Hell's Kitchen

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.

The Sequester Ruins...Fleet Week's Gay Nightlife?

If you tuned into this afternoon's dour White House press briefing, you would have heard a lot about...dun dun dun...the sequester. Several public goods are going to get mercilessly slashed as the cuts begin to take effect, and they go something like this: Head Start, Meals on Wheels, food facility ... More >>

Garbage - Terminal 5 - 3/22/13

Better Than: Practicing your '90's nostalgia with Mark McGrath's cruise-replacing tour. Garbage had never played Terminal 5 before. "This feels like how a venue is supposed to feel," proclaimed lead singer Shirley Manson before a sold-out show at the Hell's Kitchen venue Friday night. With the way ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/8/13

Here are the 10 best concerts this weekend, in no particular order.

10 Best Dive Bars in New York, 2013 Edition

Everyone has a favorite dive bar. The best ones are cheap, sticky, and unpretentious, with questionable bathrooms and a rogues' gallery of regulars. They make perfect spots to talk to strangers, get in fights, or bury a broken heart. Some of the greatest holes-in-the-wall have been shuttered -- Mars ... More >>

10 Best Restaurants for Vegetarian Food in New York (Even if You're Not a Vegetarian!), 2013 Edition

There are plenty of vegetarian-friendly restaurants in New York. Some deal in chewy gluten strips and meat facsimiles, others turn out raw foods and seed pastes, but there are plenty of places where you don't need to be a devotee to enjoy the food. Go for a meatless meal at these restaurants for a ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Restaurants Near Barclays Center, Brooklyn

You're about to ascend the stairs from the subway to the new Barclays Center, where you'll attend a show you've been anticipating for some time. But you've left yourself time to eat first. Where can you get a great meal, either sitting down or on the fly, within easy walking distance of the venue?

Teenage Pizza Delivery Boy Indicted For UWS Rape And Hell's Kitchen Burglary

A little more than a month ago, we told the story of Cesar Lucas - a 16-year-old who worked for Sal's Pizzeria on Tenth Avenue and, after making a delivery, reportedly entered an Upper West Side apartment to find a woman inside. The woman told authorities that Lucas proceeded to rape her while her 7 ... More >>

THOR: The House That Rock Built

In a city teeming with music schools for kids, one stands out

The Story of Pozole

This beautiful bowl of green pozole is Dish #2 in our countdown. We're nearly at the end of 100 Dishes to Eat Now, our tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue! Many of us are familiar with the pork-and-hominy stew called pozole that's available as a weekend special at taquerias in ... More >>

Tunnel Burglar Hit With Whopping 28-Year Prison Sentence -- And He Didn't Even Kill Anyone

*UPDATE* We've compiled a list of what McAleese stole that would warrant such a lengthy prison sentence. Ribs and Saki are involved.When 43-year-old Shawn McAleese was tunneling his way into Manhattan businesses to steal stuff earlier this year, he probably didn't think he could potentially face mor ... More >>

The 10 Best Draft Beer Bars in New York

Some like it bottled. Some like it canned. But really, is there a better experience with beer than when it's drawn from a tap? When that brew is poured, it offers the delightful hoppy blend in true form. The only challenge is that to enjoy a real draft beer, you've gotta head to a bar--well, unless ... More >>

Lotus, What Went Wrong?

Up goes the butcher paper...doneski! Two months ago, Eater reported that the reservations system had gone dead at New York's Lotus of Siam, and the restaurant appeared to be closed, though there was no posted sign, and the phone message inviting customers to come in played merrily on. It still doe ... More >>

My 5 Favorite NYC Breakfast Tacos

The huevos con chorizo breakfast taco at Tacombi The breakfast taco is a Tex-Mex specialty that originated in Austin (some say San Antonio) probably in the 1970s. In both cities it is firmly fixed in the breakfast firmament, and a recent trip to Central Texas suggested you could get one in nearly ... More >>

Q&A: Le1f Talks The Influence Of Ballroom And Working With Das Racist, Spank Rock, And Nguzunguzu

