Where to Eat in August
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: W...
Lucie Franc de Ferriere Drinks Hot Lattes During a Heat Wave
Lucie Franc de Ferriere says she grew up “surrounded by cake.” Her family’s chateau, just outside Bordeaux, France, was also a winery, tearoom, and bed-and-breakfast, all serving homemade desser...
Is the Polo Bar Really Moving?
Spend enough time around chefs and restaurateurs and you will quickly find the main topic of any conversation tends not to be the state of Greenmarket kohlrabi or the best way to roast a chicken. It�...
Mexico City’s El Califa de León Arrives in New York
Even people who aren’t familiar with Mexico City’s food scene likely know about El Califa de León, owing to the 60-year-old institution’s reputation as the first taqueria to be awarded More »...
Chad Robertson Is Building Brooklyn’s Next Great Bakery
Anyone who knows anything about bread knows Chad Robertson’s name. And anyone who knows Robertson has been praying he’d grace this city with a location of Tartine, the California-based bakery he c...
Chef Stefano Secchi Takes His Tea With Cheese
In the last year, Stefano Secchi lived through every chef’s nightmare: His Flatiron restaurant, Massara, was starting to hit its stride (and had just become profitable) when a kitchen fire turned in...
Carla Lalli Is Ready to Talk About Everything
It’s a gray summer Tuesday — the most unremarkable kind of day — and Carla Lalli has been missing out. Namely, on summer produce, which has been arriving in droves, ripe, to the Brooklyn Borough...
Why Is Every New Restaurant a ‘Tavern’?
They’re back again, the taverns. Not in the drinkable-museum sense — though you can still visit Fraunces Tavern, the 18th-century inn where George Washington celebrated the routing of the British,...
Zig Zag Is How Hart’s Does an Oyster Bar
“We have a strong belief that there should be an oyster bar in every neighborhood, if not on every corner, of New York City,” says Nialls Fallon, who is opening Zig Zag Oyster Bar with his partner...