Chelsea Market

Yerba Buena: A Pisco Primer and a Taste of Peru, Er, Chile

The bartender took out a chilled glass, separated the egg whites into a tin and then measured and added the lime, pisco and simple syrup and shook the cocktail into a froth. As he poured, the white drink toppled into the glass, the lime and pisco separating to the bottom. "Pisco hasn't been very pop ... More >>

New York City's Best Juice Bars

Never mind the chatter about cleanses and hyperbolic claims about health benefits. Juice is delicious -- period. Shops dedicated to the freshly pressed elixirs (extracted by pulverizing mounds of fruits and vegetables in an industrial machine) have been popping up around town, from old-school East V ... More >>

FiTR's NYC Neighborhood Dining Guide

On the Upper East Side, where can you drink a digestif out of this crazy glass, which seems bent on demonstrating a scientific principle? Four years ago Fork in the Road inaugurated the Our 10 Best guides, and we've never looked back. They've proved so popular that readers have asked for some sort ... More >>

LGBT Purists to Christine Quinn: We'd Love a Gay Mayor. Just Not You.

Wylie Dufresne Opens Alder in East Village; Desnuda Opens in South Williamsburg

Wylie Dufresne has caused quite a stir with the opening of Alder, his new restaurant on Second Avenue. The hotspot opened last Thursday and was the newest East Village restaurant to warrant waiting lines around the block. Dufresne told Flo Fab, "It's not meant to be a destination, like wd-50." Inste ... More >>

Now You Can Make Pink Lemonade With Pink Lemons

The ornamental Eureka lemon has decidedly pink flesh, instead of lemon-yellow. Normally, if you set out to make festive pink lemonade like Martha Stewart, you do it by adding cranberry or strawberry juice to your regular recipe. But now you can make pink lemonade without the alien juices.

10 Great Ways to Cater Your Passover Seder in New York

Joan Nathan would never cater her Passover seder. The famed cookbook writer known for her Jewish-American recipes usually cooks everything for the holiday, which starts on Monday, March 25. She even hosts a gefilte fish-making party for a few friends at her home in Washington, D.C. "If I didn't have ... More >>

Lisa Loeb on What It's Like To "Stay" Lisa Loeb (Hint: "It's Awesome!")

Last night, Lisa Loeb stepped out of a cab in front of Highline Ballroom with an orange guitar case slung across her shoulder, her hair pulled into a low ponytail, and her eyes hidden behind her iconic black-framed glasses. She is petite with a somewhat soft voice, and speaks thoughtfully and intell ... More >>

Top 5 Ways to Celebrate Nutella Day in New York

In a gift from the heavens, today, February 5 is World Nutella Day. New York is teeming with sweet snacks that highlight Europe's chocolate hazelnut spread, and these five dishes will leave you satisfied with chocolate-y goodness until next year's World Nutella Day.

Krescendo Opens in Boerum Hill; L&W Oyster Co. Opens in Flatiron

Giovanni Rana Pastificio E Cucina opened in Chelsea Market and is the first full-service American outpost from Italian pasta company Giovanni Rana. [Grub Street]

5 Great Food Markets to Visit Right Now

There's no doubt: New York is a buyer's market. At least where food is concerned. Stroll through the souk-like stalls of our city's great markets as you scarf down spicy, chicken pigs-in-blankets from Brooklyn Piggies and a chaser of Grady's Cold Brew, and revel in these first breezes of fall as yo ... More >>

10 Best Gelatos in New York

A waffle cone costs you no more than a regular cone at Eataly's Gelateria. The creamy imported-from-Italy treat called gelato has taken the city by ice storm over the last decade, and even old-guard Italian ice palaces have started selling it. This cousin of ice cream (which sports a lower fat con ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Which 'Wich?

