The curtain rose late on Brasserie Boulud across from Lincoln Center, but the spectacular show is worth the wait. Daniel Boulud’s 225-seat successor to his cherished Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud at 1900 Broadway took months longer to open than planned. Boulud’s Dinex Group team needed the time for construction after the brasserie’s dated predecessors closed in June … Read more
A swing and a Mich for artificial intelligence? The Michelin Guide, revered as the world’s foremost restaurant rating system, The Michelin Guide, revered as the world’s foremost restaurant rating system, tasked AI to write its 2026 review of Dallas, Texas eateries, claims a jaw-dropping new report. And it’s leaving a foul taste in foodies’ mouths, with outraged … Read more
Cafe Charmant rocks Bleecker Street with a double-dose of scene and cuisine. Catch Hospitality Group’s latest restaurant is the biggest West Village sensation since an unknown Bob Dylan first played the coffeehouses. After the runaway success of Or’esh, The Eighty Six and Taylor Swift-favorite Corner Store, the Catch team, backed by Houston megabillionaire Tilman Fertitta, seemed … Read more
The area around Sutton Place has been a culinary dead zone ever since the beloved Irish pub Neary’s closed two years ago. Now, at last, the area has fresh life with the opening of The Derby Club in the former Neary’s space at 348 East 57th Street. The new spot from chef/partner Ed Cotton is not … Read more
They’re cleaning up their act. A restaurant that has been awarded one of the culinary industry’s highest honors is fighting its way back from a one-star hygiene rating. In 2022, Ynyshir Restaurant near Machynlleth became the first restaurant in Wales to receive a two-Michelin-star rating. Ynyshir is famed for its 30-course tasting menu that highlights … Read more
Peak, the 101st-floor restaurant atop 30 Hudson Yards, has reached new heights. Opened by London-based Rhubarb Hospitality just before the pandemic, the eatery never quite hit its stride. Last fall, Tao Group took over as management. After a thoughtful redesign, it reopened as Peak With Priceless at the end of May. It’s now the city’s … Read more
Forget Japanese omakase, haute Korean set menus and trendy steakhouses. The city’s hardest-to-get restaurant reservations all have one thing in common — they’re Indian. And they’re all terrific. The Subcontinent’s kaleidoscopic, spice-drenched flavors are here at higher quality and in greater variety — from the rich curries of the north to the delicate dosas of … Read more
If the Big Apple has one food trend that needs to die, it’s food halls – those indoor clusters of same-old “favorites” that might or might not be available at any particular time you go. Just-opened Shaver Hall on the ground floor of the former Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue, now owned by … Read more
A flashy new West Hollywood rooftop restaurant may have the views — but one Instagram food critic says the food left him feeling “fleeced.” SUSHISAMBA Los Angeles, the Japanese-Brazilian-Peruvian fusion spot that opened in March atop 649 N. La Peer Drive, has been one of LA’s buzziest new dining rooms, with an 11,000-square-foot rooftop space, sweeping … Read more
Would you like a side of mice with that? Nothing can ruin a fine dining experience quite like little rodents scurrying around tables. Unfortunately, that’s supposedly what happened at one of celeb chef Gordon Ramsay‘s restaurants — and how the wait staff handled the situation is even weirder. Reportedly at Gordon Ramsay Steak in Richmond, … Read more
The East 50s have new restaurants up the wazoo. But they never saw anything like Simon Kim’s three-level spectacle, Cote 550, at 550 Madison Avenue. With more feasting and boozing options than a cruise ship, it’s making the biggest splash in Midtown’s since the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree went up in 1931. The complex is anchored by a … Read more
Let them eat Dot Cakes. New Yorkers and tourists are lining up for hours for the newest viral sensation. Propelled by TikTok and Instagram, demand for Dot Cakes — round little confections in a cup topped with a layer of multicolor nonpareil sprinkles that the social media masses find inexplicably thrilling — has reached insane levels. … Read more
Talk about a Goofy price tag. Disneyland’s fine dining crown jewel, Napa Rose, is under fire from a disgruntled diner who claims the upscale eatery is serving up “mid” food despite charging a king’s ransom. The guest took to Reddit a few days ago to warn fellow Disney diners to “avoid” the Grand Californian Hotel’s … Read more
Meet the year’s best new seafood dish — a Japanese thriller called nabemono. The hot-pot stew, sometimes called “Japan’s bouillabaisse,” is the star of the show at Double Knot, a sceney, jumbo, Japanese restaurant that just opened at 1251 Sixth Avenue (entrance on West 49th Street) on Midtown’s corporate row. As Avra does for Greek … Read more
Demand for reservations for Or’esh (450 W. Broadway, Soho) — the latest restaurant from the scenester-magnet Catch Group — is as intense as the flames on the custom-made charcoal grill in the kitchen. Live-fire cooking is rarer in New York than it should be, and it took O’resh owner Eugene Remm and chef Nadav Greenberg nearly a year to … Read more
Meet the worst Times Square interloper since the Elmos invasion — the “limited edition” anchovy-cheese donut at weirdly punctuated I’m donut ? The Japanese bakery chain, which set up its first US store at 154 W. 45th St. last spring, will stop at nothing to get attention from TikTok influencers. The anchovy donut at I’m donut … Read more
La Boca at the new, High Line-neighboring Faena Hotel brings the Manhattan restaurant scene what it needed — adult-friendly live music without a cover charge in a sophisticated, supper club-like setting. A sextet, Orquesta La Boca, performs tango, bolero and “classic Sinatra” seven nights a week from 8 to11 p.m. It’s one of the most welcome surprises at … Read more
The exchange was spicier than the sauce. A restaurant customer in Tulum, Mexico, was spit-roasted by the saucy owner after leaving them a lukewarm review on Google — with the brass telling her to open her “own restaurant,” per a viral X post. “We will not be listening to you because we don’t cater your … Read more
It was a year no food-lover will forget — dramatic, zany and appalling by turns. Business was robust. Confident restaurateurs launched new places almost daily. If any one trend stood out, it was the growing dominance of the “haves” — the large restaurant companies that grew and expanded no matter what the economic trends. Quality Branded … Read more
The Eighty Six on Bedford Street is the city’s hardest-to-penetrate new restaurant. I expected to hate everything about it. Instead, I had one of my best meals of the year. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. The ten-table steakhouse is a pygmy amidst the city’s mammoth-size beef barns. But it packs a punch … Read more