Plenty of restaurants have been run by absolute monsters so it makes perfect sense that Elon Musk has long wanted to toss his MAGA hat into the ring. Pete Wells reports that Tesla, Musk’s tanking company and producers of the ugliest car you’ve ever seen, will soon open a diner and drive-in theater in West…
The world’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurant, Georges Blanc, has lost its third star, according to French media reports. Georges Blanc, the 82-year-old French chef in charge of the restaurant in south-east France, told the AFP news agency that they “weren’t expecting it”. “We’ll make do with the two stars… maybe we’ll be less elitist and a…
One of the things we love most about food is wine. Specifically, the bottle or glass that you order to go along with snacks at your favorite bar, or a multi-course dinner at that fancy place in town. It’s wine that’s selected by someone who knows what they’re doing — a professional who understands how…
Meow Wolf, the multifaceted large-scale immersive art installation company, is going to open its first-ever New York location. It’ll be found in Manhattan on Pier 17 in the Seaport, but there is no set address or projected opening date yet. Typically, Meow Wolf installations include some sort of restaurant and bar serving coffee, food, snacks,…
Paris has changed a lot since Eater started rounding up its essential restaurants in 2016. Over the last nine years of writing this map, I’ve watched as the city’s entrenched food pyramid — a top tier of haute-cuisine, followed by dressed-up bourgeois restaurants, and finally a base of bistros and brasseries — has flattened out….
After 101 years, the Original Pantry Cafe closed in Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2, 2025, reports the Los Angeles Times. The legendary diner, which operated for 24 hours a day, seven days a week for most of its existence, closed due to a dispute between unionizing workers and its owner, the Richard J….
Lifestyle legend Martha Stewart plans to expand her three-year-old Las Vegas restaurant, the Bedford, with a second location at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut this fall. Stewart first opened the Bedford on the Las Vegas Strip in August 2022. The restaurant was meant to make diners feel like they were eating in Stewart’s own home,…
Pod, Stephen Starr’s futuristic University City restaurant, will close just before its 25th anniversary. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported the news confirmed by the University of Pennsylvania, the restaurant’s landlord, where it sits adjacent to campus. Resy reservations will not be available after February 22. When Pod opened in 2000, it was a sushi spot…
Torikizoku, a yakitori chain with more than 600 locations in Japan, opened its first U.S. location in Torrance on January 24, 2025. Torikizoku is best known in Japan for its affordable flame-licked chicken skewers grilled over binchotan charcoal, served in a boisterous dining room alongside beer and sake. The first Torikizoku opened in Osaka in…
Fans of television series Severance and people who have spent time in the Catskills will recognize a familiar restaurant in the latest episode of the Apple TV+ show. Phoenicia Diner, located in the gorgeously remote hamlet of Phoenicia, New York, reprises its role as Pip’s Bar & Grille in the fictional Northeast town of Kier….