Spring for some one-hand sammy classics

Blue Bottle: Coffee as Crack

​The sole output from Blue Bottle's downstairs is pour-overs -- no espressos! When San Francisco's Blue Bottle Coffee hit town two years ago in the Williamsburg outback, it changed the paradigm of the coffee bar. As a friend said to me, peering into the place's expansive premises, "Hey, whe ... More >>

The Curly & the Turk at the Tippler

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. The drink: Curly & the Turk The bar: The Tippler (425 West 15th Street, 212-206-0000) The price: $11 The ingredients: G'Vine gin, blue curacao, lemon juice, hibiscus syrup, chile, Moroccan bitters

Valentine's Day Peeps Push the Peep Envelope

We're hereby declaring a start to the Valentine's Day mayhem, and hope to give you some decent advice as to where to eat cheaply and well in a romantic atmosphere, and what kind of foodie gifts are available in a Cupidian theme.

Handy Guide to FiTR Xmas Coverage, Including Last-Minute Gift Suggestions

​This year, Fork in the Road pulled out all the stops in our Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa coverage, given you hints on where to shop, what gifts to buy, and examining holiday rituals from a cynical point of view. Here is a guide to our coverage, in case you haven't had enough of the holidays al ... More >>

Boo! All the Halloween Coverage on Fork in the Road So Far

​Scary security guard at Chelsea Market The Fork in the Road staff takes Halloween quite seriously. As evidence, here's a rundown of the gruesome-holiday coverage we've offered so far this year, and a chance to catch up with the posts that you missed.

For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game

Brand Practice

Open and Closed: Say Hello to The Tippler, Goodbye to La Fonda Boricua

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Coco, a Japanese restaurant in Williamsburg, has shuttered. [Eater] The Burger Heaven location on Madison between 54th and 55th Street ... More >>

Dish No. 50: Sushi and Nigiri From the Lobster Place

Rebecca Marx​ New York abounds with pre-packaged sushi, and a lot of it sucks. And that's one of the reasons we're grateful for the Lobster Place, where the pre-packaged sushi is so fresh and pristine it could pass muster in a good sit-down restaurant.

Our 10 Best Loaves of Bread in NYC

​The rustic loaves at Balthazar are cradled in a birch branch. As Pablo Neruda says: "The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker." And indeed he was right. Little gives as much pleasure as a freshly baked loaf, and here are the 10 that please us most. Note that th ... More >>

Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali of Takashi on Meeting at the Roxy, Falling in Love, and Celebrating Cow Intestine

Photo courtesy Takashi Inoue Beefy love: Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali ​ Mixing business and pleasure is a challenge for most people, but it wasn't for Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali, who are both partners and business partners, running the West Village Japanese temple to all things beef, Takashi ... More >>

Laurent Gras Will Lend His Chefly Talents to Momofuku Ko

laurentgras.typepad.comLaurent Gras when he's not cooking.​Laurent Gras is a serial dater. Ever since moving to New York from Chicago a few months back, the Michelin-starred chef has enjoyed flings with Locanda Verde, the Chelsea Market, Corton, and BLT Fish. Eventually, he plans to commit to ... More >>

Our 10 Best Legal and Sort of Legal Picnic Spots

Robert SietsemaViewed from Inwood Hill Park, New Jersey is beautiful.​ Despite this week's sodden weather, spring really is upon us, which means that picnic season is too. New York harbors untold numbers of excellent picnic spots, be they in midtown pocket parks, an empty soccer field, or you ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Friday afternoon is sliding into Friday early evening, so without further ado, a look back at the week that was ... Our 10 Best West African Restaurants. Why getting into the Hester Street Fair is a little like getting into college. Lure/Burger & Barrel's Josh Capon talks burgers, not barrels.

Duckathlon VI Returned to New York, Team Annisa Conquered

Lauren ShockeyDuck, duck, goose, go!​This past weekend Chelsea Market played host to specialty food company D'Artagnan, which sponsored the sixth annual Duckathlon, a culinary competition and gastronomic obstacle course. Teams of chefs from restaurants ranging from Le Bernardin to Annisa fough ... More >>

Beer Table to Come to the Aid of Grand Central Commuters

apol3/Flickr​Two years ago, Beer Table announced its plans to open a retail store in the Chelsea Market. Those plans never materialized, but now it looks like the Park Slope restaurant, which is known for its extensive selection of craft beers, has moved on to grander pastures.

