Headliner Nordstrom With the opening of Nordstrom in Midtown, New York is not only getting a huge new department store with terrazzo tile floors, it’s also being outfitted with a collection of new restaurants and bars. The Seattle-based chain takes pride in its restaurants, and, for this New York location, has brought over two notable…
As we approach Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, you likely have a lot of big meals planned. Whether you are cooking for family, friends, or clients, the right cookware can make a big difference. It affects your cook time, the flavor and quality of your food, as well as the types of recipes you are…
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Tsismis is the opposite of a speakeasy. It isn’t hiding anything; its glass facade on Orchard Street wants to strike up a conversation so badly that it almost follows you home. The windows are stenciled with cartoon characters and with text-message bubbles that call out in English (“Hello! New York”), Spanish (“que rico!”), French (“bon…
Among the scores of kiosks and stalls within the Urbanspace market halls, there’s a new one with a difference in the Vanderbilt location. Meryenda, from the chef Edie Ugot, serves Filipino dishes, like crisp and nicely spiced pork and shrimp lumpia; pancit, or glass noodles, with pork belly, sausage and vegetables; and chicken adobo over…
A pop-up of Poilâne, the Parisian bakery, will occupy the front of Lafayette restaurant in NoHo from Tuesday through Nov. 3. Sourdough loaves, walnut financiers, carrot and curry cake, cardamom-ginger-swirled brioche feuilletée and more will be sold, some baked on the spot, some shipped from Paris. The occasion is the publication of a cookbook for…
An event billed as the first Irish whiskey festival in New York will take place on Nov. 2 at Pier A Harbor House, featuring tastings, cocktails, seminars, food and music. It’s organized by Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry, partners in the award-winning bar, the Dead Rabbit, along with Articulate Ventures, an event organizer. Tickets are…
Here come these spiders, their eyes popping out at you. These spider confections, more than two-inches wide, are the work of Marc Aumont, the executive pastry chef of Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate. Their plump marshmallow bodies sit on cookie bases, with caramel ganache heads and eight spindly legs, all coated with chocolate. They are available in…
When Michelin announced earlier this month that its 2020 New York City guide would include Westchester County, it led some Michelin-watchers to one conclusion: The guide wanted to award one or more stars to Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, N.Y. And that’s exactly what happened. In the star lineup announced on Monday afternoon,…
LOS ANGELES — Tex-Mex, maligned by outsiders, skeptics and snobs for decades, is often mislabeled as a counterfeit branch of Mexican cuisine, or dismissed as the regrettable fuel of American sports bars. If you’ve been duped and accepted this as the truth — if you have, in other words, rebuffed the vast regional cuisine of…