Dust up on Your Culinary Knowledge With Our Brief History of James Beard, the James Beard Foundation, and the James Beard Awards. It’s that time of year, y’all! The Oscar season of the culinary industry is upon us, and we’re here to join the fun with a brief yet highly informative history of the James […]
LUCKY’S JOB 1 = GREAT TASTE! Great Food Nourishes the body, the mind and the soul! It provides life and the reason to live! Lucky’s Foundation is Great Beef Cows have the unique ability to capture and absorb the micronutrients from the plants of the pasture and convert it to animal protein to nourish […]
By Wolf Richter Eight months into the Pandemic, about 78% of the US restaurants that had taken reservations before the Pandemic took reservations again during the last week in October, the highest since the start of the Pandemic, according to data from OpenTable. This does not include fast-food restaurants, delis, drive-throughs, cafés, and other types […]
A new forecast projects that one in three U.S. restaurants may close permanently this year, showing how the Covid-19 pandemic is decimating an industry that employs millions of Americans. As many as 231,000 of the nation’s roughly 660,000 eateries will likely shut down this year, according to an estimate from restaurant consultancy Aaron Allen & […]
Saturday night at Eden, a restaurant in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, felt almost normal. Its roughly 80 tables were full—albeit spaced apart—as customers dined on tagliatelle with pork, lamb shank, cocktails and bottles of wine. “We sold out of everything,” co-owner Jodi Fyfe said. “The whole evening was just beyond beautiful.” It was Eden’s last […]
By Leslie Patton and Kate Krader When Chicago restaurant owner Manish Mallick does the math, the outlook isn’t pretty: Sales are 10% of what they were, while costs continue to pile up, from credit card fees and city permits to masks and thermometers. The owner of ROOH Chicago, an Indian restaurant nominated for the […]
The american restaurant as you knew it died on March 19. That’s the day Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay-in order to the citizens of California, the first in a 50-state cascade that brought to an end one of the most momentous and successful runs in the industry’s history. Sure, some of the restaurants you know […]
By Gabrielle Hamilton On the night before I laid off all 30 of my employees, I dreamed that my two children had perished, buried alive in dirt, while I dug in the wrong place, just five feet away from where they were actually smothered. I turned and spotted the royal blue heel of my youngest’s […]
I have always thought to myself that the version of Top Chef that I would want to watch would be chef-owners plunging a toilet, cleaning an overflowing grease trap, balancing a balance sheet, and running payroll as fast as they could — a decathlon of all the administrative bullshit,” says Irene Li, the chef and […]
The fast-food chicken nugget, a paragon of processed food, is finally poised to transcend its animal origins: Almost a year after Burger King rolled out its plant-based Impossible Whopper, Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes the first major fast-food chain to introduce a plant-based chicken product to its stores. Beyond Fried Chicken, a collaboration between Beyond Meat […]