How Veganism Got Cooked
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The Wine-World ‘It’ Girl Who Wrote a Romance Novel
It’s a cozy night at Anaïs, the candle-lit wine bar tucked in among Boerum Hill’s brownstones, and Eliza Dumais is sitting in a corner booth. Next to her is Joseph Signa, a chatty, shaggy dude in...
Daniel Humm Only Speaks Chef
“When I moved to New York, I never thought that I would have only one job,” says Daniel Humm. The Switzerland-born chef arrived in 2006 to run the kitchen at Eleven Madison Park, which he bought f...
Will New York at Last Get More Street-Vending Permits?
In December, New York’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to pass three bills aimed at reforming street vending. The most significant of these addresses the long-standing low cap on licenses for fo....
My Favorite ‘Spa Food’ in New York
Call it a bathhouse, banya, or spa — everybody’s got an opinion on where to get a shvitz. As a big primper, I seek grandeur and premium amenities wherever I can find them. I have gone as far as Ed...
Closing the Deal With Coconut Shrimp
On a Tuesday afternoon a week and a half before Christmas, the sharks are swimming at the Marlin Bar. Sharp winds whip down Fifth Avenue, but the scene inside the Tommy Bahama Restaurant on the corner...
Wegmans Is Watching You
Wegmans is part of the pantheon of suburban grocery chains that, for one reason or another, command cultish followings. As it turns out, the Rochester-based company also likes following its customers....
James Harris Makes the Most of an Empty New York
A lifelong New Yorker, James Harris, co-host of the menswear-slash-everything podcast Throwing Fits, knows how to take advantage of the holiday week in New York. It’s a time when all the transplants...
Where to Eat in January
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots that our food team thinks everyone should...
The Best Lines of 2025
Part of investigating which viral foods are worth everyone’s time and which are missable is, inevitably, encountering a lot of lines that should be skipped. Candidly, I could do without revisiting m...