Kristi Noem, the top official charged with patrolling the nation’s borders and protecting it from terrorist threats, was burgled in plain view of her security detail.
At a formerly grand hotel where the famed martial arts star once stayed, a group of collectors is trying to preserve vestiges of the city’s past as its political identity changes.
These three restaurants don’t stick to the script, and it makes them worth visiting again and again.
The logo for his tavern on Martha’s Vineyard transformed a black Labrador into an international emblem for summertime.
I’m Donut? offers its Japanese pastries in Times Square, a storied bagel shop plots a return and more restaurant news.
One of New York City’s minor yet annoying inconveniences is a line that forms when a restaurant or another business becomes wildly popular.
A small team is rescuing a “ridiculous amount” of shells from restaurant trash bins and using them to rebuild oyster habitat in Long Island Sound.
After years in which “plant-based” was the mantra, meat once again dominates the national conversation about dinner.
Majorca, in the Mediterranean, is known for its nightlife, but it offers hiking, biking and trail running worth getting up early for.
This butchery bacchanal, one of London’s most exclusive dinner reservations, has become an influencer magnet.
Lunch for a courthouse wedding? Fresh cookies after 6 p.m.? We have answers.
Orlando is a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own personality. There are hipster hangouts, microbreweries, an elegant shopping neighborhood — and airboats through the wetlands where you might just spot an alligator.
Our Frugal Travel columnist took a budget-stretching, four-day trip to one of the world’s most expensive cities. Would chasing bargains lessen, or enhance, her experience?
The chef Karina Garcia of the New York restaurant Cocina Consuelo celebrated by cooking for family and friends, and even making her own cake.
Sal’s Place, an under-the-radar spot under a tent in Los Angeles, started on Cape Cod and moves back there every summer.
After closing in 2020 following a revival by Gabriel Stulman, it’s now backed by the partners of St. Jardim.
Raf’s, occupying the site of a decades-old bakery in NoHo, is thriving as a clubroom for the fashion crowd while mostly flying under the radar of social media.
Only a small portion of the city’s restaurants have applied for permits to set up dining structures under new regulations. Owners say the process is complex and expensive.
Confusion and uncertainty hang over an industry with thin profit margins and few domestic sources for foreign ingredients.
Within two hours of New York City, the Hudson Valley is the perfect escape: locavore restaurants to fit every taste and budget, cider breweries, farmstands, hiking trails and art galleries.
Restaurateurs are finding that ambience and branding matter as much — and to many diners, more — than the food they serve.
On her first visit to Morocco’s largest city, a visitor swears off her phone, the internet and even printed guides. Her aim? To get lost, learn as she goes, and reclaim the serendipity of travel.
Leonessa serves cocktails with rooftop views, 12 Matcha caters to green-tea obsessives and more restaurant news.
The quirky tasting counter behind Roberta’s pizzeria mixed low-key vibes with high-stakes cuisine.
The new $7 billion theme park in Orlando opens in May. With it, Universal aims to challenge Disney by letting visitors explore lands based on movies and games.
It’s round two back at markets that have the best prepared foods for the days you’re not quite feeling restaurants.
On California’s Central Coast, three storybook enclaves draw visitors with dramatic cliffs, sandy beaches, zany architecture and more.
Hakata TonTon serves hot pot at Cha Kee, a new shop focuses on the bureka and more restaurant news.
A group that includes the restaurant’s founders will buy restaurants from the private equity firm that owns many locations of the chain.
Long considered a midcentury novelty, rotating restaurants are spinning back to life in cities across the United States.
They may be America’s least popular fry, but some chefs are still devoted to them.
Robert Irvine has been enlisted to overhaul the dreary mess hall menus that drive many soldiers to less-healthy choices.
Muchos padres y abuelos llevan a sus hijos gay al bar que se ha convertido en un lugar se ha vuelto un santuario. El autor lo explica con su testimonio y el de otras personas.
