When the English chef Clare de Boer, 34, opened her restaurant Stissing House in Pine Plains, a sleepy village a two-hour drive north of New York City, in 2022, she envisioned it as a quieter, slower counterpoint to her acclaimed Manhattan restaurants, King and Jupiter. Housed in a Revolutionary War-era former tavern beside the town’s […]
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Here’s The Type Of Cheese Olive Garden Grates At The Table (Spoiler: It’s Not Parmesan)
What’s your favorite part of eating at Olive Garden? Easy — it’s the cheese. Who doesn’t love that moment when the server comes to your table and grates some fresh cheese on your pasta? You hear those six sweet words “let me know when to stop,” and then watch it pile and pile and pile […]
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 MoreIn Puerto Rico, Finding a Way Back to ‘Perfect Beach’
On the northern coast of Puerto Rico — about an hour’s drive west of San Juan, off a wisp of a road threaded through dense green foliage — there exists a long, empty beach that has haunted my dreams for years. On Google Maps, it appears as Punta Caracoles Beach, but I have always thought […]
Read MoreRed Lobster’s Popular Endless Shrimp Deal Ate Into Its Profits
Red Lobster’s “irresistible” all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion has indeed proved hard to resist. The Ultimate Endless Shrimp deal has been so popular that it helped cause a drop in third-quarter profit for the restaurant chain, which had to raise the price to $25 from $20. Thai Union Group, which owns a large stake in the chain, […]
Read MoreIn Belém, Brazil, Addictive Dishes are Flavored by the Rainforest and the River
A foreign visitor walking through Praça Brasil, a leafy square in the Amazonian port city of Belém, might think that the whirring blenders at a dozen nearby food carts were creating the most authentic açaí bowls on earth. That would make sense, for Belém is the capital of Pará state, the global epicenter for growing, […]
Read MoreYou Know About Rockefeller Center’s Tree. Here’s Where to Eat Nearby.
As a local, I ought to hate anything in New York that draws a crowd. In theory, this includes the tree at Rockefeller Center. Once the tree’s lights are switched on — this year, that first happens Wednesday night, just before 10 p.m. — the plaza becomes an unholy gridlocked mob of sightseers, shoppers and […]
Read MoreLexington Candy Shop Serves New York’s Best Egg Creams
When I was growing up in Greenwich Village, my mother would take me uptown — an adventure in itself — to my pediatrician on Park Avenue. Afterward, we went to the Lexington Candy Shop on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 83rd Street for lunch (candy, deceptively, was in short supply). I’d have a chocolate […]
Read MoreLexington Candy Shop Serves New York’s Best Egg Creams
When I was growing up in Greenwich Village, my mother would take me uptown — an adventure in itself — to my pediatrician on Park Avenue. Afterward, we went to the Lexington Candy Shop on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 83rd Street for lunch (candy, deceptively, was in short supply). I’d have a chocolate […]
Read MoreHere’s Why a New York City Lobster Roll (With Fries!) Costs $32
By Eliza Shapiro Photographs by Victoria Will for The New York Times New York City has not always been a lobster roll town. Fifteen years ago, Ms. Povich set out to change that. She first learned to love lobster in the backyard of her grandparents’ house in Maine, which had a kosher kitchen but an […]
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 MoreDrive-Throughs in America Are Thriving
Faith Enokian loves a drive-through. The senior at the University of South Alabama loves them so much she pulls into one at least eight times a week. Sometimes it’s just to pick up food. Other times she asks an often-baffled Starbucks barista to make “whatever your favorite drink is” and posts the interaction on TikTok. […]
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 MoreNeed a Restaurant Recommendation? Ask an N.B.A. Player.
