The Soho Local
To love the pub is to lament the pub. It’s never as good as it was. Kingsley Amis, the greatest of the 20th-century Br...
Jacques Pépin Makes the Best Roast Chicken in the World
The most delicious roast chicken I’ll ever eat came from a Stop & Shop near Madison, Connecticut, where the bird cost $12 raw. I took two bites of it in the back of an Uber and then burst into tears...
Is Goop Good?
On Monday, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Kitchen opened the first of seven planned New York locations. True to its name, the 245 West 46th Street branch of Paltrow’s “clean takeout” brand is a kitche...
Donohue’s Steak House Will Close in June
Yet another old-school New York dining icon is leaving us, and this departure is particularly wrenching. It’s Donohue’s Steak House, the railroad-car-size Upper East Side time capsule that has for...
The After-School Special
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A Longtime Long Island Bar Server Is Taking Over a Red-Sauce Staple
Fans of Sam’s, the pizzeria that has been around since 1930, have long viewed the restaurant as a ticking clock. Louis Migliaccio, the beloved curmudgeon who ran the place all but single-handedly, r...
Chef Hillary Sterling Wants Her Peter Luger Burger Delivered
“I’ve always loved extreme things,” says Hillary Sterling, executive chef of the “Italian-inflected” restaurant Ci Siamo in the newly minted neighborhood of Manhattan West. “I love riding ...
Confidant Is a Neighborhood Joint That’s Found Its Neighbors
If at first you don’t succeed, location, location, location.” Isn’t that how it goes? Confidant, a gamely ambitious restaurant, opened last spring in Industry City trumpeting its firstness: Neve...
Marcel Moves Into the Breuer
When Robin and Stephen Alesch decided to include a restaurant in their plans for Roman and Williams Guild, the Soho retail wing of their design studio, it may have been out of necessity. “No one get...