Restaurants

Author and Appalachian native Mike Scalise shares a culinary itinerary packed with cheese dogs, pepperoni rolls, and historic sites.

An over-the-top Italian restaurant in New York, South Indian dishes in San Francisco, live-fire cooking in Austin, and lots more.

Chefs are pushing the boundaries of what “American” cooking means, being more creative than ever. We need better language to describe their food.

To understand how far this once-niche American restaurant movement has spread, we asked writers and chefs to try defining it.

“Global flavors” is a free space, but you may want to check if they “do things a little differently.”

If ChatGPT were to create a restaurant, it would be called “Harvest & Hearth.” And it would serve food that “draws on inspiration from diverse culinary traditions.”

Pretty much everyone in this city has strong opinions about gumbo. Writer and New Orleans native Megan Braden-Perry shares her picks for the eight best versions you can find. 

Little bags of chips have been replaced with crostini, cheese, and olives. I’m devastated.

An all-chicken tasting menu, an inspired endive salad, and soul-affirming ice cream were among our favorite restaurant meals this month.

Chef Zhan Chen's reimagined jellyfish salad at Potluck Club in New York brings me right back to childhood.

In a Q&A, the LA restaurant’s co-owner Akira Akuto explains why the viral egg sandos weren’t enough to keep the business going

Plenty of fine dining restaurants aren't for kids, but when a New Jersey business banned young ones, it reignited an old debate—one that writer Jessica Blankenship argues is missing the point of restaurants. 

Soup curry in New York, Hokkaido-style ramen in Boston and Chicago, "flirtatiously sweet" soft serve in Seattle—We simply can't get enough.

With growing income inequality and endless stories of bad labor practices at upscale restaurants, who can blame them?

Fashion icon Humberto Leon opens a Hong Kong-style restaurant in LA, comfort foods from around the world touch down in Boston, and more highlights from a month of great new restaurants.

At these three bars, high-end cocktails are folded into storytelling—including drinks that pummel smoke and changing scenery

This city’s serene beauty is a backdrop for famous breakfast burritos, red chile enchiladas, and inventive modern New Mexican cooking.

Think of cheese as a vegetarian alternative to branzino or a half-chicken: a deserving main dish that can be easily shared and accessorized with a rainbow of veg-heavy small plates.

Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and plenty of politicians are among the fans of private restaurants, where entry fees can be as high as $300K. Are they worth the cost?

Okonomiyaki in Florida, a ramen tasting menu in San Francisco, and much more.

At these bars, caviar feels fun (again), and white tablecloths and buttoned up suits are replaced by barstools and caviar bumps.

With a free toolkit, this hospitality nonprofit wants to help restaurants have hard conversations about their role in changing neighborhoods.

A list of finalists for the prestigious awards, which debuted a new Outstanding Bakery category this year, will be released in March, followed by a June 5 announcement for the award winners.

A new Korean steakhouse from chef Edward Lee in Louisville, a permanent home for a gumbo icon in San Francisco, and more restaurants BA is eagerly awaiting.

The Sonoran Desert metropolis is home to Indigenous Thai food, cult-favorite seafood, transcendent tortillas, and so much else. 

The Manhattan restaurant Torrisi swaps prosecco for a sparkling red wine and the result is bright, well-rounded, and (dare I say) better.

If Noma and other destination restaurants can’t figure out a business model that fairly compensates staff, they simply shouldn’t exist.

The first outpost of the expansion will open in Nashville…in 2026.

The food world is torn between reverence and resentment as the restaurant prepares to close for regular service.

The Copenhagen restaurant that defined an era of fine dining announced that it will close its doors in 2024.