Exclusive | Meet the NYC chef who is the only female pizza maker featured in Michelin Guide

Exclusive | Meet the NYC chef who is the only female pizza maker featured in Michelin Guide

She’s a pizz-a culinary history.  Giorgia Caporuscio is breaking the sauce ceiling as the only female pizza chef featured in the Michelin Guide. The Italian native said when it comes to kneading dough, a woman’s touch is better — especially for the Neapolitan-style pizza she makes at her Hell’s Kitchen restaurant, Don Antonio. “Women have less … Read more

Exclusive | NYC’s last fabric flower business has been making celebs shine and beautifying the Big Apple for over a century

Exclusive | NYC’s last fabric flower business has been making celebs shine and beautifying the Big Apple for over a century

This once-popular Big Apple industry may be wilting, but one business is still blooming. Over a century ago, a bustling Midtown neighborhood was home to an abundance of textile manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers — including dozens of artificial flower makers. “The Garment District was thriving, it was alive — hundreds of thousands of people here manufacturing … Read more

People wait two hours to spend $25 on a cup of Tiktok-famous chocolate-covered strawberries

People wait two hours to spend  on a cup of Tiktok-famous chocolate-covered strawberries

It’s berry nuts. New Yorkers are waiting as long as two hours in the cold for a $25 cup of strawberries, chocolate and pistachio cream. At the bustling Bryant Park Winter Village, the Strawberro booth is drawing huge lines for its berry desserts. It’s flagship offering is the $25 “Dubai Chocolate” with berries, melted Belgian … Read more

NYC’s media mogul hangout Michael’s toasts 35th anniversary: ‘It’s all about evolution’

NYC’s media mogul hangout Michael’s toasts 35th anniversary: ‘It’s all about evolution’

My first lunch at Michael’s was in 1995. Playboy magazine had flown me in from Moscow where I had snagged an exclusive interview with the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was then running for president of Russia.  It felt like everybody who was anybody was in the room, which glowed with its minimalist design, spectacular flower … Read more

New Yorkers are ice skating in tank tops as Bryant Park Christmas market opens amidst heat wave

New Yorkers are ice skating in tank tops as Bryant Park Christmas market opens amidst heat wave

At Bryant Park, Christmas is in the air — even if the air is a balmy 80 degrees. Temps in the city hit 80 on Wednesday and 74 degrees Thursday, but that didn’t stop people from ice skating and enjoying festive fare. The Winter Village — complete with ice rink, Christmas tree, holiday market, Lodge … Read more

Jacquemus opens up in Soho, Barbie at MAD, more NYC events this week

Jacquemus opens up in Soho, Barbie at MAD, more NYC events this week

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? Jacquemus’s first U.S. store, a Barbie exhibit at MAD, and … Read more

Exclusive | I stayed at the Marriott Marquis. It’s the perfect hotel for Broadway fans

Exclusive | I stayed at the Marriott Marquis. It’s the perfect hotel for Broadway fans

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Every street in New York City tells a story. 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue happens to tell quite a few. … Read more

Cake-gate: Private chef accuses high-end NYC steakhouse staff of eating his birthday cake

Cake-gate: Private chef accuses high-end NYC steakhouse staff of eating his birthday cake

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

Exclusive | New Rockefeller Center attraction offers 360-degree view of NYC — from 900 feet in the air

Exclusive | New Rockefeller Center attraction offers 360-degree view of NYC — from 900 feet in the air

It rocks! A new 360-degree skyline attraction at Rockefeller Center is guaranteed to bring you a step — or a few hundred — above the rest. Top of the Rock unveiled its brand-new Skylift ride — a stunning ascending circular platform that propels up to 13 riders 900 feet in the air. The attraction, which … Read more

NYC’s first Rainforest Cafe to open at the Empire State Building — but there’s a catch

NYC’s first Rainforest Cafe to open at the Empire State Building — but there’s a catch

No monkey business. New Yorkers will get their first taste of the Rainforest Cafe when the classic theme restaurant opens on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building the first week of October. The caw caw-worthy news comes after the Big Apple opening of the beloved, conservation-focused chain restaurant — a staple of upscale malls … Read more

Camel and ‘illegal pheasant’: Welcome to NYC’s wildest Indian restaurant

Camel and ‘illegal pheasant’: Welcome to NYC’s wildest Indian restaurant

Veerays is the best new Indian restaurant East Midtown has seen in many, many years. Chef/owner Hermant Mathur’s dishes, from familiar coconut and black pepper shrimp (an $18 starter) to rarely-served camel kebabs (a $35 main), blew me away.  But, beyond the food, Mathur and co-owner Sonny Solomon have made some strange decisions. Veerays hides behind a … Read more

