Mario Batali

How to Buy, Eat, and Donate Food During the Post-Sandy Haze

The New York Post reports that food trucks are beginning to make deliveries in New York today. Downtown shoppers might have to "make the trek uptown to restock their shelves," but most stores are back in business.

What To Do When the Bacon Shortage Hits: 9 Tasty Suggestions

Be prepared to say goodbye! A rather hysterical report issued early last week on the part of a European agricultural agency suggested that pig populations were declining in Europe and the U.S. due to shortages of corn and soybeans - important feed for porkers - as a result of prolonged drought. As ... More >>

Rosemary's Has a Roof Party

A new West Villager channels an old West Villager

A Quick Look at Jamie Bissonnette & Ken Oringer's Boston Restaurant Coppa

Coppa's beef heart, bone marrow, lovage, and grated horseradish pizza -- and you can't get anything quite like it here. [See More On the Road: Robert in Kansas City | Weirdest Food Truck in San Francisco News on Eater that the celebrated Boston chefs Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer had their he ... More >>

Tertulia: Erin Go Tapas

Seamus Mullen opens a new Spanish joint in Greenwich Village

This Week's Specials: Halloween Treats, Day of the Dead Meals, Mario Batali

And now, a look back at what was on the menu here at Fork in the Road this week. Robert SietsemaSo that's why they call it MacDougal Street!​ We revealed Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street. Drink a Black Eye at Forty Four at the Royalton this Halloween. Wondering where to eat for ... More >>

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Mario Batali Busts a Move, Eats Doritos and Could Have Been Your Pool Boy

photo by Melanie Dunea PamEven more Mario.​ Yesterday, we sat down with Mario Batali to discuss his new cookbook, Molto Batali: Simple Family Dinners from My Home to Yours; his new show, The Chew; and his ever-changing role as a food icon. Today, he reveals what he might have done had the whol ... More >>

Mario Batali Disusses His New Cookbook, His Potty Mouth and Would Like to Remind You That He Did Not Kill Erica Kane

Melanie Dunea PamMolto Mario​ Mario Batali, with his orange Crocs and even more colorful language, can be a polarizing figure. Love him or loathe him, he is one of the city's -- and, therefore, the country's -- greatest chefs. His new cookbook, Molto Batali: Simple Family Dinners From My Home ... More >>

The Wild Brew Yonder at Birreria

Eataly opens a beer garden high in the sky

Eataly to Colonize Our Nation's Capital

Robert SietsemaAll of this will soon be yours, Washington.​Now that Washington, D.C., has almost digested Shake Shack, it should start priming its collective gut for another New York export. As The Huffington Post reports, Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali are planning to open a branch of Eataly ... More >>

Dish No. 98: Lupa's Treviso with Vin Cotto

Lauren ShockeyTreviso with vin cotto: bitter never tasted so sweet​Welcome to the 2011 Edition of 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike. Over the ensuing weeks, we'll be counting down our beloved eats, all leadi ... More >>

Steve Albini Has a Food Blog

Steve Albini, not cooking food.​Steve Albini is one of the music world's most renowned and prolific recording engineers: he's made his mark on an estimated 1,500-2,000 albums from the likes of Nirvana, the Pixies, Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Low, Joanna Newsom, and Jarvis Cocker. He's also ... More >>

Sandra Lee Is Throwing a Giant Bake Sale Tomorrow

​Starting at 11:30 tomorrow morning and lasting for several decadent hours, Sandra Lee will be putting her terrifying power to good use by taking over Grand Central Terminal to throw an enormous bake sale for charity.

