TASTE editor Matt Rodbard lives in what he calls the ‘not cool’ part of Hudson Valley. ‘We don’t have luxury hotels, Brooklyn chef transplants, or Aesop storefronts,’ he affectionately writes in his Grub Diet. ‘We have Stop & Shop and pizza shops.’

‘New York’ Magazine’s restaurant critic Matthew Schneier reviews Marcel, a new restaurant inside the Sotheby’s headquarters that is both overcurated and underwhelming.

Alan Delgado (who runs Los Burritos Juarez) and Ivy Mix are heading up the team behind Titán, a new Dumbo cantina with margaritas on draft and an expansive backyard under the Brooklyn Bridge.

We shouldn’t have taken Cozy Soup ’n’ Burger for granted. Rising rents and increased costs have claimed yet another landmark.

The premiere of Kareem Rahma’s show ‘Keep the Meter Running’ was one of the best nights of his life — but he hardly had time to eat. ‘At 1 a.m., a girl walks by with four slices,’ he writes in this week’s ‘Diet.’ ‘I’m like, ‘Please give me that.’’’

Chef Angie Mar and Red Hook Tavern owner Billy Durney are giving people what they want: more burgers. Each has made their own status burger a little easier to order, restaurant critic Matthew Schneier reports.

Expect burgers and the return of brick chicken at Boerum Hill’s new canteen: Lonnies is the second restaurant from Sean Rembold and Caron Callahan, the couple who made Ingas Bar in Brooklyn Heights a hit.

After table reads, Jeremy Culhane and the rest of the ‘SNL’ cast are fed pizza — though not everyone is a fan. ‘Why are we getting a not-good pizza?’ he asks in this week’s ‘Diet.’ ‘I think there’s a story there that could blow this place wide open.’

‘New York’ Magazine’s restaurant critic Matthew Schneier reviews Odo East Village, a new izakaya that turns the traditional kaiseki tasting into an à la carte feast.

There is a place where New York restaurants live forever: Tokyo. On the other side of the world, a fantasy Manhattan is thriving.

A sliding scale for sandwiches: Sea & Soil is a new worker-owned café and bakery in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood — an unlikely landing spot for a lunch stop with an alternative business model.

Black Thought has been cooking for the other members of the Roots for as long as they’ve been at ‘The Tonight Show.’ “The need to create transcends medium,” he says in this week’s Grub Diet. And there’s a lot that he can only say with food.

Black Thought has been cooking for the other members of the Roots for as long as they’ve been at ‘The Tonight Show.’ “The need to create transcends medium,” he says in this week’s Grub Diet. And there’s a lot that he can only say with food.

Before he was a professional eater, Matthew Schneier was just another picky kindergartner who wanted his hot dogs peeled.

At his first restaurant, Oyatte, chef and ‘Culinary Class Wars’ star Hasung Lee is going full French Laundry, offering a multicourse tasting menu that showcases his Lee’s high-caliber technique.

We asked servers and restaurant workers across New York City for their advice on eating with kids and came up with this list of ten rules: the best time to make a reservation, how to tip, when to break out an iPad (never), and more.

Our guide to the best kid-friendly restaurants in New York goes beyond buttered noodles. Nothing here feels like a day care or a theme park. These aren’t ‘kid’ restaurants — these are great spots that just happen to be great with children.

“Where should we go tonight?” New York Magazine’s food team has the answers with its ruthlessly efficient picks for its favorite restaurants to try right now.

Owner James Caputo says a broken oven and an impossible repair forced him to reconsider his family’s bakery, the beloved Caputo’s Bake Shop in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

When on the set of Ghosts, Richie Moriarty subsists on cinnamon rolls and fruit snacks — which has taken its toll over the show’s six season run. ‘Looking back at photos of myself from season 1 is… humbling,’ he writes in this week’s Grub Diet.

At Zoli inside Amant, the chef Ned Baldwin — who turned his first restaurant, Houseman, into a well loved neighborhood institution — is taking a new approach to ‘museum food.’

Caputo’s is kaput: Now the customers who relied on the century-old Brooklyn bakery to supply their bread are scrambling to find a suitable replacement.

Caputo’s is kaput: Now the customers who relied on the century-old Brooklyn bakery to supply their bread are scrambling to find a suitable replacement.

‘New York’ Magazine’s restaurant critic Matthew Schneier reviews Dean’s. It’s been marketed as a pub, but what Schneier finds is a lovely, and deeply personal, restaurant project.

Jacques Pépin says otherwise, but he makes the best roast chicken in America. Journalist Ella Quittner knows this to be true because she recently spent an afternoon with the chef, now 90, learning to cook it.

