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

Where to eat
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.

Restaurants
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.

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

Restaurants
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.

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

Restaurants
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

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

Where to eat
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.

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

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

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

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

Restaurants
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.

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

Where to eat
Everything to Eat, Drink, and See in Tulsa, Oklahoma
“I’ve lived a lot of places. But when I think about Tulsa, the one word I come back to is community.”

Restaurants
How this Rhode Island Restaurant Became a Destination for Puerto Rican Cooking
Little Sister feels like a coffee shop you might find tucked between the shops and bars of Santurce, in Puerto Rico.

Where to eat
Where To Eat in Copenhagen If You Didn't Get Into Noma
The eatin’ is good in CPH—whether you make it to René Redzepi’s restaurant or not.

Restaurants
Meet the Tamil Chef Whose Southern Indian Cooking Is the Hottest Ticket in NYC
Semma Chef Vijay Kumar’s favorite things include murruku, ponni rice, and his mortar and pestle

Restaurants
A Restaurant Called JewFro: How a Virginia Pop-Up Turned Into a Black-Jewish Communion
JewFro isn’t the only Richmond effort to address the group’s shared histories. But it's arguably the most visible and ongoing one.

Restaurants
This Chef Researches Diners Online—And Cancels Reservations If He Sees 'Misbehavior'
Michael Jones believes serial bad reviewers and rude customers should not be allowed in his restaurant.

Restaurants
How One Upstate New York Food Court Is Changing Hundreds of Lives
At West Side Bazaar in Buffalo, immigrants and refugees find a home for their food businesses.

Restaurants
The Enduring Joy of a Well-Kept Restaurant Journal
When people ask me where I like to eat and what they should order, I can send them this intel.

Restaurants
The Great Restaurant Name Vibe Shift
There’s a reason so many restaurants have *almost* the same name.