Pick a city, any city, on the National Basketball Association’s 30-team circuit, and Kelly Olynyk, a forward for the Utah Jazz, has deep knowledge of the local restaurant scene. If you are searching for top-tier sushi in Boston, where he spent his first four N.B.A. seasons, he recommends Fuji at Ink Block in the South […]
Read MoreA Brunch for Both the Living and the Dead
Stepping into the courtyard of Bombera, the acclaimed Mexican restaurant in Oakland, Calif., always feels like arriving at a party. Papel picado in marigold orange and saffron yellow flutters overhead, seemingly waving guests into the space, an airy former firehouse. But the restaurant reaches its full splendor in the fall, when the dining room is […]
Read MoreNew York’s Celebrity Restaurateur Vanished. What Happened?
One recent morning, in the bustle of Florence’s ancient central market, Silvano Marchetto, a stout 76-year-old man with a mane of white hair, sat nursing a Negroni as he considered what he wanted to cook for dinner. The butchers and fishmongers who walked by threw respectful nods his way. The silver bracelets on his wrists […]
Read MoreIt Might Be Time to Consider Timisoara
Families stroll and savor gelato cones as bike couriers whiz by. Pensioners relax on benches near manicured flower beds while earbud-wearing hipsters walk dogs and children chase pigeons by a fountain laden with bronze fish. The scene in Victory Square in Timisoara, Romania, is quintessentially European — modern meets Old World. Scanning the imposing Art […]
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 Restaurant Industry Is Undergoing a Badly Needed Revolution
Like so many other chefs, I was drawn to the restaurant business because it is exciting. I ignored its dysfunction and accepted that I’d forgo higher education, financial stability and holidays with family in order to share my craft with others. All it took was a pandemic, an enormous wave of inflation and an impossibly […]
Read MoreAs the Strike Wears On, Actors Return to Restaurants
In January, Francesca Xuereb took the leap many actors in Los Angeles dream of: She quit her waitressing job. After booking a recurring role in HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls” and performing another for a forthcoming show on Apple TV+, she was meeting with producers and auditioning five or six times a […]
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 MoreA Deep-Fried Pho Sparks Scandal at the State Fair of Texas
On a recent afternoon at the State Fair of Texas, in Dallas, Tori Valdez and Jordan Johnson moved through the crowd to join nearly two dozen customers lined up at the Eat Crispies concession booth. Nearby, gleeful screams emanated from a ride shaped like a double helix, and a child reached into a shoulder holster […]
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 MoreSpaghetti All’Assassina Slays in Flavor
When it comes to cooking pasta, Celso Laforgia breaks every rule in the book. His spaghetti isn’t ivory-colored and tender. It’s dark as polished ebony and it crunches like grissini. He doesn’t cook it in boiling water. He chars the raw noodles in a skillet. He seasons it not with the usual fresh garlic, but […]
Read MoreHow Barstool’s Dave Portnoy Built a Pizza Empire
Tito Ibarra traveled from Clemson, S.C., to New York City with one mission: to eat a slice from all 35 pizzerias at the One Bite Pizza Festival. He was in the city for just about 12 hours: He landed in the morning, after driving two hours to Atlanta and taking a two-and-a-half-hour flight. Then, he […]
Read MoreBest San Francisco 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 In a soaring, […]
Read MoreMet Museum’s Great Hall Store to Become Gallery
In an attempt to modernize how visitors experience its 19th-century building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning to turn the large store off its Great Hall into an 11,500-square-foot gallery for its blockbuster Costume Institute exhibitions and to transform an entrance underneath the main staircase into a retail space and restaurant that will be […]
Read MoreThe Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorites 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. Anajak Thai Thai This […]
Read MoreA Local’s Guide to Portland, Maine and Beyond
T’s monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month, and to receive our weekly T List newsletter. Have a question? You can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. Visitors […]
Read MoreSaving Chinatown, While Also Making It Their Own
SOME NIGHTS, IN her bedroom in a former tenement in downtown Manhattan, the fashion designer Sandy Liang can hear the strains of “Happy Birthday” filtering up through the floorboards from Congee Village, the restaurant that her father opened in 1996, when she was 5. So many times she’s listened to the waiters sing those bars, […]
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