FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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Dining / Bars

The grand eastern influenced interior

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Buddakan

This soaring, sexy bi-level restaurant is sure to impress your out-of-town guests, but the Asian-inspired food is good enough to merit a visit on its own. Have a cocktail at… read more »

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Fette Sau

You can find several “authentic” barbecue joints in the city, but for one of the best, go to Williamsburg. At Fette Sau, there’s no table service—but that doesn’t stop hungry… read more »

Blog

Pre-dinner social and starters.

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Salt Water Farm

The culinary scene in the Midcoast of Maine is quickly becoming a destination for authentic and fresh cooking. The distance from farm to table is now just a few feet,… read more »

Breathe in

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Stop and Breathe

This weekend I took refuge from the city at a cozy hideout in the Catskill Mountains called Breathe Inn. After a quick tour of the house I realized… read more »

Hotel Americano

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Hotel Americano

Hotel Americano in Chelsea is poised to open any day now. Latest word is that it will be ready in early August. This will be the first attempt… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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