Graciela Is Not Another Steakhouse
Eighteen years ago, two brothers from New York, Adam and Alex Saper, met an Italian businessman named Oscar Farinetti, w...
Peyton Dix Is Faithful to Lao Gan Ma Chile Crisp
Peyton Dix is one of the most in-demand lesbians in the city. Her podcast, Lemme Say This, which she co-hosts alongside Hunter Harris, returned this Spring as part of the Obamas’ Higher Ground netwo...
Penalty Kicks With a Vanilla Farmer and Japanese Soda Royalty
Earlier this week, 2,500 exhibitors and 8,000 buyers convened upon the Javits Center for three days for the Summer Fancy Food Show. I was there, too, on Monday afternoon, trying things like Stella and...
Where to Eat in July
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots that our food team thinks everyone should...
How Greg Baxtrom Found His Way Back
The restaurant Olmsted opened in Prospect Heights in 2016, but in some important ways it could have been a million years ago. “Chef-driven” restaurants appeared at a regular clip, prices weren’t...
Andrew Sean Greer Got Tipsy From Spritzes on Bravo
Food is very present in Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel, Villa Coco, but not necessarily in the ways you’d expect. One character removes his hat to reveal “the single blond lock that clung to... M...
The Best Food of 2026 (So Far)
When you eat out as often as our food writers do — enduring the reservation apps, cramming into every buzzy opening, weaving through dining rooms filled with martini trolleys, or waiting on lines th...
Our Critic Answered Your Restaurant Questions
Matthew Schneier has been New York’s chief restaurant critic for nearly three years and if there’s been one question he’s been asked most often in that time, it’s the obvious one: “Where sho...
Donohue’s Is Gone. Donohue’s East Is Here.
Sun is not the first thing you expect walking into Donohue’s. Maybe the last. But the light-dappled dining room, with its large windows and adjoining porch, is the new Donohue’s, the beach-house D...
The $80 Pie Only a Former McKinsey Consultant Could Dream Up
When I told a friend I was going to check out Jamagansett over Memorial Day weekend, he thought it was a music festival. “Rock on!” he said — generously, given my straw basket bag and clogs. The...