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As Private Equity Scales Up Small Restaurants, Customers Push Back
October 20, 2026
Deep-pocketed investment groups are giving mom-and-pop food businesses a shot at big success. But many of their regulars are speaking out against those deals.
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Is This Houston Strip-Mall Joint the World’s Busiest Restaurant?
September 21, 2026
Aga’s, an Indian-Pakistani spot, generates more Uber Eats deliveries than any other single-location business around the globe. A visit shows that’s only the start.
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The Restaurant List 2026
September 14, 2026
Our 50 favorite places in America right now.
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Groceries Are Expensive. Here’s How 5 Shoppers Are Adjusting.
August 5, 2026
Two years ago, we collected receipts from people across the U.S. We thought now would be a good time to look at their spending again.
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Where to Eat in Dallas Right Now
June 15, 2026
Whether you’re looking for gold-standard barbecue, world-class sushi or inventive tacos, the city is rich with choices.
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Millennial Food Obsession Is a Joke. John Early Gets It.
June 15, 2026
In his new film, “Maddie’s Secret,” the comedian goes all in on earnestness, playing a cooking content creator.
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Noma Will Reopen With René Redzepi as Creative Director
June 10, 2026
After reports of abuse in decades past and a pop-up in Los Angeles, the former “Best Restaurant in the World” returns to Copenhagen.
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It’s Prom Night in America
June 9, 2026
This year the food, vibes, clothes and choice of a date (do you even need one?) are all over the map. Here’s a peek at five prime proms.
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The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market
April 20, 2026
The La Marzocco coffee maker has long been a sought-after classic. But used machines are now even more coveted by cafe owners and collectors.
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Tech Bros Hacked Their Diets. Now You May Be Doing It, Too.
March 31, 2026
With seeds, supplements and gadgets (but little expert guidance), Americans of all stripes are seeking wellness through what they eat.
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Inside the Kitchen That Feeds Hollywood on Oscars Night
March 13, 2026
For 32 years, Wolfgang Puck and his team of more than 400 employees have catered to the whims and tastes of the film elite.
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‘Worse Than the Pandemic’: Restaurants Say ICE Presence Imperils Business
February 13, 2026
In several cities where immigrants are being detained, owners say they’re struggling to stay open as fear keeps customers and workers from leaving home.
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Freedom With a Side of Guilt: How Food Delivery Is Reshaping Mealtime
January 30, 2026
Almost three of every four restaurant orders in the U.S. weren’t eaten in a restaurant, according to recent data. We spoke to readers who are devoted to delivery but question the costs.
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The Best New Restaurants in New York in 2025
December 8, 2025
Here are the new kids on the block our critics loved most this year.
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How New York Could Protect Its Street Vendors
November 25, 2025
The city’s history can be understood through the people who sell food on sidewalks. Here’s how New York could set them up for success.
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The Quest to Recreate My Family’s Century-Old Secret Spice Blend
November 4, 2025
How hard could it be? Very, with multiple recipes, far-flung relatives to please and more than a year’s worth of work.
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New York City Loves a Little Treat. Here Are Our 46 Favorites.
October 29, 2025
Cake slices, sundaes, morning buns, noodles and shakes — all $20 or under — for your immediate consumption.
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Opening a Restaurant in New York Is No Picnic. Here’s What It Takes.
October 6, 2025
A year in the making of a rookie’s first restaurant.
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How Zohran Mamdani Built a Campaign Around Food
September 30, 2025
The front-runner for New York mayor is leveraging his lifelong love of eating to inform his policy plans and spread his message.
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Sunday Special: What Makes a Restaurant Great?
September 21, 2025
The making of our 50 best list.
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What Happened to Mexico City’s Food Scene? Americans.
September 8, 2025
As restaurants change to reflect new tastes, local reactions have ranged from fascination to fury.
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The Restaurant List 2025
September 8, 2025
Here are the 50 best places in America right now.
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‘The Time Is Right’: For London’s Blockbuster Indian Restaurants, New York Is Next
August 6, 2025
The world-renowned Dishoom, Ambassadors Clubhouse and others are making the move, as Indian food in the United States flourishes.