Japan Concerned Over Radioactive Food; Lean Cuisine Recalls Spaghetti & Meatballs

​Following the massive earthquake in Japan that damaged a major nuclear plant, radioactivity may be seeping into the country's food and water resources, a cancer risk for children and unborn babies. [Reuters] Florida has quietly adopted a McDonald's-backed measure to prevent cities from passi ... More >>

NYC Chefs Resolve to Eat Better (and Eat Worse!) in 2011

pguild.comA new decade, new resolutions​ Now that the New Year has come and gone, it's time to get those resolutions going. The Wall Street Journal, Oprah.com, and The Daily Meal all have extensive roundups of celebrity chefs resolutions for the coming year and New York City chefs are well re ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Eats

Old stand-bys and some new kids on the block

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It's late Friday afternoon, and thus time for what it's always time for on late Friday afternoon ... The Top 10 Fast Food Items That Don't Totally Suck. Where should I send my 21-year-old godson for some birthday fun?

Lupa: Another Look at Mario Batali's Roman Restaurant

​The bavette cacio e pepe is killer at Lupa. When Lupa opened on October 1, 1999, it was the third restaurant for Mario Batali, and the second he'd started with partner Joseph Bastianich, following closely on the heels of Babbo. But Lupa was different.

Robert Sietsema at Umi Nom

Robert Sietsema samples balut (duck embryo) and other pan-Asian treats at Umi Nom. Sam Sifton awards one star to Osteria Morini, where "pastas glisten with pork fat, with butter, with cream, with oil. They are aggressively salted. They hang around on the outskirts of Too Much. ... [Chef Michael] Wh ... More >>

Batali and Bastianich File $6 Million Lawsuit, Get Restraining Order Against Restaurant Protestors

Getty ImagesWho doesn't love a restraining order?​Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich aren't playing possum when it comes to the lawsuit filed against them by a group of former Del Posto employees: the pair are now the plaintiffs in a $6 million lawsuit against the Restaurant Opportunities Center ... More >>

An Early Peek at Manzo, Eataly's New Restaurant

If this veal tongue could talk...

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 >>

Introducing Waiter Pay, a Web Site Created to Raise Awareness About Restaurant Labor Laws

Alfred Eisenstaedt​The number of lawsuits that seem to emerge from the restaurant world on an almost-weekly basis no doubt keep plenty of lawyers busy, but one has somehow found the time to create Waiter Pay, a Web site that both raises awareness of New York labor laws and violations and serve ... More >>

Eataly Hits Flatiron Like a Ton of Prosciutto

Mario Batali presses the flesh with his many fans.​ "Eataly, what a cute name!" a young woman exclaimed as she attempted to navigate the crushing crowd that surged into the Italian food megaplex shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday. By 4:30 there was a line to get into the door, monitored by a silv ... More >>

Even Michael Bloomberg Showed Up for Eataly's Opening

Getty​It's all Eataly all the time this week--yesterday, we showed you the line of people waiting to get in to Mario Batali's new mega Italian market and food court, and it turns out that everyone and their mother really was there. Micheal Bloomberg made an appearance, and ate some pizza, as h ... More >>

Slushies Go Upmarket; Sotheby's to Auction Rare Veggies

​Mario Batali is writing a vegetarian cookbook. He already hosts "Meatless Mondays" at all 14 of his restaurants, and limits himself to five meals with meat per week. [NY Daily News] Upmarket slushies are all the rage. Not only is a new food truck specializing in all natural shaved ices, but ... More >>

Eataly Debuts Training Program for Career Changers; Lincoln Center Becomes New Culinary Hotspot

​Mario Batali gains a TV show, a 50,000-square-foot food emporium, and a new restaurant in Singapore, and loses 35 pounds by eating less meat and more vegetables. [Wall Street Journal] Meanwhile, after receiving so many applications form career changers, the team behind Eataly has launched a ... More >>

Behold Batali in the Buff: The Chef Gets Immortalized on Canvas

Sketchy FolkBatali as Bacchus​ Remember that guy who painted Rachael Ray in the nude in a river of EVOO? (His name was Alex Gardega.) Now, his friend, an artist named Sketchy Folk, has painted Mario Batali. And, yes, he's also nude, depicted as Bacchus in a riff on the famous Rubens painting. ... More >>

