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World
How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low
The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle…
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News
Noma and the Fizzle of Too-Fine Dining
It was at Noma that I ate the most unsettling meal of my life. The most unsettling dish, I should…
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News
Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors
Since opening two decades ago, Noma — the Copenhagen restaurant currently serving grilled reindeer heart on a bed of fresh…
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World
Celebrating El Cholo Restaurant in L.A. on Its 100th Anniversary
In 1923, “going out to a restaurant was kind of a special thing — it wasn’t what it is today,”…
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Books
A Documentarian Travels the World Asking: ‘Have You Eaten Yet?’
From the Arctic to the Amazon, Cheuk Kwan traces a diaspora through Chinese restaurants owned and operated by immigrant families.
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News
The Most Exciting Part of Dining Out Is … the Bathroom?
Behind an unmarked door at Wenwen, a homey Taiwanese restaurant in Brooklyn, a discothèque awaits: Speakers pump out pop songs…
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News
Restaurant Review: Lord’s Is a Meat Manor, With a Strong British Accent
The new restaurant from the team behind Dame goes full country pub, serving a hearty slate of nose-to-tail dishes.
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News
Kobo, Serving Mediterranean Fare, Opens in the East Village
A new life for Paris Café in the financial district, classic fare in Hell’s Kitchen, and more restaurant news.
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World
Dubai Is the Newest Culinary Destination. Here’s a Taste.
In mid-September, on an artificial, palm tree-shaped island in the Persian Gulf, an avant-garde dinner service — “performance” is a…
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News
Rockefeller Center Is the New York Restaurant Event of the Year
When the real-estate firm Tishman Speyer was trying to persuade chefs to join what was turning into a murderers’ row…