Food

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.

NOM

Can ChapGPT Fix You Dinner? We Asked Celebrity Chef Jonah Reider.

November 13, 2025

Hey, Chat, what’s for dinner? During an intimate gathering hosted by Jonah Reider, the culinary sensation told us how he’s bringing food into the future.

TASTE

“It’s Mad Fluffy”: Jay Guapo Reviews New York’s Viral Sandwiches

November 11, 2025

The Bronx-born TikTok prankster skips the line to offer his takes on the most popular wraps, heroes, and rolls the city has to offer.

LESSON

Inside Pastry Chef Caroline Schiff’s Brooklyn Museum Takeover

November 7, 2025

As she prepares for a month-long residency at the Brooklyn Museum, the internet’s favorite pastry chef gave us a step-by-step guide to her famous coconut sheet cake.

QUESTION

What’s for Dinner? Rachel Sennott, Courtney Love, and More Tell Us What’s on Their Plates

November 6, 2025

For our Fall 2025 issue, 56 celebrities answer a simple, mouth-watering question.

NOM

Inside Lucien Smith’s Messy, Mouth-Watering Pie Pageant

November 4, 2025

On Halloween, we asked the photographer Eric Helgas to document the pie-eating contest at Food, the Chinatown restaurant recently revived by artist Lucien Smith.

BLACK TIE

Interview Toasts to Cartier LOVE

October 27, 2025

Last week, friends, family, and a couple of Interview-anointed celebs gathered at the Oak Room to celebrate the brand’s iconic collection.

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.

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL

What Does It Take to Open a New York Restaurant? Let Flynn McGarry Explain.

October 8, 2025

As he prepared to open his brand-new restaurant, Cove, the culinary boy wonder documented a busy and beautiful month of repairs, installations, press previews, and menu tweaks.

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.

NOM NOM

Slutty Cheff Tells Lena Dunham How She Went From Shitposter to Bestseller

August 7, 2025

To mark the release of her explosive new memoir, “Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef,” the London-based cook joined Lena Dunham for a conversation about appetites, both sexual and culinary.

SMOKE BREAK

Meet Giovanni Luciano, New York’s Hottest Line Cook

July 29, 2025

“I don’t really want people hitting on me,” says TikTok’s favorite line cook in this week’s installment of Smoke Break. “I’m an awkward little guy. 

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. 

ASK ME ANYTHING

Keith McNally Fields Questions From Friends, Fans, and Balthazar Regulars

May 6, 2025

The Balthazar owner is known to be an open book. Now that he’s written one, we asked fans, friends, and frequent patrons of his restaurants to put him on the hot seat.

OWNER

Eli Zabar and Flynn McGarry Think Running An NYC Restaurant Is Worth the Pain

December 27, 2024

“I always had, and still have, a fairly low opinion of people in the restaurant business,” the New York food impresario, celebrating the 50-year anniversary of his Upper East Side café, told chef wunderkind Flynn McGarry.

FAREWELL

“A Japanese Cheers”: Martha Stewart, Sofia Coppola, and More Say Goodbye to EN Brasserie

December 19, 2024

As the West Village restaurant prepares to close its doors for good, a host of regulars reflect on what made Reika Alexander’s temple of jazz and Japanese cuisine one of a kind.