Over the past few months, Le1f—a rapper and producer who wrote his undergraduate thesis on "Subversion in Post-WWII Performance"—has been an increasingly unavoidable presence in and around the city, playing alongside everyone from Greedhead labelmate Big Baby Gandhi to London trap-rave p ... More >>

Our 10 Best Middle Eastern Restaurants

New York City has a lot to offer when it comes to Middle Eastern cooking. If you know where to stop for a meal along the city's few Arab strips or even in fancy neighborhoods, you'll find a wide range of the region's typical cooking including grilled meats, honey-drenched pastries, savory flatbreads ... More >>

Fairy Tale Ending: Downtown Filmmaker Sara Driver's Lost Film, Found

Homeless Youth Run in New York City Half Marathon

Three runners who participated in New York City's 13.1-mile half marathon on Sunday trained just like everyone else in the race -- going on increasingly longer runs and exercising for weeks leading up to the event. The only difference is these three are homeless youth. The Voice this morning cau ... More >>

Our 10 Best Late Night Eats in New York City

New York is the city that never sleeps and never stops eating, no matter what hour of the day -- or night as the case may be. While it's true that a lot of the foods consumed after midnight are of the drunk pizza variety, the city boasts many 24-hour restaurants that serve some damn fine fare. Her ... More >>

Sound Of The City's Search For The Quintessential New York Musician Pits John Coltrane (1) Against Lisa Lisa (16)

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. The final match in our Uptown division pits its top see ... More >>

Alicia Keys (14) Takes On Tito Puente (3) In Sound Of The City's Search For The Quintessential New York Musician

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today's first match pits "Empire State Of Mind" ... More >>

NYC's 10 Best Bowls of Ramen

Austere in its whiteness: #1 on Chuko's menu, "pork, scallion, egg, mustard green," also known as Limited Order Ramen, due to the limited quantities available every evening. It was a chilly afternoon with a stiff west wind as I stood in front of Ippudo earlier this week. Where were the crowds I'd ... More >>

Download: Pop. 1280's Howling, Grinding "Bodies In The Dunes"

​Guess who's back? After wowing us and creeping us out with 2009's definitive bedbug anthem and the 2010 EP where they "pushed aside their clanky-clonky Birthday Party lurch to reveal the horrific marks where fingernails meet fresh flesh", NYC's hardest-working scumbags in the scuzzfuckery bus ... More >>

NYE Guide: Dance

Parties you'll remember the next day

Our 10 Best Beer Bars

​ The craft beer movement, once the province of homebrewers and so-called "beer nerds," has become so mainstream that you'd be hard-pressed to find a bar in New York City that doesn't have at least Brooklyn Lager on tap. But where do you go when you want to find the absolute best brews in the ... More >>

New York City for Nerds: The Ultimate Map

Our friends at BuzzFeed have created a map for nerds -- "The Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City" -- drawing on the combined knowledge of the nerd collaborative, a/k/a, the Internet. They're calling it "a guide to New York City that's actually useful for once," and, truly, it is kind of special. We ... More >>

Open House New York Is Your Chance to See NYC Behind the Scenes

Williamsburg's Nighthawk Cinema, by Ty Cole​Open House New York, a yearly opportunity for you to creep into the secret, often forbidden or under-acknowledged corners of the city, a/k/a, a celebration of the city's architecture and design, is being held this year on October 15 and 16. With the ... More >>

'Metropolitan Etiquette Authority' Posts New Signs Around New York City

​Jason Shelowitz, or Jay Shells, a New York artist who in 2010 launched a subway etiquette campaign covering all sorts of ills committed by commuters (something we clearly have an interest in as well), and later followed with a "clean up after your dog" series, is at it again. He put up street ... More >>

After 78 Years, the Film Center Café Closes Its Doors in Hells Kitchen

Film Center Café​Looks like yet another old-timer has gone to the great beyond: after 78 years, the Film Center Café has closed.

