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Remember the old aphorism that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? It's not so pleasant when it happens to you! Or at least that seems to be the thinking of a lot of New York City chefs who've found themselves "ripped off," cuisine-wise.
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Remember Guy Fieri's new restaurant in Times Square, the one with the awful food? Well, somebody forgot to buy the domain name and now some jokester's built a pretty convincing spoof site.
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One day after getting savaged by New York Times restaurant reviewer Pete Wells, Flavor Town mayor Guy Fieri went on the offense, taking over the Today show to his defend his cooking.
Another of New York City's iconic establishments, the University Restaurant diner on University and 12th Street, has closed. If we lose the diner, where do we get our pitch-perfect slices of life?
The world is divided between makers and takers: those who tip and those who demand to be tipped, and the two sides are at odds. Is 25 percent the new 47 percent?
There's much to learn about the way we dine from a piece in today's New York Times by Susanne Craig. It follows an awesome linguistic restaurant chart from Ben Schott that appeared in the paper in early August listing a variety of the terms and acronyms assorted restaurant waitstaff use to describe guests.
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Your best-kept dating secrets are not so secret after all. According to Ellen McLaughlin's recent sociological study in the New York Post, the waitstaff and bartenders and managers at any number of New York City restaurants and bars (and then some) are on to your techniques.
You know that scene in Portlandia where the insufferable couple keeps asking if everything on a restaurant's menu is local? Now, imagine how they might react knowing that the bees that supplied the honey for their tea were so close, they might risk being stung?
Does your town have enough bars and restaurants? Real estate trends blog Trulia mapped out the metro areas with the highest concentration of restaurants and bars to help you find out.
This is a story worth getting to the bottom of, and nobody's there yet, but even the suggestion is outrageous: Eater brings word of a receipt posted on Reddit by a user claiming to have gotten it from a friend who works at a London restaurant where 15 Olympics "bosses" (in the Redditor's words) ran up a £44,660 lunch bill.
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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