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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RESULTS FOR "Rustic"

Dining / Bars

Photo: Courtesy of Back Forty

Back Forty

Savoy’s Peter Hoffman successfully downscales with this rustic, comforting spot that’s perfect for a casual night out. There’s a well-edited beer, wine and cocktail list with some local choices, like… read more »

Upstairs Dining Room

Photo: Daniel Krieger

Kefi

Thanks to a recent expansion, this popular budget Greek spot is now enormous (and takes credit cards and reservations) — but there’s still a mob scene at the hostess stand… read more »

Photo: Courtesy of La Lunchonette

La Luncheonette

Find respite on a desolate stretch of 10th Avenue in West Chelsea at La Luncheonette, a little slice of France in the unlikeliest neighborhood. Just blocks away from the madness… read more »

Features

Craig Thompson

Photo: Tuukka Koski

The Sweet Life

It’s a cool and rainy day in the Catskills (worthy of a Rip Van Winkle nap), but the oven keeps baker Craig Thompson’s cottage toasty and warm. The country home… read more »

Oliver and Evan Haslegrave of hOmE in their Greenpoint studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

The Brothers Haslegrave

One afternoon in late winter, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, the brotherly design duo behind half a dozen New York City restaurants and shops including the Manhattan Inn, duckduck and Goat… read more »

Blog

Whole Larder Love

Photo: Rohan Anderson

Whole Larder Love

There is an obsession over here, I will be the first to admit it. Food is more than sustenance for us, it entertains, educates, and enlightens. From the soil to… read more »

<i>Eat Out! Restaurant Design and Food Experiences</i>

Photo: Gestalten

Eat Out!

Feast Your Eyes on This. The act of eating was once a response to pangs of hunger, a biological need to be filled in order to survive. Our distant ancestors… read more »

Taxidermy setting - a photograph taken by Ian Tong

Photo: Ian Tong

Randomness 05.04.10

Stunning photographs from Ian Tong’s latest collection of taxidermy taken in Sweden. Be sure to check out his other photographs. (via Hollister Hovey) Though you may… 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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