The restaurant Gino will close its doors forever this Saturday, ending a 65-year run of serving up Italian red sauce cuisine against a similarly colored wallpaper backdrop festooned with over three hundred zebras. The restaurant is unable to cope with... More

Editor's note: Friend of Serious Eats Ron Fried joins us with a tribute to a fondly remembered restaurant. ©iStockphoto.com/dulezidar The news that Gino on Lexington Avenue may close soon came as no surprise. If you live in New York for... More

Photo: Chanterelle Today, we heard that pioneering Tribeca restaurant Chanterelle had in fact closed for good. Why? I'm sure as Jeffrey Steingarten says, "From too much business, restaurants don't close." When Chanterelle first opened 30 years ago in its... More

[Fork in the Road] It's been a tough year for restaurants across New York and across the country, but some neighborhoods have been hit harder than others, as becomes painfully and troublingly clear in this Fork in the Road... More

We're sorry to hear, via Eater, that the John Dory closed its doors over the weekend. Despite generally positive reviews (including ours), April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman's showstopping aquarium of a restaurant seemed ill-suited to the times and the... More

Photographs by Robyn Lee This just in from United States of Arugula author and serious eater David Kamp: Ed,HELP! Just walked past Joe Jr's, my beloved local greasy spoon [Kamp is very fond of greasy spoons. —Ed], and they... More

What some have called the best, most heartwarming (with its little garden) Starbucks in the city—we bid farewell to the Astor Place East branch tomorrow. The corner of Astor Place and 3rd Avenue (map) [Eater]... More

It seems that not even the staggering amount of PR that came in the wake of Colpop meme was enough to keep BBQ Chicken in Chelsea open. You may remember it as the location that Serious Eats discovered the novel... More