Pizzeria Debuts Trump Pizza, Sliced Small for People With Tiny Fingers
"These major losers are gonna have a problem, I guarantee."Until President Trump suspends the First Amendment next January as his first act of office, American citizens may still legally criticize the...
View ArticleDesigner Danielle Snyder Chases Dover Sole With Twizzlers
Maman is one of her neighborhood favorites.As the co-owner of the jewelry line Dannijo, Danielle Snyder's job involves a mix of schmoozing and actual crafting. That sometimes means she needs to eat a...
View ArticleKings County Distillery’s Tasting Room Opens Tonight With Whiskey Pops,...
There will be cocktails made with Kings County Distillery whiskeys.Kings County Distillery has a new destination for your summer nights. Fresh off of winning three major awards, including being named...
View ArticleColumbia Tells Student He’s Done Running That Restaurant in His Dorm Room
Reider in action.Columbia senior Jonah Reider may have skillfully spun his relaxed dorm-room "fauxsterant" into a Colbert appearance and a 1,000-person wait list, but like many a Manhattan eatery...
View ArticleMan Who Sprayed Rodenticide in Whole Foods Believed People Were Trying to...
Bessemer entering the Whole Foods.Michigan's serial-poisoner saga just keeps getting more horrible: The man arrested earlier this week for pouring mouse killer onto unpackaged food at more than a dozen...
View Article25-Ton Potato Spill Blocks Off North Carolina Highway for Hours
Annoyed commuters who spent their morning idling on North Carolina's I-77 can blame 50,000 pounds of runaway taters. Emergency cleanup crews in the Charlotte area had to close the roadway for hours...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Power Sushi Restaurant
Shuko, one of New York's nouveau sushi bars.Has sushi replaced steak in terms of a luxury dining experience? New York critic Adam Platt and Grub editor Alan Sytsma think so, owing to restaurants like...
View ArticleDelaware and Hudson’s New Tavern Is Serving a Pennsylvania Dutch Specialty
Delaware and Hudson's schnitz und gnepp.Schnitz und gnepp is one of those dishes that tastes as good as it sounds. The Pennsylvania Dutch specialty of ham and dumplings mingled with pieces of dried...
View ArticleSan Francisco Inexplicably Loves McDonald’s New Garlic Fries
Certainly could've done worse.It took self-respecting San Franciscans two short weeks to inhale all of the new Gilroy Garlic Fries — easily the most locavore offering yet in the chain's ongoing efforts...
View ArticleKrispy Kreme Bought by Owner of Intelligentsia, Peet’s, and Stumptown
Those doughnuts better be worth it.Breakfast domination is now within reach. Krispy Kreme was bought out for a cool $1.35 billion by JAB Beech, the German investment firm that owns Peet's Coffee &...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Visit 150 Dive Bars in 90 Days
A mural outside Spring Lounge in Nolita, one of the city's best dive bars.Nearly every second of my free time over the past few months has been spent sitting in a dive bar, or playing pool in a dive...
View ArticleChristians Aren’t Happy About Mayor de Blasio’s Chick-fil-A Slam
Incredibly, Bill de Blasio's casual urging that fellow New Yorkers "not patronize" Chick-fil-A is not going over that well with the southern chicken chain's biggest fans. The mayor's remarks last week...
View ArticleChipotle Blames the CDC for ‘Public Panic’ Over Its E. Coli Outbreaks
Drama queen?Chipotle will try anything to get back in customers' good graces, whether that's burning up $62 million in free burritos or apparently blaming the "public panic" during Chipotle's...
View ArticleRestaurateur Gabriel Stulman Reinstates Tipping at Fedora
Points for transparency.At the outset of 2016, prolific New York restaurateur Gabriel Stulman began testing a no-tipping policy by eliminating gratuity at Fedora, with tentative plans to follow suit at...
View ArticleBudweiser Considers Relabeling Itself ‘America’ Just Because It Can
The King of Beers discovers democracy.To remind Americans that nothing's too sacred for shameless corporate self-promotion, the King of Beers is currently seeking federal approval for a new label that...
View ArticleAmazon Will Launch a Meal-Kit Delivery Service
The ready-to-cook meal deliveries start in the fall.Maybe because Jeff Bezos feels a little left out or something, Amazon is planning to roll out its very own meal-kit delivery service this fall,...
View ArticleRestaurateur Accused of Killing Customer With Cheap Curry
The restaurateur allegedly got "numerous warnings" about the risks of peanuts.A upstanding-sounding restaurant owner is on trial right now in England for the death of a customer who reportedly warned...
View ArticleA Fire Broke Out at the TGI Fridays in Union Square
A fire broke out earlier Tuesday afternoon inside the Union Square location of TGI Fridays but has been contained. Videos taken by witnesses depict smoke billowing out of the building's second-story...
View ArticleBone-Marrow-Chocolate Is the Latest Luxe Doughnut Flavor
Oozing with meat juice.There's no shortage of fancy doughnuts in New York, but the newest one — a collaboration between the Doughnut Project and nearby butcher shop Hudson & Charles — isn't just a...
View ArticleA New Study Comes Down Hard on the Actual Benefits of Urban Farming
These two are set at least.Everyone from Bill de Blasio to René Redzepi extols the virtues of urban farming, but what if it turns out that adding all this sweat and artisanal hand spades to compost...
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