With the season officially having opened this week, it is time to fly down to Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami. BYO Bibb. OK, so stone crab season runs through May 15th, but haven’t you been jonesin’ all summer for that … Read More
Anorexic L.A. gets another gourmet dog stand in the always gobbly-good-time Farmers Market. Eater LA calls them “haute dogs.” They call themselves Fritzi Dog. They open on October 25th. We, for one, love that a city so famous for extreme … Read More
Coffee and New York go hand in hand. It’s easy to find in the Big Apple, but a truly transcendent brew is more elusive. Thankfully, our staff are espresso experts. We asked a concierge from each of our NYC hotels … Read More
Beer-hall-in-a-bath house meets farm-to-table fabulosity at new Wicker Park restaurant. The food critics have spoken–in raves: Trenchermen is the hot new spot in Chi-town. Here’s how their flack describe the joint: “Creatively retooling the ubiquitous chef-driven concept by serving thought-provoking … Read More
Hey Skinny Minnies, Fashion Week’s over, let the feasting begin. Bunch of new ones hitting Manhattan’s empty lease spaces in the coming weeks. Here’s the ones we’ll check out. Westville (WoHo): The little green market diner that could is opening … Read More
Where form, function, and ‘club’ food meet. If you’re stuck in a fly-by layover, or just love the pedigree of RL, and Chicago, then the new restaurant and bar is the place to pull back a stool or chair. Very…yar… … Read More
A meat-and-greet emporium in New Orleans has found a new way to honor the city’s top chefs…as well as to adorn their private dining room walls. Rare Cuts, a new ranch-to-table butcher shop in New Orleans (with two new branches opening), … Read More
L.A. Weekly-turned-L.A. Times food critic is, for one, conflicted, despite it being Brooklyn born, a bane and a boon, to us. Here’s the laeater.com foodie review of the review by Gold of “the 7-month-old Red Hill in Echo Park, a … Read More
A roundup of newbies and up-and-comers in New York City restaurants. BLUE COLLAR Seventy-five cent burgers are all we’re saying. 160 Havemeyer Street (South Second Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (347) 725-3837. LIL’ SHORTY’S Tiny spot with a Philly-centric sandwich menu, as … Read More
Upscale diners are baaa-ack (again). For the past 20 years, restaurateurs keep getting this nifty notion to bring back comfort food as well as the places that you used to get it: in diner (even though each year cities lose … Read More
Charlotte Druckman’s upcoming group tell-all, accounted by 100-odd kitchen witches, is going to blow the lid on all those chauvinistic pigs, man. Prune chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s “Blood, Bones & Butter” and Spotted Pig chef April Bloomfield’s “A Girl and Her … Read More
Some hot reservations for the hottest of months. LOS ANGELES: Bow & Truss. In North Hollywood. Do the suh-weet courtard patio. Bowandtruss.com CHICAGO: Nellcote. Go for the little dishes in this cool-old mansion. Nellcoterestaurant.com LONDON: Il Ristorante. Big anticipation here … Read More
Among the fall-outs, Melvin’s Juice Box holds the fort, mon. (Yes, we said that.) So, if you didn’t hear, this is the worst time ever in decades for a New Yorker to rent a new apartment. There’s nothing remotely decent, … Read More
Hollywood’s olde and shabby Ye Coach & Horses gets a makeover and transformation into a true new-Brit bistro and bar. Thanks to Guest of a Guest, here’s a look inside and outside The Pikey, on Sunset Boulevard, housed in a … Read More
