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Restaurant Review: Strange Delight Channels New Orleans in All the Right Ways
El-Waylly mans the pass in Strange Delight’s slip of a kitchen. A chef and recipe developer, he has lately become…
Restaurant Review: The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly Fine
After more than a year of closure, the Boathouse restaurant reopened this spring, under Legends Hospitality, a massive operations company…
Restaurant Review: A Pitch-Perfect Ode to Korean “Drivers’ Restaurants”
This level of meticulous world-building is nothing new in restaurantland. Diners are used to being transported, via the meticulous construction…
Restaurant Review: Ambitious, Modern Lebanese Cooking at Sawa
Most meals at Sawa begin with the bread, a sizable round of which comes with any of the restaurant’s selection…
Restaurant Review: Lola’s | The New Yorker
Lola’s is named in honor of Cupps’s Filipina grandmother—lola is the Tagalog term for “grandma”—though on my visits the menu…
Restaurant Review: The Glittering Pleasure of a Perfect Raw Bar
The best way to take in the bounty is by way of the ninety-eight-dollar Ice Box Plus, Penny’s version of…
Restaurant Review: Blanca Is Not for Beginners
Aesthetically, philosophically, this is all rather thrilling, and arguably incredibly cool, the culinary equivalent of jolie laide. But taste is…