Sourdough bread might be what’s keeping malls from going sour themselves. A new economic report suggests that the proverbial glue holding some of the nation’s shopping hubs together is a chain restaurant that needs no introduction — The Cheesecake Factory. Financial analyst Matt Reidy shared data this week that shows that 93% of loans backed … Read more
“Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?” Taylor Swift sang in her 2019 song “Lover,” and in new photos of her and Travis Kelce, it certainly felt like the latter. In photos obtained by TMZ, the pop icon was seen cuddled up with apparent new beau Kelce at a swank Kansas City restaurant … Read more
High-profile habitues of fabled Midtown French restaurant La Grenouille are chasing frogs’ legs and foie gras elsewhere due to a mysterious, near-three-months shutdown. Owner Philippe Masson shuttered the place when it failed a June 27 pressure test on gas pipes after new meters were installed. The fabulous frog was supposed to reopen on Sept. 7 … Read more
Espresso with a side of violence? OK, that’s not amore. Wild footage obtained by Italian news source Corriere del Veneto shows waiters brawling with customers at Caffè Chioggia in Venice, Italy’s famed St. Mark’s square. Seven waiters and four patrons with a “foreign nationality” were involved in the scuffle, according to the local outlet. The … Read more
Forget free rent. How about free food? A Manhattan landlord is is asking an admittedly steep $20,000 a month to rent a three-bedroom apartment in Midtown — but meanwhile dangling a $20,000 monthly food credit at the posh restaurant downstairs to entice a hungry tenant, Side Dish has learned. The fully renovated, 2,000-square-foot apartment at … Read more
A Florida restaurant owner is calling out dine-and-dashers who target his store for his “wall of shame, filming the culprits and posting the often heated confrontation on social media Ken Brackins, owner of Rick’s on the River in Tampa, Fla., took matters into his own hands as he guilt-tripped dashers into humiliation following the brazen … Read more
A ritzy Brisbane, Australia restaurant has gone viral for its “eye wateringly expensive”, caviar-topped lasagna that will set you back nearly $50 a serving Celebrity chef Gillian Hirst first invented her famously Australian take on the Italian classic in 1992, when a staggering 400 portions per week of sand crab lasagna were served to ecstatic … Read more
Another day, another online debate about splitting the bill. Honestly, there needs to be an official etiquette book for this sort of stuff! A woman has taken to the Moms on A Budget Facebook group to ask whether it’s normal to split the bill at a family member’s child’s restaurant birthday party. When she and her family were invited to … Read more
Customers are increasingly fee-d up, and it’s just getting worse. You better check your restaurant bill more closely — otherwise, you might be unknowingly paying for a “wellness fee” or “kitchen appreciation fee” along with a tip. Restaurants across the U.S. are implementing bizarre add-ons, which can shockingly tack an extra 20% onto a check. … Read more
It’s all about selling a fishy fix at this Crack house. An Arkansas seafood restaurant named “The Crack House” has caused a stir on social media — with some concerned its unique name could be interpreted by returning college students as an establishment to buy drugs. “All I’m saying is I’m selling addicting food, that’s it,” William Ford, owner … Read more
Make room, Balthazar! After twenty-six years as Manhattan’s reigning popular-French favorite, Keith McNally’s beloved Soho brasserie has an upstart, (slightly) uptown challenger. Just-opened Cafe Chelsea (218 W. 23rd St.) is the culinary and celebrity centerpiece of the fabled Chelsea Hotel, eclipsing the reborn inn’s nostalgic, Spanish-style El Quijote and intimate Lobby Bar. The old hotel, a fabled … Read more
Apparently this tourist dining destination never heard the old idiom about not [bleeping] where you eat. A restaurant in Israel has stirred up a crapstorm online after serving up brown ice cream in a toilet-themed vessel, as seen in a viral video eliciting gags across TikTok. In the retch-worthy clip — filmed at a restaurant … Read more
A Las Vegas restaurant whose parent is led by Michelin-starred chef Thomas Keller was sued on Thursday by a government agency, which accused managers of sexually harassing female and male employees on a daily basis. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Bouchon Las Vegas knew or should have known about the “ubiquitous, open, frequent, and … 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
Well, this takes the cake. A family was shocked to discover they were charged 20 euros — about $22 — to have their cake cut into 20 pieces. The group was celebrating a birthday at an unidentified restaurant in Palermo, Sicily. They ordered about $130 worth of pizza and drinks, not including the “20 X … Read more
After a half-century working in the “swamp,” Joe Biden knows how to play hide-and-seek. So when the then vice-president of the United States had clandestine dinner meetings with some of his troubled son Hunter’s cronies, he did so in a very private room at his favorite Washington, DC, restaurant, Café Milano. According to records found … Read more
Disgraziade. A traveler in Italy took to the internet to vent after noticing he’d been slapped with a surprise 2 euro surcharge at a restaurant in the upscale Lake Como region — for having his sandwich cut in half. The unnamed man, visiting from nearby Milan, had ordered a vegetarian sandwich — with french fries … Read more
Double-check with the staff before ordering any vegan entrees. Horror fans making their way through Kingsland, Texas, are in for a horrifically nostalgic dining experience if they stop at Hooper’s — a lovely Victorian building turned eatery that was once the home of the fictional cannibal Sawyer family from the 1974 classic “The Texas Chainsaw … Read more
A mom has been barred from a Gold Coast venue for a bizarre reason, amid growing controversy over its “insulting” dress code. Mom-of-two Katie Hally was turned away from the Burleigh Pavilion on Saturday after she tried to enter the venue wearing an outfit that bared her neck tattoo. The tattoo, which begins at the … Read more
It was in very poor taste. A fast food restaurant in Argentina has been called “offensive” and “disgusting” by Jewish groups after serving items named after Holocaust victim Anne Frank and former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The tone-deaf stunt was unveiled by the owners of Honky Donky, a burger merchant located in Rafaela City in … Read more