Allen Katz sits in a broad-backed wooden chair in the Shanty, the bar attached to the New York Distilling Company, the Williamsburg distillery that he co-founded in 2011 with Tom and Bill Potter. He ...

DUMBO—The corner of Gold and Water Streets does not demand attention. There are no luxury condos, no art galleries or historic captain’s houses. Smorgasburg is nearly a mile away. Tow trucks bound for ...

Ten years ago, when Williamsburg was well on its gentrification journey but was still without an Apple Store, the Four Horsemen opened on Grand Street and changed what wine could be. Originally a ...

You know what they say about the things that come from the mouths of babes. It wasn’t just the instant success of their tiny Smith Street storefront that let the owners of Stinky Cheese know the dairy ...

Every town in Mexico has at least one paleteria—ice pop store—and as a kid, I’d indulge in their fruity, refreshing paletas practically every week. These were definitely not your average ice pops; the ...

One week ago, Jewish people all over the world commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a somber and sobering reflection on the unimaginable. As a food archivist who has chronicled the ...

Lipe’s book hopes to mitigate common barriers to CSA entry with a deep well of recipe resources. Image courtesy of Bounty from the Box. Try to imagine what the word “cookbook” meant before they become ...

A Trip to Yellow Rose is a Trip to Texas and More On my way to Yellow Rose, a Tex-Mex restaurant near the corner of 13th and 3rd, I was amused to see that the restaurant was almost directly next to a ...

VHH Foods serves up some exquisite dishes. Photo by Ingalls Photography. May 2019 Editor’s Note: since we first published this story, in July 2017, dining options on the DUMBO waterfront have expanded ...

Has there ever been a better time in world history for chocolate lovers? At first glance, that might seem like a wild statement, but consider the evidence. In recent years, nonprofits and journalists ...

There was a time when you could judge a coffee shop by the menu. The best cafés had the simplest drinks, with nothing more baroque on offer than a latte—and even that was treated with some snobby ...

Charlotta Janssen never planned on being a restaurateur. Charlotta Janssen never planned on being a restaurateur. An artist by trade, she was working in restaurant renovation when her ex-boyfriend ...