Fall's Hot New Restaurants
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From Indian-Spanish fusion in Dallas to upscale Southern in Atlanta, we grilled restaurant critics on the season's best new places to eat. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Owner: Ashok Bajaj Chef: Nicholas Stefanelli Cuisine: Italian The Buzz: What do you get when you mix one of GQ's 50 most powerful people in DC...
Hotels that Help You Cheat
Sara Reistad-Long is a New York-based writer. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Esquire, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. She can also be found blogging at www.sveltegourmand.com, where she explores the intersection of health and delicious food.
Today's finest hotels and restaurants work hard to accommodate their guests' dalliances. Sara Reistad-Long investigates the secret tricks that keep philanderers one step ahead of their spouses. Plus, the best places to cheat.
Four Stars!
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Danny Meyer's restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, just received an ultra-rare four-star review from The New York Times. Isabel Wilkinson goes inside one of New York's best-oiled machines.
Chefs on Drugs
Jason Sheehan is a former dishwasher, fry-cook, grillardin and chef, and is currently a James Beard Award-winning food writer and restaurant critic for Westword newspaper in Denver, Colorado. His work has appeared in Best Food Writing for the past five years. His new book, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, is on shelves now.
What are the odds that your next restaurant meal will be prepared by someone on drugs? Very high. An ex-chef and former addict on why cooks and coke go together like salt and pepper.
My favorite, favorite, favorite thing in Venice is the Feast of St. Martin in November. According to legend, on a cold day in November St. Martin happened upon a beggar, on whom he took pity and gave him his coat. Immediately, the weathe...
Jody Adams is the James Beard Award-winning chef/owner of the Boston restaurant Rialto, which Gourmet named one of “world’s best hotel restaurants,” The Boston Globe awarded four stars, and Esquire Magazine named one of the best restaurants in the country. She is the author of In the Hands of a Chef: Cooking with Jody Adams of Rialto Restaurant.
In 1991, on our first European vacation, we stayed at Pensione La Calcina in Venice, where John Ruskin stayed in 1877. Our spacious room was bathed with light from tall windows swinging out onto narrow balconies overlooking the Giudecca ...
Jerry Traunfeld is chef and owner of the Seattle restaurant Poppy. Prior to opening his own restaurant he received national acclaim as the chef at The Herbfarm. He was a 2000 recipient of a James Beard Award for "Best American Chef: Northwest and Hawaii.” He is the author of the award-winning The Herbfarm Cookbook and The Herbal Kitchen. For full bio, click here.
Why Restaurants Make You Fat
Director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry at Tufts University, and author of a new approach to weight loss called The Instinct Diet, which was recently featured in The Daily Beast.
Restaurant Syndrome: 1. Eat out. 2. Eat too much. 3. Feel bad. 4. Repeat. The Daily Beast's Susan B. Roberts on why you do it-and five ways to minimize the damage.
First Food Critics
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
Move over, Zagat. The new force on the dining scene is Michelle and Barack, whose date night took them to a low-key West Village restaurant yesterday. Sandra McElwaine on what the First Foodies like to eat.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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