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Anne Burrell’s Death Ruled a Suicide
July 24, 2025
The longtime Food Network star was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment on June 17.
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For the Privileged Few, Airport Food Hits a New Height of Luxury
July 21, 2025
In pursuit of well-heeled fliers, airlines and credit card companies are stocking their elite lounges with caviar, sushi bars and big-name chefs.
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It’s Indian Mango Season, and the Cutthroat Selling Frenzy Is On
June 23, 2025
For a few short months, dozens of part-time importers in New Jersey relentlessly compete to get the fruit into the hands of an eager diaspora.
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Anne Burrell, Chef and Food Network Star, Dies at 55
June 17, 2025
Her distinctive hairstyle and swagger in the kitchen made her one of America’s most recognizable Italian chefs.
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The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City in 2025
June 2, 2025
We have a brand-new top 10, plus 90 more of the greatest meals in the five boroughs.
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Can a Restaurant Be Both Glamorous and Comforting? Cafe Zaffri Is.
May 20, 2025
This new all-day Levantine restaurant near Union Square aims to accommodate every kind of customer, and still manages to innovate.
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What Has All This Restaurant Food Done to My Gut?
May 16, 2025
Worried about the health hazards of my work as a critic, I tried a gastrointestinal testing service. The results offer insights for frequent diners.
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The Five-Figure Reason Hot Restaurants Are Moving to OpenTable
May 14, 2025
With backing from Visa, the reservations platform is staking its claim on in-demand restaurants and paying them handsomely to jump ship from Resy.
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Welcome to Reno, the Mighty Mecca of All-You-Can-Eat Sushi
May 6, 2025
The bottomless-sushi restaurant is a frugal, flamboyant basic in this Nevada casino town. Can it survive in a time of rising prices?
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Some Restaurants Are Ditching Seed Oils. It Could Cost Them.
May 2, 2025
The debate over cooking oil has moved some chefs to adopt pricier alternatives, and made them unlikely allies of the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Hot-Plate Heroes: How 5 Restaurants Work Wonders With No Kitchen
April 29, 2025
Tight spaces with minimal equipment — often not even a stove — are loved by chefs who leverage the limitations to turn out thrilling dishes.
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Is the Restaurant Good? Or Does It Just Look Good?
April 9, 2025
Restaurateurs are finding that ambience and branding matter as much — and to many diners, more — than the food they serve.
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Why Is Dining Alone So Difficult?
March 25, 2025
With solo reservations on the rise but many restaurants still restricting tables to two or more, solitary Americans often feel left out or stigmatized.
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‘Yes, Chef,’ You Say? Restaurant Workers Have Feelings About That.
March 14, 2025
The phrase, which traces to 19th-century France, has become popular in casual conversation thanks to “The Bear,” and offers a lens into shifting hierarchies in kitchens.
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New York’s Most Exciting New Restaurant Is Just a Warm-Up Act
March 11, 2025
Ha’s Snack Bar plans to scale up in size and ambition, but it’s already turning heads with its freewheeling takes on French and Vietnamese flavors.
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Frigid Weather? Rising Inflation? Restaurants Are Having a Big Winter Anyway.
March 8, 2025
January and February are usually the doldrums for dining, but Americans have been eating out, and spending, with gusto.
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Live From This Italian Restaurant, It’s ‘Saturday Night’!
February 13, 2025
For decades, the ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator Lorne Michaels has been wining and dining celebrity hosts and staff members on Tuesdays at the unassuming Midtown restaurant Lattanzi.
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My Obsessive Quest for a Thrilling Beef Noodle Soup
February 11, 2025
As Lanzhou beef noodle soup goes from regional specialty to global attraction, I set out to find the best bowls in New York City.
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Inside a Rikers Island Kitchen, Dull Knives and Critical Jobs
February 4, 2025
As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.
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My All-Nighter in a Vanishing World: the 24-Hour Diner
January 14, 2025
New York may be losing its identity as the city that doesn’t sleep, but the motley guests at Kellogg’s Diner show the spirit is still wide awake.
