This is one bougie burger. A Philadelphia restaurant that opened on Friday is serving hamburgers with a $700 price tag. The delicacy — on the menu at the DBG, the Drury Beer Garden and dubbed the “Gold Standard” — is made of A5 Wagyu beef, caviar, truffle, lobster flambeed with Louis XIII cognac, gold leaf and … Read more
It’s a culinary catfight. The owner of a buzzy Los Angeles restaurant has accused her estranged husband and co-chef of killing their pet cats in an explosive divorce filing that has rocked Tinseltown and spawned wild rumors on social media. Elizabeth Johnson, 32, and Will Aghajanian, 31, opened Hollywood eatery Horses in late 2021, which … Read more
Come on Barbie, let’s go brunch! The new Malibu Barbie Cafe transports New Yorkers from the Seaport to a girly West Coast beach bungalow where there are pink palm trees, multiple Instagram backgrounds and Madonna’s “Material Girl” blasting on the speakers. “Every detail has been thoughtfully designed to celebrate the iconic Barbie style, with nostalgic … Read more
Heard the one about the $29 hot dog? Big eaters in the Big Apple have become accustomed to paying more for almost everything, but the wildly priced wiener at Alex Stupak’s lively new Mischa at the Citicorp Center is on another level. Mischa’s mighty mongrel is easily the city’s top-priced, restaurant menu tube steak, aside … Read more
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
A Michelin star chef in Spain to looking to put an unusual delicacy on the menu — fish semen. Dabiz Muñoz, a Madrid-based chef, was invited to try the dish by Japanese chef Hiro Sato — and was blown away. The delicacy, called shirako, can be harvested from pufferfish, octopus, monkfish and cod. The semen … Read more
Goodbye rosé all day… hello meatballs on Miami Beach? Nikki Beach, the Miami hotspot where Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton partied and rosé-drinking was turned into a lifestyle, is facing being evicted to make way for a Carbone spin-off. Its city-owned property parcel, valued at $1 billion, is looking set to be handed to Boucher … Read more
Restaurateur Marco Moreira is either the bravest man in New York — or the craziest. His recently reopened Tocqueville, heroically reborn after a blaze and rebranded as 15East @ Tocqueville, flaunts the post-pandemic restaurant rules. The seasonally driven, Modern American place has bet the farm on wooing customers to a plush jewel box that’s everything … Read more
Fido can now officially join your outdoor dining reservation. The Food and Drug Administration recently updated their 2022 list of food regulations to allow “pet dogs” — not just service animals — “in outdoor dining areas, where approved.” Pet dogs are still not allowed indoors or wherever food is prepared, not even to walk through … Read more
Calorie counts have become a staple on restaurant menus — and new research shows this information has potentially saved the lives and wallets of thousands of Americans. The Tufts University study, published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Open, found calorie counts have prevented at least 28,000 cancer cases linked to obesity and 16,700 cancer deaths … Read more
A new challenger in the Big Apple’s neverending pizza wars is not only making its own pies, breads and pastas — but also grinding up artisanal, “ancient” grains to make the flour that goes into them, Side Dish has learned. Heritage Restaurant & Pizza Bar near Bryant Park plans to use ancient grains milled at … Read more
New Yorkers are getting priced out — of eating sandwiches. A ham and cheese sandwich at Eli Zabar’s E.A.T. on the Upper East Side now costs $31.57 — $29 plus tax — and Gothamites are experiencing intense sticker shock over the cost of what was once a working-class staple. It sparked outrage among eaters when … Read more
This isn’t your typical Bloody Mary. A waitress has been fired from a Japanese restaurant after creating a cocktail with her own blood allegedly at the request of a paying customer. The cafe Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku, which loosely translates to “Problem Child Dark Cafe,” tweeted the disturbing news earlier this month. Management publicly apologized, … Read more
People on Reddit lambasted a man after he lied to his girlfriend about what was in the food they ordered. “AITA for not telling my girlfriend her food had shrimp in it,” asked Reddit user “Every-Community9492” in an April 10 post on Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” (AITA) subreddit. In the post, the writer explained that he’s … Read more
On a recent evening at buzzing Columbus Circle dining destination Bad Roman, Morgan Raum, 26, took out her iPhone and LED light to capture the server swirling black truffle honey atop the whipped ricotta appetizer. But before she could finish capturing the sticky moment for her Instagram account @ToooMuchFood, an angry diner at the table … Read more
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who is known for his daring insults, has received a taste of his own medicine from fed-up Australians following the announcement of his almost $535-a-ticket Sydney restaurant. The British restaurateur announced on Tuesday he was bringing three Michelin-star Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to fine dining venue Aria for three nights from May … Read more
A Sydney vlogger has shared her outrage over an “obscene” restaurant surcharge she was forced to pay in a sign the city’s cost of living crisis is ramping up. TikTokker Lisa Sun detailed the unusual expense in a video titled “unreasonable surcharge rant (and) daily blog” which she posted to the social media platform. After … Read more
Famed New York City restaurateur Keith McNally slammed his native people on Monday for being the “worst tippers.” The 71-year-old British-born Balthazar owner posted a photo of the British flag Monday to Instagram, boldly claiming, “ASHAMED TO BE ENGLISH.” “I Wonder Why English People Are Generally The WORST TIPPERS in N.Y. Restaurants?” he continued in … Read more
A Domino’s delivery driver is stunning the internet with the number of tips — or lack thereof — she receives on the average shift. Milena Diaz has posted a series of TikTok videos in which she reveals the customer’s total and how much they tipped, leaving 10s of thousand of viewer’s “blown away.” While the … Read more
A few weeks ago, Christina Izzo, 33, was out with a couple of friends at Ye’s Apothecary, a Szechuan restaurant and speakeasy that opened in NYC’s Chinatown last year. They asked to order some more food — the restaurant serves a menu of $12 to $15 small plates — but were told they couldn’t: The … Read more