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The Biggest Restaurant Makeover in New York City

EATER

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 transformation was sort of an amazing feat.

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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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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

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The restaurant’s new Nordic, hyper-local cuisine made Copenhagen a global dining destination and served as a training ground for a number of notable chefs. Eleven Madison Park’s dining room. 1: 2004, 2003 Vital Intel : Thomas Keller’s the French Laundry was the first American fine dining establishment to make it to the no.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Drinking outlets, particularly Sports Bars, thrived on NFL’s Big Game, while Fine Dining outlets emerged as the biggest winners on Valentine’s Day, experiencing the strongest trends vs average, with velocity up +144 percent vs the average Wednesday of 2024. They were ranked based on their standard menu pricing per person.

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Where to Get Delicious Sushi in Chicago

Restaurant Clicks

Kai Zan Momotaro Yuzu Sushi & Robata Grill Juno Sushi Tanoshii Sushi Mike’s Toro Sushi Arami Lawrence Fish Market Sunda Omakase Yume Macku Sushi Sushi-San Sushi Suite 202 Mako Omakase Takeya Raisu Japanese Fine Dining Roka Akor. Located in Humboldt Park, Kai Zan is a true gem in an area with few high-quality dining options.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

EATER

The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture opened in 2004 on 80 acres of rolling hills and verdant forest that were once part of the extensive Rockefeller family holdings in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, New York. The Center has had strong female leadership throughout its history. Cole Wilson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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The 10 Most-Read Eater Stories This Year

EATER

This year, Disfrutar in Barcelona took the top spot on the annual Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list, which ranks fine dining destinations from around the world. When Spurlock premiered Super Size Me in 2004, a documentary that saw Spurlock eat only McDonalds for 30 days and record the health effects, it became a phenomenon.

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