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Food

Independents

Some of the U.S.’s Best Butchers Are Also Restaurants

7 years ago

The best restaurants in 2018 will continue to be experiences that can't be replicated elsewhere. And it's hard to do this at home or at a chain (or via delivery).

Food

Bread Stopped Being a Naughty Word at Restaurants in 2017

7 years ago

Good bread is still too expensive in the U.S. Bakeries need to create a model where a baguette is affordable for more customers on a daily basis.

Food

Grocery Chains Add Dine-In Restaurants to the Mix

7 years ago

There are more convenient ways to get your groceries than visiting a supermarket, so grocery chains are turning to restaurants to draw customers into stores.

Food

Chicken Wing Producer Blames Kaepernick Effect for His Product Shortcomings

7 years ago

Prices rose all summer and peaked in September. If you're a consumer of wings price point does matter - it's not like they are a thrill to eat. The rise of boneless alternatives demonstrates this.

Food

Delivery Kits’ Threat to Restaurants Is Overstated

7 years ago

As restaurants analyze threats to their business they need to work extra hard to see through the hype.

Independents

The EU’s War on Kebabs Has a Delicious Ending for Now

7 years ago

With all the bad news coming out of the restaurant world this week, we needed a good meat on a spit story with a happy ending.

Food

Naples Pizza Makers Receive UNESCO Cultural Heritage Designation

7 years ago

A separate UNESCO designation for "delicious things" would certainly be an excellent idea.

Chains

Welcome to Chipotle Queso Version 2.0

7 years ago

The fact that people care so much about this one menu item is good news for Chipotle. Now they just need to get it right.

People

The French Pastry Chef Innovating Despite Tradition

7 years ago

There's not a great deal of room to experiment at the top of French cooking. Perhaps it will be a pastry chef that shows them it's possible to think beyond the limits of tradition.

Food

The EU Is Coming After Kebabs for ‘Health’ Reasons

7 years ago

Nobody eats a doner to be healthy. We eat it because it's delicious. Certainly even the joy-free EU can understand that?

Food

Newark Airport May Have the Best Sushi Connection to Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market

7 years ago

OTG has radically improved the dining experience at Newark's Terminal C and other airports around the U.S. In the end though, it's a long play by OTG to be ready for the day local governments allow gambling at airports. Considering the awful state of airport dining, we're happy to make this trade off.

Food

Eataly World’s Opening Signals the Next Phase of Food Hall Expansion

7 years ago

Have we reach peak food hall? No, not even close. These playgrounds are a solution of sorts to disappearing retail by filling expensive real estate and playing to consumers’ appetites for gourmet choices and largely local, organic obsessions.

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