Dean’s Is a Soho Local
To love the pub is to lament the pub. It’s never as good as it was. Kingsley Amis,…
Restaurant Review: Confidant in Brooklyn Heights
If at first you don’t succeed, location, location, location.” Isn’t that how it goes? Confidant, a gamely ambitious…
Ambassadors Clubhouse in New York
“Oh, Ambassador, you’re spoiling us!” a Londoner I know likes to quip. In the U.K., it’s a semi-famous…
Double Knot serves the best seafood dish of the year
Meet the year’s best new seafood dish — a Japanese thriller called nabemono. The hot-pot stew, sometimes called…
Pierogi Boys in Ridgewood, Queens
When a DJ in Ridgewood tells you he’s found local schnitzel that’s better than anything he got during…
Golden Steer Steakhouse in NYC
The steakhouse, that most American of restaurant genres, has in recent years been co-opted by foreign interests. To…
Restaurant Review: Bistrot Ha in NYC
If there’s one thing worse than too much of a good thing, it’s too little of it. That…
NYC’s newest steakhouse is a modern version of a Rat Pack stunner
Sin City has arrived in New York. Golden Steer, the 70-year-old classic Las Vegas steakhouse, just opened at…
Restaurant Review: Cove and Saga
Chef Charlie Mitchell preparing a dish at Saga. Photo: Thomas Prior The tasting menu has long represented the…
I’m donut ? bakery in NYC serving disgusting anchovy donuts
Meet the worst Times Square interloper since the Elmos invasion — the “limited edition” anchovy-cheese donut at weirdly punctuated…
2025 was a crazy year for NYC restaurants
It was a year no food-lover will forget — dramatic, zany and appalling by turns. Business was robust. Confident…
The Eighty Six is one of NYC’s toughest reservations — but it’s worth it
The Eighty Six on Bedford Street is the city’s hardest-to-penetrate new restaurant. I expected to hate everything about…