The Greenmarket Is 50 Years Old
On a dreary Saturday morning this spring, the chef Peter Hoffman was giving out hugs. We’d arrived at the Union Square...
Our Last Lunch at Donohue’s
After 76 years on Lexington Avenue, Donohue’s will say good-bye tonight. The tributes that have poured in since owner Maureen Donohue-Peters announced, earlier this spring, her plans to close the re...
What’s Going on at Kiki’s?
All of downtown Manhattan awoke this morning to some troubling news: Overnight, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance had seized Dimes Square Greek mainstay Kiki’s... More »...
Enough With the Caesars — Please
There is nothing wrong with a nice Caesar salad. In fact, one might argue that too much about it is right. Its combination of high-crunch roughage and toasted croutons dressed with a layer of what is ...
Trudie’s Tavern Is Ready to Be Carroll Gardens’s New Go-to
Before he opened Gertie and Gertrude’s, Nate Adler was a camp counselor in New Hampshire. During the summer nights he was off duty, he’d head to a spot called Peter Christian’s Tavern for cold b...
Restaurateur Henry Rich Used to Order the ‘Quickie’
Henry Rich spent his earliest years in Cobble Hill, nearby where he now lives with his own family and a block away from his restaurant June. “I was named after Henry Streeet while my mom was on a wa...
Noma’s Premature Comeback
Just three months after the staggering New York Times report that led René Redzepi to announce — tearfully and cinematically — he would “step away” from his roving restaurant, More »...