I love socializing as much as the average bear — at least, a bear that goes out to dinner almost five nights a week — but there’s nothing I find as soul-filling as a solo day on the town. You know when you’re on vacation and you’re so excited to write the itinerary, bop between…
Good morning. Eggs, milk, flour. Combine them with butter, salt, sugar and vanilla and you’ve got the makings for a German pancake (above), puffy and crisp, with a puddinglike interior. It’s the perfect canvas for a compote of berries, for maple syrup and powdered sugar — a Saturday breakfast of distinction. Except, says the house…
This is Tejal, filling in for Melissa Clark. I’ve been out at restaurants so much lately that, when I’m cooking at home, I’m drawn to whatever feels like the complete opposite of restaurant food — dishes that don’t involve too much construction or finishing. Dishes that you don’t even have to plate, ideally, but can…
These four restaurants were synonymous with their owners, all serving their takes on soul or Southern food. Before they arrived, a craving for soul food meant heading uptown to Harlem for takeout containers or sitting down at Sylvia’s, opened by Sylvia Woods in 1962 near the famed Apollo Theater. These newer places continued the story,…
Here’s a mostly complete list of what my children, ages 5 and 7, eat for dinner: Plain pasta (spaghetti and farfalle only), rice and beans (any kind but lima), chicken (roasted thighs, nuggets), salmon, avocado rolls, hot dogs, pizza, slices of steak. They do eat some green vegetables, but they don’t do tacos, meatballs, dumplings,…
In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most prized collection. After the Spectrum, a D.I.Y. nightclub in Brooklyn, was evicted from its underground venue in 2016, one of its co-founders, the performance artist and nightlife impresario Gage Spex, sought out a new site. Later that year, Spex leased a banquet hall in Ridgewood, Queens,…
Icon of a wilting palm tree Fighting the crowds The popular use of the word “overtourism” can be traced to a 2016 article about Iceland in Skift, a travel-industry publication. But it’s been a theme on the list since at least 2006, when we suggested Istria, in northern Croatia, as an alternative for “foodies weary…