Adam Robb
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Why Geoffrey Zakarian Yanked His Restaurant From Trump's Hotel: 'My Buddy Donald, He Fucked Up'
One day ahead of the 2016 presidential election, celebrity chef and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian is returning to the capitol. It's round two of restaurant location hunting for Zakarian, who made headlines when he pulled his third location of the National from Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Food Network... → Read More
Wolfgang Puck Finally Opens a New York Restaurant: 'New York Is the Center of the World'
Wolfgang Puck never thought New York needed him. The celebrity chef behind supermarket soups, Oscar galas, and "California cuisine," spent decades circumventing the city, instead developing an intercontinental restaurant group spread across hotels, casinos, and airports throughout the western United States, Europe, and Asia (most recently at the Four Seasons... → Read More
Exclusive: Tim Ho Wan — the World's Cheapest Michelin-Starred Restaurant — Opening in New York City
Mak Kwai Pui is exhausted. The Hong Kong chef and restaurateur has spent the past few months rapidly expanding his empire of casual dim sum parlors across southeast Asia, with no end in sight. See, Mak operates Tim Ho Wan — the world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant — and now he's coming... → Read More
Mario Batali Wheels in His Most Extensive Bar Program at La Sirena
You won't find chef Josh Laurano's plump, homemade burrata – bursting with tender cubes of cream-soaked butternut squash – offered at the central bar dominating Mario Batali's latest restaurant, La Sirena (363 West 16th Street, 212-242-4300), now open at the Maritime Hotel. The same goes for the briny aroma of... → Read More
Le Boudoir Brings Gilded Parisian Glamour and Cocktails to a Brooklyn Basement
There's a false bookcase opposite the bar at Chez Moi, Tarek Debira and Patricia Ageheim's Brooklyn Heights bistro, and every night after 6 p.m. it opens to reveal a stairwell leading to what used to be the restaurant's subterranean prep kitchen, an area that at one time may have provided access... → Read More
Aunt Jake's Aims to Deliver a Little Italy Experience to a Take-Away Crowd
In Little Italy, on the southern end of Mulberry Street, Aunt Jake's (151 Mulberry Street, 646-858-0470) blends in quietly with the neighborhood's sidewalk hawkers. What draws diners in for their first visit is a long stretch of kitchen counter, abundantly arranged with fresh pasta, which is made on-site throughout the day... → Read More
Bushwick's Yours Sincerely Opens the Door to Cocktails On Tap
The name of the new bar Yours Sincerely (41 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn; no phone) may read like the conclusion to a night at Dear Bushwick, the bohemi... → Read More
Reserve a Spot at This Holiday Hot Chocolate Pop-Up
Miracle on Ninth Street isn't the only downtown bar with a holiday pop-up this December. Following the success of his summertime iced coffee counter, head sommelier Caleb Ganzer has transformed Nolita's Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels (249 Centre Street, 212-343-3660) into a daytime hot chocolate bar and gift shop, now open... → Read More
Gift Guide 2015: Holiday Shopping Ideas for Food-Obsessed New Yorkers
With Hanukkah already lighting up the calendar, and December 25th bearing down like Buster Poindexter behind the wheel of a checkered cab, time's running out to stuff the stockings of the New Yorker's on your list who envy the five pounds of veal Frank Cross found under the tree in... → Read More
David Drake's Vibrant Cooking Reemerges at Jersey City's Light Horse Tavern and Greene Hook
David Drake, who took over the workhorse kitchen at the Paulus Hook spot Light Horse Tavern this summer, recently opened its casual offshoot just down the block — Greene Hook (70 Greene Street, Jersey City; 201-721-5062). "Jim Kennedy, who was the mayor of Rahway – he was my partner in my restaurant... → Read More
Inside Burg, Maritime Parc's Spinoff Burger Joint Now Open in Newark
Manhattan's Bryant Park, strewn with those simple forest-green café chairs, has served as the backdrop for early Law & Order episodes, a venue for sunset dancing and a charming place to ice skate in the winter, but it didn't flourish overnight. In similar fashion, after its second year of rehabilitation,... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #28: Untitled's Roasted and Fried Chicken Salad
Untitled (99 Gansevoort Street, 212-570-3670), whose name implies Danny Meyer's restaurant at the newly relocated Whitney Museum speaks for itself. And dish speaks louder than chef Michael Anthony's roasted and fried chicken salad, which carves out its personality by alternating salty slices of tender rotisserie-roasted breast meat and fleshy hunks... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #30: Bar Boulud's Escargots Persillade
If you can't keep your mouth shut at the theater, begin your evening opposite Lincoln Center at Bar Boulud (1900 Broadway, 212-595-0303), with Daniel Boulud's classic French bistro staple, escargots persillade, a/k/a eight garlic-sopped Burgundy snails, which arrive sunken deep in the cast iron trenches they were baked in. A... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #37: Norma's Potato Pancakes
When Westchester's too far for a power breakfast at a Cheesecake Factory, there's Norma's (119 West 56th Street, 212-708-7460) at Le Parker Meridien, the hotel's upscale, upstairs, daytime dining room where the biggest challenge isn't whether to spend $28 on Nutella-packed flapjacks, or $1000 on a lobster frittata plied with... → Read More
Favorites Dishes #40: Graffiti's Graffiti Burger
If Superiority Burger's namesake sandwich is too extreme a trip into vegetarianism, Graffiti Food & Wine Bar (222 East 10th Street, 212-677-0695) chef Jehangir Mehta's signature sliders are a gateway drug. The acclaimed former pastry chef has spent years hooking regulars on these exquisitely seasoned guilty pleasures that reckon a... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #56: Bar Masa's Spicy Dancing Shrimp
Bar Masa (10 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor; 212-823-9800) is not known for being a bargain destination. It's known as Time Warner Center's sole clandestine passage, walled in enough beaming igneous to make you forget its location is in a shopping mall. But among the menu's sumptuous miso-cod bento boxes and... → Read More
The Four Horsemen in Williamsburg is All Into Seasonal Spontaneity
If there's a Nordic air of pretension to The Four Horsemen (295 Grand Street, Brooklyn; 718-599-4900), former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy's new Williamsburg wine bar, you'd never know it peeking through the storefront windows at midday, when the keen-eyed virtuoso credited with everything from sourcing the steak knives (a... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #83: Perry St's Chocolate Pudding With Candied Violets
Jean-Georges Vongerichten himself created the Valrhona chocolate pudding at Perry St (176 Perry Street, 212-352-1900), a confection topped with a textured split of whipped cream and candied violets Like a smattering of dishes preceding it, most similarly a clean, crisp-edged rice cracker-crusted ahi tuna, this vibrant dessert has been a mainstay... → Read More
Favorite Dishes #88, The 21 Club's Creamy Chicken Hash
It's no wonder the Prohibition era would give birth to certain over-indulgent suppers that are still with us. Sopping up boozy pours is no less necessary now, a time when spirited holidays like Negroni Week and National Bourbon Day draw trending hashtags, than when locating bootlegged hooch was a word-of-mouth... → Read More
Modcup's 1969 Citroen Brings Craft Cold Brew to Jersey City
Modcup Coffee is on the move. Partners Justin Hicks and Travas Clifton are relocating their roasting operation to Journal Square later this year, opposite the Mana Contemporary arts center, and their mobile roasting truck, a retrofitted 1969 Citroen H-Van, is now in residence weekdays at the Hyatt Regency (2 Exchange Place,... → Read More