Grub Street

2 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Ben Widdicombe

“You can make a great taco out of anything,” says chef Enrique Olvera. “All you need is a tortilla made from heirloom corn and a strong salsa game.” Olvera would certainly know. In addition to the impossible-to-book Pujol in Mexico City, his empire now includes over a dozen restaurants in the U.S. and Mexico, including Cosme in Flatiron, Atla in Nolita, and Esse Taco in Williamsburg. This month, he was in town to launch his new cookbook, Sunny Days, Taco Nights, co-written with Alonso Ruvalcaba.

2 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Matthew Schneier

When Jeremy Salamon, of Agi’s Counter in Crown Heights, opened a second restaurant, I would not have guessed that the standard-bearer of Hungarian Jewish cooking’s party-of-one revival movement would go so goyische. Salamon had just published Second Generation, a cookbook devoted to keeping alive the traditions of his grandmother, Agi, who survived Holocaust-era Budapest.

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.

3 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Paula Aceves

Times veteran Erik Piepenburg came of age — and came out — in the ’90s, a time when, he says, gay restaurants were “everywhere” in New York, particularly in neighborhoods like Chelsea and the East Village.

3 weeks ago | grubstreet.com | Chris Crowley

Blamey, a chef who has held a number of high-profile positions. Victoria Blamey is back on Bond Street. The chef, late of Blanca, has taken on the job of culinary director of Donna Lennard’s family of Il Buco restaurants. Along with the original namesake, this includes Il Buco Alimentari (a block north on Great Jones), and Il Buco al Mare in Amagansett.