley Fisheries, which is raising the fish indoors, is offering a package of two one-pound fillets (with pin-bones removed), two cedar planks and four ounces of its alluring cold-smoked steelhead for $50, with $12.50 of the price going toward Relief Opportunities for…
Intended for making cocktails at home, and with a name that one hopes might become a memory some day, the new Quarantine Vodka from San Diego is quite distinctive. The vodka, made from corn, is distilled six times without erasing its assertive finish — you know there’s booze in your drink. It’s also straightforward and…
This is not the best moment to discuss caviar, what with the pandemic and the subsequent fiscal stress. But there is some news worth noting: For the first time, beluga caviar, the roe of the largest variety of sturgeon, native to the Caspian Sea, has been successfully farm-raised in the United States. After 17 years…