Food & drink

Food & drink

Loxfest, a salmon-themed tribute to New York City's historic relationship with cured fish, will take place on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Held at South Street Seaport's Pier 16 (89 South Street), this area was home to Fulton Fish Market for nearly two centuries, before the business relocated to the South Bronx in 2005. FultonFishMarket.com, the contemporary extension of New York's historic Fulton Fish Market and the nation's largest online seafood retailer is organizing this unique food festival along with local vendors from all five boroughs.

A new Mexican restaurant has taken root downtown, right near PSU and the South Park Blocks. Madrina, which opened in late August, offers lunchtime staples like tacos, burritos, and quesadillas in its informal mercadito-themed space during the day. At night, Madrina's neighboring dining room opens for dinner, with hearty plates like cochinita pibil and pollo rostizado, plus a wine list composed entirely of Latina winemakers from the Willamette Valley.

If you're not the type of person who likes to go to a local grocery store when you're traveling, then you're seriously missing out. Grocery stores can offer so much learning about a place, what makes it special, and how people like to cook, eat, and drink. Not only will you walk away with some interesting and delicious items, but you'll also have maybe learned a thing or two about the local community.

The highly subjective, obsessively researched Top 50 list is a collection of our favorite special-occasion spots around town, from old-school fancy to more modern, casual takes on luxury, while the Top New list highlights some of the most exciting recent debuts, so you can expect Taste to be an extra-special occasion. We're delighted that some spectacular restaurants from each list, and others featured in Boston magazine in the past, will be joining us for the evening, serving up irresistible bites to attendees.

A huge trend this year is crossover items and collaboration menus. Wendy's took a page from two popular sweet snacks to create its new Frosty Fusions, while the Popeyes x Hot Ones menu channeled the famed YouTube interview show's "hot questions and even hotter wings" with three spicy chicken items. Spicy dishes have been seen all over 2025 menus, making them hot in more ways than one.

Thai is a pillar cuisine of Los Angeles. The largest Thai population outside of Thailand calls Los Angeles home. The community designation in East Hollywood is the only officially recognized Thai Town in the United States. As with Koreatown and Historic Filipinotown, the neighborhood took root when our country, via the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, welcomed waves of migration from across Asia.

"You have to help me understand," a friend emailed recently. We'd run into each other at Dolores, the Bed-Stuy taqueria that routinely quotes two-to-four-hour waits. On weekends, it's hard to secure even the rickety garden chairs on the sidewalk for drinks, and it took me over an hour to find a spot at the bar wide enough to set a napkin. "Is this normal now? Is it a TikTok thing?" my friend wrote. "HELP!!!!"

Our critic joined the queue to sample the offering at this new Dublin 2 steak house, but the food disappointed Last Friday evening, I spent over an hour queueing for a table at the walk-ins only Entrecôte Dublin, which had opened a couple of days previously. If you missed the flurry of excitement around the restaurant, the schtick is that it offers a bread and butter, salad, steak (two servings) and chips (bottomless) meal for €29.95.

It's a beautiful world, indeed, with beau monde seasoning. This French-named, all-purpose blend translates to "beautiful world," but its popularity is perhaps most dominant in the home kitchens of the American South. Although, Ernest Hemingway's go-to burger recipe was seasoned with beau monde - and Hemingway was born just outside of Chicago, nowhere near the South. Clearly, the blend made famous by Spice Islands brand has reached fans well beyond the Mason-Dixon Line.

Dr Pepper has such a complex flavor profile, with a base of black cherry, vanilla, and citrus layered with spicy notes of black pepper, anise, ginger, and cardamom. The rich, sweet, and tangy base combines with spicy and almost savory notes from the spices for a literal flavor explosion that covers nearly every major taste category. The best part is that no one flavor regins supreme.

Do you remember the first time you heard of açaí berries? What about goji berries? Or coconut oil? All of these have been marketed at various times as superfoods - promising amazing health benefits that could cure your ills and make you better, stronger, and healthier. But the truth is that's just one of the many superfood myths you can stop believing. There's no real scientific reasoning, regulating body, or even a formal definition behind the designation of any one superfood.

The show, which debuted on the streaming service last month, seems loosely based on the Spotted Pig. Like the actual West Village restaurant that was mired in controversy following the explosive allegations of sexual misconduct against its primary owner, Ken Friedman, the fictional Black Rabbit is the setting for its own string of controversies that play out over eight episodes.