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A Cure for Winter Blues? Try These Cozy New York Restaurants.
January 14, 2025
Cafe Kestrel in Brooklyn and Cocina Consuelo in Harlem can restore the spirit with warm service, cheery surroundings and deeply satisfying food.
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Why Do Celebrities All Go to the Same Restaurants?
December 23, 2024
Because the management knows how to make them happy. Here’s how a handful of New York dining rooms do it.
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Some of New York’s Best Pastry (and Plenty More) Is in Astoria
December 17, 2024
Levant, in Little Egypt, is an impressive addition to Steinway Street, a thoroughfare already thick with fascinating food choices.
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Hungry for the Best? Here Are Our Top New York Dishes of 2024.
December 10, 2024
A messy patty melt, an exemplary chocolate cake and two dozen other delights worth savoring.
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New York’s 14 Best New Restaurants of 2024
December 10, 2024
Our three critics name the places, from classic French dining to a buzzing shawarma stall, that dazzled them the most this year.
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This Thanksgiving Appetizer Gives You Dinner and a Show
November 21, 2024
Bhel puri is more than just a popular Indian puffed-rice snack. Assembled in a bowl as guests watch, it makes for a captivating performance.
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Can Le Veau d’Or Turn Back Time? It’s Trying.
November 12, 2024
An Upper East Side celebrity hangout of the past has been lovingly recreated by the Frenchette team. But it’s hard to keep the present from intruding.
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What’s Red and Green and Served All Over?
October 31, 2024
Since the Mexico City restaurant Contramar turned a classic fish dish into a go-to entree, versions have popped up from Milwaukee to Greece.
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I Ate at Every Carbone in America. Was It Worth the Trip?
October 15, 2024
A decade after the first one opened, the Italian American juggernaut is still a celebrity magnet and impossible reservation. Take our red-sauce tour.
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Restaurant Review: Carnitas Ramirez
September 17, 2024
Carnitas Ramírez, the East Village sibling of a hit restaurant in Brooklyn, turns out tacos that hark back to the dish’s working-class roots.
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Restaurant Review: Bungalow
August 20, 2024
Our interim critic reviews Bungalow in the East Village, where the celebrity chef Vikas Khanna’s variations on regional dishes blaze new paths without cutting corners.
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How to Feed 15,000 Olympians in Paris? Start With Baguettes.
July 22, 2024
The French will have to meet a welter of health and cultural requirements, but they still want to serve up some delight.
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Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store
June 11, 2024
As Asian groceries like H Mart, Patel Brothers and 99 Ranch expand, they are reshaping American eating habits, and the American grocery market.
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Watch a Day in the Life of a Candy Factory Worker
May 25, 2024
The Smarties plant in Union, N.J., churns out thousands of pounds of candy a day. Meet the woman who keeps everything running smoothly.
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A Case Against a Top New York Restaurant Could Lower Barriers to Unions
May 15, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board says the management at Lodi unlawfully fought a union drive. If the allegations are upheld, the board could force the company to bargain.
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I Didn’t Truly Know My Mother Until I Cooked With Her
May 7, 2024
To connect with a parent who awes (and occasionally intimidates) everyone around her, the Times reporter Priya Krishna spends time with her in the kitchen.
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How Did Black Forest Cake Become the World’s Favorite Dessert?
April 29, 2024
Dessert lovers from Chile to Pakistan to Fiji claim it as a national treat. How did it get there from the woods of Germany?
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The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now
April 22, 2024
There’s plenty of barbecue and Mexican — as you’d expect — but also world-class Japanese, Korean and more. Comments welcome, as always.
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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
April 9, 2024
We scouted the city’s vast food scene, from stellar hot dogs and renowned Italian beefs to refined tasting menus. (And we’re here for your comments.).
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Dal is the Ultimate Comfort Food
March 28, 2024
Cheap, unfussy and adaptable, these lentils call up warming memories of home and family for many South Asians.
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Why Are Restaurants Filling Up With Fake Flowers? Ask This Guy.
March 25, 2024
They’re popping up all over the dining world: huge, elaborate arrangements of faux blossoms and plants — many of them the work of one enterprising man.
