California’s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Didn’t Cut Jobs or Raise Prices...
A new study published on September 30, 2024 by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment says California’s fast-food minimum wage increase has not reduced overall employment and has...
View ArticleA New Austin Cocktail Bar Opens With Freezer-Door Drinks in Cherrywood
The team behind Austin pizzeria Love Supreme is opening a new cocktail bar, taking over the shuttered coffee shop belonging to one of its co-owners. Teddy’s is opening at 2200 Manor Road — the previous...
View ArticleDanny Meyer’s Blue Smoke to Close After 12-Year Run
The Battery Park City location of the barbecue restaurant Blue Smoke is closing in December, Tribeca Citizen reports. The restaurant (255 Vesey Street, at West Street) Danny Meyer opened in 2011 will...
View ArticleWhich Charleston Food Festival Should You Attend?
Heading into the week of the first Food + Wine Classic in Charleston, there was some confusion about what was happening. When telling acquaintances that I was attending the festival, I heard questions...
View ArticleBest Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: October 7
The editors at Eater LA dine out several times a week, if not per day, which means we’re always encountering standout dishes that deserve time in the limelight. Here’s the very best of everything the...
View ArticleAngel Cakes Bakery Charts a New Path as a Worker-Owned Cooperative
Oakland bakery Angel Cakes has transitioned into a worker-owned cooperative a year and a half after the death of owner Jen Angel, East Bay Nosh reports. The bakery’s new cooperative ownership team —...
View ArticleIn Boston’s North End, Everyone Serves “The Best” Pistachio Martini
The pistachio Martini is no more Italian than the Espresso Martini, but stroll down the main street in Boston’s North End, one of the United States’ …
View ArticleThis Revamped Williamsburg Diner Is Betting Big on Tex-Mex
In addition to diner standards, one of the focuses of the new menu at the revamped Kellogg’s Diner, located at 518 Metropolitan Avenue, right over the Lorimer stop on the L, is Tex-Mex. The menu comes...
View ArticleThe Best Dishes Eater San Francisco Ate in September
There’s certainly no shortage of excellent food to be found in San Francisco and the Bay Area — but there’s plenty worth skipping, too. Luckily for you, Eater editors dine out several times a week (or...
View ArticleInside La Mar Bellevue, the Eastside’s Swanky New Peruvian Restaurant
Get your expense accounts ready, y’all — La Mar Bellevue, a seafood-focused Peruvian restaurant from famed chef Gastón Acurio, is set to open in downtown Bellevue on October 14. The Eastside has become...
View ArticleParachute Attempts to Pump Up the Volume in Avondale
Welcome to the Scene Report, a new column in which Eater Chicago captures the vibe of a notable Chicago restaurant at a specific moment in time. Parachute HiFi opened without fanfare, and that’s not...
View Article25 Outstanding South Asian Restaurants in Austin
The South Asian food scene in Austin is stronger than most expect, with good places for Indian, Nepalese, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani cuisines throughout the city. The number of these businesses keeps...
View ArticleThere’s Never Too Much Caviar at This Swanky New West Hollywood Lounge
A new restaurant and lounge in West Hollywood called Puzzle debuted on August 8 from Thomas Fuks, the owner of Amour, but it wasn’t supposed to be open to the public. Originally a partnership with Fuks...
View ArticleA 10-Year-Old Breakfast Restaurant Is Closing on the Las Vegas Strip
MGM Resorts International is closing another breakfast restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. On the heels of announcing that Avenue Café at MGM Grand would close permanently in November, the company has...
View ArticleAll the October Prime Day Kitchen Gear Worth Buying
Unless you have been living off-the-grid (good for you, honestly), you probably caught wind of yet another (relentlessly advertised) Amazon Prime Day’s savings event. That’s right, folks: the retail...
View Article18 Essential Restaurants in Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte’s Essential 18 reflects the city's wide range of cuisines, budgets, and levels of fancy. This year, a hyperlocal menu switch-up, a taco truck, and an unpretentious pizza joint are all...
View ArticleNYC Favorite Ensenada Brings Coastal Mexican Flavors to Miami This Winter
Ensenada, Williamsburg’s Mexican seafood and mezcal hotspot, is coming to Miami, with plans to open in late 2024. Co-owners Bryce David and chef Luis Herrera announced the expansion late last week on...
View Article7UP’s New Shirley Temple Soda Is More Than a Novelty
These days most soda innovations are horrifying novelties, your Oreo Cokes and Flamin’ Hot Mountain Dews — things that people want to drink out of perverse curiosity, not desire. But this “holiday...
View ArticleLet This Comforting Chicken and Rice Chile Verde Recipe Carry Your Through Fall
Calrose rice is my favorite varietal of rice. Maybe it’s my California pride — the rice was initially developed in the state and still grows here — or the sticky nature of the medium-grain rice that...
View ArticleAtlanta Michelin Guide 2024 Ceremony Date Announced
The Michelin Guide Awards Ceremony returns for a second year in Atlanta on October 28 at the Georgia World Congress Center. “We are excited to reveal what year two has in store for the 2024 restaurant...
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