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MoMA PS1’s long-empty cafe space is getting new life this fall, with chef DeVonn Charles Francis bringing his French-Caribbean cooking to Long Island City.
Aug 21, 2026
A veteran of Theodora, The Modern, and Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is bringing tucupi, cupuaçu, and a rainforest’s worth of ingredients to a new Allen Street Brazilian restaurant this fall.
Aug 20, 2026
Inside a Greenport weekend of tangled lines, tomato season, and a 500-pound tuna that upstaged a room full of professional cooks.
Aug 17, 2026
Ryan Bartlow heads out East.
Aug 14, 2026
As Chicago’s contract with the James Beard Awards winds down, cities are quietly weighing whether the "Oscars of Food" are worth a $4 million entry fee.
Aug 12, 2026
Why is it so hard to sell a restaurant cookbook?
Aug 7, 2026
How Resy, OpenTable, and their credit-card benefactors turned the once-scrappy restaurant pop-up into a subsidized marketing machine—and why nobody’s complaining.
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8 min read
Dorsia was a joke about status and unattainability in American Psycho. 35 years later, it’s a members-only app that gatekeeps tables the old-fashioned way: Money.
6 min read
From Kwame Onwuachi to Gabriela Cámara to Grant Achatz, casinos are competing for chefs the way they once competed for whales, betting that great restaurants will drive Las Vegas’s next era.
15 min read
The pioneering food site once set the terms for how Americans talked about restaurants. Now, it’s fighting for survival in a media landscape it helped shape—and can no longer control.
14 min read
How a former J.P. Morgan banker went from peeling carrots at Esca to running the operations behind Cote, Coqodaq, and Bar Chimera.
3 min read
From a sweltering West Village dining room to a farmers market in Carmel, the chef and owner of New York’s Bartolo and Ernesto’s reflects on a broken AC, cooking in California, and the real reason he can’t say no to guest-chef gigs (hint: It’s not just about the money).
