features & essays

How to Open a Restaurant Door, Explained

Plus, a few hot soups at Donburiya, Spa 88, and Ivan Ramen

Feb 2 • ryan sutton

Minnesota Restaurants Are Struggling, Uniting, Resisting

Plus: More layoffs at Eater and a few quick words about Bistrot Ha

Jan 21 • ryan sutton

The Most Read American Food Stories of 2025

What folks read on Eater, Saveur, Grub Street, The NYT, L.A. Taco, and The Lo Times

Jan 13 • ryan sutton

Dining Out in 2025: What I Loved (And Hated)

Bánh Anh Em is the restaurant of the year! Plus: Notes on all the caviar, wagyu, kaiseki, taquerias, and more

Dec 31, 2025 • ryan sutton

The Cruel American Food Aid Crisis

How the shutdown and the Big Beautiful Bill are putting vulnerable residents at risk of going hungry

Nov 4, 2025 • ryan sutton

Review: $36 Beef Tallow Potato Chips!!!

Also: Why you should be like José Andrés and try tinned seafood with chips, and the case against caviar with chips

Aug 20, 2025 • ryan sutton

Eater Is Firing Great Journalists, Again!

Plus, Eleven Madison Park's return to meat, Tejal Rao's review of Taqueria Frontera, and Hugh Merwin on the disappearing fruteros of Los Angeles

Aug 13, 2025 • ryan sutton

The NYT's Two New Restaurant Critics Are...

Tejal Rao and Ligaya Mishan are the new chief critics for the storied paper, and their roles bode well for the future of criticism...as they shed the…

Jun 11, 2025 • ryan sutton

Why Isn't Lucali on the NYT Pizza List???

Thoughts on New York pizza, criticism, and the listicle-industrial complex

May 27, 2025 • ryan sutton

A Tufts Student Abducted, Before Iftar

An essay about fasting, Ramadan, and masked government agents kidnapping a Tufts student on the way to an Iftar — a forced disappearance in broad…

Apr 3, 2025 • ryan sutton

Why I'm Cutting Back on Wine at Restaurants

Review: Momofuku Kabawa is damn fun, plus a few words about cutting back during tough times

Mar 3, 2025 • ryan sutton

Behold, the $9 Slice. Yeah, It's Good!

L&B Spumoni in Dumbo shows signs of greatness; Ceres in Soho is fantastic, so is F&F Restaurant. Plus: an essay on The Subway.”

Feb 8, 2025 • ryan sutton

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