PrintWelcome to Serious Eats New York
In the last couple of weeks you might have noticed we've been doing things a little differently at Ed Levine Eats. What was once my personal blog focusing mostly on New York food has become a group endeavor devoted to helping serious eaters find everything delicious in New York City. Welcome to Serious Eats New York!
Dishing Deliciousness, Not Dirt
New York is filled with great food websites and blogs, like Eater, Grub Street, and The Strong Buzz, all of which we love for their up-to-the-minute reports on openings, closings, and the comings-and-goings of top-name chefs. But Serious Eats New York is all about the never-ending pursuit of the delicious. We're going to keep the gossip to a minimum here and focus instead on where to get tasty eats. Ruth Reichl once called me the "Missionary of the Delicious" in the New York Times, and that's an epithet the whole team takes seriously. Our goal is to provide you with all the information you need to maximize the deliciousness quotient in your life. Here's how this is new:
- Restaurant Reviews, New York–Style: Direct and to the point, we tell you what's delicious and what's not
- Foodies' Favorites: Hear directly from New York's chefs and food pros about their favorite New York eats
- NYC Recipes: Simple and delicious recipes from New York's best cooks and restaurants
- Greenmarket Reports: What you'll find at the Greenmarket this week. Locavores, rejoice!
- Where to Find the Best: Food guides to New York's neighborhoods and communities
- Shopping Advice: Updated food-store recommendations from my book, New York Eats
- Messageboard and Blog Round-Ups: In Smörgåsboard, we keep tabs on New York food boards and blogs so you don't have to
- Daily New York food headlines: What you need to know about food in the city today
- Chew the Fat: Start talking about everything delicious in New York. Get tips, advice, and recommendations from the community of serious eaters.
- Weekly Email Newsletter: Get the tastiest bites from Serious Eats New York delivered to your inbox, once a week. Sign up today!
- And more!
Serious Eats New York Is Your Community
We're cooking up Serious Eats New York to build on the amazing community that's formed since Serious Eats was born less than a year and a half ago, while continuing the tradition that Ed Levine Eats started two and a half years ago. Contributing to this site comes naturally to me—this is a beat I've been covering comprehensively for decades, in publications such as the New York Times and Gourmet and on WNYC.
But to really do justice to the New York food scene, it's going to take a lot more than I can do singlehandedly. My own posts couldn't possibly do justice to the incredible energy emanating from the New York food scene. And at the same time, I know we need a site that, simply put, will help serious eaters pursue delicious food in New York any time they want to.
The most exciting thing to happen to food media is the internet and the blogosphere. Food bloggers have introduced desperately needed energy, passion, and discernment to the world of serious eating. And together, we've built an online community of serious eaters that makes Serious Eats such a remarkable site.
When I started blogging on Ed Levine Eats, I started meeting, both online and in real life, many of the great food bloggers who populate the New York foodscape. People like Adam Kuban, Robyn Lee, and Alaina Browne were all blogging about New York food way before me and are all first-rate writers, keen observers, and fine young journalists. It's no surprise they, along with Raphael Brion, form the core team that runs Serious Eats. And through this team I have met so many other talented food bloggers and writers who are going to become regular contributors to SE:NY. You'll be getting to know and love the writing of people like Joe DiStefano, Zach Brooks, and Kathy Chan, along with many others.
Most important, I have had the good fortune to interact with the entire Serious Eats community, to exchange ideas and opinions with as close-knit an online community as I have ever been a part of. It's your ideas—and your taste—that will make Serious Eats New York such a delicious addition to our community.
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11 Comments:
Congrats - Will the be other city centric sites forth coming - Like SESF??
kitchenbea at 7:00PM on 05/19/08
@kitchenbea: Thanks! We're just now taking a breather from launching SE:NY, but you guessed it—our goal is to eventually branch out to other cities.
Adam Kuban at 8:00PM on 05/19/08
Adam I think it is a great idea. NY is the great for food but most of the SE community does not live in NY. I am very excited about SE everyplace!
JerzeeTomato at 8:03PM on 05/19/08
@Jerzee: It's true. Most of the Serious Eats community is not New York–based. And so the Serious Eats main page is still the same great place to get "SE Everyplace" material, whether its interesting, important, or quirky stuff from Required Eating, discussions in Talk, recipe in SE:Recipes, or general all-around dining-out info in Eating Out. For folks who live in and around NYC or who are interested in it*, there's SE:NY.
Basically, we know that New Yorkers are some of the most self-involved folks on the planet. So we've tried to keep a lot of that provincial navel-gazing to a minimum on the main page of Serious Eats. But in doing so over the last year and a half, we realized we weren't writing about a lot of the stuff going on in our own backyard. So we came up with the idea of turning Ed Levine's New York Eats into SE:NY as the solution to that. It gives all of us here in NYC a banner to write under that's not specific to any single person and that's more in line with the vision Ed had for ELE's NY Eats when he started Serious Eats. So the New York site is kind of a different "view" of some of the Serious Eats content that was already occurring. It filters the NY-specific Talk topics, NY-based posts from Slice and A Hamburger Today—and some extra stuff—and puts it in convenient place for folks who are interested to check.
Once we get the rhythm down on SE:NY, we're looking at new cities to explore in the same manner, with what we hope is a unique Serious Eats take on things.
*And, yeah, I know, despite what New Yorkers often think, not every damn person's interested in what goes on here! ;)
Adam Kuban at 8:37PM on 05/19/08
This sounds like a great idea, but I am wary of SE expanding too much and losing the personality, warmth, and level of quality it has gained by being a relatively small community. I understand, of course, that SE creators want to push boundaries and provide relevant, fresh material to people everywhere, but I'm just sayin'.
Christina at 9:34PM on 05/19/08
I think any town that has 71,880 songs written about it deserves its own tab.
Of course, it would also be nice to highlight some other cities as well. The SE community is a "go to" place for information and to have other cities' food scenes catalogued would be a plus.
Thanks to all of you guys for putting in the kind of work it takes to run a site like this. It really is comfortable - and a fount of foodie info.
(PS - May I say I also enjoy the fact that it's all food, all the time. Some sites get bogged down by Off Topic folders that wind up getting most of the traffic.)
chiff0nade at 5:20AM on 05/20/08
Brilliant!
bessfour at 8:40AM on 05/20/08
as a new yorker, this greatly appeals to me. :)
foodinmouth at 11:22AM on 05/20/08
@Christina We think the "personality, warmth, and level of quality" you described are some of the most important attributes of SE. We have to give a lot of credit for that to our amazing community for embodying those attributes, and making SE a place where people feel welcomed, share advice, have a laugh, and connect with people who share the same love we all have for food. As a team and as a community, I can assure you we are dedicated to preserving our small-town community feel!
Alaina Browne at 7:48PM on 05/20/08
I was wondering if you guys had t-shirts or totebags with your " I (serioues eats smile) NY" . What can I say , I'm a fan!
czeledon at 10:55AM on 05/23/08
@czeledon: Thanks! That's a great idea. I'll see if we can work on something.
Raphael at 11:49PM on 05/25/08