Melissa McCart

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Robert Sietsema |Melissa McCart

This is an entirely overhauled map in that we’ve combined Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. Since the neighborhoods are small and somewhat intertwined, it’s no big deal to walk down Court Street from one to the other, especially in the warmer weather. The restaurants in both neighborhoods have been satisfying locals and visitors for a while now. The stretch has always featured solid neighborhood spots and red sauce classics.

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

After exiting a restaurant in LA that had ended dramatically, chef Timothy Hollingsworth is opening a restaurant in New York. Yet the French Laundry-trained California chef is not debuting in Manhattan as one might expect: Instead, he’s on track to open a restaurant...near the Belmont race tracks and the Islanders sports arena in Queens.

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow |Melissa McCart

Liz Clayman/Bar Bianchi Hitmaker of downtown bars, Jon Neidich, has been on a streak the past few months: He opened medieval Monsieur with Baz Luhrmann and refurbished dive bar essential Lucy’s, adding to his growing list of nightlife spots, which already included the Nines and Le Dive. This week, he debuts Bar Bianchi, a bar and restaurant made to look like the kind of leisurely hangouts in Milan where you’d be drinking a spritz with a cigarette in the other hand.

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

Nadia Chaudhury/Eater Northeast With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we come across lots of standout dishes, and we don’t want to keep any secrets. Check back for the best things we ate this week. Curried chicken patty at Patty PalaceObviously for my first Mets game of the season at Citi Field, I had to check out chef Kwame Onwuachi’s patty stand at Citi Field. Patties are generally a high school nostalgic food for me — warm, comforting, and filling.

2 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart |Nadia Chaudhury

Donny Tsang/Eater NY Head chef of Time and Tide from Top Chef winner, Danny Garcia, opened on what was to be a steakhouse model — but fish — when it debuted in October 2024. Today marks an overhaul of the menu. “I was straying too far away from how I cook at home,” he says, noting his own Puerto Rican and Dominican background as well as his wife’s Indian and Pakistani roots.