Constantine Rousouli, star and co-creator of ‘Titaníque’ on Broadway, says the toll of ten-show weeks means he’s often eating rotisserie chickens between shows: ‘I eat it all at the theater with my hands. I have no time to sit and prepare utensils.’

Is Goop Good? We taste test Gwyneth Paltrow’s clean-eating delivery outfit, which opened its first East Coast branch in midtown Manhattan this week.

Donohue’s Steak House is closing in June, owner Maureen Donohue-Peters confirms. Someone else may take over the legendary space, but the name is heading to Long Island, where a Hamptons location has opened and another is on the way.

Call it “the after-school special”: This is the story of how Starbucks created a caffeine-laced strawberry-açai drink that’s become the allowance-draining status symbol for teens.

Red-sauce, redux: Sam’s, a classic pizzeria and Italian American stalwart on Court Street, will be reopened after a gentle refresh from new owner, longtime Long Island Bar server Georgia Fulton.

Chef Hillary Sterling gets her Peter Luger burger delivered. ‘I realize this is going to absolutely enrage some people, but it’s actually better that way,’ she writes in this week’s ‘Grub Street Diet.’ ‘I’m willing to stake my reputation on it.’

Confidant is a neighborhood joint that’s at last found its neighbors. What was previously a good restaurant in a remote location has now moved to Brooklyn Heights — and filled up instantly with new regulars.

Roman and Williams has made over a famous room: This week, the design studio, along with chef-partner Marie-Aude Rose, will open Marcel inside the Breuer building, with classic French cooking and an all-day bakery.

When it opens this week, Cleo will highlight Lebanese chicken and West Village vibes. The new rotisserie is the first Manhattan restaurant from the owners of Margot and Montague Diner, in Brooklyn.

After food writer Tammie Teclemariam posted what she thought was a mundane clip of some garlic bread, she was surprised to see it soar past 1 million views and lead to multiple days of online abuse.

The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe thinks about food more than most people. In fact, “there probably could have been some happy alternative career path in which I became a restaurant reviewer,’ he writes in this week’s Grub Diet.

Even as the food halls that sprang up around New York over the past ten or 15 years have started to close, Tangram Mall in Flushing has made its food court a destination for neighbors and international travelers alike.

The backstory of Ramblin’ Chick, which was recently opened by the couple who founded Ample Hills ice cream, is somewhat unbelievable. But are its chicken-based burgers any good? Restaurant critic Matthew Schneier tries them to find out.

‘This is my Sistine Chapel,’ says Simon Kim. The restaurateur behind Cote and Coqodaq is heading to midtown with a martini bar, sushi counter, Korean steakhouse, and Ninja Tunnel.

Among the many things that Michael Cruz Kayne will miss about working at The Late Show With Stephen Colbert are the snacks. ‘There’s a drawer of Famous Amos cookies that I have been single-handedly keeping alive,’ he writes in this week’s Grub Diet.

Ambassadors Clubhouse is a high-energy, high-priced toast of London, writes ‘New York’ Magazine’s restaurant critic Matthew Schneier. Can it find its fans in New York?

“Where should we go tonight?” New York Magazine’s food team has the answers with their ruthlessly efficient picks for their favorite restaurants to try right now.

Dean’s is the elegant new British pub from Jess Shadbolt and Annie Shi, two of the partners in the next-door restaurant, King. At their new project, they’re focused on recipes that show off the unappreciated vibrancy of traditional British cooking.

Bar Ferdinando is a brand-new, century-old café: Chef and owner Sal Lamboglia has given the historic Ferdinando’s Focacceria in Carroll Gardens a modest makeover and a totally revamped menu.

‘Underground Gourmet’ columnist Tammie Teclemariam has found the best delivery food in the city. And no, it’s not on Grubhub.

Recently, Ham El-Waylly was excited to learn that the oven at his Brooklyn restaurant, Strange Delight, was perfect for cooking a Dutch baby. ‘It bubbles and puffs and crackles and chars in all the right places,’ he writes in this week’s Grub Diet.

Who are the Pierogi Boys? Their new restaurant expands a vision of easy-to-love Polish cooking, writes ‘New York’ Magazine restaurant critic Matthew Schneier.

How did a community fundraiser become a huge hit? ‘East Village Cookbook’ is a passion project that took off and has found fans around the globe.

The cult of Canyon Coffee has arrived in New York: The popular Los Angeles roaster’s new café debuts in Prospect Heights this week.

When Tom Junod first moved to Georgia, Waffle House was his cultural introduction to the South. Now, he’s a regular. “There are very few things on any menu anywhere in the U.S. as good as Waffle House cheese eggs,’ he writes in this week’s Diet.