Hundreds of cake lovers will gather for the much-anticipated Cake Picnic Tour on Nov. 8, as the event lands in New York City. Tickets go on sale Oct. 6 at 1 p.m., but the event emphasizes bringing people together through a shared love of cake with one simple rule: no cake, no entry.

A couple of years after the pandemic, the Castro family decided to take a leap of faith and open a small Mexican restaurant in an unassuming corner on Vineland Avenue near a smoke shop and a used car dealership in North Hollywood. Gema and José Castro decided to focus on birria and used a recipe passed down from Jose's mother for their tacos.

It's almost midnight and you've got a hankering for a Baconator. What are you going to do? Obviously, you need to go to Wendy's, but is now the best time? A lot of people think that heading to their favorite fast food place during off hours is a smarter way to get

Pizza is simple: dough, sauce and cheese, but the slice shop is about more than that. It's the smell, the art, the queue, the first bite. Shoreditch will carry the same nostalgia as Watford, but in a space that feels bigger, bolder, and built for London. We're not chasing hype, we're creating something timeless. A slice shop London can call its own.

Less than two weeks after the Limani group closed its Italian restaurant, Carpaccio, at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, it also shuttered the Woodbury venue, Limani Taverna. A sign posted to the front door said that the last dinner was on Sept. 28, thanked customers for "being part of our story" and directing them to "sister locations in Roslyn and Commack." The restaurant's owners could not immediately be reached for comment.

The team takes pride in keeping those tablecloths smooth and crisp. Watching the staff swap out the top tablecloths between guests is almost like watching a short-form ballet: The linens are elegantly draped on the table, followed by a member of staff quickly bringing over a portable iron to gently steam the fabric and smooth out any wrinkles. And in just a few minutes, the table is meticulously reset.

There are more than 52,000 Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants in the entire U.S., per IBIS World. Further data from the Pew Research Center, conducted in 2024, found that 11% of American restaurants serve Mexican-style dishes, and a whopping 85% of counties in the U.S. are home to at least one Mexican restaurant. All of this is to say: Mexican food is a big deal in America.

Along the way, crawlers can sip and snack on ghastly specials like 1 FREE Spooky Shot (Scooby Snack) + Witches Brew at Beer Baron, Blood Red Sangria, Dead Man Tostones and Vomiting Pumpkin with Avocado and Chips at El Coqui, Frankenstein Fuel at La Rosa, Grave Robber + Brain Joose at Belly Left Coast, and Zombie Venom Casamigos Rita with Severed Finger Fries at Ausiello's.

This year is our 10th annual Crucolo Parade! Join us as we pay homage to one of our favorite Italian cheeses from the Trentino-Alto Adige region. Market Hall Foods is one of two shops in the United States that sells this creamy cow's milk cheese. To celebrate its arrival, our expert cheesemongers, dressed in Italian garb, roll a cart carrying the gigantic Crucolo wheel down

Chef Charlie Palmer is so bullish on Morgan Hill, he chose it as the site of the forthcoming Appellation Hotel, a partnership he is undertaking with local entrepreneur Frank Leal. Set for completion in early 2026, the hotel will extend the reach of Appellation properties, the most recent of which just opened in Lodi, to encompass a stretch of Santa Clara Valley's agricultural richness that has not yet been overtaken by high tech sprawl.

Another new entry in Boston's modern "speakeasy" scene, this intimate, Art Deco-inspired Beacon Hill spot reimagines classic cocktails-the "umami-forward" Filthy Martini, for instance, with vodka or gin, marinated olive brine, and MSG saline. Plus: hard-to-find vintage Champagnes and wines, and drink-friendly small plates like caviar with schmaltz latkes, a shaved fennel Caesar, and hamachi crudo with spicy citrus broth. 89 Charles St., Beacon Hill, Boston, 617-326-2600, 89charles.com.

The glistening, golden brown Peking duck (also known as Beijing duck) at Chinese restaurant Ji Rong in Rosemead is one of the best in Los Angeles, but what makes this restaurant stand out further is its robust menu of other centerpiece dishes, like the whole fried sweet and sour grouper. This is a particularly great spot for large groups or family dinners out; it's smart to order more than you even think

Hailing from the Ross & Squibb Distillery in Lawrenceburg, IN (also home to drinks giant MGP), this is the ninth edition of the celebrated annual release (last year's won a Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition). The release celebrates the end of Prohibition, which makes sense, as the whiskey brand is named after legendary bootlegger George Remus. Using barrels between 10 and 18 years of age, this one is full of oak, tobacco, cherry and coffee.