Longform
Why We Love to Believe the Myth of ‘Everyday Cooking’
The impossible — if overwhelmingly delicious — ethos of Elisabeth Prueitt’s Tartine All Day
The Real Legacy of ‘Lucky Peach’ Is How It Looked
A celebration of the art and design of the almost-closed quarterly
Meet the Chef Behind the ‘Worst Pies in London’
Pastry master Bill Yosses is in the kitchen bringing Mrs. Lovett’s pies to life in a new production of ‘Sweeney Todd’
The Perks of Being a Regular
Why it's secretly liberating to go to the same restaurant over and over
The Queerest Little Coffee Shop in LA
What happens when a cafe cares more about its community than about fancy drinks?
Who Gets to Be a Restaurant Critic?
How Britain's irreverent Chicken Connoisseur challenges the tastemaker establishment
Tokyo Plays Itself
Tokyo is a wonderland of maid cafes, owl villages, and robot restaurants. What does it all really mean?
Tokyo Neapolitan: The New Wave of Japanese Pizza
The most obsessive pizza makers in Tokyo have given birth to a style that's all their own — and it's among the best Neapolitan pizza in the world
'Sunshine Sento Sake' Is the Next Best Thing to Being in Tokyo
Skip work. Take a bath. Drink a beer. Eat some snacks. Repeat.
The Last Howard Johnson’s in the Universe
America’s first great restaurant chain comes to the end of the road
What Comes After the Beer Snob
The over-thinking thinking person’s rationalization for drinking mass-market beer
The City That Knows How to Eat
An Australian-born restaurant critic is still looking for Melbourne in America
Christmas on a Slider
Finding — and losing — holiday magic in the annual family dinner at White Castle
My Cast-Iron Conversion
Charlotte Druckman's Stir Sizzle Bake and the new gospel of cooking with cast iron
Carl's Jr., and the Thing That Happened There
It was 1982. We were young. There was only one urinal.
California Dreaming
The irresistible allure of Jessica Koslow's Sqirl, the restaurant at the center of New York's undying, sun-soaked fantasy of Los Angeles
The Sqirl Cookbook Is Too Delicious to Hate
The not-so-casual perfectionism of Jessica Koslow's New California Cooking
The Crushing Disappointment of L’Arpège
Is the big-game-trophy model of destination dining really worth it anymore?
Did Someone Order a Pizza?
A history (though no, not an oral one) of pornography's most persistent narrative cliche
The People’s Cheeseburger
The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts
I Want Crab. Pure Maryland Crab.
Eater’s roving critic returns to Baltimore for his hometown's signature feast