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Here’s What Bourdain Learned by Eating Noodles With President Obama
Crushing brews.Earlier this week, newly minted buds Anthony Bourdain and President Barack Obama met up in Hanoi for a low-key dinner. Over beers and grilled pork with noodles, at what Bourdain...
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Australia Got Its Own Naked Restaurant
Something like this.This is about to become a trend. London's first clothing-optional restaurant, coming this summer, accumulated a 27,000-person-strong wait list in just six days. Now two Melbourne...
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Sauvage, From the Maison Premiere Team, Debuts in Greenpoint
Plymouth Rock pot-au-feu with chicken-skin schmaltz toast.Fresh off their James Beard Foundation win for Outstanding Bar Program, Maison Premiere's Joshua Boissy, Krystof Zizka, and chef Lisa Giffen...
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A Trailblazing Chef Arrives in NYC With This Ambitious New Restaurant
Poached marrowbone with spring onion and chive flowers.Acclaimed chef Günter Seeger's comeback is complete. Almost a decade after closing his tasting-menu restaurant Seeger in Atlanta, where he cooked...
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Grub Street’s Restaurant Power Rankings: Dizengoff, Olmsted, Günter Seeger,...
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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Broadway’s Megan Hilty Eats Her First Proper Dinner at Sardi’s
Hilty at Bemelmans, "the sexiest bar in New York."Megan Hilty has a long, illustrious career on Broadway — and off, as she famously starred in the musical-television show Smash, recently released a...
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NYC Can Start Fining Restaurants for Salt-Label Violations
Menacing.Now an update from the nanny state. While the National Restaurant Association (a.k.a. the other NRA) continues to fight New York's salt warnings in an appeals court, a judge gave the city the...
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Watching a Machine From the 1800s Make Candy Is a Surprisingly Satisfying Way...
!+[ooyala-player]({"videoId":"1yZzVyMzE6qfkOgZASMrpDVVG1hyMBzY"}) It's called the fruit-drop roller, and it makes old-timey candies from a giant ball of molten sugar. Produced by Lizzy Halberstadt,...
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Roberta’s Set to Take ‘Significant’ Investment From Tisch Family Member
What will an influx of cash do to the classic Roberta's culture?Is this what it looks like when a fiercely non-corporate restaurant finally sells out? The owners of the ramshackle Brooklyn pizzeria...
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You Can Feel Good About Eating This Inception Doughnut Because It’s Vegan
This is it.There have been various forms of inception pizza — pizza inside a delivery box made of pizza; a slice that comes with smaller pizza slices on top — and now the Cinnamon Snail wants in on the...
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Classic Desserts Are Returning to New York Menus
Classic French desserts are popping up in menus around town.In the relentless pendulum swing of global tastes, France and its iconic cuisine have been going through a slump. You’d never know it,...
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‘Renegade’ Ice-Cream Trucks Terrorizing Mister Softee Drivers
They will stop at nothing.This is almost certainly the most extreme chapter in New York's long, ruthless soft-serve turf wars. According to a report in the Times, a radical splinter group of former...
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Starbucks Introduces Nitrogen-Infused Cold Brew, Just Wants to Be One of the...
Do less.In a desperate move to ride the third wave of coffee, Starbucks will sell nitrogen-infused cold brew this summer in select cities (Seattle, Portland, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and...
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Levain Bakery, and Its Tremendous Cookies, Are Moving to a Bigger Space
Arguably the best.While Levain Bakery's rich, buttery cookies are humongous — each weighs a whopping half-pound — its 400-square-foot Upper West Side home is uncomfortably tiny. After 21 years, it will...
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Colonia Verde’s Next Sunday Asado Features Alex Raij and Fany Gerson
Trust us: You want to hang out here.No excuse is necessary, really, for hanging out in the beautiful backyard at Fort Greene's Colonia Verde, especially on summer nights. The restaurant has taken...
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The Menu at the Indian-Influenced Tapestry Includes a Superb, Textbook Rabbit...
Tapestry's rabbit terrine.If you’re a New Delhi-born chef best known for elegant Indian cuisine but determined to demonstrate your cross-cultural cooking chops, you could do worse than position a...
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General Mills Just Recalled 10 Million Pounds of Flour Over E. Coli Fears
Check before baking.Hold the measuring cup if you're planning on baking. General Mills issued a voluntary recall Tuesday for 10 million pounds of its Gold Meal, Wondra, and Signature Kitchen brands of...
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Oprah Wants to Start Her Own Food Line
The queen.The world's biggest one-name brand is ready to extend her reach into the fridge, pantry, spice rack, and just about everywhere else in your kitchen. The Daily News discovered erstwhile...
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Petition Demands Starbucks Terminate All Leases at Trump-Owned Properties
Make Trump Tower Starbucks-Less again.Starbucks has suddenly found itself on the unfamiliar side of social activism: A petition is circulating online that demands the coffee chain, arguably among...
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FDA Finally Takes a Stand Against the Food Supply’s Crazy-High Sodium Levels
Just a little.The FDA finally gave the food industry a strong incentive today to cool it with the insane amount of salt it crams into what people eat. The agency has long tsk-tsked Americans for their...
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