Restaurants
Dining guides, chef spotlights, and restaurant coverage from a team of editors and writers who don’t miss a meal.

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TikTok Virality Has Become a Key to Restaurant Success. It's Not So Easy to Come By
Going viral on TikTok can bring restaurants financial wins—but success on the platform is hard to replicate.

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The World’s 50 Best Restaurants List Is Food Media’s Rich Out of Touch Uncle
The list isn’t going anywhere, but that doesn’t mean we have to take it seriously.

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Ojai's Restaurant Scene Is All About Great Food Under Pink Sunsets
Spend a weekend surrounded by citrus groves, and get your fill of natural wine, spice-laded roast chicken, and transcendent views.

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Goodbye to Mission Chinese Food and Its Complicated Legacy
The last New York location of Danny Bowien’s restaurant closes this week, leaving behind a complicated legacy and a trail of scarred workers.
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Controversial ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ Group Announces 2022 Winners
Copenhagen’s Noma cedes the title of best restaurant in the world to fellow Copenhagen restaurant Geranium.
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A First Look at HAGS, New York’s Revolutionary New Queer Fine Dining Restaurant
At the tiny East Village restaurant, accessibility is the priority and Sunday dinner is pay-what-you-can.

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So, Uh, We’re Doing Caviar Bumps on Mannequin Hands Now
Licking fish eggs off a not-quite-to-scale mannequin feels like doing body shots off Pinocchio.

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Get Comfortable With the $20 Cocktail. It’s Not Going Anywhere
With the rise of alcohol prices, inflation is hitting us where it hurts—right in the vibes.

Culture
I Worked in Michelin-Starred Kitchens. The Bear’s Depiction of Trauma Is Painfully Real
The FX show portrays toxic fine dining culture so well that it was triggering to watch.

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Spend a Weekend Eating and Drinking Through the Southern Catskills
This river-lined paradise is home to jewel-toned lakes, swimming holes, and of course, great food.

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6 Takeaways From New Allegations Against Blue Hill, One of America's Most Influential Restaurants
A new three-part series from Eater investigates the prestigious restaurant. Here's what to know.

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Where to Eat in Martha’s Vineyard
20 beautiful miles of lobster rolls, fish and chips, and late-night doughnuts.

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Eleven Madison Park Wanted To Go Vegan. Then It All Went Wrong.
Since the launch of an all-vegan menu, one of the world’s most famous restaurants has had a string of bad reviews and allegations of food waste and bad worker treatment.

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The Challenges That Keep Asian Chefs from Cooking How They Want
For too long, they’ve been pigeonholed into cooking only certain cuisines.

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The 'It' Dessert Right Now Is Fancied Up Panna Cotta
The wiggle-jiggle dessert of the summer is getting the VIP treatment at restaurants across the country

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Being a Virtual Restaurant Regular Has Its Perks
As food delivery booms, restaurants are showing virtual hospitality to their most loyal customers.

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Oakland Is America’s New Queer Food Capital. Here’s Where to Eat
A wave of queer-owned, queer-run, queer-focused spaces are serving up some seriously delicious food.

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How 4 Trans Chefs Are Reshaping Restaurant Culture
A new generation of trans chefs are throwing out the old playbook and starting fresh.

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Here Are the Winners of the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards. Did the Organization Deliver on Promises of Equity?
Two years after controversy around the awards’ integrity surfaced, this cohort of honorees is the most diverse in three decades.

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Colorful Tortillas Are All Over Instagram. Their History Proves They’re Anything But New.
Colored masa designs are going viral on social media, but they aren’t just pretty to look at: During the Spanish conquest in Mexico, the tortillas represented a critical Indigenous tradition.

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Very Fancy Butter Is on the Rise at Restaurants Around the Country
Bread and butter for $12. Worth it?

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This Congee Pot Pie Is More Than the Sum Of Its Filling
The congee diaspora is vast: There's juk in Korea, cháo in Vietnam, bubur in Indonesia, okayu in Japan. At one restaurant in Los Angeles, there's congee pot pie.

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Make Way For Maritozzo, the Big Italian Cream Bun of Your Dreams
A bouncy brioche pastry filled with an absurd amount of cloud-like whipped cream.

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We Need to Stop Talking About Tipping Fatigue
Some people say they're sick of tipping. But tipping is the only way to cover workers' income.

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Creepy New Tech May Soon Predict Your Restaurant Order by Your Gender
Its camera allegedly scans your face for your gender, age, and even mood—yikes!

Where to eat
Where to Eat in Raleigh, North Carolina
Recklessly large pancakes, buttermilk fried chicken, and plenty of live music.

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Hawaiian Foodways Are Vanishing. Chef Brian Hirata Won’t Let That Happen
Rain or shine, the chef sources ingredients for his pop-up restaurant, Na‘au. It’s all part of his mission to preserve the island’s vanishing foodways for future generations.

Culture
How Grubhub’s ‘Free Lunch’ Plan Spiraled Into Chaos
Frustrated customers, devastated restaurants, and more: What you need to know about this week’s food delivery catastrophe.

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This L.A. Pastry Chef Believes All Desserts Deserve An Ungodly Amount of Salt
Laura Hoang, the chef de cuisine at Pearl River Deli, loves passion fruit season, fancy ice cream, and a good wonton soup.

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One of New York’s Most Surprising Desserts Is a Baseball-Sized Cream Puff
Sorry to all other cream puffs.