Nomad’s Brass polishes up to give diners a glimpse of NYC’s golden age

Nomad’s Brass polishes up to give diners a glimpse of NYC’s golden age

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

Influencers trashed Michelin-praised restaurant — and are slammed for it: ‘You sound like children … stick to Chipotle’

Influencers trashed Michelin-praised restaurant — and are slammed for it: ‘You sound like children … stick to Chipotle’

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

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

Exclusive | Restaurant has optical illusion seating, taking diners on a trippy bus tour of Bangkok — without leaving NYC

Exclusive | Restaurant has optical illusion seating, taking diners on a trippy bus tour of Bangkok — without leaving NYC

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

Diners claim they had the worst $2,000 dinner at Hamptons restaurant — eatery fires back with blackmail claims

Diners claim they had the worst ,000 dinner at Hamptons restaurant — eatery fires back with blackmail claims

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

Newly renovated Central Park Boathouse is an absolute shipwreck — with rotten service and inedible food

Newly renovated Central Park Boathouse is an absolute shipwreck — with rotten service and inedible food

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

Michelin-starred sushi restaurant accused of giving women ‘smaller portions’ by NYC influencer: ‘We won’t be back’

Michelin-starred sushi restaurant accused of giving women ‘smaller portions’ by NYC influencer: ‘We won’t be back’

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

This sexy new restaurant is reinventing the Rockefeller Center concourse

This sexy new restaurant is reinventing the Rockefeller Center concourse

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

Customers are balking at this restaurant’s absurd $73 breakfast — here’s why

Customers are balking at this restaurant’s absurd  breakfast — here’s why

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

Jean-Georges’ new Four Twenty Five is NYC’s most beautiful and important new restaurant

Jean-Georges’ new Four Twenty Five is NYC’s most beautiful and important new restaurant

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

What does it take for a restaurant to earn a coveted Michelin star? Inside the rigorous process

What does it take for a restaurant to earn a coveted Michelin star? Inside the rigorous process

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

Famous chef’s new restaurant is the NYC’s most bizarre dining experience

Famous chef’s new restaurant is the NYC’s most bizarre dining experience

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

I ordered ‘tuna tartare’ — I was served a can of tuna with chips for $18

I ordered ‘tuna tartare’ — I was served a can of tuna with chips for

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

Greece’s notorious rip-off restaurant strikes again: Tourist charged $770 for shrimp and a drink

Greece’s notorious rip-off restaurant strikes again: Tourist charged 0 for shrimp and a drink

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

Inside the world’s hardest place to get a reservation with a 4-year waitlist

Inside the world’s hardest place to get a reservation with a 4-year waitlist

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

Take the (caviar) cannoli: Soho’s buzzy Sartiano’s is on its way to glory

Take the (caviar) cannoli: Soho’s buzzy Sartiano’s is on its way to glory

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

I’m a waitress — I charged a customer who sat for hours a $50 rental fee

I’m a waitress — I charged a customer who sat for hours a  rental fee

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

Central Park Boathouse dining is back — and it’s very bad

Central Park Boathouse dining is back — and it’s very bad

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

Influencer’s one-star review of burger restaurant sparks firestorm

Influencer’s one-star review of burger restaurant sparks firestorm

A prominent TikTok influencer who can earn thousands of dollars per video said he was prepared to use his platform to criticize a small Sydney burger restaurant in a dispute over an “unfair” one-star Google review. Pavel “Pasha” Grozdov, who has more than 830,000 followers across his social media accounts where he has racked up … Read more

Belgian hospital food earns restaurant guide accolade

Belgian hospital food earns restaurant guide accolade

Hospital food would normally rank alongside school lunches on the culinary charts but a hospital in western Belgium has broken the stereotype after winning approval from a prestigious French restaurant guide. AZ Groeninge in the city of Kortrijk becomes the first hospital in the Benelux to be officially recognized by Gault & Millau for the … Read more