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When was the last time you did a double take while looking at a menu? My most recent jolt occurred in an alleyway that runs between Elizabeth Street and the Bowery, rather...
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Out of necessity, you've probably eaten in lots of shopping-mall food courts. You're tired, hungry, and footsore, and rather than hitting the streets with help from your...
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What a strange menu Shanghai Asian Cuisine has! The lower end, price-wise, is noodles, soups, dumplings, and the little appetizing dishes that form the heart of Shanghai...
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Maybe it was the increasingly far-flung Italian vacations Americans were taking—forsaking the usual Roman holiday for a ramble in the Campania or Lake Como countryside....
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Last year's biggest restaurant tease was St. Anselm. Rather obscurely named after an 11th-century archbishop of Canterbury, the place opened in Williamsburg without a liquor...
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On almost any given night at Peels, the two-story restaurant is as crowded as a house party after finals—a jostling, buzzy scene where you might get awkwardly chatted up...
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New York is not exactly bursting at the seams with Venezuelan restaurants, so it's a somewhat unlikely coincidence that two of them are a mere three blocks away from each...
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Eddie Huang is good at getting your attention. Rare is the chef who will speak his mind, but Huang has no censor. His blog, Fresh Off the Boat, might make you love him, hate...
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There's nothing like eating with people who have been fasting to put you in a celebratory mood. After the sun went down each day of Ramadan, customers started streaming into...
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One warm, late summer night, there was an actual hawker outside of Hawkers, the new Southeast Asian street food eatery near Union Square. She was passing out menus from her...
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South Park Slope (or Greenwood Heights) is a small, quiet place that abuts the neo-Gothic splendor of Greenwood Cemetery to the south and the more affluent brownstone brigade...
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Sometimes it seems like there's nothing new to say about pizza—for all the distinctions that can be drawn, that tired cliché about pizza and sex is true: Even...
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Nuela is a restaurant in search of an identity. Is it a flashy Latin lounge or a restaurant with serious culinary intentions? Sometimes, it's hard to tell. One night, we sat...
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You are no match for a french fry po'boy. Take it from Sara Roahen, author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table. She encountered the gravy-smothered...
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New York lacks the bounty of great Vietnamese food that parts of Southern California and Northern Virginia enjoy, but for years, Steven Duong has been quietly trying to...
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Cienfuegos has been referred to as a rum "speakeasy," a term that has surely outlived its usefulness, but the place is not really so secret.
You simply enter its sister...
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When River Barrel opened in Greenpoint in January 2009, it served that familiar brand of New American/gastropub/global comfort food: burgers, duck spring rolls, truffle...
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Pretty much everyone would agree that, over the past six years, David Chang has defined a new strain of downtown dining. The reason for this—the Chang experience, let's...
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In 1879, Mark Twain, a/k/a Samuel Clemens, was on a long tour through Europe, which he wrote about in A Tramp Abroad. That winter, he jotted down notes about dining in the...
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There are grits, and then there are grits. Two new Southern restaurants have recently opened in Brooklyn, and they both serve the requisite corn mush. The differences between...
