Tammie Teclemariam

New York

Writer at New York Magazine

Writer at Grub Street

underground gourmet 🕵🏾‍♀️ @nymag/@grubstreet

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Openings - New York Magazine

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.
Eddie Huang Is Cooking in New York Again

2 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

Eddie Huang is a wife guy now. After time in Taiwan and L.A., Huang is back in New York, hosting a podcast with his spouse, Natashia Blanca, and, starting Wednesday, cooking once more — albeit in a different way than he did at the long-running Baohaus or the short-lived Xiao Ye (“an artful misfire,” per the Times). Huang is cooking with olive oil now, thanks in part to Blanca, whose family shares its annual olive harvest from a plot in Greece.
A Star From France Is Opening a Properly Luxe Restaurant in the West Village

1 month ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

Le Chêne debuts this week. Alexia Duchêne and Ronan Duchêne Le May are the husband and wife behind the new restaurant. Alexia Duchêne and Ronan Duchêne Le May are the husband and wife behind the new restaurant. Alexia Duchêne’s first restaurant, Le Chêne, is undergoing the last bits of construction before it opens in the West Village this weekend.
Are Buba’s Viral Burekas Worth the Wait?

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

One critic endures five social-media-fueled crowds to see which viral food is worth the wait. On Instagram and TikTok, anything worth eating comes with a line. Whether social-media fame is sparked by an influencer or is the result of a concerted marketing effort to engineer a food’s digital moment, timeline domination does not always correlate to actual quality.
Birdee, a New Bakery From Renata Ameni, Opens in Brooklyn

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

Birdee has garlic-knot pretzels, churro croissants, and, for now, no stretches of customers extending down the block. Pretzels at Birdee, which opened in the former Domino Sugar Factory this weekend. Pretzels at Birdee, which opened in the former Domino Sugar Factory this weekend.
Izakaya Seasun, an Outpost of a Korean Chain, Opens in NYC

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

Izakaya Seasun, which opened last month in Nomad, pulls décor directly from restaurants in Korea, where the chain originates. At nine o’clock this past Sunday, K-pop melodies and blue Hawaiian highballs filled the dining room at Izakaya Seasun in Nomad. A quoted 60-minute wait became 30 minutes, spent in a lobby with a kitschy fake hot spring puffing clouds from a fog machine and cartoon cats posing with beer and sake on a backlit banner.
San Wei Sells the Most Surprising Pastrami in NYC

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

I am always happy to take credit for discovering a new restaurant through hard-won reporting methods like canvassing a neighborhood in bad weather, scanning social media for hours, and starting impromptu conversations with a lot of strangers.
Sauerkraut Fish Gets Headliner Treatment in the East Village

Mar 27, 2025 | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

A version of the soup served at Tai Er in the Tangram mall. Last week, on the stretch of Third Avenue just below 14th Street, a new restaurant opened with a name that may seem curious to anyone who’s unfamiliar: Sauerkraut Fish.
Chef Sal Lamboglia on Taking Over Ferdinando’s Focacceria

Mar 20, 2025 | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

interviews Red-sauce specialist Sal Lamboglia on taking over Ferdinando’s Focacceria. A plate of spaghetti and a mug of Manhattan Special at Ferdinando’s Focacceria. A plate of spaghetti and a mug of Manhattan Special at Ferdinando’s Focacceria.
Chef Flynn McGarry Will Close Gem Wine

Mar 13, 2025 | grubstreet.com | Tammie Teclemariam

Flynn McGarry, at work in his Gem kitchen in 2022. When we last caught up with Flynn McGarry in November, Gem Home had just opened on Mott Street. It’s a café in the back, where one can nosh on focaccia sandwiches and pastries at communal candlelit tables, and fine grocer in the front, sprinkled with McGarry’s vintage sundry selections. At the time, McGarry emphasized it was “not a restaurant,” but when its lease runs out at the end of the month, Gem Wine will now be closing.