NYC landlord asking $20K a month in rent — and offering $20K credit at posh restaurant downstairs

NYC landlord asking K a month in rent — and offering K credit at posh restaurant downstairs

Forget free rent. How about free food? A Manhattan landlord is is asking an admittedly steep $20,000 a month to rent a three-bedroom apartment in Midtown — but meanwhile dangling a $20,000 monthly food credit at the posh restaurant downstairs to entice a hungry tenant, Side Dish has learned. The fully renovated, 2,000-square-foot apartment at … Read more

Feds sue star chef’s Vegas restaurant alleging sexual harassment by managers

Feds sue star chef’s Vegas restaurant alleging sexual harassment by managers

A Las Vegas restaurant whose parent is led by Michelin-starred chef Thomas Keller was sued on Thursday by a government agency, which accused managers of sexually harassing female and male employees on a daily basis. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Bouchon Las Vegas knew or should have known about the “ubiquitous, open, frequent, and … Read more

‘Top Chef’ star Kwame Onwuachi joins all-star lineup serving up fare at US Open

‘Top Chef’ star Kwame Onwuachi joins all-star lineup serving up fare at US Open

Celebrated chef Kwame Onwuachi will join a star-studded roster chosen to serve hungry tennis fans at the US Open this summer, Side Dish can reveal exclusively. Onwuachi, the Long Island born, Bronx-raised Nigerian-American chef, wowed New Yorkers with his restaurant Tatiana when it launched at Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall last year — including my colleague … Read more

I was fired for being ‘lazy’ — all I did was check my phone at work

I was fired for being ‘lazy’ — all I did was check my phone at work

She’s toast. A UK restaurant worker claims she secretly filmed herself getting fired by a boss who reported that she had “the worst day of work he’d ever seen.” Sophie Alcock, 20, was sacked from the eatery Toast in Withington, Manchester, this month after just two weeks for alleged phone usage on the job. “The … Read more

These top chefs know what they’re talking about

These top chefs know what they’re talking about

If you’re anyone in the New York City restaurant world, it’s impossible not to know Shari Bayer — an everywhere-at-once publicist, consultant, events organizer, and host of the popular “All in the Industry” podcast, taped in a funky studio behind East Williamsburg’s Roberta’s. But her first book, “Chefwise: Life Lessons From Leading Chefs Around the World” … Read more

Hail to the chef: WH cook dishes on presidents’ food secrets

Hail to the chef: WH cook dishes on presidents’ food secrets

Chef Andre Rush served as a White House chef for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump — and knows their gastronomical secrets. Two of the commanders-in-chief enjoyed noshing on hamburgers. “Like with Trump . . . he liked burgers,” Rush, 49, told The Post. “But also at the same time, Bill … Read more

Forget Jeremy Allen White — this is chef to lust after on ‘The Bear’ Season 2

Forget Jeremy Allen White — this is chef to lust after on ‘The Bear’ Season 2

Kiss the cook — but this time, it’s a different guy.  Move over, Jeremy Allen White, there’s a new chef in town on “The Bear” that fans are going gaga over: Will Poulter’s tattooed pastry chef character, Luca.  “will poulter in the bear s2. look at his fine ass i cannot,” one hot and bothered … Read more

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Some of the Big Apple’s top chefs are packing their knives and toques to open new restaurants in the Hamptons as the summer season unofficially kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend. Star chef Laurent Tourondel –  who created the BLT Steak chain, although he is no longer involved in it, along with L’Amico, Skirt Steak and … Read more

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Some of the Big Apple’s top chefs are packing their knives and toques to open new restaurants in the Hamptons as the summer season unofficially kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend. Star chef Laurent Tourondel –  who created the BLT Steak chain, although he is no longer involved in it, along with L’Amico, Skirt Steak and … Read more

Chef behind LA hot spot Horses accused of killing cats — and worse — in divorce drama

Chef behind LA hot spot Horses accused of killing cats — and worse — in divorce drama

It’s a culinary catfight. The owner of a buzzy Los Angeles restaurant has accused her estranged husband and co-chef of killing their pet cats in an explosive divorce filing that has rocked Tinseltown and spawned wild rumors on social media. Elizabeth Johnson, 32, and Will Aghajanian, 31, opened Hollywood eatery Horses in late 2021, which … Read more

