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
Taste Matters New York The Ingredients May Be New. The Quest For Deliciousness Is Eternal. In 2012, the longtime Southern restaurant Acme, on Great Jones Street in Manhattan, transformed into a fashionable New Nordic restaurant.… By Mahira Rivers October 28, 2021
Resy Features New York The Musket Room Won’t Go Back to the Status Quo The white gazpacho on the menu at The Musket Room in New York is more than a good dish, it’s… By Mahira Rivers October 13, 2021
Photo Essays New York Behind the Scenes at The Musket Room Restaurants are high-pressure environments, full of tension — and not just the metaphorical kind. This explains, at least partially, why… By OK McCausland and Mahira Rivers October 12, 2021
Taste Matters New York The Diner Finds a New Life. A Better, More Complicated One. At my local diner, a block from my apartment in Manhattan, I can order a two-egg scramble with a pile… By Mahira Rivers October 6, 2021
Taste Matters New York Turns Out Now Is the Golden Era for Fusion Cuisine At The Migrant Kitchen in Brooklyn’s Dumbo, the lamb torta is filled with sumac and Aleppo-spiced lamb, black beans, and… By Mahira Rivers September 8, 2021
