Resy Features New York Torrisi Is Back. The Mozzarella Is Flowing, But Don’t Call It the Same Old Spot In 2010, one of the hottest dinners in New York City was an affordable tasting menu found on Mulberry Street,… By Mahira Rivers Updated: November 28, 2022
Taste Matters New York National In An Era of Luxe Sushi, Is the Greatest Tradition to Be Local? I’m seated at the counter at Rosella, an American sushi restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood, faced with a platter… By Mahira Rivers November 17, 2022
Taste Matters National Los Angeles New York When a Meal Is a Tasting Menu, What Is the Message? When I was working as a restaurant critic, I learned how to read a menu. By that, I mean coming… By Mahira Rivers October 10, 2022
Resy Features Portland National With Kann, Gregory Gourdet Is Ready to Define Dining His Way Take a scroll through Gregory Gourdet’s Instagram, and it’ll seem as though the celebrity chef is everywhere, all at once.… By Mahira Rivers August 15, 2022
Resy Spotlight New York Al Coro Is Here At Last. Can It Really Rewrite the Rules of Fine Dining? There are few restaurant spaces in New York City that command the same sense of awe as the dining room… By Mahira Rivers June 9, 2022
Taste Matters New York Welcome to a Glorious Era of Street Food. You’ll Find It In Restaurants. I remember when Anthony Bourdain first set out to bring a Singapore-style hawker center to New York City. It was… By Mahira Rivers April 12, 2022
Photo Essays New York Behind the Scenes at Mel’s, the New Pizza Spot From the Crown Shy Team Mel’s would be a noteworthy opening in any case: An approachable but still ambitious spot for pizza and the like,… By OK McCausland and Mahira Rivers February 25, 2022
Interviews New York Melissa Rodriguez Is Ready to Reboot Fine Dining In New York. But First, Pizza. Outside 85 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, the black carpet stitched with bold block lettering is gone, ripped from… By Mahira Rivers February 25, 2022
Taste Matters New York Does Being a Classic Restaurant Mean You Can Never Change? When El Parador Café opened in 1959, it was one of just a handful of Mexican restaurants in New York… By Mahira Rivers February 9, 2022
Taste Matters New York The Freedom of Cooking In America, or, How the Duo at Dhamaka Learned Not to Compromise I was fishing for vegetables in the sambar one night at Semma, a new Southern Indian restaurant in the West… By Mahira Rivers January 13, 2022