Iron Chef

Q&A: Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli Talks Celebrities and Honeybees, Part 2

Yesterday, we spoke with Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli about how to tackle cooking pumpkin and other seasonal specialties. Today, we're focusing on how she deals with celebrities in her restaurants, her favorite restaurants in the city, and her recent venture with Haagen Dazs. [See More Intervi ... More >>

Q & A: Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen on Vegetable Restaurants, Graphic Novels, and Bacon, Part 2

Yesterday, we spoke with Dirt Candy Chef Amanda Cohen about her culinary style, her regular customers, and why even great vegetables just can't compete against bacon. Today, we continue the conversation and hear about Cohen's Iron Chef America battle, her graphic novel cookbook, and her ideal menu f ... More >>

Q & A: Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen on Vegetable Restaurants, Graphic Novels, and Bacon, Part 1

Amanda Cohen doesn't want to get political about vegetables. The chef and owner of the East Village's Dirt Candy is more interested in offering an exquisite and innovative meal of vegetables than in convincing you to go vegetarian. This plucky attitude, combined with a moratorium on fake meat, has a ... More >>

Three Nights of Crab Boils on the Rockaways

[See More Events: Brooklyn Pour 2012 | BLT Cooking Class, Iron Chef Contestant Menu] Back Forty is heading to Rockaway Beach for three nights this month for some summer crab boils. On Thursday, August 9, and Saturday, August 18 and 25, the crab boils will be held outdoors at the Rockaway Beach Club ... More >>

Weekend Events: BLT Cooking Class, Iron Chef Contestant Menu

Some weekend events for you... Beginning Saturday, August 11, Iron Chef contestant Jesus Nunez will be offering the octopus dishes he prepared on the show in his UWS restaurant, Gastroarte. There will be a five-course tasting menu and a a la carte option. The menu items: salmorejo with octopus and ... More >>

Nine Food TV Shows We'd Love To See

​How did food television become so boring and predictable? Umpteenth season of Top Chef? Yawn. Endless cupcake wars? Yawn. Paula Deen pouring more butter into the cake? Yawn. Guy Fieri tucking into another giant hamburger? Zzzzzzzzz. Well, the time has come to invent new types of food-themed s ... More >>

Geoffrey Zakarian on Winning The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs

Photo courtesy Geoffrey ZakarianGeoffrey Zakarian, Chef and Iron Chef​Geoffrey Zakarian is ending the year with a bang. The chef at the National and the Lambs Club can now also call himself an Iron Chef, having beaten nine other culinary pros competing on The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. We ca ... More >>

Jose Garces to Open Three Restaurants in Revel

​Jose Garces, of Iron Chef, has agreed to open three restaurants in Revel, a new casino project planned for Atlantic City. [Eater] Caffe Storico, Chef Jim Burke's latest venture, will open at the New-York Historical Society on Saturday. [Grub Street]

What's Happening This Week: Summer Cocktail Pairing; Free Korean Food

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Marc Forgione with Bryan Miller 92nd Street Y in Tribeca Monday, July 25 at noon Former New York Times restaurant critic and food writer Bryan Miller interviews Iro ... More >>

Somebody Is Finally Paying Attention to the Rainbow Room

WikipediaParty like it's 1934.​Someone is finally cleaning up the mess the Ciprianis made: After being shut for two years, the Rainbow Room is getting a much-needed renovation.

Restaurants to Hike Prices Like Airlines; 10 Best Uptown Restos

​The latest survey shows that concerns about weight and weight loss are at an all time low. Not that people aren't fat; they just don't care about it. [WedMD] Some New York City prep schools have professional chefs, call students "clients," feed them locally sourced, grass-fed beef, and host ... More >>

It's Good to Be Anita Lo

Photo courtesy of AnnisaShe's smiling for a reason.​People may continue to argue about how hard it is to be a female chef, but one thing it seems that everyone can agree on is that Anita Lo is in a badass class of her own.

