Chef Ferran Adrià, the greatest?
In January, Ferran Adrià announced that at the end of the 2011 season he planned to close El Bulli, his…
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Michelin-starred restaurants embrace bring-your-own bottle revolution
Fine diners are drinking premier cru wines at plonk prices as a bring-your-own booze revolution gathers pace in Britain’s best…
The ultimate test kitchen, where top chefs and restaurants connect
One of the hottest tables in town isn’t at a restaurant. New York chef Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit has cooked…
The Cult of the Celebrity Chef Goes Global
David Chang was asleep in his aisle seat on a recent flight to Melbourne when searing pain jolted him awake:…
Proprietor of successful Civil-Rights-era soul food restaurant Edna Stewart dies
Edna Stewart’s legendary soul food restaurant on Chicago’s West Side served as a meeting place for leaders of the civil…
Egon Ronay, Britain’s king of good food, dies at 94
Egon Ronay, the dapper Hungarian food critic who stamped his name indelibly on British culinary history, has died at the…
Union Street Cooks Up a Restaurant Revival
Union Street, the eight-block retail stretch in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow-Marina neighborhood, is undergoing a restaurant boom with six eateries…
Recovery Is on the Menu
At David Burke Townhouse, the average bottle of red wine has crept back up over $100. At Delmonico’s, diners ordered…
U.K. Girds for New U.S. Fast Food Invasion
They are huge in the US, but few British diners have heard of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) or Ruby Tuesday…
Restaurants offering small-sized items with big taste
Is the era of “supersize” being replaced by the age of mini meals? Whether it’s Dairy Queen’s mini Blizzard, mini…
Hunger for burgers overcomes economic fears
While most U.S. restaurants fight for every dollar, a new crop of indulgent burger chains have bucked the trend by…
Looking Past the Children’s Menu
Nicola Marzovilla runs a business, so when a client at his Gramercy Park restaurant, I Trulli, asks for a children’s…
Man behind the palate of two presidents
Walter S. Scheib III was Hilary Clinton’s answer to Jacqueline Kennedy. Though J.F.K’s glamorous widow had long since left the…
New York Restaurants: A Vision of the City as It Once Was
Imbuing a restaurant with a sense of age, real or imagined, is nothing new in a city that routinely bulldozes…
Underground dining in Chicago not so underground anymore
Two couples strolled down a white stone sidewalk in Logan Square, each gripping a bottle of wine by the neck.…
More Ways to Snag That Restaurant Table
If you make an online reservation at a restaurant these days, chances are you’re using OpenTable.com Inc. The company—with 13,000…
Bourdain’s got no apologies upon his return to Baltimore
Anthony Bourdain, the chef-turned-author-turned-televised-world traveler is coming back to town. On Saturday night at the Hippodrome Theater, he and Eric…
Non-profit Panera cafe: Take what you need, pay what you can
Imagine walking into a Panera Bread and picking out anything you wanted to eat or drink — then, at the…
This man hopes to be the Starbucks of fresh food
Matthew Corrin did not have beginner’s luck. On the first day he opened a restaurant called Lettuce, the kitchen ran…
How Nando’s conquered Britain
The time is 7.30pm on a Wednesday, and the place is Shepherd’s Bush, west London. All along the Uxbridge Road,…
‘The only thing I can do is not make any more mistakes’
Conrad Gallagher is not immediately at ease being interviewed. And with good reason, perhaps, given that the former wunderkind turned…
Tableside food prep’s all the rage
In the mood for dinner and a show? Why not combine the two at a restaurant that pampers guests with…
Happy meals: Why McDonald’s has been a positive force for change
The great philosopher John Travolta once observed that, in France, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is known as a “Royale…
Are We Getting TMI About the Food We Order?
Walk into a restaurant these days and you might be able to check the calorie count of your enchilada, the…