Chef Hilda Baci tries to break world record by cooking for 100 hours

Chef Hilda Baci tries to break world record by cooking for 100 hours

A Nigerian chef cooked up a storm — about 100 hours straight — trying to set a new world record for the longest culinary marathon by an individual. Hilda Bassey, 27, known on social media as Hilda Baci, began cooking in her kitchen Thursday and continued till Monday evening, preparing more than 100 meals in … Read more

Private chef’s $2K pizza for celebrity client blasted: ‘Out of touch with reality’

Private chef’s K pizza for celebrity client blasted: ‘Out of touch with reality’

Definitely not your dollar slice. A private celebrity chef shared an outlandish pizza worth over $2,000 which has led to many calling out the ludicrous lifestyle of the individual that asked for it. Chef Brooke Baevsky shared the journey of shopping, cooking, and serving the gold-infused flatbread in a now-viral and controversial TikTok last week. … Read more

Madonna, Anna Wintour, Queen Elizabeth demanded wild meals: celeb chef

Madonna, Anna Wintour, Queen Elizabeth demanded wild meals: celeb chef

An egg-cellent way to make a living is to cook food for A-listers. Celebrity chef Jeff Schroeter is dishing on the offbeat meals he’s prepared for celebrities including Madonna, Anna Wintour and the late Queen Elizabeth II. Vogue editor Wintour, 73, would “go through different phases [of eating],” he recently revealed on the news.com.au podcast “I’ve … Read more

King Charles is looking to hire a vegan chef at Buckingham Palace

King Charles is looking to hire a vegan chef at Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace has an ad for a job that “is truly like no other.” King Charles is looking to employ a live-in sous chef trained in the vegan arts to prepare him meals. The new cook will help the residence’s head chef and will whip up foods for the royals, staff members and guests. The … Read more

10 best online cooking classes of 2023 for virtual culinary fun from home

10 best online cooking classes of 2023 for virtual culinary fun from home

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Ditch the takeout containers and cook up your own gourmet meals from home, no matter your cooking abilities. Cooking classes are a great idea to spice up your recipe repertoire, host a girls’ night, add some flavor to … Read more

How Guy Fieri became a favorite of fancy chefs — and Al Pacino

How Guy Fieri became a favorite of fancy chefs — and Al Pacino

Chefs want to kill Guy Fieri. But not how you might think. Previously a food-world punchline — Anthony Bourdain once described his shuttered Times Square restaurant, Guy’s American Kitchen, as a “terror dome” — Fieri is now embraced by high-end dining’s biggest names, and “killed” is foodie-speak for chefs over-indulging favored customers. His last dinner … Read more

Keep food fresh with the 7 best vacuum sealers of 2023, per a chef

Keep food fresh with the 7 best vacuum sealers of 2023, per a chef

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. You know what is worse than opening your fridge to find nothing to eat? Opening your freezer and not finding any leftovers either! We love an organized fridge and freezer, stocked with our favorite meal kits and groceries … Read more

Tali Friedman is the kosher cooking guru to the stars

Tali Friedman is the kosher cooking guru to the stars

Tali Friedman is the kosher cooking guru to politicians and celebrities — if they know who to ask. “I don’t advertise or do any marketing,” said the Jerusalem-based mother of four. “People find me by word-of-mouth.” Last summer she was spotted leading Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who are Jewish Orthodox, through Jerusalem’s bustling Machane Yehuda … Read more

Biden administration gas stove ban idea leaves NYC restaurants feeling burned

Biden administration gas stove ban idea leaves NYC restaurants feeling burned

During a Friday night dinner rush, executive chef Peter Petti will have stainless steel pots of pasta water boiling while searing salmon and steaks, all 12 burners ignited on the gas stoves at Sojourn, a New American restaurant on the Upper East Side. Nearly everything on his menu  – from a 30-day, dry-aged NY strip … Read more

Inside the McDonald’s that’s been declared ‘best in the world’

Inside the McDonald’s that’s been declared ‘best in the world’

They’re McLovin’ it. A McDonald’s in Welshpool, Wales, just over the border from England, has been dubbed “the best in the world” by a Michelin-starred chef. Beyond run-of-the-mill Big Macs, the deluxe menu is said to feature sandwiches with truffle-fragrant mayonnaise and Cadbury-chocolate-filled McFlurries. The five-star fast-food claim comes from UK chef Gareth Ward, who … Read more