The buzziest restaurants in New York City are not always the best. Expectations inflated by press, hashtags, and exclusivity burst like birthday balloons in the power lines when that Next Best Thing turns out to be just fine. Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, which opened in November at Lincoln…
New Yorkers have talked about the $29 hot dog at Mischa more than any other new dish this year. It may be better known than Mischa itself, which opened in Midtown…
Though given a popular name for avocado, this New Orleans restaurant, bar and event space is not serving any for now. “I haven’t yet figured out how I want to prepare it, maybe blackened, but it is coming,” said…
It’s one of the hottest attractions in New York City, and no easy task getting reservations. Still, after a lovely dinner, I can heartily recommend making the effort to dine at the exclusive Centurion New York City.
My colleague Zach Griff wrote the definitive guide to the new club when…
Early this year, the owners of the Musket Room, on Elizabeth Street, opened a second restaurant called Raf’s about one block north. Mary Attea is the chef at both, and intelligent, well-constructed food is…
If an explicitly queer restaurant opens in a relatively queer neighborhood in a queer-friendly city, is it really even queer? The answer is, I think, yes. And also, no. And also: It turns out that queerness maybe means something bigger and more radical that could nourish us all.
I found myself…
Raf’s is a fantasy, in more than one sense. The dining room has an eternal sunset glow, and the ceiling is painted with the sort of billowy clouds that 16th-century fresco enthusiasts used to signify heaven. It’s a charming place, but it’s a bit of an illusion. The…
The new Superiority Burger on Avenue A is about 10 times larger than the original, a 240-square-foot below-grade box on East Ninth Street that was outgrown “on the first day,” according to Brooks Headley, the chef and…
It’s common these days to grouse about the difficulty of getting into restaurants: We make reservations weeks in advance, linger on waiting lists as future plans lie suspended, and in some cases, pay exorbitant fees. Really, we are becoming medieval vassals of the expensive end of the…
