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The Epic Mess at TGI Fridays December 30, 2024
This fall, the TGI Fridays chief financial officer, operations chief, general counsel and head of procurement quit....
The 19 Best Cookbooks of 2024 December 16, 2024
Listing the best cookbooks of 2024 isn’t a straightforward task. Thousands of brilliant titles get released every year and determining the standouts is inherently subjective. Plus, the task each cookbook sets out to accomplish is unique. Restaurant c...
Why the Rainforest Cafe Refuses to Go Extinct December 05, 2024
Upon entering the Rainforest Cafe, I was greeted by a talking tree that rattled off a slew of plant-related factoids. Pumped-in fog and canned thunder rang out, as a hostess led me through an aquarium archway to our table. I was seated across from a ...
Jesse Eisenberg Is the Man for Our Anxious Moment December 05, 2024
Jesse Eisenberg is worried about his anxiety levels. Take today, for example. By lunchtime, his mind is already crawling with the brainworms of what might go wrong. As I waited to meet him at the East Village restaurant Little Poland, I spotted Eisen...
Where Trump’s Washington Will Actually Be Hanging Out November 27, 2024
Where will conservatives and Donald Trump’s disciples spend their non-working hours in DC for the president-elect’s term? The Washingtonian provided a list by Jessica Sidman last week, but by Cockburn’s estimation, it’s not totally over the target....
The History of Wokeness November 14, 2024
Over the summer, I drove down to one of the numerous beach towns in Ocean County, New Jersey with two friends: one is a cop, the other a special ed teacher and athletic coach; both are black Americans in their late 20s. Over a dinner of chicken franc...
Only in The New Yorker November 13, 2024
A book bearing the name Dorothy Parker ought to sell, so McNally Editions have been able to offer something interesting this month: a collection of book reviews! No essays or musings, no memoir, nothing that could or should be redone as a short story...
The 20 Best New Restaurants of 2024 September 10, 2024
The search for this year’s best new restaurants took us on a six-month expedition, with stops in Texas’s barbecue capital and Manhattan’s roaring Lower East Side. Whether we were immersed in a rack of ribs inspired by Flamin’ Hot Cheetos or a “Progre...
Chefs Make Us Eat Their Inner Lives July 04, 2024
I am a restaurant critic, and in 2018, I ate at what had just been named the best restaurant in the world. Osteria Francescana, in Modena, is run by the famous chef Massimo Bottura, and to dine there feels like eating his internal life. His memory of...
Juliet Escoria Isn’t Afraid of the Dark July 01, 2024
Juliet Escoria isn’t afraid of writing monstrous characters. One story in her new collection, You Are the Snake, is about a bipolar woman and abuse survivor who goes on to abuse her own child. In another, a restaurant cashier wishes for her co-worker...
Here Are the 2024 James Beard Awards Finalists May 02, 2024
On April 3, the James Beard Foundation dropped its full list of James Beard Awards chef and restaurant finalists, including the nominees for Outstanding Restaurateur, Best New Restaurant, and the regional Best Chef awards. This list was whittled down...
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation April 23, 2024
Everyone needs to eat somewhere, and in New York City that place is often a restaurant. New York is a city of long hours, tiny kitchens, cramped apartments—and dining out, a lot. There is, improbably, always an occasion: date night, working late, fri...
A Conversation with Lauren Oyler April 04, 2024
The one time I met Lauren Oyler in person was in New York in the spring of 2018. I had been closely following her work as a critic and admired her intelligence and fearlessness. That exuberant night, she sat mostly quietly, with a look of anger, thro...
Dining Out Is About to Look a Lot Different March 01, 2024
Restaurants across America are teetering on a precipice. Four years after the devastation of pandemic shutdowns, the industry is still in crisis and the experience of dining out is rapidly deteriorating. You may have noticed this the last time you at...
