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No doubt, the West Village is one of the city’s loveliest neighborhoods, composed of stately brownstones dating from the 1800s, small storefronts with unique merchandise, a country church with formal flower gardens, and reclaimed port and industrial architecture turned into lofts, galleries, and coffee shops. The borders of the neighborhood are murky, but we’ve taken […]
West Village French dip sandwich sensation Salt Hank’s has been acquired by ghost kitchen food hall behemoth Wonder. This means the physical restaurant and its entire branding and menu have been sold to the company. Starting in the fall, Salt Hank’s hefty beefy sandwich will be available for pickup and delivery from Wonder’s Upper East […]
This is Eater’s guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes that have opened this week in August 2026. Throughout the month, we’ll update the list weekly (see: July, June, May, April, March, February, January). When we’ve been to a place, we will then include a few openings on our heatmaps (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, […]
A new NYC food pop-up is sharing fry bread with the city. Raini Skye Field launched Lakota Frybread Co. in early August, popping up at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick on Sundays at noon. Fry bread itself has a complicated history that Field is aware of; she named her pop-up after her tribe, the Lakota […]
Jimmy Rizvi has lived in Jersey City for over 20 years, commuting to Manhattan to run GupShup in Gramercy and Bungalow, the Vikas Khanna restaurant in the East Village that turned into one of the harder reservations to land. For most of that time, Jersey City’s own South Asian community — one of the largest […]
A fire broke out at swanky British import Ambassadors Clubhouse, the impossible-to-get-into Indian restaurant at 1245 Broadway, at West 31st Street, on the morning of August 12, as posted on Reddit. According to NYC Fire Wire, it was an “all-hands” fire, which is serious enough that at least four engine companies were called in to […]
Catch Hospitality Group’s opening machine keeps running: After Soho’s Mediterranean Or’esh opened — following the Eighty-Six in the old Chumley’s and Soho’s super hard-to-get-into Corner Store — Eugene Remm, partner Tilman Fertitta, and company are opening a new French brasserie, Cafe Charmant, at 340 Bleecker Street, between Christopher and West 10th streets, in mid-September. Given […]
Times Square is the throbbing heart of New York, thronged from early morning until late at night with theatergoers, thrill seekers, skateboard riders, touts dressed in idiotic costumes, wedding guests, sanitation workers, and just plain tourists. It may come as no surprise that most New Yorkers who don’t have to work in the immediate vicinity […]
This is Eater’s guide to all the New York City restaurants, bars, and cafes that closed in August 2026. This list will be updated weekly (see: July, June, May, April, March, February, January), serving as a round-up of the dining and drinking places that have shuttered around the city. If a restaurant or bar has […]
We’ve been covering various NYC restaurants, food, drinks, bars, etc. news intel over on our daily newsletter (please sign up if you haven’t already!), but we’re also making it easier for everyone to catch up by rounding ‘em up here every week (check out July’s and June’s). It seems as though NYC fast-casual wonder Taïm […]
A large part of the Hamptons experience is dining out, watching the scene, and enjoying the freshest seafood and produce. Tables can be tough to score at the most popular spots, so before you go through the trouble, we’ve cherry-picked the ones that are worth it. Here are our favorite Hamptons dining destinations, from charming […]
The U.S. Open is nearly here. Starting on Sunday, August 30, through Sunday, September 13, tennis fans will gather at the sprawling USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, to cheer on their favorite players, like defending champions Aryna Sabalenka and hopefully still Carlos Alcaraz, as well as Naomi Osaka, […]
