Tag: social

Chef Jackie Carnesi Can’t Resist Kellogg’s Enchiladas

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:00:07 +0000

Illustration: Margalit Cutler

When chef Jackie Carnesi was tasked with reopening the iconic Williamsburg restaurant Kellogg’s Diner, she knew it was going to be “a hell of an undertaking.” A year later, she’s still navigating the very particular and seemingly never-ending challenges of running a 24-hour diner.

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Gatekeepers hate to see them coming: Why Back2KC leaders think these outsiders could be the next best Kansas Citians

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:42:27 +0000

A Kansas City homecoming movement with a track record of sparking real relocations and startup investment is gearing up for its annual gathering — welcoming expatriates and newcomers alike as it seeks to deepen ties between the city and its far-flung alumni.
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A Filipino Take on Pho

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:31:41 +0000
Photo: Courtesy Swabe Food Truck
When Mark Mendoza — who goes by Macky — was planning out the menu for Swabe, the food truck he opened in Elmhurst at the end of the summer, he knew he’d need to include the Filipino soup chao long Palawan, even though he hated it when he was 7.
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Roo-Up with pulled pork or bite into Big Salvy: Ding Dong Dogs debuts at KC Streetcar’s mouthwatering last stop

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:29:57 +0000

Matt McLain longed for the hot dogs he grew up eating as a young baseball fan in Chicago. His just-off-the-roller, quick-serve hot dog restaurant near UMKC and the extended KC Streetcar line squirts a dinger of nostalgia in an emerging destination known for elevated fare.

It’s an opportunity McLain relishes, the Ding Dong Dogs owner said.
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There’s a Fresh Green That’s Ready to Be Caesar’d

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:50 +0000
Photo: Courtesy Twin Tails
No salad is more resilient than the Caesar, owing as much to its literal sturdiness as the flexibility that allows it to take all sorts of new forms: with kale or little gem, fortified with grilled chicken or salmon, turned into a wrap. The key tenets are creaminess, saltiness, and crunch.
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This Is the City’s Best New Restaurant for Wine

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:55:00 +0000
Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Matthew Schneier
If you’re interested in sending your friends’ and family’s eyes rolling back into their skulls, I recommend talking about wine. Great stuff, wine, and fascinating to the 2 percent or so of the population who enjoy digging into the minutiae of soil, sun, altitude, and the various vine-positioning systems.
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Flynn McGarry Has Built the Restaurant of His Dreams

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:00:43 +0000
Photo: Sean Davidson
Flynn McGarry was 19 years old when he opened his first restaurant, Gem, fresh off teenage stints at Eleven Madison Park, Maaemo (in Norway), and Geranium (in Denmark), which is the kind of place that serves a tasting menu called “The Summer Universe” that lasts three hours and costs, depending on the
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Charlie Bardey Is Working on Being a Better Host

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:00:11 +0000
Illustration: Maanvi Kapur
A lifelong New Yorker, comedian Charlie Bardey grew up downtown and continued to cohabitate with his brother until recently. Now that he lives alone in Brooklyn, he’s trying to feel more comfortable cooking for guests. “A big journey for me has been learning not to be self-conscious about it,” he says.
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Le Chêne Is a Movable Feast on Carmine Street

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:00:19 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
The thing about Paris is that it never ages — like great cheese, it is pre-aged.
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E-Scholars rebrands, extending Regnier legacy deeper into influential UMKC accelerator

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000

E-Scholars — the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s flagship accelerator program — isn’t going anywhere, Alex Matlack shared, but it is getting a rebrand.
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Who Wants New York’s Gooiest Mozzarella Sticks?

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:05:00 +0000
Illustration: Igor Bastidas
On Instagram and TikTok, anything worth eating comes with a line. Whether social-media fame is sparked by an influencer or is the result of a concerted marketing effort to engineer a food’s digital moment, timeline domination does not always correlate to actual quality.
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New York’s Giant Fall Restaurant Preview

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Photo: Jeremy Liebman
There is something comfortingly familiar about the batch of high-profile bars and restaurants getting ready to debut before the year is out. Rather than wild conceptual swings, the places below are enduring models — a coffee shop, a bakery, a very nice cocktail bar — from established industry vets.
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Where to Eat in September

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Illustration: Naomi Otsu
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 visit, for any reason (a new chef, the arrival of an exciting dish, or maybe there’s an opening that’s flown too far under the radar). This month: tripe, rice balls, Wienerschnitzel, and Peruvian canchita.
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Why a City Market favorite is jumping the state line — to the food court at Oak Park Mall

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:55:10 +0000

Its Brazilian dishes — using recipes the owners grew up eating in São Paulo — have been a City Market draw for more than a decade. Now Taste of Brazil restaurant is expanding to Johnson County, but as a quick-serve kiosk with a limited menu.

Taste of Brazil Express plans a late September opening in the food court of Oak Park Mall, 11149 W. 95th St., near Macy’s.
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Ruby Tandoh Wants Justice for Toad-in-the-Hole

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:00:33 +0000
Illustration: Ryan Inzana
After placing second on The Great British Bake Off in 2013, Ruby Tandoh — then the show’s youngest-ever contestant — experienced what she calls the “Bake Off catapult effect.” Still in college, she was very suddenly thrown into the nascent bubble of food media, writing a baking column for read more