Max Hardy, who helped bring a new level of chef-driven yet accessible cuisine to his native Detroit, and who was widely considered among the most promising of a young generation of Black culinary stars, died on Monday. He was 40. His publicist, David E. Rudolph, announced the death but did not provide a cause or […]
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José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up
Since October, organizers and Palestinian cooks working with the World Central Kitchen — the aid organization founded by the renowned Spanish chef José Andrés — have served more than 32 million meals in Gaza, the group has said. Plans for the U.S. military to build a floating pier to bring aid into the enclave would […]
Read MoreDavid Bouley, Influential New York Chef, Dies at 70
David Bouley, the American chef who first translated French nouvelle cuisine into the New American style that shaped modern high-end cooking, died Monday at his home in Kent, Conn. He was 70. The death, from a heart attack, was confirmed by his literary agent, Lisa Queen. Mr. Bouley’s simple but sleek cuisine made a grand […]
Read MoreThe Hospitality Group Redefining Korean Restaurants in New York
Even on a chilly Monday evening, the wait at Cho Dang Gol was more than an hour. Crowds of 20-somethings spilled out of the homey restaurant in Manhattan’s Koreatown, where steam billowed from stone bowls of soondubu jigae in a dining room ornamented with paper lanterns and musical instruments. Some hopeful customers peeked inside, anxious […]
Read MoreIntroducing: The Dickhead Chef Boyfriend
You get to his place after a long shift, and he’s made pasta from scratch. He pours you a glass of red wine that you could never afford to buy yourself – he got it free from work, because he remembered how much you loved it the last time you came in. He ladles a […]
Read MoreThe Patty Melt Is Tired of Hearing About Your Favorite Burger
We patty-melt people will always be outnumbered by the hamburger people, and we know it. The burger is pillowy, rounded and voluptuous. The patty melt is starchy, angled and flat. The burger is popular the way vanilla ice cream is popular. The patty melt, popular with a small minority, is black raspberry. It is the […]
Read MoreGordon Ramsay Isn’t Going Anywhere
Gordon Ramsay insists he never wanted to be the bad boy. His image as the brash, bellicose chef and restaurateur, as the master of the culinary meltdown, was, he said, largely a matter of getting off on the wrong foot. Ramsay was introduced to British viewers on “Boiling Point” (1999), a five-part series on Channel […]
Read MoreA Japanese Holiday Feast, By Way of California
The chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett’s San Francisco izakaya, Rintaro, will turn 10 next year, and in a city crowded with good places to eat, and a state with access to spectacular ingredients year-round, it still stands out. The restaurant’s courtyard, hidden from the street behind a nondescript door, is filled with fragrant fruit trees (including […]
Read MoreHow to Host a Proper English Pub Lunch
The chef Margot Henderson was 10 when she catered her first party, a birthday celebration for her younger brother Robin, then 5, in their hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. “Our mother was a complete health nut who would feed us apple cider vinegar and honey,” recalls Henderson. “I wasn’t going to let my brother suffer like […]
Read MoreBarbara Lynch Has Closed Most of Her Boston Restaurants
The Boston chef Barbara Lynch, whom more than 20 employees accused of multiple forms of workplace abuse in a New York Times report last year, announced Friday that most of her restaurants had closed at the end of 2023. Those include her fine-dining restaurant Menton, one of the city’s most prestigious destinations since it opened […]
Read MoreBill Granger, Chef Who Brought Avocado Toast to the World, Dies at 54
Mr. Granger had an early interest in food, bringing his parents a “silver service” of breakfast in bed from the age of 5 and working his way through magazine recipe cards, before turning his attention to the food writers Elizabeth David and Margaret Fulton. He feasted on Melbourne’s richly diverse cuisine, eating dim sum with […]
Read MoreProtests Are an American Tradition. But Why at Restaurants?
George Recine, a Boston advertising executive, knew exactly where to eat lunch last week during a business trip to Philadelphia. “What better place to stop by than Goldie?’” he said. Mr. Recine, 45, had read reports about a protest there a few days earlier that Pennsylvania’s governor and the White House had condemned as antisemitic. […]
Read MoreThe Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate This Year
Each year as we travel the country to scout out candidates for our many best-restaurant lists — whether the big national listing in the early fall or the new “best of” city lists we’ve begun rolling out — our reporters and editors eat hundreds of meals in dozens of states. Inevitably we come across that […]
Read MoreBest Restaurants in Mexico City: 25 Essential Dishes to Eat
How do you sift through Mexico City’s roughly 57,000 places to eat — more than twice as many as there are in New York City — and choose the most essential dishes? “In a city like Mexico City, how do you narrow it down? It’s insane. The exercise is absurd to begin with,” says Gabriela […]
Read MoreHow Chefs Eat With the NYC Marathon in Mind
Soon after Dave Beran finished the New York City Marathon in 2014, he made his way to one of the fanciest restaurants to Manhattan, Per Se. “I’m sure I looked like I was hit by a bus,” he said. He was shivering and had thrown away his hat midrace: “I just got mad at it, […]
Read MoreFall Is on the Menu for Australia’s State Dinner. The B-52s Are Not.
The fourth state dinner hosted by the Biden administration, to honor Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, will feature a menu of fall vegetables, a backdrop of florals and a selection of instrumental music performed by military bands. “Nurturing our partnerships and relationships with our allies is critically important, especially in these tumultuous times,” […]
Read MoreThe 25 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia
In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These lists will be updated as restaurants close and open, and as we find new gems to recommend. As always, we pay for all of our meals and don’t accept free items. Italian, Tasting Menu Well […]
Read MoreThe Best Restaurants in New Orleans
In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These lists will be updated as restaurants close and open, and as we find new gems to recommend. As always, we pay for all of our meals and don’t accept free items. Modern New Orleans Creole […]
Read MoreMichael Chiarello, Chef and Food Network Star, Dies at 61
Michael Chiarello, a hard-working, TV-ready chef from California’s Central Valley whose culinary prowess and intuitive knack for marketing helped define a chapter of Italian-influenced Northern California cuisine and the rural escapism of the Napa Valley lifestyle, died on Friday in Napa. He was 61. His death, in a hospital, was the result of an acute […]
Read MoreBest Seattle Restaurants
In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These lists will be updated as restaurants close and open, and as we find new gems to recommend. As always, we pay for all of our meals and don’t accept free items. Filipino, Tasting Menu It’s […]
Read MoreMichelin Stars Can Come With Some Costs for Restaurants
When the chef Caroline Glover heard in June that Michelin would be publishing a restaurant guide to Colorado, she was thrilled at first. “I’ve seen Michelin move across the country, but never thought Colorado would be next,” said Ms. Glover, who co-owns the restaurant Annette, in Aurora. One of the state’s culinary leaders, she was […]
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