Restaurants in Manhattan

Hudson Hotel

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Restaurant Spotting: Dirt Candy (2.0) is Dandy

Cuisine: Vegetarian | Featured in First Bite, Restaurant Spotting, Reviews

Dirt Candy’s tagline is, “Leave The Vegetables to the Professionals.” And to be sure, chef/owner Amanda Cohen has done wonders to change the way the restaurant industry looks at meat — seriously, how many “vegetable-focused” concepts have you seen debut over the last few years?

Uniquely Updated Jewish Deli Fare at Harry & Ida’s

Cuisine: Jewish | Featured in Best Of, First Bite, Food Markets, Sandwiches

If the critically-lauded Harry & Ida’s is any indication, classic Jewish deli fare is ripe for reinvention, with pastrami topped with rounds of buttermilk-fermented cucumber, dried into jerky, or transformed into juicy, shitake mayo-slicked hot dogs…

First Look at UrbanSpace Vanderbilt – NYC’s Most Exciting New Food Hall

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Just this week, UrbanSpace finally debuted their very first permanent food hall called UrbanSpace Vanderbilt; a glittering, 12,000-square foot stunner, situated on the ground floor of 230 Park Avenue; a beaux-arts tower with original steel columns and graceful floor to ceiling windows, & killer food…

Truly Innovative Thai Food at Ngam

Cuisine: Thai | Featured in Ethnic Eats, First Bite, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting, Reviews

Thai restaurants tend to fall into two camps — there’s highly Americanized spots, and resolvedly authentic eateries, featuring searingly spicy chili peppers and potentially challenging proteins. But Ngam in the East Village takes a playful and tasty approach, injecting complex, regional Thai dishes with a bit of American cheek…

Restaurant Spotting: Superiority Complex

Cuisine: American, Burgers, Vegetarian | Featured in First Bite, First Bite, Restaurant Spotting

If you thought the mayhem surrounding Fuku was insane — in the form of up-to-the-minute reports on lines wrapping around 1st Ave. — it can’t hold a candle to the commotion surrounding Superiority Burger and its killer veggie burgers…

Timna Takes Israeli Cuisine to the Next Level

Cuisine: Israeli | Featured in Ethnic Eats, First Bite, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting

From Thai and Korean to Filipino and Chinese, Asian cuisine of all sorts has been trending hard for years now. But we predict that in 2016, we’re going to see Israeli fare get lots and lots of love. Just think about the popularity of places like Balaboosta and Breads Bakery, the burgeoning shakshuka craze, the prevalence of harissa, and most especially, brand new restaurants like Timna…

Upholstery Store Food and Wine

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Cafe Katja

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Heidelberg Restaurant

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Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten

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Inday Brings Fast-Casual Indian Fare to the NoMad District

Cuisine: Indian | Featured in Ethnic Eats, Restaurant, Restaurant Spotting

NYC is exploding with fast-casual lunch spots with a decidedly healthy bent, from Chipotle and Chop’t to Sweetgreen and The Little Beet. And the newest entrant, Inday, attempts to add a little extra spice to a mix, by bringing an Indian edge to its assortment of salads, wraps and bowls…

Q & A with Maple’s Founder Caleb Merkl

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26% of Americans order takeout at least once a week, which is why, in just the last year or so, innovative young companies have flooded the space, hoping to push the boundaries of food delivery well beyond cheap and greasy pepperoni pizza & chicken chow fun. And chief amongst them is Maple, partially financed by none other than Momofuku’s David Chang…

The Box Kite Team is Flying High at Bruno

Cuisine: Eclectic, Italian | Featured in First Bite, Restaurant Spotting

If the duo behind Box Kite — the acclaimed tasting room situated in a St. Marks Street coffee shop — could work culinary magic in a 300-square foot space, it’s little surprise that they’ve achieved super-sized success at their newest venture, Bruno…

Step Up to Huertas’ High-End Hot Dog Window

Cuisine: Spanish | Featured in Dish Spotting, Restaurant, Summer Eats

Hot dogs are probably the last thing you’d expect to find on the menu at Huertas; a Basque-inspired cider bar and tapas hotspot, which took the East Village by storm with its convivial, family-style feasts and elegant, passed pintxos last year. But in a playful stroke of seasonal genius, the team decided to institute a summer-long, weekends-only hot dog takeout window, which kicked off mid June and will continue to run until Labor Day…

Beyond Goya: Miscelanea Brings Artisanal Mexican Groceries to the East Village

Cuisine: Mexican | Featured in First Bite, Food Markets, Restaurant, Reviews

We’ve asserted numerous times that New York’s multi-ethnic food scene is entirely unparalleled — and that’s in no way limited to restaurants. There are countless grocery stores around the city that make internationally inspired cooking a breeze, including Miscelanea, a welcome Mexican addition to the East Village…

Bar Goto is a Lower East Side Go-To

Cuisine: Bar, Cocktails, Japanese | Featured in Drink Spotting, Restaurant

Kenta Goto is the latest star-tender to emerge from the Pegu Club, following in the footsteps of Phil Ward (Death & Co.), St. John Frizell (Fort Defiance), Del Pedro (Tooker Alley), and Jim Kearns (The Happiest Hour), to open his very own industry-approved speakeasy. Called Bar Goto, the Lower East Side spot hones in on his Japanese heritage with cocktails made with sake, shochu, alongside extensive selection of izakaya fare.

Taco Mix

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Korilla BBQ

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Q & A with Fung Tu’s Jonathan Wu and John Matt Wells

Cuisine: Chinese | Featured in Chef Q&A, Chef Q&A Recipes

At the forefront of the refined Chinese food trend, Fung Tu — fittingly straddling traditional Chinatown and the envelope-pushing East Village — gained instant notice for dishes like Bean Curd and Bacon Terrine, Smoked Chicken Salad over Masa Pancakes, and smoky, Duck-Stuffed Dates. But it sort of faded into the background just as fast, in the face of Danny Bowien’s flashier Mission Chinese Food and Thomas Chen’s newer Tuome.