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The Four Star Review Is Dead And Your Group Chat Killed It On Purpose

Sep 3, 2026

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The Four Star Review Is Dead And Your Group Chat Killed It On Purpose

The most trusted critic in New York has no masthead, and the only skill left is knowing which recommendations got paid for.

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For The Culture

NEW YORK RETIRED THE PHRASE LET'S GRAB DINNER AND BOOKED THE BIG TABLE INSTEAD

Aug 22, 2026

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NEW YORK RETIRED THE PHRASE LET'S GRAB DINNER AND BOOKED THE BIG TABLE INSTEAD

Group dining is up 11 percent, the shared-plate era is cooling, and the meal itself became the reason to leave the apartment.

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Operator Unpacked

A HOUSTON COURT ENDED FAT BRANDS AND EVERY COUNTER IN THE CITY STAYED OPEN

Aug 21, 2026

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A HOUSTON COURT ENDED FAT BRANDS AND EVERY COUNTER IN THE CITY STAYED OPEN

The lenders took the brands with a credit bid, and the franchise agreements underneath never came up for a vote.

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policy

NEW YORK PAYS DELIVERY WORKERS MOST AND THE APPS STILL LEAD THE FOOD STAMP ROLLS

Aug 19, 2026

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NEW YORK PAYS DELIVERY WORKERS MOST AND THE APPS STILL LEAD THE FOOD STAMP ROLLS

A federal audit and a state statute written in 1999 explain how both of those things stay true at the same time.

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the receipt

Aug 18, 2026

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A SIXTEEN DOLLAR SMASH BURGER SOUNDS STEEP UNTIL YOU WALK THE RECEIPT DOWN

The menu price is the only honest number on the page, and it is not the one taking your money.

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WHY IT SUCKS

THIS IS WHY JERSEY CITY SUCKS. IT KEEPS SELLING A PHOTOGRAPH OF US

Aug 18, 2026

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THIS IS WHY JERSEY CITY SUCKS. IT KEEPS SELLING A PHOTOGRAPH OF US

Jersey City sells a photograph of the Manhattan skyline as its best feature. Six blocks inland from that pitch is a food corridor a New York critic crossed the river for eleven years ago.

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Monday Argument

Albany Built New York a 4 A.M. Late-Night Economy for Six Weeks, Then Snapped It Back on a Timer

Aug 17, 2026

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Albany Built New York a 4 A.M. Late-Night Economy for Six Weeks, Then Snapped It Back on a Timer

For six weeks the state let bars run until 4 a.m. and spill onto the sidewalk. Then it reverted all of it, and the operators who built for the window eat the cost.

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State Of The Street

The World Cup Filled New York, and the Immigrant Blocks Promised a Boom Mostly Got Their Regulars

Aug 17, 2026

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The World Cup Filled New York, and the Immigrant Blocks Promised a Boom Mostly Got Their Regulars

For a month the city wore match colors and the crowds were real. But the money ran down predictable channels, past the immigrant blocks that were told to expect it.

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State Of The Street

The State Funded a $6 Million World Cup Legacy. The Operators Who Ate the Closures Got a Grant Form

Aug 16, 2026

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The State Funded a $6 Million World Cup Legacy. The Operators Who Ate the Closures Got a Grant Form

The state put six million dollars into a World Cup legacy fund and threw a free final in Central Park. The operators who absorbed the closures were routed to a grant application instead.

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Queens

How Jackson Heights Became America's Culinary Crossroads

Aug 14, 2026

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How Jackson Heights Became America's Culinary Crossroads

Three migration waves. One neighborhood. Infinite food.

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State Of The Street

The City Locked Delivery Trucks Out of Midtown and Told Almost No One Who Runs a Kitchen There

Aug 14, 2026

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The City Locked Delivery Trucks Out of Midtown and Told Almost No One Who Runs a Kitchen There

For eight match days the city sealed Midtown blocks to trucks for hours at a time. The restaurants inside learned about it from their suppliers, not the city.

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The Weekender

SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

Aug 14, 2026

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SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

R2R, the Algorithm Tax, and the Tuesday Test, explained.

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Operator Unpacked

The 30% Trap: How Delivery Apps Capture Restaurants' Margins

Aug 14, 2026

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The 30% Trap: How Delivery Apps Capture Restaurants' Margins

Restaurants lose roughly a third of every delivery order to platform costs. Here is how the trap works, and why some operators are building their way out.

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Three Neighborhoods, One Dumpling: How Flushing, Sunset Park, and Chinatown Made the Same Dish Their Own

Aug 13, 2026

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Three Neighborhoods, One Dumpling: How Flushing, Sunset Park, and Chinatown Made the Same Dish Their Own

Rent, displacement, and survival shaped three distinct dumpling cultures across New York. The wrapper tells the story.

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FOUR NUMBERS THE RENT STORY WON'T TELL YOU

Aug 7, 2026

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FOUR NUMBERS THE RENT STORY WON'T TELL YOU

R2R, the Algorithm Tax, and the Tuesday Test, explained.

