Henry at Life Hotel, the chef JJ Johnson’s pan-African restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, has closed, its parent company, Craveable Hospitality Group, said Thursday. The restaurant, which opened in late 2017 in the lobby of the hotel at 19 West 31st Street, had been under the control of Mr. Johnson since last August. Before that, the…
In this series for T, Emily Spivack, the author of “Worn Stories,” interviews creative types about their most prized possessions. Here, the founder of Chez Panisse, pioneer of the slow-food movement and prolific author Alice Waters explains what has prompted her to collect café au lait bowls for nearly 50 years. Waters will be at…
In Peru, a warique is a humble, steadfastly unsleek restaurant, where you might eat crouched on a plastic chair at a shared table, without formality or comfort, and be glad. Warique, in Jackson Heights, Queens, is more handsome and polished, with mirrors in sunburst frames and a long banquette amenable to lingering. But to Jimmy…
Sicily, like the rest of Italy, has long been known as red wine territory. Yet slowly, the whites of Sicily, particularly those grown in the foothills of Mount Etna, have been earning attention as among the most distinctive and unusual white wines in Italy, if not the world. What makes them so different? These are…
The way Noam Grossman sees it, he’s not just another guy selling just another New York slice. “At the end of the day, yes, it’s still a slice of pizza,” said Mr. Grossman, 28, speaking like someone who knows he’s onto something good yet doesn’t want to boast. “But out of all the slices of…
Good morning. Someone left a lot of zucchini on my counter when I wasn’t looking, and when it came time for dinner I thought to make Colu Henry’s lemony pasta with zucchini and fresh herbs (above). But it was hot enough in the kitchen already that I didn’t want to boil water for the pasta,…
For the first decade of my career, I took cooking incredibly seriously. As a restaurant cook, not to mention a nerd, I loved steeping myself in the history of a dish and all its traditions. I obsessed over pasta shapes, flour types and varieties of tomatoes and their specific, appropriate uses. I wanted my food…
Image Merchants’ Gate is part of the Turnstyle Underground Market at Columbus Circle. CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times Boite: Merchants’ Gate Columbus Circle It’s been nearly 20 years since Siberia, a dive bar inside the 50th Street station of the 1 line, left its home in the subway. (It later closed for good.) But now…
Headliner Maxim’s at the Norm No need to brave the crowds of tourists on the Rue Royale in Paris to visit Maxim’s. Starting Saturday, you can dine at a pop-up of the Belle Époque restaurant on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. The installation — at the Norm, the Brooklyn Museum’s restaurant — accompanies the exhibit “Pierre…
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — All Hetal Vasavada wanted when she was growing up in suburban New Jersey was to have cake on her birthday. One with pink buttercream frosting, flowers piped on the top and her name written in fancy cursive. Instead, for her ninth birthday, her mother — an immigrant from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in western…