In the year 1912, the world’s largest ship made her maiden voyage sailing from Southampton. Meanwhile in Paris, a butcher in the 4th arrondissement purchased a neighboring restaurant and gave it his name: Benoit. Who would have imagined that one … Read More
Aficionados of the Harlem Renaissance might have felt themselves slipping happily back in time upon crossing the threshold of Red Rooster Harlem the other night for chef Marcus Samuelsson’s celebratory party at his uptown restaurant. Home cooking and soulful music – and … Read More
“More dry than the Sahara,” that’s what our Lima Tours guide kept repeating to us as we followed her intrepid lead as she happily urged us higher and higher up the Huaca Pucllana. A pre-Incan pyramid of adobe bricks, Huaca … Read More
For years, New York gourmands seeking the kind of Italian cuisine that Mamma used to make have flocked uptown to Rao’s in Harlem. But why should Italians own the market on comfort food-and particularly when Cuban cuisine has been for … Read More
One of the many joys of life in Manhattan is turning a corner—and finding something you hadn’t noticed before. This restaurant, for example—how could Trestle on Tenth have been here on the corner of 24th and Tenth Avenue since the … Read More
