The Zeppelin is blasting once more at Babbo. Though the restaurant closed for renovations only in early 2025, it feels as if it’s been gone for years. Babbo — Italian for “Daddy” — had been, from its opening in 1998 right up until co-founder Mario Batali’... See more
You go to the trouble of arranging the rapprochement of the century, and the clouds open up. Four years after an Instagram-fueled contretemps threatened to founder their 40-year relationship, Keith McNally and Graydon Carter met, ostensibly, for a hatchet... See more
It’s dinnertime. What’s a local to do? We’re lucky in this town to have multiple options on every block. We’re glutted, too, on ways to navigate them: the endless lists and listicles, Michelin Guides, Instagram influencers and anti-influencers, anonymous ... See more
Can a diner be 86’d in advance? That’s the interpretive riddle at the heart of the Eighty Six, the new tenant at the forever-infamous former Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street in the West Village. Chumley’s, which operated through Prohibition, is said to be t... See more
The Cherry Lane Theatre, which opened as such in 1924 and claims to be Off Broadway’s longest-continuously-running theater, has hosted plenty of eminences — Edna St. Vincent Millay was a founder and a 16-year-old Barbra Streisand a sort of intern — but, u... See more
