Restaurants in New York City

Inside Made Nice: The EMP Team’s Foray into Fast Casual Territory

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While it wasn’t much of a stretch for shrewd chefs like David Chang to start roll out fried chicken sandwiches, the EMP team letting loose is another matter entirely. Yet even Daniel Humm and Will Guidara have elected to ride the rising tide from fine dining and into the realm of fast casual, with their long floated (and finally realized) food counter, Made Nice…

Los Mariscos

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Tacuba Cantina

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La Milagrosa

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Playa Betty’s

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Madre Mezcaleria

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Alta Calidad

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Empellon

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Alex Stupak Goes Big with Empellon

Cuisine: Mexican | Featured in First Bite, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting

Alex Stupak has gone somewhat off-script with the direction of his Empellon empire; expanding his Mexican lineup with an inventive (yet still homestyle) Cocina, a laid-back Taqueria, and the even quicker service Al Pastor, before debuting the brand-anchoring Empellon just this past month…

An Anti Trump Bar? We’ll Drink to That!

Cuisine: Bar | Featured in Cocktails, First Bite, Restaurant, Reviews

An anti-trump bar? We’ll drink to that! Ravi DeRossi’s advocacy extends past veganism at his newest establishment, Coup. His Astor Place drinkery will take a stand against Trump’s entire agenda, by donating 100% of proceeds to organizations in the crosshairs of the administration…

Norman

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Metta

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Gloria

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Enrique Olvera Takes It Easy with Atla

Cuisine: Mexican | Featured in Best Of

For his second NYC venture, Atla, you can forgive Enrique Olvera for dropping his guard just a tad. With little else to prove, he’s taken a cue from other fine dining stalwarts by going (if not exactly quick) than decidedly casual, opening an eatery that aims to be a destination for its NoHo neighbors, as opposed to globe-trotting, charge card-toting prestige seekers…

Q & A with Chef Gunter Seeger

Cuisine: European | Featured in Chef Q&A, Chef Q&A Recipes, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting

In a time when NY’s most elite restaurateurs have defaulted to fast-casual endeavors, it’s intriguing that Atlanta’s own world-class chef — the German-born Gunter Seeger, of The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton and the eponymous Seeger — has chosen this moment to toss his hat into our in-flux, fine dining field, but we’re glad he did…

Aigner Chocolates

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Teuscher Chocolates

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The “Pescatarian” Gloria is a Catch for Hell’s Kitchen

Cuisine: Seafood | Featured in First Bite, Hottest Newcomers, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting, Reviews

We’re easily wooed by seafood of any sort, but news that a “pescatarian” eatery recently opened, run by alums of Le Bernardin and Contra? That’s cause for an all-out crustacean celebration. Add in the fact that it’s in the aptly-named restaurant wasteland of Hell’s Kitchen & Gloria becomes one of the most welcome debuts of the season!