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Shaking Up the Classics

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.

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.

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.

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

Mommy Pai’s Turns Chicken Fingers Into a Scene

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:16 +0000

Photo: Evan Sung

Though it’s usually my colleague Tammie Teclemariam who reports from the queue outside the restaurants du jour, I wait on my share of lines — anyone who wants to try the latest places often has to.

Mental reps and truth bombs: How this AI ‘coach-in-your-pocket’ strength trains minds before life’s hardest workouts

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:30:49 +0000

Building mental resilience should feel as natural as going to the gym, said Craig Mason, noting his new venture flexes a “performance psychologist, coach in your pocket, 24/7.”

The emphasis: training the mind before crises hit.

Left-Wing Media Spreads Falsehoods About Trump’s New Election Integrity Watchdog

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:04:48 +0000

Anyone who tries to undermine this work, through hit pieces, social media posts, or lawsuits, is working against secure elections.

What to Eat and Drink at This Year’s U.S. Open

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:05:00 +0000

Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

It’s the time of year when New Yorkers put on their visors and take the 7 train to Flushing Meadows to watch tennis well into the night. Surrounding all the play, the grounds basically double as a (very expensive) food-and-drink festival with surprisingly solid options among all the stalls and celebrity-chef-backed restaurants.

The Spiel Has Become a Scourge

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:00:39 +0000

Photo: George Karger/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The other night, at a perfectly nice new downtown restaurant, the server came over to take our order. Even he didn’t look up to the task: “Are you good on the menu, or should I do my spiel and walk you through?” We opted for the Spiel, mostly out of a sense of obligation. We all knew he was supposed to give us the Spiel.

Dan Rosen Sees Ghosts in the City’s Coffee Shops

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:45 +0000

Illustration: Adam Mazur

“I have a no-bad-meals policy,” says comedian and Middlebrow co-host Dan Rosen. “If I’ve had a bad meal, it haunts me for the rest of the day. It’s a very dumb and expensive rule, but it’s something to look forward to.

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How to See Grub Street’s Food and Restaurant Coverage First in Google

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:15:39 +0000
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There are many places to find restaurant news. You can make sure New York’s team of experts and critics show up first in your Google search results thanks to a new feature called “Preferred Sources.” Google now lets you manually select which outlets will appear first in the “Top Stories” section on search-results pages, as well as in a dedicated “From Your Sources” section.
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Meta’s billion-dollar KC data center just came online; here’s what the region expects it to generate

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:02:12 +0000

As Meta officially flipped the switch this week on its Kansas City Data Center — making the $1 billion project part of the company’s global infrastructure — the move positions the metro as a hub for cutting-edge tech, said Quinton Lucas.
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Bean around the block: How this Westport coffee shop is cherry picking roasts from its own farm in the Andes

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:26:19 +0000

A hemisphere away from Brett Janssen’s former job at General Motors in Kansas City’s Northland, the now-budding Westport coffee shop owner found a fresh batch of opportunities: his wife, business partner and a transcontinental farm-to-cup Columbian coffee operation.
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Hori Is an Invite-Only Izakaya

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:00:57 +0000
Illustration: Sunny Wu
Down a narrow flight of stairs off a nondescript stretch of East 50th Street, past a ceramics studio and behind a clothing boutique, is the 14-seat restaurant Hori.
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Hori Is an Invite-Only Izakaya

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:00:57 +0000
Illustration: Sunny Wu
Down a narrow flight of stairs off a nondescript stretch of East 50th Street, past a ceramics studio and behind a clothing boutique, is the 14-seat restaurant Hori.
read more