Hot or not? A divisive new dining ranking — more interested in who’s sitting at the table than what’s on the menu — is raising eyebrows in New York’s image-conscious restaurant world. Created by Gen Z programmer Riley Walz, LooksMapping scores hotspots in the Big Apple — and Los Angeles and San Francisco, too — based on AI-driven … Read more
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Monday that it settled a lawsuit with Katz’s Deli over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act at the Lower East Side landmark. The kosher-style restaurant agreed to pay a $20,000 fine and improve its facilities for disabled people through a consent … Read more
New York has long been one of the world’s major cities — and with restaurants to match. Now, some of these eateries are getting some prime recognition. The online travel guide TasteAtlas just released its list of the 100 most legendary restaurants in the world, ranking the spots that are “renowned for their longevity, reliability … Read more
These sisters are eating their way through the Big Apple, and they’re not sugar-coating their reviews of Manhattan’s culinary landmarks. The Shapiro sisters — Sara, 32, Madison, 29, Carly, 28, and Julia, 21 — run the popular social media food account @sistersnacking, which has amassed nearly half a million followers on both Instagram and TikTok. … Read more
We’ll have what they’re having. Sandwich icon Katz’s Delicatessen and beloved Ukrainian East Village eatery Veselka have teamed up to create a new menu mashup: the “pastrogi,” a pastrami-stuffed pierogi. The city’s oldest deli provides its signature deli meat, and Veselka works the pastrami into its classic Eastern European dumplings. Katz’s Deli is known for … Read more