[All dishes available from Yura on Madison.] We've already given you a guide to eating out on Thanksgiving. But if you're cooking in this year, you're in the market for a big, fat bird, plus all the fixin's. Whether...
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New York has never been a first-class fried chicken town, but these days, it's popping up on more high-end menus than pork belly. And though we've eaten our fair share, we hadn't done an exhaustive survey. Until now.
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Gothamist rounds up the concession stands coming to the new Citi Field baseball stadium opening April 13. Vendors will include Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, and Box Frites. The stadium will also have a "premium dining area" in the Delta Sky360...
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Despite a supposed dip in chicken production nationwide, New York didn't seem to be in trouble on Super Bowl Sunday. Plenty of chicken wings were consumed; plenty of red-orange fingernails to prove it. Uh, 32,000 pounds of wings alone from Atomic Wings?!
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It's almost a cosmic question. Blue Smoke is owned and run by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group. I know the general manager there, Mark Maynard Parisi, and the chef, Kenny Callahan. These guys all know good food and how...
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When I woke up this morning I had a deep yearning for a piece of fried chicken. I'm actually not that particular about which piece. Thighs, wings, drumsticks and even the frequently dry breast, are all all right with me,...
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-->I don't know why, but lately I find myself eating fancy-pants burgers at every turn. Perhaps I'm coming under the influence of Adam Kuban, who really does order a hamburger in every restaurant that has one on the menu. Whatever...
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A reader has asked me for my list of top five barbecue joints in NYC. What are yours? This is one everyone has an opinion on. The more pertinent question is whether there are even five barbecue joints in NY...
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A burger from Shake Shack My top five burgers in New York City: -->Peter Luger, but only when they can figure out how to serve a burger medium-rare. -->Shake Shack: I know it's a cliché, but nobody gets the...
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Dirty Bird to Go, the fried chicken emporium anxiously awaited by those of us in New York who feel we live in a fried chicken-challenged town, doesn't look close to being ready to open its doors, based on a visit...
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