After 25 Years in Business, Oprah-Loved Icebox Cafe Closes
Icebox Cafe, best known for its oversized cake slices featured on Oprah Winfrey’s “Best Cakes in America” segment in 2010, has closed its locations after 25 years. “It’s been an honor and a privilege...
View ArticleFire Tears Through a Red Sauce Institution of South Brooklyn
A fire ripped through Ortobello, a 50-year-old red sauce institution of Bensonhurst last week, later determined by the Fire Marshall that it started in an exhaust fan. Now the South Brooklyn...
View ArticleTea Service for Spring? At Mirador, It Is Actually Groundbreaking
When I mention to chef Travis Wyatt that many chefs and restaurateurs in Dallas might not consider serving ladies who lunch and tea service particularly prestigious, he looks me dead in the eye and...
View ArticleIs It Ever Okay to Ask Your Dinner Party Guests to Venmo You?
Welcome to Rules of Consumption, a column where Eater staff writer Amy McCarthy answers any and all questions you have regarding dining etiquette. Have a conundrum? Email advice@eater.com for answers....
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Restaurants Now Opening For Lunch?
Almost a year beyond the return of the power lunch, lunch — period — is back, with multiple restaurants that are often booked for dinner rolling out the midday meal within the past few weeks. And it’s...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Restaurants Now Opening For Lunch?
Almost a year beyond the return of the power lunch, lunch — period — is back, with multiple restaurants that are often booked for dinner rolling out the midday meal within the past few weeks. And it’s...
View ArticleTakeaways and Surprises From the ‘New York Times’ 25 Best Restaurants in...
The New York Times has been busy dropping city-specific restaurant lists over the past six months or so. There’s the mega list of top-100 restaurants in New York City that the Times’ restaurant critic...
View Article‘Top Chef: Wisconsin’ Gets Into a Supper Club in a Dramatic Week for the...
Top Chef Season 21 airs Wednesday nights on Bravo, and Eater Austin is recapping the home team’s progress in Wisconsin each week. In last week’s Elimination Challenge, the contestants built Frank Lloyd...
View ArticleThe Midwestern Women Striving for a Better Tortilla, Fueled by 3,000 Years of...
One afternoon last December while sitting bored in a meeting, I was scrolling through Instagram when a post stopped me in my tracks. It was by Granor Farm and Madre Masa & Tortillas, and featured...
View ArticleChris Pine Makes a Case for Being the Best Chris With a Trip to Langer’s Deli
Chris Pine has great taste in pastrami and is making a case for himself as the best Chris. Langer’s Deli shared a photo of the actor rocking some tiny red shorts at the longtime Westlake sandwich spot....
View ArticleThere’s a New French Restaurant From a Fine Dining Pro Opening Downtown
After a sterling career in Palo Alto, chef Bruno Chemel is coming to San Francisco. He’ll open Le Parc Bistrobar at 185 Sutter Street, attached to the Galleria Park Hotel in San Francisco, the space...
View ArticleThere’s a Secret Vintage Wine Collection Hiding Inside This Oakland Barbecue...
West Oakland’s Stay Gold Deli is known for its ribs, brisket, and sandwiches, as well as its laidback outdoor patio, perfect for enjoying a couple of beers. But what’s lesser-known is this: the...
View ArticleBayou Saint Cake Is Sunsetting Its Bakery Operations
Baker Bronwen Wyatt, who built a national following for her swirly, surrealist made-to-order cakes, has announced that her business Bayou Saint Cake will end its bakery operations at the end of May....
View ArticleA Popular Venice Cocktail Lounge Is Entering Its Izakaya Era
Gran Blanco, the nearly five-year-old cocktail lounge located below the Venice sign on Windward Avenue from the founders of Great White, is reopening Friday, April 19, following a months-long closure...
View ArticleGet in Line at This Outer Sunset Pop-Up for a Taste of Some of the Bay’s...
If you’ve been looking for a reason to step away from the computer on a Monday morning, the perfect excuse has finally arrived. SOL, a bake sale pop-up from pastry chef and bread maker Marisa Williams,...
View ArticlePequod’s Partners With a Charity Pop-Up Dynamo on Its First-Ever White...
In the 54-year history of Pequod’s Pizza, a white pie has allegedly never appeared on the menu. The deep-dish pizzeria, with locations in Lincoln Park and suburban Morton Grove, is known for its savory...
View ArticleThis New Women-Owned Spirit Shakes Up the Luxury Tequila Industry
In 2018, former Obama administration official Lindsey Davis Stover ran against human rights expert Alison Kiehl Friedman in the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 10th Congressional district. What...
View ArticleIt’s a Speakeasy, It’s a Taqueria — It’s Austin’s Latest Combination...
Looking to slip away to Mexico City for some street tacos? Capture the experience without getting on a plane at Taqueria 10 de 10, which opened at the end of February. This spot from co-owners and...
View Article15 excellent Korean restaurants to try in Orange County
In 2023, Orange County designated its own Koreatown in Buena Park. The city known for Knott’s Berry Farm has evolved into the epicenter of OC Korean culture. From the Source, an outdoor shopping...
View ArticleThis San Francisco Chef Wasn’t Wrong to Spend All That Money on the Latest...
As Top Chef season 21 rages on things have escalated as any good reality show should. Superstar San Francisco chef Dominique Crenn guest judged the fourth episode, and the remaining cooks entered the...
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