Don’t let them eat cake! A private chef accused the staff at a Midtown steakhouse of hogging half of the cake he had baked and brought to his friend’s birthday dinner this week – a sweet betrayal the restaurant blasted as “completely false.” In a now-viral TikTok posted Thursday, Ryan Nordheimer, 25, claimed the staff … Read more
New York’s hottest love story is cooking inside a tiny 400-square-foot Mexican restaurant in Harlem where the kitchen is in the bar, a piano sits front of house and romance (as well as the irresistible scent of beef birria) is always in the air. Husband-and-wife team Karina Garcia, 31, and Eduardo “Lalo” Rodriguez, 36, met while … Read more
An under-the-radar Rocky Mountains resort town – with a name traditionally associated with a New York deli staple – is poised to land on the culinary map, at least that’s the hope of famed chef Todd English. Whitefish, a boomtown in northwest Montana, has become a magnet filled with one-percenters and celebrities looking to escape … Read more
Nobody wants to hear your sog story. Eating a sandwich? Amazing. Eating a soggy sandwich? Kind of the worst — and yet it happens so often. That’s because too many of us don’t know how to make a sandwich correctly — it’s all about the build, says former fine dining chef Trever Kunk of Boston, who spoke … Read more
He’s got no reservations. Dominic Sessa, the breakout star of the Oscar-winning movie “The Holdovers,” is in talks to play legendary chef and travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain in a biopic that will be called “Tony,” according to Deadline. A24 is reportedly in talks to produce the project. Sessa, 21, rose to fame in “The Holdovers” … Read more
Shirley Chung, best known for appearing on “Top Chef,” revealed that she’s been diagnosed with stage 4 tongue cancer. Chung — who reached the final on Season 14 of the hit cooking competition — said doctors found a “hidden tumor” under her tongue in May. “Since last year December, I had a series of dental … Read more
A roster of top chefs will join the tennis world’s biggest stars at the US Open in Queens next month – headed by the debut of Simon Kim and his cult hit Coqodaq, Side Dish can reveal exclusively. The Flatiron District hotspot – which featured Mayor Eric Adams, Gossip Girl 2.0’s Evan Mock, designer Phillip … Read more
Padma Lakshmi, 53, has spoken out about the tragic death of “Top Chef Masters” star Naomi Pomeroy. “I am deeply saddened to hear of the untimely death of chef Naomi Pomeroy,” Lakshmi, 53, wrote via Instagram on Thursday. Lakshmi continued, “She was always a welcome presence at judges table and I was blessed to get … Read more
World-renowned chef and “Top Chef Masters” star Naomi Pomeroy died after she became trapped underwater while tubing with her husband and a friend on an Oregon river. Pomeroy, 49, was tubing with her husband, Kyle Linden Webster, and another on the Willamette River near Corvallis, Ore., when the group got caught on an “exposed snag … Read more
Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? A buzzy French interior designer opens a gallery in TriBeCa, … Read more
They’re not the fast-food fountain of youth everyone thinks they are. McDonald’s burgers may seem immune to decay, given the avalanche of stories on the noshes looking im-Mac-ulate over time. However, former Golden Arches chef Mike Haracz, who regularly spills industry secrets on TikTok, declared it a huge myth in a recent clip about whether the … Read more
Ordering this way will McMaximize your chances of lovin’ it. Former McDonald’s corporate chef Mike Haracz, who regularly spills industry secrets about the Golden Arches, has divulged the best and worst things to order at the iconic burger monger. Haracz was the Manager of Culinary Innovation for McDonald’s US menu for four years, developing new … Read more
The shocking, premature death over the weekend of Michelin-starred chef James Kent at age 45 cast a pall over Downtown – and the Wall Street area especially. Although Kent had other projects in the works, his Saga Hospitality Group is most closely associated with FiDi. It was announced just last week that the group would … Read more
Brooklyn goes hard at the James Beard Awards. Charlie Mitchell of Clover Hill, a Michelin-starred New American restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, took home the prize this year for best chef in New York. Mitchell beat out four other Empire State nominees for the nod, at one time known as the Oscars of the food world. “There’s … Read more
People were not too egg-cited about this cooking method. A chef went viral showing how she cooks scrambled eggs in boiling water — but viewers were not too enticed. Chef Bethany, who goes by @lilsipper_official on TikTok, often shares her healthy cooking hacks online with her millions of followers. Chef Bethany shocked viewers with her … Read more
They’re nothing but a bunch of im-pastas. A panel of serious Italian chefs have put out a hit on a host of popular American dishes claiming Italian roots. Caught in the culinary crossfire are saucy favorites like spaghetti and meatballs and chicken parmesan, which the pros call inauthentic — and unworthy of a true Italian … Read more
Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill Wednesday at the first Mexican taco stand ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide, and did exactly the same thing he’s been doing for 20 years: searing meat. Though Michelin representatives came by Wednesday to present him with … Read more
A New York hospitality mogul is bringing in famed Waverly Inn chef John DeLucie to help a 150-year-old tavern near the South Street Seaport regain its luster, Side Dish has learned. Eytan Sugarman — whose restaurant empire includes White Horse Tavern, Hunt & Fish Club and the Made In New York Pizza chain — has … Read more
Upper East Side high school freshman Joshua Small is cooking up hope. Small, a French-American student at the Lycée Français de New York, regaled 60 diners as the acting executive chef of East Harlem’s Tastings NYC Saturday, a “Youth to Youth” dinner to raise money for the sick children at the Ronald McDonald House-New York. … Read more
Scalpels down, knives out. Three chefs from New York hospitals competed head-to-head in a three-course, “Top Chef”-style cooking competition Wednesday in front of a live audience at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in Lower Manhattan. The stakes were high. The winner received an all-expenses-paid trip to Napa. Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson — a “Top … Read more