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The Biggest Restaurant Makeover in New York City

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How the owners behind HAGS turned a famous — and famously dark and cramped — Momofuku space into a colorful restaurant that’s decidedly queer My first time walking into HAGS, a queer fine dining destination in the East Village, I thought I would be flooded with memories. The bar has a padded armrest. The upholstery is tufted.

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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

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How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

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These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Momofuku Noodle Bar. The menus are inventive and modern to match.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

Single Platform

These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Momofuku Noodle Bar. The menus are inventive and modern to match.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

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Cheers to 2023: Overall, restaurant and bar guests drank approximately +11 percent more alcohol in Q4 2023 compared to the average for Q1 through Q3 2023. Consumers abstaining while visiting bars and restaurants intended to opt for soft drinks (62 percent), sparkling water (30 percent), and hot drinks (26 percent).

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‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ and the American Omakase Boom

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pre- Jiro ; the “Japanese turn,” as defined by historian Samuel Yamashita , had infused American fine dining with Japanese influence since the 1980s. What Jiro changed was making the style of dining mainstream, and inspiring more people to explicitly seek it out. Of course, austere temples to sushi existed in the U.S.

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‘Chaos Cooking’ Is Coming — Are We Ready?

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Avish Naran, founder of Pijja Palace , a wildly inventive and popular “Indian Sports Bar” in LA, says the process of coming up with a menu of dosa batter onion rings, saag paneer pizza, and brinjal curry pasta felt natural. “I Eventually, however, that demand for authenticity became too rigid a bar.