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Taste Matters
Welcome to Taste Matters, a recurring Resy column by Mahira Rivers, a writer, critic, and former anonymous Michelin Guide inspector. In this column, she tackles the questions that help define restaurants, and taste, today: Who sets the standards for deliciousness in a quickly changing world? How has the universe of great dining expanded? And what do diners expect in an era of ever-diversified taste?
Header illustration by Jeannie Phan
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
Taste Matters New York
Really, Is Everyone a Critic?
We’re proud to debut Resy’s first columnist, Mahira Rivers, and her column, Taste Matters. Rivers is a writer, critic, and…
By Mahira Rivers
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
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
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
Taste Matters New York
Stop Calling Chinese Food Cheap. It Can Be Exceptional at Every Price.
There never has been a better time to eat Chinese food in New York City. From pleated Cantonese dumplings to…
By Mahira Rivers
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
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
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
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
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