Update: On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office in Benton County, Ore., said that Ms. Pomeroy’s body had been recovered from the Willamette River. Naomi Pomeroy, a self-taught chef with an irreverent streak whose high standards and generosity of spirit made her the culinary matriarch of Portland, Ore., as it emerged as the locus of a radical…
I do not consider myself a wild child or a rule breaker. I use the left lane only for passing, I wait to queue until my boarding group is called and I’m pretty sure those menacing “do not remove under penalty of law” tags are still on my mattress. But every once in a while,…
Early this year, I went for my first physical in longer than I’d care to admit. At the time, I was about halfway through a list of 140 or so restaurants I planned to visit before I wrote the 2024 edition of “The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City.” It was a fair bet…
Health concerns have been mounting for decades. Here’s what the research suggests.
As The New York Times’s restaurant critic for the last dozen years, Pete Wells has reported from the dining-room trenches on a changing industry. When he started the job in late 2011, old-guard restaurants like Le Cirque and the Four Seasons were still humming, with the help of expense-account diners. The #MeToo movement and the…
We asked nutrition experts if the purported health benefits of tracking macronutrients match up with the science.
A wing of the Eiffel Tower has been cleared out to make way for a brand-new restaurant called Gustave 24. A fully built commercial kitchen is set to be airlifted into the Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum on the Right Bank. Open-air brasseries will soon be erected on two bridges across the Seine.…
Tinned fish in pasta can be shy. Anchovies, for example, are often dissolved in oil for a midnight pasta, camouflaged under the olives of a puttanesca or hidden among garlicky bread crumbs. Their deep umami quietly integrates the other ingredients without imposing much substance of their own. Small children and the fish-finicky are never the…
Le Veau d’Or, an Upper East Side restaurant that dates from 1937 and has been closed for five years, reopens next Tuesday with a sensitive restoration by Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr. The two chefs have added seatbelts and polish to this vintage roadster of a restaurant, but the tiny bar (six seats, no food)…
Until Season 3 of “The Bear,” only viewers who understood restaurant hospitality at its highest levels could spot the Will Guidara Effect. Mr. Guidara was the Paul McCartney to chef Daniel Humm’s John Lennon at Eleven Madison Park, the acclaimed New York City restaurant they once co-owned. During their 13 years together, the staff’s signature…