new video loaded: Meet Our New Restaurant Critics transcript Back transcript Meet Our New Restaurant Critics Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao are the new restaurant critics at The New York Times, succeeding Pete Wells. While the two new critics are still going to be discreet when dining out for The Times, they have decided to…
Uniforms are at the heart of the American workforce. The design tropes have inspired more than one designer; Willy Chavarria recently showed a collection exploring all facets of the blue-collar worker. The Maison Close X Cotte d’Armes by Clarence Ruth (centre) collaboration – BFA Though rich in design motifs, wearing one is not always something…
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The green salad at Meetinghouse, a modern pub in Philadelphia, is something of an architectural marvel. Layer upon interlocking layer of gem romaine leaves slicked with spiky Dijon vinaigrette form a cylindrical tower, crowned by a tuft of watercress and minced chives. During a recent dinner service, it averaged about eight inches in height, but…
Blanca, the Brooklyn tasting counter that since 2012 has served rarefied and highly individual cooking under the glassy stare of a taxidermic tuna head, will close at the end of the week. Carlo Mirarchi, one of the owners and the original chef, said that the landlord had decided not to renew the lease on Blanca’s…
When your ears pop on the elevator ride up, that’s how you know you’ve arrived at the View, the revolving bar and restaurant on the 47th and 48th floors of the New York Marriott Marquis. On a recent Saturday evening, the restaurant thrummed with families, groups of friends and couples sipping Champagne and devouring seafood…
A retro-futuristic diner is rising on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif. Curved, silvery and flanked by two outdoor film screens, it looks as if a flying saucer had sailed out of a 1950s drive-in movie and come to rest in the parking lot. An opening date has not been announced, but Tesla’s all-night…
As a young pastry cook at Eleven Madison Park, Genie Kwon grew accustomed to a kitchen tradition: Every time the chef shouted out an order, the other cooks responded in unison, “Oui, chef!” Or as you may have heard it on the FX show “The Bear”: “Yes, chef!” For a long time, Ms. Kwon, who…
Selma Miriam and Noel Furie were unhappy housewives, as they put it, when they met at a gathering of the National Organization for Women in Connecticut in 1972. Soon after, they divorced their husbands, came out as lesbians and set about creating a place for women to congregate. Ms. Miriam was a talented and adventurous…
The Yellow Bittern, an 18-seat restaurant and bookstore near King’s Cross station, hardly looks like the most divisive lunch spot in London. It feels more like the farmhouse of a retired professor: Customers ring a bell to enter, then hang their coats on pegs by the door, while pots of Irish stew simmer in the…