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A Steakhouse Divided

EATER

Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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Parisian Gastronomy Goes Global

EATER

Oxte Immigrant chefs are shaking up Paris’s fine dining scene with Michelin-starred restaurants, venues in five-star hotels, and Lebanese, Mexican, and Korean flavors not traditionally found in haute French cuisine When Enrique Casarrubias came to Paris from Mexico in 2007, he had no intention to stay. Prepping a dish at Oxte.

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

EATER

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side. I didn’t have an awareness of kitchen culture at all.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

7 Shifts

Reservation-tracking tools use your dining room’s capacity and floor plan, which helps prevent overbooking. As both fine dining and casual restaurants have been busy implementing new technology over the past several years, we can now see the real-life effects. Your team can also adjust reservations directly.

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More People Are Dining Out at Restaurants for Thanksgiving

Goliath Consulting

In fact, in 2011, 30 million Americans were expected to eat out on Thanksgiving. 1 Since 2011, some Americans have made ditching the prepping and cooking in the kitchen on Thanksgiving the new tradition. However, in 2022, this number might have just increased a bit more since 2011. Thanksgiving is all about timing.

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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

EATER

Because Noma is actually new Noma — it opened in its current location in February 2018 with a tasting menu that now rotates a few times a year — the wins from 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 do not count. Eleven Madison Park’s dining room. Except it kind of is. debuted on the 2019 list at No. And now that Noma 2.0 Nick Solares/Eater.

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MRM People & Places: Cassoulet War, Zagat Stories and AQUAlounge

Modern Restaurant Management

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers.

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