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3 days ago | 
andreastrong.substack.com | Andrea Strong
That fried chicken has become something of a culinary starlet is nothing all that new. Since Dave Chang zhuzhed up the humble breast and turned it into the poultry equivalent of a dance rave at Fuku, and COQODAQ hijacked the pedestrian KFC bucket, pairing it with caviar and TikTokers, the fried bird has become something of a sensation; poultry’s Pedro Pascal if you will.
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6 days ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Montague Street has long been the ugly duckling of Brooklyn Heights, a sad stretch of meh restaurants in one of the city’s most attractive neighborhoods.
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1 week ago | 
nextavenue.org | Andrea Strong
Our story begins at the end. The end of my marriage. After 13 good years, and two amazing children, we split up. I have a lot of feelings about this rupture, none of them simple, but this is not a divorce story. This is the story of what happened after — when I started dating.
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2 weeks ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Daniel Humm was standing in the dining room in his pressed chef whites, tall as an NBA forward, recalling the height of the pandemic when he turned the now-vegan, three-Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park into a community kitchen serving 3,000 meals a day. “It changed my life,” he says. Diners clapped, candlelight flickered, and dinner began with a parade of precious dishes made from plants. But Humm was not at EMP: He was standing in the intimate dining room of Service (116 W.
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2 weeks ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Brooklyn Heights is having a bakery moment with Ferrane (57 Clark Street, at Henry Street) opening Wednesday, May 21, a Swedish bakery from one of the folks behind cult-favorite Lower East Side candy store BonBon. It follows croissant-cereal destination L’Appartment 4F that’s been drawing lines to the neighborhood since 2022.
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1 month ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Photo by: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Earlier this week, 250 street vendors, elected officials, restaurant owners, and advocates rallied in the pouring rain on the steps of City Hall ahead of a critical Council hearing to advance the Street Vendor Reform Package. The legislative reforms, which were first introduced in February 2024, are aimed at addressing vendors’ long-standing concerns about access to business permits and protection from police crackdowns.
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1 month ago | 
ny.eater.com | Andrea Strong
Brandon Hoy had a problem. It was 2007, and the restaurateur behind Foul Witch and Blanca was building the original Roberta’s in Bushwick when his plumber quit, leaving a graveyard of pipes and a pipe cutter behind. Hoy was pissed, but he had an epiphany. He needed to build the bases for bar stools, tables, and chairs. “I had this cutter. I am handy. I figured it out quickly,” he said, reflecting on how he repurposed his plumber’s abandoned pipes into restaurant furniture.
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1 month 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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1 month 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 months 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.
