A lot of fancy New York restaurants have opened outposts in Miami. But what happens when a fancy South Beach place takes the plunge in Manhattan? Casa Tua, a Miami Italian-ish joint that has been a magnet for boldfacers in the Sunshine State, leapfrogged to the Upper East Side this month. While the original has … Read more
A lot of fancy New York restaurants have opened outposts in Miami. But what happens when a fancy South Beach place takes the plunge in Manhattan? Casa Tua, a Miami Italian-ish joint that has been a magnet for boldfacers in the Sunshine State, leapfrogged to the Upper East Side this month. While the original has … Read more
Brass is a restaurant that makes grown-ups feel younger. It has all the buzz of an Instagram-powered eatery aimed at the Gen Z trust-fund crowd but with a higher comfort level, professional service and a French-American menu that makes “traditional” seem trendy. Tucked deep inside the century-old Evelyn Hotel at 7 E. 27th St., plush-and-pretty … Read more
Their restaurant review was given a thumbs way down. Influencers ripping restaurants has practically become a genre unto itself. However, one food critic wannabe divided her TikTok audience after skewering an acclaimed Greek seafood depot — with one naysayer telling her to “stick to Chipotle.” The online epicure, who goes by @so_rhidiculous on the platform, … Read more
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
This restaurant offers a lot of Bang-kok for your buck. Many venues aim to “transport” people to another country, but Bang Bang Bangkok is bringing Thailand to them. The Brooklyn-based fine-dining depot invites customers to eat their way around the Thai capital without leaving Gotham — thanks to immersive projection technology. In a trippy twist, … Read more
It’s a fine dining food fight. The owners of a high-end Hamptons steakhouse are hitting back after two TikTok influencers accused the eatery of providing “the worst $2,000 meal they ever had.” Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens, who run the review page “The VIP List,” slammed Mavericks Montauk in a viral video shared on Tuesday … Read more
After an 18-month closure, the dining room of the beloved Central Park Boathouse reopened under new management six weeks ago. It wasn’t worth the wait. The redesigned lakeside restaurant from Legends Hospitality, which runs the food concessions at Yankee Stadium and atop the World Trade Center, is more spirit-crushing than a three-pitch strikeout. It’s an insult to … Read more
Luis Carlos Alvarez Zaragoza, a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and food influencer, recently claimed that two-star Michelin restaurant Sushi Noz serves smaller portions for women than men. Sushi Noz is facing an allegation about serving women smaller food portions when compared to men’s. TikTok/luiscarloszara In a one-minute and 34-second TikTok clip, Zaragoza, who goes by @luiscarloszara on social media, posted his grievances over … Read more
Rockefeller Center’s owners were thinking outside the Rock — way outside — when they brought bar/restaurant Smith & Mills to the fabled Midtown complex. The speakeasy-like lounge is a hiding-in-plain-sight delight. The new venue was originally supposed to open a year ago, and it’s the last sort of place you expect in the landmark’s underground concourse, which is teeming … Read more
This overpriced eatery needs a wake-up call. Hide restaurant in London serves a scrambled eggs and toast meal for $73. The costly menu has many restaurantgoers perplexed by the egregiously overvalued simple dish. The Michelin-starred restaurant, known for its fine dining experience, sparked controversy online last year for serving scrambled eggs and toast for $40. … Read more
Four Twenty Five, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s gorgeous new Park Avenue restaurant, is more than a place for prime movers to feast on charred and marinated Jurgielewicz duck breast. The jewel-box, modern-American eatery at 425 Park Avenue rides the crest of an ambitious East Midtown dining wave that includes reopened Casa Lever, David Burke’s Park Avenue Kitchen and soon-to-come new … Read more
Earning a Michelin star stands as the ultimate award for a restaurant, symbolizing culinary mastery and an extraordinary dining journey. Across the globe, the Michelin Guide employs rigid criteria to judge and award these prestigious stars. Restaurants cannot apply for Michelin stars; they are selected through a meticulous process. Inspectors visit anonymously, usually multiple times, to experience … Read more
Michelin-starred chef and international humanitarian Jose Andres lays a big, fat goose egg at the Bazaar at the Ritz-Carlton Nomad (35 West 28th St., TheBazaar.com) — the year’s most under-achieving new restaurant. Andres has many kinds of restaurants around the world including Middle Eastern-inspired Zaytinya on the hotel’s ground floor; he’s a prime mover behind … Read more
What a fancy feast. Toronto realtor Sophie Bokelmann found herself in a fishy culinary predicament last week. Known for sharing snippets of her day-to-day life on TikTok, Bokelmann couldn’t resist detailing her dining ordeal at a local restaurant — though she opted to keep the eatery’s identity under wraps. In an Aug. 27 TikTok video … Read more
My big fat Greek restaurant bill. After famously charging a Montana couple nearly $900 for a few aperitifs, Greece’s most infamous restaurant, DK Oyster, is being blamed for yet another act of epicurean extortion. This time, aggrieved Italian tourists have accused the Myokonos-based eatery of sticking them with a $773 (€711) bill for a cocktail, … Read more
Your server will be right with you — in four years. An unassuming pub in England has been named the toughest restaurant in the world to get a table — even beating the highly influential New York scene. Located in Bristol, in the hills two and a half hours from London, The Bank Tavern currently … Read more
Put Zero Bond club king Scott Sartiano in charge of an iconic dining venue — previously Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Mercer Kitchen — hire famed chef Alfred Portale as your culinary director, and what do you get? Caviar cannoli, for one thing. The “wowee-look-at-me” item on Sartiano’s otherwise normal-sounding menu is a step up from Portale’s idea of Italian … Read more
A “Burger World” restaurant waitress in North Bay, Ontario, admitted she charged one customer a $50 booth rental fee for sitting at the establishment for several hours. Tiffany Elsie, who goes by @tiffanyelsie.e1 on TikTok, posted the 19-second clip on July 8, which accumulated more than 442,100 views. “POV: You’re a waitress and someone has been sitting … Read more
The Dining Millions are eagerly anticipating the fabled Central Park Boathouse lakefront dining room reopening in late summer or fall. I often enjoyed it before previous operator Dean Poll gave it up last year. But hospitality giant Legends’ just-launched Boathouse Cafe, a casual, counter-service precursor to the main venue — it’s on an alfresco patio with nice greenery … Read more