Anna Hezel

1 day ago | bestfoodblog.net | Anna Hezel

essay — 3 min read If you watch enough celebrity kitchen tours, you start to notice the trademarks of aspirational living in 2025: the $20,000 Wolf range, the wine fridge, the (decorative?) donabe, the inescapable brass pot-filler.

2 weeks ago | nymag.com | Adriane Quinlan |Chris Crowley |Tammie Teclemariam |Anna Hezel

openings 9:00 a.m. Life World’s Second LifeAfter its original Gowanus location was shuttered, the DIY venue found a new home for weird art in Bushwick. openings June 10, 2025 Ops Is Expanding to the East VillageThe Bushwick favorite is heading to Manhattan, with new pizza inspired by the Midwest.

3 weeks ago | bestfoodblog.net | Anna Hezel

News — 2 min read When Swiss gallerists Hauser & Wirth opened the art-filled restaurant Manuela in Soho last fall, nobody cared about the menu. In New York magazine, Matthew Schneier called the food “perfectly good,” and in Feed Me, J.

3 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Anna Hezel

The kitchen is semi-open this time. This week, the West Village — currently a hub for Gen-Z brunches and creator-core fashion — will get a jolt of Obama-era nostalgia when Dell’anima returns. After a seven-year stint uptown at the now-closed Gotham West Market, in Hell’s Kitchen, the trattoria is returning to its brick-and-mortar roots below 14th Street.

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Anna Hezel

Next Door is a “contemporary Japanese restaurant.” In 2002, Wegmans opened its first restaurant, Tastings, in the grocery chain’s hometown of Rochester. In the same way that Texans flock to H-E-B for flour tortillas and Floridians proselytize for their Publix subs (and free cookies for kids), western New York’s Wegmaniacs swear by the chain’s cheese selections, chocolate layer cakes, and house-brand pantry staples.