Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.
Important cultural trend news in the New York Post Wednesday, from writer Hailey Eber. People do not like sitting with strangers at those long communal tables that have been springing up at trendy and expensive restaurants.
When we came across this social-media inspired cocktail menu the other day, it had us wondering what a marriage between two things we spend a lot of time with would look like. Is this what the Internet would taste like if it got you drunk?
It may seem like spending $365 for a dinner is an extravagance, but the lucky folks who snagged tickets for the El Bulli-replicating dinner series at the Chicago restaurant Next could stand to turn tidy profit if they choose to resell them.
You can plumb this for political meaning by yourselves: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor first met his wife at New York restaurant called The New Deal. It's been closed for ages, but the space is now home to Boom.
Data nerds will love the latest Grub Street exploration of the economics of gastronomy -- "gastronomics," if you will -- that provides a fascinating portrait of where New York City's 1 percent prefers to dine.
Confirming the rumors, The New York Times dining editor Pete Wells will take over the post of restaurant critic, replacing the outgoing Sam Sifton, the paper announced internally today.
In the last five years, a lot more people have been telling waiters, "tap water will be fine."
The New York Times still hasn't tapped a permanent replacement for departed restaurant critic Sam Sifton, but Eric Asimov, who doled out two stars to Manhattan's Salinas on Tuesday, will be filling until they do.
Zagat released its annual America's Top Restaurants survey today, which seeks to answer all sorts of questions on American food culture--but one question matters more than others: which U.S. city is the worst at tipping?
A waitress's Facebook revenge on a customer who insulted her targeted the wrong guy
Perhaps a break is best for the restaurant that accused a GQ critic of sexual harassment
A reader seems to have touched a nerve with one of New York's arbiters of taste
And other revelations from the food fetishists that have dominated the ranks in recent years
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