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Vegan chef and zero-waste activist Sophia Hoffmann is reimagining German cuisine for a new generation

At 60, the glamorous gourmande Nigella Lawson has taken herself off the boil

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The secret ingredient to a memorable dinner party

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For five decades, Ken Aretsky has defied New York restaurant odds by making charm, simplicity, and elegance the first orders of business

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The Spanish chef who only cooks with charcoal

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Keith McNally has reopened Pastis in Lower Manhattan—a wonder, given his recent run of terrible luck

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One of the most revered food writers shares a memory of a summer road trip and the perfect peach pie

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How sweet is thy garden

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A 1518 receipt supports the claim that La Campana in Rome, favored by Caravaggio and Keith Richards, is the world’s oldest restaurant

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Syrian candy and North Korean kimchi: Moscow adds Stalinist spice to its cuisine

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Gen Y chef Martina Caruso is earning international acclaim for her cuisine at Hotel Signum

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Good news: fresh Neapolitan pies can now travel great distances intact. Dig in

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He’s eaten at many of the world’s great restaurants. Yet, one table has long eluded this writer: the Metropolitan Opera’s employees-only cafeteria

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For the impresario of London’s River Cafe, Christmas requires bollito misto, ample margaritas, and as many friends and family members as possible

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As Union Square Cafe celebrates its 40th anniversary, owner Danny Meyer recalls its nail-biting opening phase

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The Filipino-American chef is taking the smashburger craze across the Atlantic with Chuck’s

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At Patua, the best restaurant in Lisbon, the secret ingredient is history

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Situated in the company’s New York flagship, Le Café Louis Vuitton isn’t just a department-store refueling station—it’s a thing of beauty

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An anonymous London chef documents her adventures as a young woman in restaurant kitchens and the bedroom in equal measure

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The chef who turned his college dorm room into a popular New York restaurant has found fans in everyone from The Dare to AnnaSophia Robb

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The Parisian chef, a Noma alum, is merging fine dining and design with a new pop-up restaurant

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Mauviel’s copper pots are fetishized by cooks and chefs alike. Now the company’s ambitious president has opened a restaurant on Mont-Saint-Michel

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At a 0-a-head Pappy Van Winkle tasting, I learned how the company namesake liked his bourbon

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In fine hotels, in micro-sconeries, and, naturally, on TikTok, the fluffy delight of scones is finally attracting attention

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The daughter of London restaurateur Jeremy King is shaking up New York’s social scene with a brand-new after-dinner club

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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where almost everything has changed, a 125-year-old Italian restaurant is hotter than ever. Welcome to Bamonte’s

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The New York restaurateur’s Apollo Bagels is so popular it risks being evicted from the West Village

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Ruthie Rogers has fed the great and the good for more than 25 years. Now, in her podcast, she uses food to delve into the pasts of Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Tony Blair

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The elusive founder of Gail’s dishes on everything from the controversy surrounding the quintessential London bakery to laying the blueprint for Ottolenghi’s food empire

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The talented young chef Pierre Touitou is drawing the fashion set to 19 Saint Roch, his delicious new restaurant in Paris

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The Lebanese sister duo behind Milan’s ultra-popular Oslo—Made in Heaven dessert shop is creating museum-worthy confections

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The once great Midtown shrine to formal French dining was finally put out of its misery after years of decline at the hands of Philippe Masson

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A zero-waste restaurant opens, in Mexico City

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At a 0-a-head, champagne-fueled dinner, Argentine chef Francis Mallmann prepared a feast that was so primal it was almost Paleo, lithic

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At Le Veau d’Or, the chefs behind Frenchette are re-inventing a New York classic by changing as little as possible

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In the past few years, New York City’s buzziest restaurants have been exported to Miami. Now they’re landing in Los Angeles

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In Brooklyn, the young brewery owner is hand-making batches of Korean rice wine

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A restaurant that just wants to be a restaurant. What could be more refreshing?

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The co-founder of a beloved fast-casual chain in Australia talks setting up shop in Manhattan with ThisBowl

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The duo behind Los Angeles’s Kismet restaurants are publishing their first cookbook

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Over six decades, the couple behind this quaint Milanese spot served spaghetti al limone to Kennedys, Agnellis, artists, and locals alike

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Some of the world’s best wines are now being produced in Argentina’s Salta region. And discovering them makes for a spectacular road trip

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Even Gwyneth Paltrow haters can’t get enough of Goop Kitchen, her healthy-takeout restaurant chain that’s taking over Los Angeles

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For more than 20 years, the restaurant Quince has been at the center of San Francisco’s social life

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From the couple behind the historic Manhattan restaurant Raoul’s comes Revelie, an old-fashioned American diner with a French twist

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A heavyweight Cabernet from a trio of offensive linemen? Or a quarterback’s soaring Chardonnay? Our award-winning restaurant critic tackles the N.F.L.’s wines

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Come for the romance, stay for the food—there’s plenty to love in the new film The Taste of Things

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With Tolo, his first solo restaurant, the New York City chef brings together several Chinese cuisines in one menu

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London’s go-to restaurant of the 80s and 90s is about to be revived—twice

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A native New Yorker revives her family’s 1970s Upper East Side restaurant

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For nearly 40 years, a little Italian nonprofit has worked toward a big goal: preserving the sanctity of Neapolitan pizza around the world. (San Marzano tomatoes only, please!)

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At just 29 years old, the Per Se alum is the head chef at Manhattan’s splashiest new fine-dining restaurant

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The Michelin Guide will soon start judging the world’s hotels as well as its restaurants. But what will the guide’s shadowy inspectors be looking for?

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For decades, Charles Masson presided over La Grenouille, hosting everyone from Edward R. Murrow to David Rockefeller—not to mention a tricky Truman Capote

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Ignacio Mattos has silently ruled over the city’s dining scene for a decade. Now the chef is opening up about his upbringing, his love life, and his burning passion for good food

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There’s a new Richard Caring restaurant in town. But the gods are not smiling down on Bacchanalia

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Started as a lunch canteen for the architects upstairs, Ruthie Rogers’s River Cafe has shaped The Way We Eat Now—and launched the careers of countless chefs

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Copenhagen has long been an epicenter of fine dining. But these exciting wine bars make the case for a less fussy experience

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The Manhattan opening of Roscioli, a revered fourth-generation Roman bakery and salumeria, asks: Can an iconic Italian restaurant ever really be replicated in the U.S.?

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