Beaumarchais Chef Nicolas Cantrel on When He First Wanted to be a Cook and Why Bananas are Good Substitutes for Endives: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Nicolas Cantrel ​Yesterday we spoke with Beaumarchais chef Nicolas Cantrel about the shuttering of brunch hotspot Bagatelle. Today he tells us about how he got into the cooking business and why he's a gruyere master.

Kevin McGhee 'In' at Picholine; Shlomi Biton 'Out' at Mahjong

​Since the shuttering of Xie Xie, Angelo Sosa is keeping busy with projects such as rolling out a new kati roll with the Kati Roll Company. You can even see him behind the counter! [Midtown Lunch] Kevin McGhee, the former sous-chef at Eleven Madison Park, is the new chef de cuisine at Picholi ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Sausage Fest; Hot Plates

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Iron Chef America Screening Bagatelle Wednesday, January 26, 8 p.m. Chef Nicolas Cantrel, who just won the Battle Gruyere on Food Network's Iron Chef America, is ho ... More >>

Naomichi Yasuda Leaves New York; Laurent Gras Lands Here

​Naomichi Yasuda, the chef-owner of Sushi Yasuda, is leaving New York to open an eight-seat sushi bar in Japan. [Eater] Laurent Gras, of the Michelin-starred L20 in Chicago, is moving to New York to work on an unnamed project. [Food & Wine via Eater] Bravo has announced a new cooking show st ... More >>

Jean-Georges Vongerichten Boxes Hugh Jackman; Amanda Freitag Dreams of Cooking in a Field

​Simon Oren, a partner in Nice Matin, Marseille, Barbounia, and Five Napkin Burger, is expected to take over the space that once occupied Ed Brown's Eighty One, and is currently hunting for a chef. [Grub Street] Jean-Georges Vongerichten spars with actor Hugh Jackman in season five of the Su ... More >>

Eating the U.S. Open: Does the Pat LaFrieda Burger Hold Love?

Is the baseline burger an ace?​It's day three of the U.S. Open, one of the swankiest sporting events you can attend outside a Hamptons polo match. There's a Ralph Lauren shop open till late on the grounds and a slew of celebrity chefs cooking there, too, including Rick Moonen, Jonathan Waxman, ... More >>

Scarpetta Latest to Jump on Vegetarian Bandwagon

peet-astn/flickrIt's what's for dinner.​ Scott Conant is the latest chef to go meatless. He is introducing a new vegetarian menu at Scarpetta, featuring such garden delights as vegetable and farro risotto with shaved parmigiano, and rosemary-braised lentils with broccoli rabe and concentrated ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Free Booze and Burlesque; Pop-Up Taqueria

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Drunken Dragon Night Macao Trading Co. Monday, August 23, 9 p.m. The folks at Macao Trading Co. are truly outdoing themselves tonight with this free evening of booz ... More >>

The Guggenheim to Get a Food Cart; Pringles Go Multigrain

​Mississippi is the most obese state in the country for the sixth year in a row, according to the seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future" report. New York tied for 36th place with Florida and Idaho. [NY Daily News] The Guggenheim Museum is seeking permission from ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Latin Food Fest; a Sandwich Seminar

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Rayuela's Third Anniversary Throughout June Rayuela Even though this Lower East Side restaurant is the one celebrating a birthday, you get the gift. Throughout ... More >>

Olana's Albert Di Meglio Moonlighting at Trump Soho Hotel; How to Alienate Viewers: Recommend Cat Casserole

​Albert Di Meglio, the chef-owner of Olana, has not been getting paid since the restaurant filed Chapter 11 last year, and has, in the meantime, been working at the new Trump Soho hotel. [Eater] Bruce Buschel says "negotiations came to a grinding halt" with the two chefs, Jason Weiner and Eri ... More >>

Sloan-Kettering Wins Iron Chef of Hospital Food; Pop-up Restaurants Abound

​Pop-up restaurants are a great way to allow young chefs to experiment with new menus without the risk of bankruptcy. And, unlike underground supper clubs, they're legal. [NY Times] Memorial Sloan-Kettering's executive chef took top prize when kitchen chiefs from top hospitals around the city ... More >>

