Motorino's Mathieu Palombino has a knack for genre-hopping, having left fine dining to open one of our favorite pizzerias in New York. So it didn't seem that unlikely when Palombino decided to open a diner on the Bowery.
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It's not often that a diner in Queens attracts city-wide media attention—but
M. Wells, recently opened in a somewhat barren stretch of Long Island City, is no ordinary diner. Opened by husband-and-wife partners Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis—the former, of hot-ticket Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon, the latter, a Queens native—the diner has already been written up by outlets from the
New York Times to the
Wall Street Journal. And after enthusiastic early reports, we had to check it out.
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I sought out the proto-diner, the place that offered the food that was eaten here before pizza, dosas and General Tso came along.
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"Does Mini Mac have actual magical powers? I think so." [Photos: Brian Yarvin] I visited the Mini Mac Drive In for the first time the day after I learned that a well-known diner near my house had hired a sommelier...
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[Photographs: Allison Hemler] None of us grew up drinking coffee from the womb. In fact, I'll bet most of our parents kept us away from the slodgy brown stuff until high school, when we required caffeine to keep us...
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Imagine your local Greek coffee shop or diner being taken over by a hard-working fancypants celebrity chef, who happens to be Greek-American. Sounds promising, doesn't it? See what chef
Michael Psilakis (of Anthos, Kefi, and Mia Dona) has done at the new Gus and Gabriel Gastropub on the Upper West side.
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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...
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"If a diner could be this good, why were so many others so bad?" There are lots of things about Moustache Bill’s Diner in Barnegat Light that should make an adventurous eater suspicious. The cute name doesn’t inspire confidence, the...
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The neighborhood diner is a staple of New York life, just ask the cast of
Seinfeld. As serious diner enthusiasts, we have to know, what's your favorite neighborhood diner? And what should we order, when we're there?
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Last night, an ice cream craving hit me and Robyn. We also craved a brownie, so together, we were after a brownie sundae. We racked our brains for nearby options (we were at the Frying Pan in Chelsea) but...
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