MET GALA
Billionaires, Bubble Tea, and Fried Chicken: Inside the Mark Hotel on Met Gala Monday
May 5, 2026
Interview’s Food Editor J Lee goes inside The Mark Hotel to report on the post Met Gala scene and what all the stars were chowing down on before hitting the afterparties.
COOKED
Fear and Bloating in Las Vegas
April 28, 2026
In this latest installment of Cooked, J Lee arrives in Sin City for the opening of Cantina Contramar, the Fontainebleau’s new outpost of Mexico City’s beloved dining institution. It’s his first time in town, so after the travel day from hell, he did not hold back.
COOKED
Is Dean’s a Pub? Does It Matter?
April 20, 2026
In the latest installment of Cooked, our contributing food editor J Lee braves the West Village to check out New York’s latest destination for Anglophiles.
COOKED
Let Molly Baz Cook
January 23, 2026
Over soup and sandwiches at S&P, the writer and recipe developer took our food editor inside her burgeoning mayo empire.
COOKED
J Lee Drops His Top Meals of 2025, From Crayfish to Kabanosy
December 31, 2025
Our food editor shares his most memorable meals of the year.
COOKED
Mario Carbone Dines Out on Drama
November 26, 2025
The co-founder of Major Food Group walks J Lee through his ambitious Carbone Riviera Las Vegas launch and explains why his empire will never compromise on spectacle.
COOKED
Enrique Olvera Just Wants a Good New York Taco
November 25, 2025
The culinary genius behind Mexico City’s legendary Pujol, in town for a special pop-up, delivers his verdict on New York’s much-debated Mexican food scene.
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.