Marcel Is Overcurated and Underwhelming
Three days after Sotheby’s successfully auctioned a Rothko for $85.8 million, I dined with the acquisitions class at Marcel, the More »...
Titán Is an All-Star Cantina Built for Regulars
What kind of neighborhood restaurant thrives in a neighborhood as hard to define as Dumbo? The area’s demographic — tourists, parents (and their nannies) pushing double-decker strollers, influence...
We Shouldn’t Have Taken Cozy Soup ’n’ Burger for Granted
Nobody would call Astor Place the center of New York City, but for the people who start their lives here as students at NYU, it could feel like that for at least a little while. Cozy Soup ’n’ Burg...
Kareem Rahma Starts the Day With Dum-Dums
You may know Kareem Rahma from riding the subway, but he spent the past week in a lot of cars. He was chauffeured (for the first time ever) around the city for Brandcast, YouTube’s massive upfront p...
Two Status Burgers Just Got (a Little) Easier to Order
There are good reasons no one puts burgers into time capsules. If they could, there’d be few foodstuffs that more accurately oozed the juices of their particular moments. To reference the DB Bistro ...
Lonnies, From the Couple Behind Ingas Bar, Opens This Week
Sean Rembold and Caron Callahan, the married couple who run Ingas Bar in Brooklyn Heights, are very deliberate when they name things. Perhaps overly so: A week after the birth of each of their childre...
SNL’s Jeremy Culhane Is an Uncrustables Purist
In the first few weeks of Saturday Night Live season 51, featured player Jeremy Culhane walked around like he’d landed on an alien planet. Everything felt new and surreal; comedians he had been watc...
Kaiseki Lite
The durational work of art will always have its day. Jeanne Dielman. Lonesome Dove. Ponderously weighty, they bring their own gravity. The dining universe is no exception. I have spent hours upon ho...
New York Restaurants Live Forever — in Tokyo
In late 2024, Brooklyn lost Buttermilk Channel, the long-standing Cobble Hill brunch spot that, for the 16 years it sold house-fermented pickles and cheddar waffles, had punched far above ... More »...