The Eating House

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Anthony Bourdain

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Review: Naar

What lingers, more than any single dish, is how little Naar seems interested in performing fine dining in the way so many restaurants now feel compelled to. There is no choreography for its own sake, no sense that you are being ushered through a script. The precision is there, the ambition is unmistakable—but it’s worn…

Review: Pendulo

Some cuisines are treated as though they belong to entirely different worlds. Indian food conjures images of layered spices, slow-cooked gravies, and tandoor smoke. Mexican food brings to mind chiles, citrus, masa, and open-fire grilling. On paper, the two traditions seem to share very little. But if you zoom out and look at the structural…

Review: Tangra Masala

I did not grow up in a family that ate out often. Much of this had to do with lack of money, but more importantly, it had to do with time and taste. Two things that I have grown to value immensely. Some might even say over-value. When we immigrated to Queens, New York in…

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