Top Chef, the reality cooking competition that’s turned chefs across the country into celebrities, will officially film its next season in Houston. Rumors about the upcoming season’s Houston setting have swirled for weeks, after gossipmongers DeuxMoi posted a tip hinting at plans to film the show in Space City to their Instagram account. That rumor…
It’s possible that you remember the first time you heard it. Maybe it was on your TikTok feed, accompanied by a jaunty, illustrative dance. Perhaps it came when you sat down to watch the opening game of the college football season in the beginning of September. But whenever it happened, it is almost certain that…
Fuhu at Resorts World offers vibe dining with contemporary Asian cuisine and a mixology program. The venue features retro touches, modern Chinese-inspired details, and an indoor-outdoor garden. Dishes include black pepper roll shrimp, crispy garlic tuna, Hokkaido scallop bantal, seared whole fish, yellow crab, lobster soup dumplings, and bone-in rib-eye steak. A curated soundtrack via…
The sun has barely been up for an hour but you wouldn’t know it inside Reading Terminal Market, the Philly dining hall destination that has been a breakfast and lunch mainstay at the corner of 12th and Filbert since 1893. It’s a half an hour before the market even opens to visitors — which it…
The patio at Bahr.| Francisco Nogueira / Bahr A food-loving visitor will quickly learn that sardines, cod, and the iconic pastel de nata are great, but Lisbon restaurants can offer so much more. Portuguese cuisine draws on global flavors from the country’s centuries of trade, while Lisbon’s restaurateurs have access to top-quality fish and seafood,…
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is taking some heat from both actual health officials and the self-appointed “fun police” of San Francisco, she says. Mayor Breed visited Black Cat in the Tenderloin last week, presumably to catch some live jazz and try the new menu of cocktails and croquettes. But Breed was photographed dancing and…
When Justin King opened his Roseway neighborhood bagel shop, Ben & Esther’s, in 2019, it was designed as a traditional Jewish deli. The shop, named for King’s grandparents, served matzo ball soup, lox, and whitefish salad, as well as bagels slathered with smoked salmon schmear. King wasn’t eating any of those things, however. “I’ve been…
In many observant Jewish homes, there are mezuzahs affixed to door frames. The narrow, ornate cylinders contain a small prayer scroll and are touched upon entering or leaving. This signifies both the calming presence of faith and the journey across a threshold, a moment spent between two spaces. At 75-year-old Jewish institution Diamond Bakery on…
There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts on Brookline Avenue across the street from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute that is unremarkable and exactly like every other Dunkin’ Donuts in Boston aside from the fact that I once ate there almost every day for two consecutive weeks in the spring of 2019. I’d park…
Taking to social media to gush about the amazing meal you just had while on vacation is relatively normal. But having your enthusiastic Twitter thread about “the greatest potato ever made by human hands” go viral — spurring heated debated about France’s paradoxical contempt of American foodways and generating international buzz for a rare species…