I pray the Knicks don’t go to The White House. It will taint all they’ve accomplished.

Anytime I need credibility when talking with a bartender and don't want to dig out my old Eater pieces, I tell them Misty bartended my wedding and that she had me gift Bourdain mezcal copitas on her behalf when I met him.

If you care about Mezcal, you’ll care about this interview with Misty Kalkofen. open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

So much of today’s business/consumer energy is corporations who don’t care about you trying to trick you into caring about them.

tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building

Has Andrew Cuomo left New York yet?

I think it’s a safe bet Benjamin Netanyahu has a complete unredacted copy of the Epstein files.

If the Knicks lose tonight, it will be Trump’s fault.

I imagine FIFA was looking for a US fan reaction along the lines of what the Knicks finals are getting right now. They ain’t gonna get it. Nothing near.

No wonder the entrenched bureaucracy hates him to much. He's showing America that things REALLY can get better when you work on behalf of everyone, not for the Epstein class.

Do Times reporters interview anyone but MAGA and Boomers about politics?

The Bears still suck.

No good dead goes unpunished, is one of the truest saying ever coined.

Why don’t more Chicago bars feature the Chicago Cocktail? I don’t know. But at least one Chicago restaurant does! robertsimonson.substack.com/p/recipe-chi...

Home hunt television is the most depressing television ever. Depressing boring people, depressing ugly houses.

God hates AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

Commencement speakers are facing boos and jeers from the Class of 2026 when they invoke artificial intelligence in their speeches.

"Neither former President Barack Obama nor Joe Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There is a new sub-genre of Martini. open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

Two cocktails, small snack, gone in 45 minutes, is the ideal cocktail bar experience.

Whoever decided that back seat seat belt clasps should be recessed should be hunted down and killed.

You know why Whole Foods sucks? No matter what store you visit in what part of the country, it’s the same shit. They don’t care any regional products. Walking the aisles of a Whole Foods is crushingly boring.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

So weird that Denver built their airport in another state.

Every other new restaurant in the U.S. is either an Izakaya or Omakase. Just saying.

A visit to Echo Lake, the new rum bar in Brooklyn. robertsimonson.substack.com/p/an-echo-of...

Authorities Unearth Mass Grave Of Trump Advisors https://theonion.com/authorities-unearth-mass-grave-of-trump-advisors/

90% of yard/garage/estate sales these days are made up almost entirely of crappy Christmas and Halloween decorations, and novelty coffee mugs.

Kurt Russell has the strangest career history of any movie actor ever.

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Ted Turner created the 24-hour news cycle. And nobody is the better for it.

We visited what is, as of last week, the oldest Chinese restaurant in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

He’s a war criminal… he should be arrested if he ever leaves the US.

We hear all the time about how we’re supposed to support small local independent bookstores. But we never hear about how indy bookstores are supposed to support small local independent authors. It seems a one way street where Indie books stars are concerned..

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

A great find from Barry Popik on the history of the Tequila Sunrise.

L - North Korea R - Miami

Lately, it seems, everything good in the U.S. is deciding to call it quits. Can’t blame them, I guess. The country, in it’s current iteration, just doesn’t value or support “good.” Only big, or whatever generates the most money for the few. www.grubstreet.com/article/capu...

I wrote about “Tiki Adam” Kolesar’s elaborate home bar. open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

More old NYC restaurant news. This one not as happy as Sam’s. www.grubstreet.com/article/dono...

I’m on the old restaurant beat now. Wrote this about Chapter Two in the life of one of my favorite red sauce joints. www.grubstreet.com/article/sams...

Haven’t posted here in a couple weeks because I was due to fly internationally, so I logged out and deleted all my social media apps from my phone, just in case. Isn’t it awful that that’s the country we live in now?

Think you know mozzarella sticks? Maybe you don’t. khttps://open.substack.com/pub/themilwaukeemix/p/what-happened-to-mozzarella-sticks?r=1nulw

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

How can I get someone to stop putting two spaces after every sentence? Asking for an editor friend.

Imagine if jill Biden did this