FOOD CULTURE NOT FOOD PORN
NEW YORK
EATS HERE
THE WEEKENDER · FRIDAY
01 · THE DOORSWAPS PER TYPE
 
THIS WEEK

Fifty rooms on Ninth Avenue went dark this year and not one of them owned their lease. The week runs heavier than that and lighter too. Below is what we filed, who we sat with, and the one thing worth your Friday before the block changes again.

02 · THE LEAD
TOP CHEF CHANGED HOW
NEW YORK JUDGES FOOD.

The show left years ago. The scorecard it handed every New Yorker stayed. We name what Top Chef installed in how you judge a plate, and why you stopped noticing the rules were never yours.

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03 · THE WEEK
TUE
The last cost the landlord cannot seize. Read your own block.
WED
The math that punishes the operators still trying to run it straight.
FRI
He took the better deal at the fish market. The paper says why.
04 · NEWS DESK · THE WIRE
Restaurant Week, audited. A $35 prix fixe at thirty percent food cost leaves about $24 before labor and rent. The shops that can build it are the ones that need the traffic least.
$300 tab, $4 tip. The tourist is not the villain. We followed the money to who is.
05 · TASTE ID NYC
KNOW HOW YOU EAT.

Two minutes. Seven types. The answer changes what lands in your inbox next Friday.

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06 · PAY ATTENTION
IT NEEDS A FRIDAY.

Harlem does not need another eulogy. Seven Fridays under the Arches, free, and it fills early.

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07 · FORWARD
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