Restaurants
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Every month, we ask readers which restaurant recipes they're craving—then round them up. For March, we've got cheesecake, beef tartare, and chicken salad
Which is worse, bad food or bad service? Our readers have strong opinions on these matters—and on what turns them into loyal restaurant customers.
Bon Appétit
Mark Firth helped build Brooklyn's coolest, most influential restaurant empire. So why'd the natural-born bon vivant give it all up?
Sam Dean
Meet Ken Reynolds, the Irish engineer who's built some of New York's best restaurants—with blueprints jotted down on napkins, and not much else
Sam Dean
Bon Appétit editor in chief Adam Rapoport remembers the Guy's Lunches his dad once hosted, and muses on the value of meals with close friends
Adam Rapoport
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10 food experiences to have in once desolate, now delicious, downtown Los Angeles
What do the guys behind The Clove Club, London’s pop up–turned–hot spot, do on a rare night off? They throw a party, of course
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Nashville's Rolf & Daughters and Atlanta's The Optimist—both on BA's Hot 10 list—collaborated on a special one-night, five-course dinner.
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These restaurants might have started out as Hollywood plot points, but now they have developed to bonafide brick-and-mortar spots.
At Diner, the menu is an ephemeral creation—written for each guest, by each server, and featuring whatever's fresh that day. Here's how it came to exist
Sam Dean
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As L.A. Chapter, the Ace Hotel Downtown's new restaurant, gets ready to open, we go behind the scenes for a peek at the preparations
How to enjoy yourself when you bring your kid to Chuck E. Cheese's
Matt Gross
Consumed columnist Matt Duckor's account of the night he spent working front of house at Alma, the Best New Restaurant in America
Matt Duckor
An ever-expanding Google Map charting the connections between places and people in Andrew Tarlow's Brooklyn restaurant empire—and beyond
Sam Dean
When Andrew Tarlow opened Diner in 1998, no one knew it would transform Brooklyn. Today we meet the people who created—and sustain—his accidental empire
Sam Dean
How does Andrew Tarlow sustain his Brooklyn restaurant empire after 15 years? As he explains in this interview, through radical transparency.
Sam Dean
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How to request your favorite restaurant dishes' recipes through our monthly column, RSVP.
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Across America, bars and restaurants are taking inspiration from literary greats, from Oscar Wilde and Eugene Onegin to Charles Bukowski and H.P. Lovecraft
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Skip the rest stop and pull up to these 16 cool restaurants that live in gas stations (both former and still-functioning). A little KC BBQ with your wiper fluid?
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Fed up with cash? These restaurants, farms, and markets let you pay with alternate currencies, from Bitcoin to PayPal to Bay Bucks
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From turkey samosas to pumpkin egg rolls, creative (and weird) twists on Thanksgiving classics from restaurants around the country
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Forget dinner and a movie and do a dinner-in-a-movie-theater! Genius.
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The Nitpicker's Perfect Restaurant: a curmudgeon's utopia where everything runs smoothly and there's nothing to complain about.