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Dean’s Is Not Your Average Pub
The stargazy pie at Dean’s—a new British-ish, pub-ish restaurant on the edge of SoHo—is, in a word, freaky. The head of a fish, cooked and…
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Noma’s Food Is Art. Its Head Chef and Co-Owner Is a Problem
People love to scoff at this sort of high-concept culinary stuff. What’s served at Noma is “food” in the way that couture is clothing–a…
Business
Pizza Hut will close 250 ‘underperforming’ locations in 2026 as list of struggling restaurants grows
Pizza Hut is closing hundreds of “underperforming” locations nationwide, according to parent company Yum! Brands, which reported…
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Bahama Breeze is closing all locations, but Olive Garden parent will convert some restaurants. See the full list
Olive Garden parent company Darden Restaurants has announced that it will shut down its Bahama Breeze restaurant chain for good. But in an…
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Salad and Go is closing 32 more restaurants this week: List of doomed locations grows for Sweetgreen rival
Fast-casual salad chain Salad and Go is closing more stores and exiting Texas and Oklahoma completely. The eatery will close a total of 32…
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The Best Things I Ate in 2025
Trends in restaurants are like trends in art: cumulative, ambient, much more evident in retrospect than they are in the chaos of the…
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Hermon’s: A Sophisticated Bistro Rises in Northeast L.A. After Plans for a Malibu Restaurant Go Up in Smoke
Last year, the Last Word hospitality team was all set to open Chez Renée in the Malibu spot that formerly housed La La Cabana and…
Lifestyle
Outback Steakhouse shuttered restaurants: Beloved casual dining chain closes locations in 8 states
Fans of the Outback Steakhouse chain will be disappointed to learn that its parent company, Bloomin’ Brands, has recently closed a number…
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Pizza Hut to close 68 UK restaurants after falling into administration
Charlotte EdwardsBusiness reporter, BBC News Pizza Hut UK is to close 68 restaurants and 11 delivery sites with the loss of 1,210 jobs…
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Cracker Barrel is closing Maple Street Biscuit Company restaurants. See the full list of doomed locations
As the dust settles on a botched logo redesign that turned it into a political and cultural flashpoint this summer, Cracker Barrel Old…
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Salad and Go just closed 41 restaurants in Texas and Oklahoma: See the full list of doomed locations
Salad and Go, a chain of salad restaurants that are popular in the west and Southwest, has just closed 41 locations in two states. Known…
Lifestyle
The Waldorf-Astoria’s Fresh Bid for Dining Relevance
Waldorf has brought in Michael Anthony, the longtime executive chef of Gramercy Tavern (where he remains), to create the menu. A hotel…
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No, Trump’s Fascist Takover of D.C. Is Not Good for Restaurants
Organizations are ranked on the sheet as strong, moderate, or low, Axios reported Friday, with ratings built off social media posts, press…
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I’m a two-time tech founder. But restaurants are where I learned to lead
Sudden equipment failures. Supply chain surprises. Retaining staff as the goalposts move in real time. These aren’t challenges I’ve faced…
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How AI can help restaurants provide better hospitality
At first glance, the idea of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the restaurant experience seems counterintuitive. After all,…
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A Thrilling Italian American Joint Points Backward and Forward
JR & Son is a new-old establishment that conjures the past while deliciously disrupting expectations. Source link
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Should this lab-grown burger really be served in restaurants?
Inside an anonymous building in Oxford, Riley Jackson is frying a steak. The perfectly red fillet cut sizzles in the pan, its juices…
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Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing
The space is bright and open, with high ceilings and large windows that highlight the eternally terrific people-watching of the Lower East…
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Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants
The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump…
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What I learned about the future of restaurants from Rene Redzepi’s chef conference
The best part of last month’s MAD Symposium in Copenhagen wasn’t chef Thomas Keller telling young chefs in the audience to stop chasing…
Business
What’s a Neighborhood Restaurant Without a Neighborhood?
Industry City, an enormous waterfront complex in Sunset Park, has in recent years reinvented itself as a hub for small businesses and tech…
Business
Sweetgreen’s CEO on Robots, RFK Jr. and Why Salads Are So Expensive
When Jonathan Neman was a student at Georgetown in the mid-2000s, he and some friends wanted to start a restaurant. A fast-food…
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A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings
The restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an alumnus…
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Ex-Disney Worker Who Hacked Menus Gets 3 Years in Prison
A former employee of Walt Disney World who hacked into menus used by its restaurants and edited them — changing prices, adding profanity…