‘The Frog’ is dead: Fabled NYC restaurant La Grenouille has met its long overdue end

‘The Frog’ is dead: Fabled NYC restaurant La Grenouille has met its long overdue end

La Grenouille, the faded but once-fabulous frog of East 52nd Street, croaked for good this week. Owner Philippe Masson announced the closure on Instagram on Wednesday, posting that he was “moving on to explore new terrain and pursue other dreams,” adding that “an enormous amount of love, commitment and dedication went into making La Grenouille … Read more

Din Tai Fung is one of NYC’s hardest reservations — but the soup dumplings are totally worth it

Din Tai Fung is one of NYC’s hardest reservations — but the soup dumplings are totally worth it

They’re the soup dumplings that saved the Big Apple’s summer. Our sluggish, outdoors-focused dining scene needed a lift. The end of last year saw major openings from Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Daniel Boulud and Andrew Carmellini, but recent months have been far less exciting — and the new fall crop looks thin. Thankfully, there’s been one huge … Read more

Exclusive | NYC’s most unhinged new nightclub is hiding in plain sight — just steps from Billionaire’s Row: ‘I’m crawling around as a poodle’

Exclusive | NYC’s most unhinged new nightclub is hiding in plain sight — just steps from Billionaire’s Row: ‘I’m crawling around as a poodle’

West 57th Street is the new Bushwick. In spring 2023, a historic church around the corner from Columbus Circle reopened its doors as a wildly wacky nightclub described as “a Broadway show, but with house music” — and the neighborhood may never be the same. Seemingly plucked from grungiest Brooklyn and plopped down on the … Read more

It’s last call for iconic Midtown bar Neary’s

It’s last call for iconic Midtown bar Neary’s

Neary’s, the wonderful pub that Jimmy Neary launched at 348 E. 57th St. in 1967, closed its doors on Friday for the last time. Not surprisingly, it’s been called the end of an era. But while I’m sad to lose Neary’s fabled Irish coffee and lamb chops, I couldn’t care less about the era. An … Read more

Wild, pricey popsicles are the cool new trend in NYC fine dining

Wild, pricey popsicles are the cool new trend in NYC fine dining

Fine-dining and popsicles might seem like an awkward union, but at trendy restaurants across the city, chefs are serving frozen desserts on a stick. “Everybody’s doing popsicles,” said Jing Wen Ng, the chef de cuisine at Nōksu (49 W. 32nd St., Koreatown, NoksuNYC.com), a 15-seat chef’s counter. She serves a haute pop as a palate-cleansing … Read more

Papaya King returns to Manhattan, but is it really NYC’s best hot dog?

Papaya King returns to Manhattan, but is it really NYC’s best hot dog?

Hot dog lovers rejoiced this week with the reopening of Papaya King at 206 E. 86 St., around the corner from where the original stood on Third Avenue for 89 years until it was demolished two years ago. It’s great to have it back in all its tacky glory. Goofy signs again tout the benefits … Read more

NYC home to the world’s top tourist attraction for 2024 — beating out the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum

NYC home to the world’s top tourist attraction for 2024 — beating out the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum

The world is in a New York state of mind. The Empire State Building was ranked the top tourist attraction on the planet in TripAdvisor’s newly-released 2024 Traveler’s Choice Awards, with the 102-floor skyscraper towering over the likes of the Eiffel Tower and Rome’s Colosseum. A visit to Midtown Manhattan’s most iconic tall building — completed … Read more

Long-awaited NYC restaurant Din Tai Fung gets onslaught of bad reviews — for not opening

Long-awaited NYC restaurant Din Tai Fung gets onslaught of bad reviews — for not opening

They’re dumping on the dumplings. Impatient New York foodies are roasting a highly anticipated Tawainese Midtown eatery with poor reviews online — all because it still has not opened for nearly two years since being announced. The globally popular Xiaolongbao soup dumpling and noodle chain Din Tai Fung, which is coming to Broadway between West 50th … Read more

A latte fun: NYC cafe lets you print photos on drinks that look ‘exactly’ like you

A latte fun: NYC cafe lets you print photos on drinks that look ‘exactly’ like you

These photos are worth a latte words. Moka Matcha Cafe in Midtown can print a photo on top of any frothy beverage — and customers are getting a caffeine buzz over how accurate the foamy resemblances are. Nate Myles of Harlem was so amazed at how the etching on top of his vanilla cappuccino looked … Read more