Why Did Caputo’s Close?
James Beard once said good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods. Caputo’s Bake Shop on Court Street...
Richie Moriarty Arrives on Set With Cinnamon Rolls
Richie Moriarty has spent the last five years split between two lives. Most weekdays, he’s in Montreal filming CBS’s Ghosts, where he plays the spirit of Pete, a scout leader who died with an arro...
Houseman’s Ned Baldwin Expands to Brooklyn
More than a decade ago, long before Google and Disney moved to the neighborhood, Ned Baldwin opened Houseman and drew a devout following to a small residential block of... More »...
Caputo’s Is Kaput. Now Everyone Needs to Find New Bread.
If you want to hurt a neighborhood, close one of its favorite restaurants. If you want to hobble a neighborhood, eliminate one of the pillar businesses that supply those restaurants. Caputo’s Bake S...
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 British drunks, decried its decline back in the ’70s, when he seized “a long-s...
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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