Nanny Sarah Swymer Talks About Reviewing Manhattan's Parks

​Sarah Swymer isn't just a nanny; she's a blogging nanny on a mission to review every park in Manhattan before the end of the summer. As she explores the borough's parks with her two charges, Lexi and Annie Lee, she posts some information and a rating between one and five "slides" on her site, ... More >>

Kesté to Team up With Naples' Pizzeria Starita to Open Don Antonio in Midtown

Kesté PizzeriaBuon giorno, midtown.​Save for the closure of Motorino's Williamsburg location, it's been a quiet summer on the Neapolitan pizza front. But no longer: this fall, Kesté owner Roberto Caporuscio will partner with Antonio Starita, the owner of Naples' 110-year-old Pizz ... More >>

Wal-Mart Bribes NYC With $4 Million Donation

​Bloomberg referred to Wal-Mart as "one of the great corporate citizens in this country" during a press conference yesterday to announce the company's four million dollar donation to New York City's Youth Employment Program. The donation will create 3,400 jobs, and Bloomberg says that's all th ... More >>

'Hot In Cleveland' Gals Sex Up NYC!

Sitcoms' oldies talk about their new golden years on TV Land

Tia Keenan to Return With the Make Room

Tia Keenan is on the Make.​In September 2009, curd nerds throughout the city reacted with shock and dismay to the news that Tia Keenan had left Caselulla. Called a "force to be reckoned with" by none other than Anne Saxelby, Keenan arguably put the Hell's Kitchen restaurant on the map thanks t ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Co-op Food and Drink, Goodbye to Elaine's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Elaine's was unable to survive the death of its owner and namesake, Elaine Kaufman. Six months after her passing, it's shuttering for good. [Eater] Woo Lae Oak, the pioneering Soho Korean, wil ... More >>

Obama Ordered Bin Laden Raid On 50/50 Chance; Cairo Mobs Attack Churches

​National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told CNN that President Obama decided to go through with the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden based on "what was probably a 50-50 case that Osama bin Laden was there." In light of that info, it's interesting to read this alternate history of what would have h ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: $1 Pizza Faceoff. (Because We're Cheap Bastards This Week)

Victoria BekiempisA nice slice for the price at 2 Bros?​ This city's cash-strapped college students and munchie-minded revelers might not be so well fed today, were it not for a kindly businessman by the name of Abdul Mohammad. Around 10 years ago, so the story goes, Mohammad wanted to make s ... More >>

The Roasting Plant Plans to Put Down Roots Around Manhattan

Photo courtesy of the Roasting Plant​When the Roasting Plant opened almost four years ago, it made the block of Orchard Street between Broome and Grand an unlikely coffee geek destination, one that would help to make the neighborhood below Delancey attractive for high-end caffeine pushers like ... More >>

Is the Hell's Kitchen "Pyramid" the Craziest New Building in NYC?

Rendering, via Bjarke Ingels Group​New York has no shortage of architects outdoing each other in ugly, ostentatious, or just weird. Remember the guy who wanted to make empty lots look like icebergs? As such, Bjarke Ingels' building planned for West 57th Street shouldn't really surprise us, but ... More >>

Octogenarian Showstopper Rules New York!

Revived: Marilyn Maye and Sally Kellerman. Clubs aren't dead yet, either.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Danji; Goodbye to Benito's One Restaurant

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Benito's One Restaurant has been evicted from its Little Italy space and has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with some $481,000 in liabilities. [Crain's] La Bonne Bouffe in the East Village ha ... More >>

Kim Kardashian: "I Love Being 30 and Single!"

She's 'empowered'; Dan Choi's having fun; Joan Collins is showing slides

50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New York City

​Sometimes life seems hard here -- the crowds, the expense, the 24-hour-living-and-working lifestyle...But then there are days, like yesterday, when we're ever so glad we live in New York City. Like when much of the rest of the nation goes a reddish color of Tea Party, and we stick to coffee a ... More >>

Braai: Both Fun and Game

Come get your grilled-beastie fix

Buck Angel, A Man With a Pussy: LGB Without the T

As transgenders push for respect, a rift grows with traditional gay leadership

Old-School French Restaurants Somehow Still Survive in Midtown

The Continental Drifts

An East Village staple evolves, but dies a little in the process

Scarlet Fingers