Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: August 5
With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we come across lots of standout dishes, and we don’t want to keep any secrets. Check back weekly for the best things we ate this week....
View ArticleI Ate at Every Buffet on the Las Vegas Strip in One Week
It was while sitting at the Tavern inside the Fontainebleau, sharing a plate of those nachos, when I admitted to a colleague that I had not dined in any of the Las Vegas Strip’s buffets since the...
View ArticleAn Ice Cream Recipe Where Corn Is the Star Ingredient
Corn is arguably the flavor of summer. It can be roasted in its husk over an open flame until the kernels blister, tossed in mayonnaise and Tajín for an elote salad, baked into a cast iron of...
View ArticleNo One Can Agree on Portland’s Iconic Dish
Philadelphia has the cheesesteak, a glistening heap of paper-thin beef slathered with shelf-stable cheese and nestled in the pillowy embrace of a hoagie roll. El Reno, Oklahoma has the griddled onion...
View ArticleTwo Italian Brothers Just Opened a Soulful Calabrian Restaurant in Los Feliz
Los Angeles’s booming Italian restaurant scene is something of a chicken-and-egg situation. Whether it’s Angelenos’ tremendous appetite for pasta fueling the proliferation of Italian restaurants or an...
View ArticleIconic Austin Karaoke Bar Ego’s Is Thankfully Staying Open Through August
Hooray! Although iconic Austin karaoke bar Ego’s was potentially going to have to close in mid-August due to pipe damages and impending development construction, the Bouldin Creek bar is now safe to...
View ArticleHow the Oregonian Pronto Pup Became a Midwestern Legend
Along the side of Highway 101 on the Oregon Coast, a giant 30-foot fiberglass corn dog, complete with a zigzag of yellow mustard, looms over the roof of a small white-and-black hot dog shack. On a...
View ArticleThese Iconic West African Dishes Are the Soul of New Orleans Cuisine
New Orleans restaurant Bennachin’s namesake is one of the West Africa region’s most popular dishes — a plate of fluffy jollof rice, winkingly described on the menu as “African jambalaya.” Accompanied...
View ArticleNew York Pizza Is an Evolution in Four Acts
Call me biased, but New York is the most dynamic city in the world when it comes to pizza. Waves of Italian immigrants, our city’s hustle culture, updates in oven technology, and the influence of the...
View ArticleHow the Pacific Northwest Became the Birthplace of Roadside Espresso Stands
Every year for the past decade, Washington State has gained between 38,000 and 98,000 transplants — migrants who come here for the natural beauty or the tech jobs or for no reason at all. And, every so...
View ArticleHow Giardiniera Unites Chicago Like Nothing Else
WarnerMedia botched it big time when its myopic executives canceled South Side, a thoughtful comedy that unapologetically represented locals who lived way past Madison, way past Roosevelt, and — yes —...
View ArticleWhich Regional Dish Will Reign Supreme?
Everyone has a certain devotion to regional dishes, especially those from where we grew up, or from the cities we eventually make our home. They can remind us of our childhood or be linked to a...
View ArticleHow a Bowl of Red Became the Signature Dish of Dallas
Every city in Texas thinks it has the best Tex-Mex food. It’s a statewide competition with no winner, other than anyone eating it. One of Tex-Mex’s formative dishes is chili, or chili con carne. What...
View ArticleNo Taste Like Home
We dig into the stories behind iconic regional dishes, from Philly cheesesteaks to Chicago giardiniera to the perfect bowl of Texas chili When it comes to talking about “American food,” it’s easy to...
View ArticleThat Italian Gymnast Isn’t the Only Olympian Sponsored by Cheese
It’s understandable why everyone is freaking out over photos of Italian Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa having been sponsored by Parmigiano Reggiano. Villa posted photos of herself eating parmesan snacks...
View ArticleThese New York Dishes Define the Decade for Better or Worse
What belongs on a menu of New York’s iconic dishes? It’s a collection of items from elsewhere, often imported by immigrants and adapted to the ingredients and cooking methods available here. Such a...
View ArticleCharleston's 14 Most Iconic Dishes
Those looking for staples of Charleston’s culinary scene, take notice. This is a roundup of food that defines the city’s cuisine. From okra soup to oysters to crab rice, relatively new to old standbys,...
View ArticleViral Milkshake Purveyor Black Tap Debuts in Brickell
Crazy milkshakes, an array of burgers, and a selection of beers on tap are featured at Brickell City Centre’s newest addition, Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer. The restaurant, which first debuted in...
View ArticleKorean Fried Chicken Spot Donkey Mo’s Closes South Lamar Restaurant
An Austin Korean fried chicken restaurant is going to be closing one of its locations at some point this year. Donkey Mo’s Fried Chicken shuttered its Zilker neighborhood restaurant at 1100 South Lamar...
View ArticleInside the Sweet Success Story of D.C.’s Capital City Mambo Sauce
Capital City Mambo Sauce started out small, selling at a dozen mom-and-pop stores around the nation’s capital. Fast forward 13 years later, its iconic squirt bottles can now be found at a whopping...
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