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We Want to See Your Grocery Store Receipts
March 15, 2024
We’re looking for shoppers to document their habits for a story that will paint a portrait of food purchasing in America today.
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D.C. Is Raising Restaurant Pay. What Does That Mean for the Rest of Us?
March 5, 2024
Higher prices? Fewer places? As several states consider lifting wages for tipped workers, here’s how the shift is already playing out in the nation’s capital.
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See a Day in the Life of a New York City Dishwasher
February 23, 2024
Drevon Alston runs the dish pit at the perennially packed Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner. We followed him as he worked one of his busiest weekend shifts.
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The Elusive Restaurant Group Redefining Korean Dining in New York
February 5, 2024
Hand Hospitality has become a major player by channeling the creative energy of Seoul. But don’t expect its soft-spoken owners to crow about that.
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The Menu Trends That Define Dining Right Now
January 23, 2024
We gathered 121 menus from restaurants all over the country. Together, they offer a glimpse into the tastes and values of today.
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What’s Ahead in 2024? The Cookie Cutters Tell All
December 19, 2023
The shape-shifting baking tools can reveal a lot about what’s on people’s minds, as one American company has learned, to its profit.
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On the Luby’s Cafeteria Line, Every Day Is Thanksgiving
November 20, 2023
The Texas chain, which serves turkey dinners year-round, has come to define the holiday for its loyal customers — and not just with its food.
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Mass Grave Recalls the Ugly Past of a City Where ‘Life Is Sweeter’
November 8, 2023
The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled.
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How to Win the Restaurant Reservation Game
October 23, 2023
Scoring a table in New York can seem impossible, but may be easier than you think.
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The 25 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia Right Now
October 23, 2023
The dining scene here is having a moment, whether it’s outstanding pizza, fiery Ethiopian fried chicken or French inflected cuisine that feels like a cozy dinner party.
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Roti, a Shape-Shifting Global Staple, Takes a New Form: Convenience Food
October 10, 2023
The bread has meant many things to many people, from South Asia to South America. Now a new generation is using it for pizza, French toast and more.
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Not Their Parents’ South Asian Weddings
October 5, 2023
Some couples who have a foot in two cultures are taking their ceremonies into their own hands. (See: a playlist that blends Bad Bunny and Bollywood.)
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How TikTok is Reshaping the American Cookbook
September 18, 2023
A growing number of video stars are using their online clout to break into the publishing world — and top the best-seller lists.
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The New Reality for College Dining Halls: Dozens of Dietary Restrictions
September 4, 2023
A surge of students with allergies and special diets is challenging meal services and changing the shape of the campus cafeteria.
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The Best Hamburger Helper You’ve Ever Had
August 27, 2023
Clever tricks and smart additions make for one killer one-pot cheeseburger macaroni with over 6,000 reviews.
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Peppery Stuffed Eggs, Gingery Chicken Noodle Soup and Easy Blueberry Pie Bars
August 25, 2023
Delicious, simple recipes that revive and restore.
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Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle?
August 10, 2021
This international hodgepodge strikes many shoppers and food purveyors as antiquated. But doing away with it isn’t as easy as it might sound.
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How to Save Restaurants
September 10, 2020
Rebuilding the restaurant business requires a new model for its labor.
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The Joy of Cooking Naked
February 4, 2020
Despite the occasional splatter burn, nudists say their relationship to eating, at home or in restaurants, is better and healthier without all the clothing.
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At Tennessee Titans Games, the Fiercest Tailgaters Are Kurds
November 8, 2019
Nashville’s big Kurdish community has fallen hard for football, and parking-lot feasts that feature biryani but no alcohol.
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The Life of a Restaurant Inspector: Rising Grades, Fainting Owners
June 5, 2018
The most feared and loathed character in the city’s restaurant business is not the critic, or the landlord. It’s the health inspector.
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The “Butter-Chicken Lady” Who Made Indian Cooks Love the Instant Pot
January 11, 2018
Urvashi Pitre’s Instant Post recipe for butter chicken earned her a following for her easy versions of classic Indian recipes.