Illustration: Ryan Inzana Rita Bullwinkel is the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly, author of the (excellent) novel Headshot, and an on-the-record superfan of steakhouses, most especially House of Prime Rib in San Francisco. “Everything costs like $65, but you get so much — a disgusting amount of food,” she says. “It’s one of those restaurants that has a really performative doggy bag because you’re meant to take stuff home. They’re like, ‘Do you want more bread to take, too?’” She was there recently and found herself at home with so many leftovers that she had little choice but to make bread pud ..read more

Photo: Hugo Yu/ Wine bars are taking over the city, naturally — keeping pace with the natural-wine boom and as a matter of course. There’s no imported trend New York will not digest and then supercharge. The diminutive bars à vin of Paris, where you get a splash of better-than-ever local plonk and a little saucer of saucisson sec, are urban treasures where you can expect grumpy service (in English, at least) and indulge existentialist fantasies. But the influential neo–wine bars that began cropping up in New York — Estela in 2013 and the Four Horsemen and Wildair, which followed in 2015 — were ..read more

Photo: Suzanne Sarofff April is a month of promise and optimism at the Union Square Greenmarket. The barren, beet-stained days of winter are over. Vendors have started to show up with bunches of agretti, ramps, and fiddleheads. Soon there will be asparagus. Once again, life will feel worth living. But this past April was marred by a terrible turn — at least for anyone who likes Greenmarket eggs. It was the final market month for Millport Dairy, a Pennsylvania farm whose bundles of hen eggs are held in exceptionally high regard. “Guys, I’m in the Union Square Greenmarket rig ..read more

Illustration: Naomi Otsu Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots that our food team thinks everyone should visit, for any reason (a new chef, the arrival of an exciting dish, or maybe there’s an opening that’s flown too far under the radar). This month: an actually good restaurant near Penn Station, fresh pitas in Park Slope, and a Greek spot in Tribeca that elevates lunch. 1915 Lanzhou Hand Pulled Noodles (Kips Bay) Located on East 26th Street just off Third Ave, 1915 Lanzhou H ..read more

Photo: Amy Sussman/January Images/Shutterstock All month, Grub Street has been documenting New York’s past through its assorted restaurant scenes. The focus has been the people, but this is not to say the food was completely secondary. Certain dishes have always had a way of breaking through to mass awareness and acclaim. To cap off the series, we present 14 of the buzziest individual dishes in the city’s history, the culinary innovations that were delicious and sophisticated enough to create little scenes entirely of their own making. 1913 Oyster Pan Roast at Grand Central Oyster Bar Invented ..read more

Illustration: Margalit Cutler Ruby Redstone, marked a New York “It” girl by this very magazine, is a fashion journalist and historian known on Instagram for her bold wardrobe of mixed prints. She graces her feed with billowing ruffles, bottle-blonde hair clipped back with seashell accessories, Mary Jane flats, and bright pops of color. As she puts it, she likes to “mix a bit of antique, vintage, and contemporary, every day.” In her monthly newsletter, Old Fashioned, she takes readers on a tour of modern couture to clothes of years past, drawing parallels to the year 1200. Her historian sensibi ..read more

Photo: Eye Ubiquitous/Alamy For New York’s anniversary, we are celebrating the history of the city’s restaurants with a series of posts throughout the month. Read all of our “Who Ate Where” stories here. I arrived in Manhattan by train from Toronto, in September 1983, to start an off-campus studio program. It must have been early evening, and we all packed ourselves and our luggage into a large (old-school) checkered yellow cab, headed downtown from Grand Central. One of the first stops was at St. Marks Place and Avenue A. As the cab turned the corner from Third Avenue, a vibrat ..read more

Illustration: Margalit Cutler Ruby Redstone, marked a New York “It” girl by this very magazine, is a fashion journalist and historian known on Instagram for her bold wardrobe of mixed prints. She graces her feed with billowing ruffles, bottle-blonde hair clipped back with seashell accessories, Mary Jane flats, and bright pops of color. As she puts it, she likes to “mix a bit of antique, vintage, and contemporary, every day.” In her monthly newsletter, Old Fashioned, she takes readers on a tour of modern couture to clothes of years past, drawing parallels to the year 1200. Her historian sensibi ..read more

Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux/Mark Peterson/Redux For New York’s anniversary, we are celebrating the history of the city’s restaurants with a series of posts throughout the month. Read all of our “Who Ate Where” stories here. For 20 years in the early aughts, Saturdays and Sundays in the East Village meant a line of people along 1st Street, stretching back from the mauve awning outside of Prune. The menu — Dutch babies, eggs Benedict, Bloody Marys of extravagant accoutrement — never changed. Neither did the crowd, really. All 14 tables would be filled from the moment the restaurant’s do ..read more

Photo: Tammie Teclemariam Despite New York’s dozen-plus name-brand steakhouses — Luger, Keens, Cote, Gallaghers, on and on — there is one thing this city has never had: a Beefbar. The Monaco-based chain, which operates outposts around the globe (Tbilisi and Bahrain are coming in 2025), moved into the original Nobu space earlier this month and brought many of its quirky signatures to town. Is it a worthy addition to Manhattan’s meat-heavy scene, or is this just Europe’s answer to Outback, luxed up to lure the jet set away from Cipriani or, yes,  ..read more