Battle of the Upscale, Pre-Packaged Sushi: Dean & DeLuca v. the Lobster Place

Rebecca MarxDean & Deluca's sushi and nigiri assortment.​ New York abounds with pre-packaged sushi, and a lot of it sucks. But while dry rice and fish of questionable origin and freshness are often the order of the day (particularly if you're stupid enough to buy your sushi at Duane Reade), w ... More >>

Dickson's Farmstand Meats Gives the City Its First Dog Food CSA

​Part of being a whole-animal butcher, says Jake Dickson, is finding ways to use even the parts of the animal that aren't necessarily palatable to his customers at Dickson's Farmstand Meats. "We're able to use almost everything, but there's not enough of a market for every part of the animal t ... More >>

Hot Cross Buns and What They Mean -- Plus a Video

​Hot cross buns recently went on sale at Amy's Bread, for $1.50 apiece, and will be sold through Easter Sunday. The small-yeast risen rolls appear sometime during Lent, in the run-up to Good Friday. Each roll is criss-crossed with white icing, and ramified with candied fruit. The frosting is ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Colonie, Goodbye to Niko's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Satsko on the Lower East Side has been shuttered recently and plastered with bright orange "seizure" stickers, apparently due to state taxes owed. [Bowery Boogie] Salt & Pepper in Midtown West ... More >>

Afghan Fried Chicken Fight; Whoopie Pie War

​Spot Dessert Bar won customers back after the blizzard by offering half-price hot drinks on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog. It also offers discounts to people who "like" the place. [Wall Street Journal] Abdul Haye, who owns the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, is declaring war against all Afgha ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Buvette; Goodbye to Vutera

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Williamsburg's Vutera and its upstairs venue Rose Live Music are celebrating the venue's fifth and last year this week, as both are set to close at the end of February. [Wall Street Journal] R ... More >>

Next Year, Dickson's Will Teach You All About Meat

Project Gutenberg​ Given the latest video exposing the utterly awful reality of factory farming, we're even more grateful for butchers like the Meat Hook and Dickson's Farmstand, which get their meat only from small producers who raise their animals responsibly and humanely.

A First Look Inside Foodparc, NYC

​Foodparc is not quite as big and grandiose as it looks from the outside. If this era coming up has a theme, it might be the Era of Food Courts. They seem to be popping up everywhere.

People's Pops Looks Towards Next Spring With Plans for a Retail Store

Robert Sietsema​People's Pops is officially shutting down for the season in the coming weeks, but once it emerges from hibernation next spring, it may be with its very own stand-alone storefront.

Battle of the Chelsea Market Walnut Brownies: Amy's Bread v. Fat Witch

Amy's Bread on the left, Fat Witch on the right.​With its avenue-long daisy chain of bakeries, Chelsea Market is more or less a carbophile's dream and dentist's worst nightmare. Two of the market's most highly-trafficked storefronts are Amy's Bread and Fat Witch Bakery. The former is an outpo ... More >>

Battle of the Newfangled Popsicles: Popbar vs. People's Pops

​Not your parents' popsicles: Popbar's chocolate and peach (left); People's Pops' roasted red plum and pear-ginger--and that's a lot of "P's"! In the last year, the old-fashioned frozen confection on a stick has been pimped out so you wouldn't even recognize it. We clasped People's Pops to ou ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Village Voice's Field Guide to Cold Summer Treats

From gelato to affogato to fro-yo&emdash;our recommended frozen fun

Bocca: Skip the Secondi and Save Some Dough

In the Flatiron, comparing three generations of a Roman family

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

NY Mirror

Paradise Lost

When the High Line above Manhattan's West Side turns into a park, a secret world will disappear

To Die For: It's Lobster Roll Season in New York

Flee Market

Chelsea's weekend bazaar hangs on for dear life

Eat Your Heart Out

Food Markets

One Track Mind

Chelsea Group Works to Save an Abandoned Rail Line   

Dotcom Hither

Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

Cooking in Chelsea

At the Kitchen, a New-Style Chef