Resy Presents
What makes a restaurant special enough for us to return to again and again? Whether it's for loyalty, nostalgia, relationships, or memorable cooking and the warmth of a familiar room, we asked our favorite cultural and literary figures why they returned to a treasured place. These are the reasons why we go to the restaurants we love.
Header illustration by Olivia Waller
For our second date, my now wife Debbie and I went to CUT Steakhouse at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills.…
I come to you bearing a miracle of life. At least, that’s what I believed I encountered when I met…
The first time I accompanied my friend, the food critic and travel writer A.A. Gill, to a restaurant he was…
When asked to write about my favorite restaurant, I was momentarily stumped. The pandemic has changed the way we eat…
We look for home in the company we keep, the photos we hang on our walls, and most definitely in the restaurants we eat and return to. One of those restaurants for me is Di An Di in Brooklyn, New York.— Bao Nguyen, ‘Can a Restaurant Become a Second Home?’
The last meal Lan ate on her homeland was forbidden. Refugees were not allowed to bring anything onto the boat.…
Nestled on the corner of a busy thoroughfare in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is a Oaxacan restaurant called Casa Azul. It…
I grew up in a rural farming community in West Michigan. Mason County is home to extensive asparagus and corn…
For the first time in my life, I got to introduce someone to The Junction. It was just after Christmas,…
Food memories, like normal memories, are recalled more vividly when entwined with trauma. The most extreme, or at least memorable,…
Years later, I have been back to this restaurant more times than I can count. They know my name now, the name I would pick days after she moved out.— Andrea Long Chu, ‘We Knew It Was Over’
