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Food & Dining

Restaurants, markets and kitchens: how the city eats, and what it costs to cook here.

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Food & Dining

The tasting menu retreats, and the neighborhood room returns

Black-and-white photograph of cooks at a service line beside a full dining room
A dining room at the dinner hour, photographed for the Daily Mirror.

A reported account from the dining desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.

By Sofia Cardenas · September 14, 2026 · 4 min read

Food & Dining

A generation of bakers reinvents the bialy

Our dining desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.

By Jonah Whitfield · September 8, 2026

Food & Dining

Street carts win a path to permanent stalls

Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our dining desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.

By Priya Raghunathan · August 30, 2026

Food & Dining

Coffee roasters confront a volatile bean market

Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our dining desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.

By Priya Raghunathan · August 27, 2026

Food & Dining

School kitchens cook from scratch again

A reported account from the dining desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.

By Aaron Pressman · August 25, 2026

Food & Dining

Late-night dining returns on a shorter clock

Our dining desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.

By Ellen Marchetti · August 24, 2026