Kareem Rahma Starts the Day With Dum-Dums
You may know Kareem Rahma from riding the subway, but he spent the past week in a lot of cars. He was chauffeured (for t...
Two Status Burgers Just Got (a Little) Easier to Order
There are good reasons no one puts burgers into time capsules. If they could, there’d be few foodstuffs that more accurately oozed the juices of their particular moments. To reference the DB Bistro ...
Lonnies, From the Couple Behind Ingas Bar, Opens This Week
Sean Rembold and Caron Callahan, the married couple who run Ingas Bar in Brooklyn Heights, are very deliberate when they name things. Perhaps overly so: A week after the birth of each of their childre...
SNL’s Jeremy Culhane Is an Uncrustables Purist
In the first few weeks of Saturday Night Live season 51, featured player Jeremy Culhane walked around like he’d landed on an alien planet. Everything felt new and surreal; comedians he had been watc...
Kaiseki Lite
The durational work of art will always have its day. Jeanne Dielman. Lonesome Dove. Ponderously weighty, they bring their own gravity. The dining universe is no exception. I have spent hours upon ho...
New York Restaurants Live Forever — in Tokyo
In late 2024, Brooklyn lost Buttermilk Channel, the long-standing Cobble Hill brunch spot that, for the 16 years it sold house-fermented pickles and cheddar waffles, had punched far above ... More »...
Sea & Soil’s Sliding Scale for Sandwiches
The Zip Code 11217 is among the most expensive, highest-earning pockets of New York City, and the stretch of Atlantic Avenue that runs through it is predictably filled with indie fashion boutiques, vi...
The Roots’ Black Thought Judges a Sandwich by Its Bread
As a middle-schooler, the Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter was known as “The Pretzel Guy” because he’d spend first period selling hot soft pretzels that he picked up from a local facto...
Where Our Restaurant Critic Ate When He Was a Kid
Three feet high is a privileged vantage from which to scope out a city’s food scene. In the New York of my childhood, restaurants were as beloved and comfortable as classrooms and probably more fami...
Chef Hasung Lee Is Going Full French Laundry at Oyatte
To millions of Netflix viewers around the world, Hasung Lee is better known as the Culinary Monster. That was the burly 37-year-old’s nom de guerre when he competed on the second season of Culinary ...