Still the Best Name for This Proposed Ghostface Killah/Method Man/Raekwon Project

Right? Or that would be too accurate? Ironman, Iron Chef, and the Iron Lung would also be acceptable, we suppose. More info here, if this confuses you. [JensenClan88/Ghostface]

Humorist Mo Rocca on Pale-Faced Vegans, Gay Thai Food, and Eating Eyeballs

Mo Rocca: Gentleman farmer, duck-lover, possessor of newly acquired abs-of-steel ​ Mo Rocca is a writer and humorist, a regular correspondent on the CBS Sunday Morning show, a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and an Iron Chef America judge. He has appeared on Ugly Betty, The Tonight ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette: A New Foodie Handbook; Putting Chocolate Chips to the Test

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily weighed in on self-proclaimed "queen of the food bloggers" Pim Techamuanvivit's new book The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy. The verdict? As an objective guide, it "just doesn't fly." Midtown Lunch noted that the Street Vendor P ... More >>

Chatting With Julieta Ballesteros of Crema About Tequila, Being a Chef-Owner & Beating Bobby Flay

​Julieta Ballesteros is known for bringing French execution and presentation to colorful and boldly flavored Mexican dishes. Her mother's paintings adorn the walls of her brightly decorated restaurant, Crema, but patrons say the real works of art can be found on the plate. The chef-owner talke ... More >>

When the Austrians Start Frying Chicken...

​...It can officially be called a trend. Though Daniel Angerer's Viennese Popcorn-Crusted Fried Chicken has been on Klee Brasserie's menu for years, the Austrian restaurant just sent out a reminder that it's available every Monday night. Given that fried chicken seems to have become this summe ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's New Kitchen Nightmare; Big Meals Cooked in Small Places

​Julie Powell, who wrote the book Julie & Julia, on which the movie is based, isn't the only New Yorker with a tiny kitchen. Other home cooks-cum-food writers/bloggers cook big meals in tiny spaces everyday. [NY Daily News] Iron Chef contestant Aaron Sanchez --also the chef at Centrico and Pa ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Television Shows

​A few afternoons ago I had the pleasure of hearing Jacques Pepin discourse on his friendship with Julia Child, whom he met in 1960. He recalled their opportunity to work together on a show called Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, created in 1999 in Boston and featuring both of them in the kitc ... More >>

Under the Toque

This week in chef news... Top Chef season four's Antonia Lofaso and Iron Chef Kevin Rathbun will be in St. Croix April 14-18 for a fundraising event called "Iron Chef, Top Chef, Island Chef." The two TV chefs, along with a local chef, will compete to make the best 30-minute meal, each with the sa ... More >>

NY Wine Expo: Best Cheap Finds

The NY Wine Expo, held this weekend at the Javits Center, was crowded with people getting a little messy, but it was also a really good chance to taste affordable wines from around the world. (The only big flop of our night was the Iron Chef wine collection, which was just as bad as you might imagin ... More >>

Letters

Letters

Iron Chef Boyardee

Our man Sietsema opens up a can of worms

BLTs and BFFs

Last meal? Iron Chef America's Anne Burrell focuses on slabs and friends

Last Meal: Aar Sanchez and his granny

Aarón Sanchez's Last Meal

Back to the table of his abuela

New Iron Chef to Join the Show

Buddha's Hand: Huge in '07

Runaway Ravioli

Batali defector gets innovative on Avenue B

Meet Alton Brown, Dorkis Majorkis!

Culinary Smack Down

Iron Chef New York: Batali vs. Dufresne

Out of Here

Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R

Culinary Arts

Stomp-meets-Kodo banging, plate juggling, martial arts, and acrobatics

Dance

Dismantle And Devour

Adventures in the Wacky World of Hong Kong Fusion Cuisine

Reality Bites

Thai One On

Vancouver Smackdown