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Meet the Author Whose New Novel Is All About New York Restaurant Culture
Danler at Buvette, where she waited tables while writing her book.Like many writers, Stephanie Danler has also held more than a few restaurant gigs, working in well-regarded places like Tía Pol,...
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Super-Chill Governor Cuomo Wants to Let Brunchers Drink Before Noon
Early bird may soon get the booze, too.Andrew Cuomo is throwing his full gubernatorial weight behind a panel's recommendation to update New York's severely outdated liquor laws. Critics have long...
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A New Italian Cocktail Bar Opens in Brooklyn With Amaretto Sours and...
A Manhattan variation at August Laura called the Coop.Carroll Gardens has long been one of New York's Italian-American strongholds, a heritage that's maintained by enduring establishments like Caputo's...
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‘World’s Longest’ Pizza Actually Doesn’t Look That Bad
Cheese for miles.When a food is bestowed with a Guinness World Record, that generally means it's not that appetizing. (To wit: Buca di Beppo's 10,000-pound spaghetti bowl ended up becoming livestock...
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Greenpoint’s Hail Mary Is a Cheeky Multicultural Riff on the American Diner
Banana split.Husband-and-wife chef team Hisham and Sohla El-Waylly met in class at the Culinary Institute of America and went on to independently cook at some of New York's top restaurants, like Atera,...
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Congress Suggests Legitimate ‘Sell By’ Dates Might Curb Food Waste
But does it pass the smell test?America's food-expiration labels are essentially meaningless: Dates don't have to be scientifically derived and are little more than attempts to persuade consumers to...
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McDonald’s Figured Out the One Way to Make Its Burgers Grosser
Never thought we'd miss black buns ...Anybody who's walked in (or near) a McDonald's lately has seen the all-out Angry Birds onslaught, but this is apparently nothing compared to the enthusiasm going...
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Musician Brett Dennen Eats Breakfast Tacos in Austin and Street Meat in New York
"I doctored it up with some Texas Pete hot sauce.""I wouldn't call myself a 'food connoisseur,' but I love to eat," says Brett Dennen. This week he was on the road promoting his new album, Por Favor,...
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Are We Drinking in a Post-Mixology World?
Sometimes you don't need violet tinctures and obscure liqueurs.The glory days of the faux speakeasy, thank the Lord, appear to be over. While be-vested bartenders, secret entrances, "house rules,"...
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Fancy Restaurant in Germany Now Sprinkles Dessert Onto a Flip-Flop
Most people remember leaving the beach as kids and their parents saying something like, "Don't even think about getting in this car until you've knocked every bit of sand off those sandals." Well,...
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Grub Street’s Restaurant Power Rankings: Dave Chang’s Latest Project, a New...
Welcome to Grub Street's weekly survey of the most-talked-about, must-visit restaurants in New York City. The list below features spots both new and old ranked according to one important,...
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Frozen Vegetables From Massive Listeria Recall Aren’t Going to Throw...
One of about 400 things you maybe forgot is in your freezer.The CDC has a message for lazy American consumers: The recall CRF Frozen Foods issued two weeks ago didn't make listeria-infected items...
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Taco Bell Warns Fried-Chicken Taco Shells Are Going National
Maybe it was funny when it was just a tiny test out in Bakersfield, California, but now anyone afraid of a world overflowing with Naked Crispy Chicken Tacos (now re-dubbed Naked Chicken Chalupas) is...
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Exemplary McDonald’s Employees Filmed Brawling Over Who Has to Cook the Apple...
A couple of workers at a McDonald's in South Carolina got into a fight this week over whose job it would be to cook the Baked Apple Pies that day. Video of the incident — because it is the year 2016...
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A Shuko Chef Is Behind a Hidden New Japanese Restaurant in Fort Greene
Dry-aged prime rib eye, koji, tosazu sauce.To enter Karasu, you walk into Walter's, go through the restaurant, and head to a door in the back — similar to another beloved and secret Japanese...
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Mimi Is a Pint-Size Bistro With a Daring French Soul
MimiI can’t remember precisely when it was during my first dinner at a small, randomly named Village bistro called Mimi, but I turned to one of my guests and muttered, with my mouth half-full and only...
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The City Lost Another Papaya Stand This Weekend
No more.The Papaya family of cheap hot dogs and tropical drinks keeps shrinking in Manhattan. This weekend, the Theater District Papaya Dog closed without warning, reportedly dismantled by employees...
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Pommes Frites Rises From the Ashes, Reopens in West Village
Welcome back.In the wake of the East Village gas explosion, 18-year-old Pommes Frites closed down, and owners Suzanne Levinson and Omer Shorshi have been working tirelessly for more than a year to...
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German Drug Company Offers $62 Billion for Monsanto to Merge
One-stop shop for Claritin and Roundup?The German pharmaceutical conglomerate Bayer has made a $62 billion all-cash offer for Monsanto, a deal that would create the world's largest agricultural...
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Esteemed Critic Tejal Rao Joins the New York Times
Power move.As a two-time winner of the James Beard Foundation's Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award — in 2013 for her work at the Village Voice, and just last month for Bloomberg —...
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