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Restaurant Review: Searching for Signs of Lyon at Daniel Boulud’s Le Gratin

The chef’s latest restaurant is billed as a “bouchon Lyonnais.” So where are the intestine sausages?

Restaurant Review: Kono Gives Yakitori the Omakase Treatment

The city’s greatest yakitori chef, Atsushi Kono, can find the flavor in thighs, skin, ovaries — even white meat.

A Machete, a Shower of Pork and Other Magic in a Bronx Trailer

The Times’s star ratings return as our restaurant critic visits La Piraña Lechonera, a weekend party where one man serves up the rich flavors of...

Restaurant Review: El Quijote in Chelsea

It’s not as cheap as it used to be, but after years of faded glory at the Hotel Chelsea, the mainstay Spanish restaurant has been...

Restaurant Review: Mena in TriBeCa

The former chef of Chumley’s wasn’t put on this earth to cook bar food, as she proves with her striking new place in TriBeCa.

Restaurant Review: Uncle Lou in Chinatown

The menu is loaded with Cantonese dishes that long ago became neighborhood standards.

Restaurant Review: Casa Dani in Manhattan West

Leaving aside the gels, powders and liquid nitrogen that won him renown, the chef Dani García returns to his culinary roots.
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