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1 week ago | 
postguam.com | Andrea Strong
2025 was supposed to be the year of the maximalist restaurant in New York City. Buzz as big as the arena-size spaces heralded the openings of spots such as Crane Club, La Tête d’Or and Time & Tide. Instead, it’s the city’s tiny dining rooms that are grabbing outsize headlines. Cozy places, with as few as 20 seats, a maximum of a dozen tables and a footprint of as little as 350 square feet, are now the hottest spots in town.
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2 weeks ago | 
crainsnewyork.com | Andrea Strong
The trend is grounded in more than just the cozycore vibe of a snug room. There are the obvious economic advantages: Costs from rent to labor to gas and ingredients are inevitably lower—no small consideration in a year of economic uncertainty. Operators have more flexibility in finding a compact space, which is key as rents are on the rise; there’s also more license to be quirky.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Andrea Strong
2025 was supposed to be the year of the maximalist restaurant in New York City. Buzz as big as the arena-size spaces heralded the openings of spots such as Crane Club, La Tête d’Or and Time & Tide. Instead, it’s the city’s tiny dining rooms that are grabbing outsize headlines.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Andrea Strong
NowMartine Syms has built a career dissecting the ways media, technology, and pop culture shape our understanding of identity. As an artist, filmmaker, and writer, her multidisciplinary work has often incorporated humor with critical commentary on race, power, and the everyday absurdities of digital …
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3 weeks ago | 
businesspost.ie | Andrea Strong
Travel Times Square is New York’s hottest new dining destination - so where should you eat there? The tourist trap is undergoing an unlikely hospitality renaissance powered that’s putting it back on the radar of dining enthusiasts
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3 weeks ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Imagine for a moment you have a Swedish grandmother—a Mormor, as some are called. In the kitchen, Mormor always has something wonderful to serve—fragrant little meatballs bubbling in a pot on the stove, lingonberry jam preserved in glass jars, and small buttery cakes for snacking. Now, let’s imagine Mormor does a stage at Noma. She’s hanging out with Björn Frantzén, perhaps taking in a few nights with Grant Achatz at Alinea.
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4 weeks ago | 
andreastrong.substack.com | Andrea Strong
Good morning friends,Happy Thursday. Today’s weekend calls for some rain, but we’ve got plenty of fabulous ways to while away the weekend while staying cozy. One of my favorite Greenpoint restaurants is debuting weekend lunch, there’s a pickle festival, and a cool pizza collab for a cause. The Weekend Buzz is for paid subscribers so if you’re not on the list, I hope you’ll consider joining.
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1 month ago | 
thetimes-tribune.com | Andrea Strong
New York’s Times Square is renowned for its tourists, its theater, its neon. What it’s rarely known for — Guy Fieri’s infamous Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar notwithstanding — is food. Yet now, the razzle-dazzle food swamp is in the midst of a dining revolution. Exhibit A is GUI, the swanky two-story steakhouse that opened on Eighth Avenue on Feb. 22 that’s repurposed a former Staples store.
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1 month ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Andrea Strong
By Andrea StrongFrom Bloomberg NewsNew York’s Times Square is renowned for its tourists, its theater, its neon. What it’s rarely known for—Guy Fieri’s infamous Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar notwithstanding—is food. Yet now, the razzle-dazzle food swamp is in the midst of a dining revolution. Exhibit A is GUI, the swanky two-story steakhouse opening on Eighth Avenue on Feb. 22 that’s repurposed a former Staples store.
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1 month ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Andrea Strong
New York's Times Square is renowned for its tourists, its theater, its neon. What it's rarely known for - Guy Fieri's infamous Guy's American Kitchen & Bar notwithstanding -is food. Yet now, the razzle-dazzle food swamp is in the midst of a dining revolution. Exhibit A is GUI, the swanky two-story steakhouse opening on Eighth Avenue on Feb. 22 that's repurposed a former Staples store.
