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This flashy American restaurant in Soho is owned and operated by Catch Hospitality Group and Tilman Fertitta, who owns both the Houston Rockets and a broad portfolio of casinos, restaurant groups, and chains under the umbrella of Landry’s, Inc (think Bubbagum Shrimp, Rainforest Cafe). You can sit in a big booth, drink a sour cream & onion martini, and eat fancy bite-size pizza rolls brought to you by a server in an oversized suit. They do not accept walk-ins.
What is Corner Store?
This American fast casual restaurant chain based in New York City started out as a hot dog cart inside Madison Square Park in 2001. In 2004, it received a permit to open a permanent kiosk within the park. Since its founding, it has been one of the fastest-growing food chains, eventually becoming a public company filing for an initial public offering of stock in late 2014. They now own and operate over 400 locations globally.
What is Shake Shack?
This 2022 dark comedy follows a foodie and his date traveling to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu but reveals shocking surprises throughout the meal.
What is The Menu?
With its wide bowl and narrow top, this type of glass is ideal for brandy or cognac, as it concentrates aromas and warms the liquid with your hand.
What is a snifter?
This countertop device simulates deep frying without submerging the food in oil. A fan circulates hot air at a high speed, producing a crisp layer via browning reactions such as the Maillard reaction.
What is an air fryer?
Ralph Lauren’s Midtown country club only accepts reservations over the phone, and has a dress code of smart and elegant attire, denying entry to patrons wearing beachwear, athletic wear, t-shirts, ripped jeans or hats.
What is Polo Bar?
there are 5 knife techniques used to make delicate cuts in this style of fish preparation, considered inauspicious to be used by anyone other than a samurai (hence the literal translation of the term “pierced body”)
What is Sashimi?
Drew Nierporent, known for his global brand Nobu, opened his first restaurant Montrachet in lower Manhattan and earned 3 NYT stars within the first 7 weeks of opening. Robert De Nero was a regular guest and was inspired by the space and service, and bought the business in 1990 to open this neighborhood restaurant
What is Tribeca Grill?
This household metal, when combined with baking soda, salt, and hot water, helps reverse tarnish on silver by acting as a catalyst in an electrochemical reaction.
What is aluminum foil?
This device is convenient for homogenizing volumes that are too large to fit in the bowl of a stationary blender or as in the case of soups, are too hot to be safely poured into the bowl
What is an immersion blender?
James Beard Award-winning chef and author of the critically acclaimed cookbook "My America," as well as his memoir "Notes from a Young Black Chef," (which is being turned into a feature film by A24) Kuame Onuwachi opened this acclaimed Upper West Side restaurant, honoring Afro-Caribbean flavors with iconic New York dishes.
What is Tatiana?
The origins of this sauce date back to ancient Rome, created by medieval monks, who would salt anchovies in wooden barrels every August, allowing the fish sauce to drip away through the cracks of the barrels over the course of the process.
What is Colatura?
This psychological comedy-drama television series created by Christopher Storer for FX is about an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the chaotic kitchen at his deceased brother's Italian beef sandwich shop.
This style of silverware is preferred for formal occasions due to its elegant appearance and durability. It is an alloy composed of at least 92.5% silver, with the remaining portion usually made up of copper. The high silver content creates a luxurious sheen.
What is Sterling Silver?
These kitchen appliances became common in Western countries in the late 1970s, designed to pass radiation through food causing dielectric heating primarily by absorption of the energy in water
What are microwaves?
This nearly century-old Midtown restaurant, reopened by Chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson of Frenchette and Le Rock pays homage to the nearly 100 year history of the space while bringing an elevated level of execution to the food and beverage programs.
What is Le Veau d’Or?
This business, started in San Bernardino in 1940, is named for the 2 brothers that opened it, launching a revolutionary approach to food service by streamlining operations to focus on speed, lower prices, and high volume (they called it “speedy service”, which caught on quickly). The three characteristics that stand out when considering the decades-long success: consistency, innovation and resiliency. In 2018, this restaurant company was the world's second-largest private employer with 1.7 million employees.
What is McDonald's?
This Philly cheesesteak spot opened by Bradley Cooper in Manhattan’s East Village, is drawing big crowds (and often hours-long lines) for their hot sandwiches and the possibility of seeing the Academy Award nominee with a spatula in hand working the line.
This ceramic material was first manufactured in China around 600 AD. The skillful conversion of ordinary clay into elegant objects were made for the imperial court, the domestic market, or export.
What is Porcelain?
This type of oven has a fan with a heating element around it, circulating air in a coking chamber, which reduces the thickness of the stationary thermal boundary layer of cooler air that naturally forms around the food. The boundary layer acts as an insulator and slows the rate at which heat is transferred to the food.
What is a convection oven?
For almost 130 years, this Southern Italian business, celebrated as one of the oldest in the country, has been family owned and operated. It was around the 1970s that the restaurant started table rights, “granted to patrons who have frequented the restaurant over generations” — and with no printed menus and only 10 tables, it’s what makes it one of the hardest tables in the city to get.
What is Rao's?
In a 2006 case of attempted corporate espionage, this beverage giant declined a $1.5 million offer to purchase Coca-Cola’s trade secrets—choosing instead to alert the FBI.
What is Pepsi?
In 2006, Joya Williams, a secretary to Coca-Cola's global brand director, conspired to sell the Coca-Cola formula in 2006. Williams, along with her accomplices Ibrahim Dimson and Edmund Duhaney, conspired to sell the confidential trade secret to Pepsi for $1.5 million USD. However, Pepsi did not buy and instead reported the illegal offer to Coca-Cola and the FBI. The FBI conducted a sting operation posing as Pepsi executives, leading to the arrest of Williams and her accomplices
A long list of celebrity investors including actors Nicholas Braun, Pete Davidson and Jason Sudeikis are behind the 19th century townhouse-turned-bar, recently renovated with a secret entrance via Rockefeller Center, replacing a longtime pub so frequented by “SNL” cast members they often referred to it as “Studio 1-H.”
What is Pebble Bar?
This Western artistic style that flourished from the early 17th century to the mid-18th century, known for its dramatic, exaggerated, and ornate characteristics, is also a style of silver that features flowing designs and floral motifs as embellishments
This cooking process uses direct electrical heating of cookware, rather than relying on flames or heating elements, allowing high power and very rapid increases in temperature to be achieved
What is induction cooking?