Insider tips on where to eat, sleep and shop in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo.
We’re talking indoor pavilions, prix fixe deals and informal hangs.
New museums, galleries and spruced-up parks counterbalance this Central European city’s classic architecture and thermal baths.
The rejection of one bar’s sidewalk seating permit may be a sign of what’s to come.
New York City was on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. It has largely recovered, but has transformed into a place of greater extremes.
A program to restart outdoor dining in New York City on April 1 is facing an extensive backlog of applications.
Facebook Marketplace, a platform often used for furniture and electronics, is an increasingly popular place to buy and sell home-cooked meals.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
How missed opportunities, a $1.5 billion real estate deal, all-you-can-eat shrimp and the global pandemic sank the country’s largest seafood chain.
Readers disagree about whether putting off sentencing until after the election was the right move. Also: Risky Covid behavior; outdoor dining; a librarian’s fight.
Under new outdoor dining rules, inspectors are ticketing some restaurants and coffeehouses that have a few chairs or tables outside but no formal structures.
The city, which is among those most devastated in the country after the pandemic, is trying to lure businesses back with a free-rent period.
New requirements for the city’s outdoor dining program are being met with concern by restaurant owners.
Responses to a guest essay asserting that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak. Also: President Biden’s image problems; “junk fees” in restaurants.
Delivery-only operations boomed during the pandemic. Now Wendy’s, Kroger and mom-and-pop food businesses are rethinking their operations.
The pandemic upended everything at the Red Hook Lobster Pound. By mid-2022, the co-founder felt she had no choice but to raise the price of her signature item, a lobster roll and fries.
Many restaurants are fundamentally changing how they do business after the pandemic.
The neighbors may complain about the noise, but outdoor spaces that bloomed under a pandemic program are now a permanent and vibrant fixture of city life.
Britain’s vegetable producers are hoping this is a moment for the humble frozen pea, a cost-effective staple at a time of rising food prices.
Called one of the world’s best islands, the Philippine resort was closed by the government for six months and reopened with a cap on visitors. Now, with travelers coming back, will it continue to hold the line?
They were crucial for restaurants and cooped-up New Yorkers during the pandemic. Now their usefulness is being debated.
A road trip in the country’s South Island offered perfect wines, stunning views, intimate restaurants and the chance to make a pilgrimage to a salmon Shangri-La.
The business must reinvent itself to survive.
Downtown lunch spots that rely on catering to white-collar professionals are rethinking their business model as more employees work from home.
From Barbiecore to revenge travel, social media trends gave us a clear picture of the forces reshaping the economy.
Representative Lee Zeldin painted a bleak portrait of New York, while Gov. Kathy Hochul stressed her rival’s anti-abortion stance and his support for Donald Trump.
By promoting outdoor dining, the city’s Open Streets program has helped some eating and drinking establishments survive the pandemic, a new report finds.
More bars and restaurants are closing their doors at earlier hours, and more New Yorkers are grabbing dinner earlier in the evening. One of our reporters set off to find out why.
Readers discuss an investigation into the lack of secular education at New York’s yeshivas. Also: Outdoor dining; climate-crisis deniers.
Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.
The Hulu drama is resonating partly because it shows workers demanding a better workplace, which is happening in the restaurant industry and beyond.
Mayor Eric Adams is a big supporter of outdoor dining, but those who dislike the program are trying to kill it in court.
As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.
Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which closed in 2020, capsized in the South China Sea after being towed from the city. The sinking triggered nostalgia for a happier period of Hong Kong history.
Theater, art and music are flourishing, and on the culinary scene, a 13-course Filipino tasting menu and a sleek Black-owned winery in Bronzeville are just a few of the city’s new offerings.
American Express, a sponsor, said it would refund the price of the $700-a-person dinners after hearing that the chef, René Redzepi, tested positive for Covid.
The Great Resignation was in fact a moment many people traded up for a better-paying gig.
