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.
LESSON
At Hoexters, Chef Mariana Mitsos Masters the Art of Upscale Comfort Food
December 10, 2024
On a chilly afternoon on the Upper East Side, the head chef at Hoexters gave us a lesson in one of the restaurant’s winter menu staples: chicken pot pie.
OFF MENU
Salt Lake City Ice Queen Meredith Marks Feeds Us Spoonfuls of Caviar
November 21, 2024
In this month’s installment of OFF MENU, the RHOSLC star told us how she came to reconcile with Lisa Barlow—and why she won’t be gifting Whitney any of her caviar.
Bon Appétit
Hugh Corcoran of The Yellow Bittern Wants to Bring Back the Long and Boozy Lunch
November 5, 2024
“Get drunk in the middle of the afternoon if you can afford to,” advises the Belfast-born cook, whose new, cash-only restaurant is attracting Brits in pursuit of a boozy and anti-fascist lunch.
OFF MENU
The Paige DeSorbo Guide to Being an Italian-American Princess
October 11, 2024
In this month’s installment of Off Menu, we took “Summer House” star Paige DeSorbo to New York’s hottest new Italian spot for a lesson in spaghetti and meatballs.
LESSON
How Sake No Hana Is Spearheading New York’s Rice Wine Revolution
October 1, 2024
To celebrate World Sake Day, Michael Wyant and Jason Hall invited us to their buzzy Lower East Side hot-spot for a taste test.
LESSON
Chef Jon Kung Gives Us A Lesson In Third Culture Cooking
August 29, 2024
The hunky self-taught chef best known for his viral dumplings shows us how to make his trademark five-ingredient Hong Kong-style iced tea.