It's a rare restaurant that undergoes such a trial and passes with flying colors. On a recent Sunday afternoon, 10 of us charged into... More >>

Is it my imagination, or have restaurants been getting bigger and bigger lately? Increasingly, many joints seat 100, 200, or even more. No chef... More >>

Weekend afternoons—or weekdays after a van disgorges a gang of exhausted day laborers in front of the temp employment agencies down the... More >>

Hadramawt is a narrow wadi—or valley—that snakes its way through the craggy mountains of Yemen near the Empty Quarter desert. Snuggling... More >>

While other cuisines are licensed to innovate freely, Japanese often remains hidebound. Ninety-eight percent of Japanese restaurants have menus... More >>

Hey Jonathan: A zillion thanks for your recommendation! We New Yorkers like to think of ourselves as one jump ahead of everybody,... More >>

The Vietnamese admiration for beef is boundless. It's partly a legacy of French colonialism, as you'll discover when the giggling waitress wheels... More >>

Long ago the East Village was known as Kleindeutschland, or "Little Germany." Peer at the terra-cotta lintel over the door of Second Avenue's... More >>

Among our handful of restaurants from the ceiling of the world, Tibetan Yak was considered the most authentic. The doughy steamed bread called... More >>

Like an ocean liner, the two-story restaurant thrusts its prow into Seventh Avenue's lapping waves of traffic. Indeed, the downstairs dining room... More >>