In a recent ranking by Dojo, a business-support platform, of “The Hardest Restaurant Reservations to Get in the World,” the notoriously exclusionary Rao’s was the only Big Apple eatery to make the top ten at No. 2. But most every new restaurant in town might as well be Rao’s. In my twenty-five years on the dining … Read more
Nowadays, restaurants are making the act of booking a table into an extreme sport, forcing people to either join year-long waitlists or buy reservations from people reselling them for thousands of dollars. So it’s no surprise that the demand for nearly impossible-to-book dining experiences is at an all-time high, according to a new report from … 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
As the art cognoscenti and global talent dealers descend on South Florida for the annual bacchanalia that is Art Basel Miami, this year they might consider skipping some of the hipster hotels in favor of these classics. All of them have just emerged from major renovations that render them contenders for the title of “icon.” … Read more
He’s leaving the Big Cheese for the Big Apple. On Monday, it was announced that that the Green Bay Packers were trading quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets. The big news means that Gang Green’s Super Bowl odds are much improved, while Rodgers will soon have a much wider array of venues for … Read more