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Immigration

WE FEED AMERICA. NEW YORKERS KNOW WHO TO PAY. LATIN FOOD FEST PAYS IT FORWARD.

Aug 4, 2026

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WE FEED AMERICA. NEW YORKERS KNOW WHO TO PAY. LATIN FOOD FEST PAYS IT FORWARD.

Eighteen languages on Manhattan before the fort had walls. Twenty three thousand vendors and 5,800 permits. One festival putting twenty percent of profit back on the corner it came from.

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The Weekender

WE COUNTED WHAT 43 PERCENT TAKES FROM A $1.25 PASTRY

Jul 31, 2026

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WE COUNTED WHAT 43 PERCENT TAKES FROM A $1.25 PASTRY

$55M landed. Fordham went dark.

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USDA wants 28 staple varieties on every bodega shelf in Port Richmond by November

Jul 27, 2026

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USDA wants 28 staple varieties on every bodega shelf in Port Richmond by November

Port Richmond Avenue runs down through the North Shore of Staten Island toward the water, and the stores along it are the kind the federal government has spent two years deciding what to do about. Carnicerías. Latin markets. Corner groceries where the register sits by the door and the cooler holds what the block actually buys. Most of them take SNAP. On November 4, the rule that decides whether they can keep doing that changes underneath them.The Food and Nutrition Service published the final version on May 8. It took effect July 7. Stores have until November 4 to conform.

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Fordham Road lost a room that seated whole families while fifty-five million landed downhill

Jul 26, 2026

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Fordham Road lost a room that seated whole families while fifty-five million landed downhill

The Dallas BBQ at the foot of West Fordham Road is closed. Workers were seen clearing the space in the first week of January, and a printed notice went up on the door. It was the chain's first Bronx location, open for more than twenty years by the company's own count, and it sat at the corner of Cedar Avenue, next door to Salsa Con Fuego, in a building that housed Jimmy's Bronx Cafe before that.

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The City Authorized 2,200 Vending Licenses This Year. Corona Is Still Selling Without One.

Jul 26, 2026

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The City Authorized 2,200 Vending Licenses This Year. Corona Is Still Selling Without One.

On July 1 a five-year clock started. Under laws the City Council forced through over a mayoral veto in January, the Health Department began offering 2,200 supervisory license applications a year, every year, through 2031. On Roosevelt Avenue the carts that were working in June are the same carts working now, and most of them are working the way they always have. Without paper.That is not a contradiction anyone is hiding. It is written into how the system counts.

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Nine Steps And Eight Months Later, A Sunset Park Bar Got Its Curb

Jul 25, 2026

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Nine Steps And Eight Months Later, A Sunset Park Bar Got Its Curb

On Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, in a stretch of Brooklyn where the bakeries open before six and the bodegas never really close, there is a small bar at 4022 called Judy's. Coffee in the morning, beer and wine at night. Sam Goetz runs it. In the spring of 2024, when the city reopened its roadway dining program, he filed for permission to put tables in the parking lane directly outside his own front door. The approval landed eight months later.

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The recall covered 27 states and named no restaurants, so kitchens guessed instead

Jul 25, 2026

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The recall covered 27 states and named no restaurants, so kitchens guessed instead

On July 17 Taylor Farms voluntarily removed iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. The CDC says the recall covers lettuce sold at retail stores and lettuce served in restaurants. ABC7 New York reported the product went out to 27 states between June 29 and July 16. The notice carried brand abbreviations, some product descriptions and use by dates. It carried no retailer names and no restaurant names. Every kitchen in the country that buys shredded iceberg was handed the same instruction on the same day, which was to work it out for themselves.

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New York Ended The Permit Cap And Then Dated The Relief Past This Summer

Jul 24, 2026

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New York Ended The Permit Cap And Then Dated The Relief Past This Summer

Corona, Queens. On Roosevelt Avenue under the 7, the carts and the folding tables run from morning into the dark, and most of the people working them do not hold the paper the city requires. That is not a character flaw. It is arithmetic. There are roughly 20,500 mobile food vendors in New York City and only about a quarter of them have the documents. In January the City Council finally voted to fix the math. Then it set the fix to arrive in stages, and the first one that touches most vendors lands in 2027.

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The Weekender

HUNTS POINT MOVES A QUARTER OF THIS CITY'S PRODUCE

Jul 24, 2026

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HUNTS POINT MOVES A QUARTER OF THIS CITY'S PRODUCE

We counted the Bronx entries in a year of New York food coverage. The number is worse than you think.

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Twelve hundred arrests in eight weeks produced one hundred ninety five deportations in New York

Jul 24, 2026

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Twelve hundred arrests in eight weeks produced one hundred ninety five deportations in New York

The number that matters in the latest federal immigration file is not the arrest count. It is the distance between the arrest count and everything that was supposed to follow it.

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