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Zachary Feldman

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New York, NY, United States

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Past articles by Zachary:

For Frites’ Sake! Frenchette’s Bistro Boys Shine in Tribeca

For weeks after chef-owners Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson opened Frenchette this spring, getting to the host stand required besting a daunting gauntlet of New York’s... → Read More

Nicaraguan Noshing and Nightcaps at Chicha in Bushwick

“RUM,” promises the blazing-red neon sign announcing Chicha Cafetín and Cocktail, a splashy new Nicaraguan-inclined party hangar that opened in May near the Jefferson L... → Read More

Gallic Grandeur at La Mercerie

Most French restaurants have butter coursing through their kitchens, but La Mercerie, a six-month-old all-day café inside the Roman and Williams Guild store in Soho... → Read More

Pho, Banh Mi, and Long-Simmered Love at Em in Brooklyn

Lucky us that the city’s Vietnamese restaurant renaissance shows no signs of slowing. In the last decade or so, New Yorkers have reveled in Hanoi... → Read More

Embracing Bombay Bread Bar, Floyd Cardoz’s Naan-Proliferation Eatery

Floyd Cardoz is very much back on his bullshit. Two decades after New Yorkers first embraced him as a pioneer of modern Indian-American cooking at... → Read More

Style Meets Sustenance at Bessou in Nolita

Beef short rib oden, bone-in beef short rib, daikon radish, Japanese taro, soy egg, in a beef dashi broth Photography by Ben Anderson Order the grilled romaine ($13, YOLO) at Bessou and a sea of eyes stares up at you from the plate. They’re the dumbstruck peepers of jako, tiny dried baby sardines that pull double duty moonlighting for the usual anchovies and croutons in chef Emily Yuen’s play on… → Read More

Taste Soul Food’s History and Future at Butterfunk Kitchen

Spaetzle, the Swabian egg noodles most commonly associated with German cuisine, aren’t confined to any one shape or size. They can be long and skinny... → Read More

Sibling Revelry: Uncle Boons Sister Serves Unparalleled Thai Takeout

Unlike their first restaurant, the perpetually packed, Michelin-starred Uncle Boons, Ann Redding and Matt Danzer’s sophomore effort, Mr. Donahue’s, wound up being more novelty than... → Read More

Five Valentine’s Day Dinners That Don’t Suck

Like love itself, dining out on Valentine’s day can be a complicated, messy affair. There are those who go for special menus, big-deal gifts, grand... → Read More

At Uchu on the Lower East Side, a Tale of Two Counters

Beyond the tantalizing aromas emanating from the kitchen, scent can be a powerful tool for restaurants. For decades, the foyer of chef David Bouley’s now-shuttered... → Read More

At Sen Sakana, Peru’s Hottest Cuisine Gets a New York Showcase

At Sen Sakana, the classic Peruvian recipe of boiled yellow potatoes smothered in yellower creamy pepper sauce, called papa a la huancaina, is reconfigured as... → Read More

New York City’s Best New Restaurants of 2017

Starring Chef Claire Welle and the wonder women of Otway → Read More

How David Chang’s New-Look Momofuku Nishi Came Into Its Own

David Chang and his band of Momofuku merrymakers aren’t much for inertia. Over the past decade and a half, they’ve grown from a single, overly... → Read More

Where to Find the Best Alternative Thanksgiving Feasts in All Five Boroughs

As holidays go, Thanksgiving has more baggage than your vainest, richest relative takes on vacation. But good food and good fellowship are the only key... → Read More

In Flushing, A Beacon For Northeastern Chinese Cuisine Shines Bright

For a long time, Cantonese cooking, or an Americanized version of it, anyway, was the only Chinese food many New Yorkers knew. That’s no longer... → Read More

Harry & Ida’s Luncheonette Is a Delicatessen for Our Hurried, Harried Times

As the owners of Harry & Ida’s Luncheonette, siblings Julie and Will Horowitz take New York City deli dogma to unexpected places. That won’t surprise... → Read More

At Popina, Italian Favorites Come With a Southern Twang

Most cooking now incorporates some portion of what we think of as fusion, or the blending of multiple cuisines and cooking styles. Some chefs do... → Read More

At BarGlory in Greenpoint, Silk Road Specialties Soar

The stretchy bassline of Isaac Hayes’s “Hung Up on My Baby” cut through the din during a recent weeknight meal at BarGlory, the modish new... → Read More

At Martina, Buzzworthy Pizza Gets the Shake Shack Treatment

After moving the storied Union Square Café, his influential flagship restaurant, to a soaring room off of Park Avenue South last year, hospitality kingpin Danny... → Read More

Shawarma Initiative Triumphs at Ruzana in Brooklyn

Along the back wall of Ruzana’s narrow open kitchen, pillars of shawarma turn on their standing rotisseries in slow motion, twisting around bulkily like linebackers... → Read More