Pot-Smoking Chefs Fuel Stoner Cuisine Movement; P.F. Chang Launches Private Wine Label

​When "infamously gluttonous" Mario Batali jumps on the Meatless Mondays bandwagon, you know the campaign has legs. [Washington Post] The trend toward over-the-top fatty, carb-heavy foods may be fueled in part by chefs who smoke weed and the munchies marijuana induces. [NY Times] P.F. Chang' ... More >>

Mario Batali Accused of Labor Violations; The City's Best Restaurant Breads

​The final episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC had mediocre ratings, earning less less than 4 million viewers and losing to Dateline and a repeat of Medium. [NY Post] Asian carp are reviled by fishermen in the North, but in the South, they're being rebranded as Kentucky tune: "a ... More >>

Di Fara May Take Flight at La Guardia

Michael Y. Park/EpicuriousDoes this say 'airport restaurant' to you?​Looks like Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali aren't the only ones with super-sized Italian on their minds: Feast reports that OTG Management, the company responsible for revamping the food options at JFK's Terminal Five, is pl ... More >>

The Piggery Brings Pork Chops from the Farm to Your Doorstep; Burger King Introduces Fancy Burger

​The Piggery is the first meat CSA servicing the New York area. The family farm, located north of Ithaca, has about 130 pigs that they raise in an open-air barn. Some 45 participants have already enrolled, mostly from Brooklyn. [NY Daily News] Thousands of black farmers who were denied farm loans ... More >>

Under the Toque: Batali to Be a 'Dick-Tater' for Halloween; Ramsay Fed Up with 'Kitchen Nightmares'

​Jason Neroni, who recently left 10 Downing to be replaced by Jonnatan Leiva, has resurfaced in Solana Beach, just north of San Diego, as the new executive chef at the three-year-old Blanca. [North County Times] Centro Vinoteca, which the city shuttered for a few days, has a new chef named Be ... More >>

Under the Toque: Phil Conlon in at Broadway East; Todd English in at Great Jones Hotel

​Broadway East has confirmed yet another new chef to head up its kitchen. Phil Conlon, the opening chef de cuisine at Cafe Cluny, has taken over from Gavin Mills, who has reportedly left New York to work in California. Grub Street] Todd English has confirmed rumors that he will open a new spa ... More >>

One Ring Zero Makes Ingredients Sing. Literally.

​Like any good chef, One Ring Zero partners well-honed technique with unconventional inspiration. The brainchild of Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, the band entered the cultural consciousness in 2004 with As Smart As We Are, an album featuring lyrics written by the likes of Margaret Atwood, Ri ... More >>

What Will We Find in Mario Batali's Genes?

Photo borrowed from nerdapproved.com From the producers who brought us African American Lives and Oprah's Roots comes a new PBS series called Faces of America. Popular icons like Stephen Colbert, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yo Yo Ma have agreed to have their DNA deconstructed to discover what role their ... More >>

Fabio Getting Every Cent Out of These 15 Minutes

America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>

This Week in Restaurant Reviews

This week in the Village Voice, Sarah DiGregorio visits Mumbai Xpress and New Kerala Kitchen, while Robert Sietsema goes to La Superior. Here's what critics elsewhere are reviewing this week:Steve Cuozzo reviews Corton, and deems his recent visits to the restaurant "among the most enjoyable dining e ... More >>

Bar Milano's Wild Culinary Ride

The Denton brothers do it again in Murray Hill

James Beard Award Nominees Announced

Iron Chef Boyardee

Our man Sietsema opens up a can of worms

Ilan and Marcel Speak

Ein Eulogie

Head for the headcheese at venerable Queens German restaurant

When Opportunity Strikes

Foodies trek to fill coveted restaurant seats

Exquisite Equinox

Fall back to the hardiest harvest

Good Enough for a Marble Worker

Bringing the town of lardo home

Sea (Urchin) of Love

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