Fire officials announced Wednesday that Caleb Ganzer, a celebrated sommelier and partner at Nolita wine bar, La Compagnie des Vinssumaturels, had been arrested and charged with double criminal offenses. The charges include three cases of arson, including two in outdoor restaurants in Manhattan, and other crimes related to the fires. That reported first News of […]

A sandwich of chickpea schnitzel, kale, Israeli lettuce and garlic aioli from Edith’s in Williamsburg. Photo: Janice Chung Elyssa Heller opened last March Ediths in Wilhelmsburg. Three weeks ago while sitting at the sandwich counter, I had a revelation that forced me to rethink my long-held belief that bagel sandwiches are terrible. bagels are wonderful, […]

McDonald’s announced that it is continuing the limited celebrity collaboration dinner series, this time with Rper Saweetie. The Saweetie MealDebuting on August 9th features a Big Mac, four-part Chicken McNuggets, medium-sized french fries, medium-sized sprite, tangy BBQ sauce, and something called „Saweetie ‘N Sour” sauce. Lately Saweetie has emerged not only as a musician but […]

„I’m not a baker, I tell everyone that,” says Denise Williams. Anyone who knows her pastries may disagree: Since the Deadstock coffee shop opened as a kiosk in 2015, Williams has been making butterscotch cakes for her son Ian Williams, who serves them alongside his tea / coffee mixes and lavender mocha. The decision to […]

Claudio Velez has been part of the Chicago restaurant and bar scene for more than 20 years. A native of Aculco, Mexico, arrived in Chicago without knowing many people or with a lot of money. He worked at a neighborhood hardware store, where he met colleagues who showed him around town. During these tours he […]

In the past week, pessimism about the return of a new coronavirus surge throughout Southern California and beyond, this is burning rapidly through most unvaccinated groups due to the much more communicable (and possibly more) heavy) Delta variant. And while the soaring numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions are a long way from the […]

A few nights ago, I had the pleasure of stopping by the Palizzi Social Club – a centenary Italian members-only eatery in South Philly – for an after-dinner drink. At the bar, my friend suggested between rounds that since we had already eaten we should order Palizzi’s famous dessert instead. Shortly afterwards we dug into […]

In 2009, Dallas-based chef Tiffany Derry received a call that would change her culinary career forever. On the other end of the line was TV production company Magical Elves, who asked the cook if she would like to appear on the seventh season of Bravo’s culinary contest series Top chef. “I said yes, right, that’s […]

I do a lot of my grocery shopping at the bodega on my corner, and my diet is broken down more from the produce – the dependable broccoli, a plastic bowl of gres, an occasional pre-cut mango – I find on the shelves than I probably should admit this food side. But this kind of […]

Krispy Kreme made an Xbox donut. The Fluffy Donut is a marketing collaboration with Microsoft to celebrate Xbox’s 20th anniversary and will be on sale in Krispy Kreme stores, display cases and online in the UK and Ireland between August 2nd and 22nd. The donuts won’t come with CPUs, GPUs, or SSDs, but you can […]

With more circumstance than pomp that Olympic Games in Tokyo started on Friday with a weakened one Opening ceremonies that tried to set the mood for the games. And in a way it has. A smaller parade of nations marched in front of empty stands, and a minute of silence paid tribute to the lost […]