COOKED
Is The Commodore the Best Restaurant in the Known Universe?
October 14, 2025
According to our food editor J Lee’s somewhat shaky logic, it just might be.
BITE
It’s Time to Let Padma Lakshmi Cook
October 13, 2025
On “Top Chef” she judged the dishes. At Indochine with our food editor, J Lee, she judged everything else.
COOKED
At the Six Bells Inn, Audrey Gelman Made the Dollhouse of Her Millennial Dreams
August 8, 2025
“It’s rare to get to spend the night in someone else’s personality disorder, but it’s not as scary as it sounds,” writes J Lee, who visits “The Wing” founder’s new Hudson Valley lodge in this week’s installment of Cooked.
COOKED
Meet Mike Chau, the Man Who Eats New York
July 17, 2025
In this month’s installment of “Cooked,” J Lee talks croissants, fatherhood, and NYC dining culture with the man behind Food Baby, one of the city’s most influential accounts.
COOKED
ThisBowl Will Change Your Life, if You Let It.
June 16, 2025
“What is a bowl?” asks our contributing Food Editor in this dispatch from the trendy Australian chain. “A bowl,” he concludes, “is a canvas on which to paint your desires, your aspirations.”
COOKED
How Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha Made a Perfectly New York Restaurant
June 5, 2025
Over McDonald’s breakfast and mimosas, our food editor J Lee sat down with the duo behind Ha’s Snack Bar to talk late nights, days off, and the secret sauce behind New York’s most in-demand dining room.
COOKED
Why I’m Breaking Up With Hillstone
May 22, 2025
In the first installment of Cooked, Interview’s new food editor J Lee returns to Hillstone, the much-mythologized chain of restaurants he once loved.