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WHEN I CLOSED MY RESTAURANT IT FELT LIKE THE END. REOPENING FEELS LIKE A GAMBLE.

What's at stake for owner Lien Ta when her beloved LA restaurant Here's Looking at You reopens.

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The viral TikTok recipes causing food shortages

Supply chain disruptions were a theme of 2021, but thanks to viral recipes some ingredients were hit especially hard.

Are there really more rats at restaurants now?

They’re under the dinner table, in the planters, and pretty much everywhere else you look during an outdoor meal. But are there really more rats than before the pandemic?

A tender cardamom coconut sweet potato bread recipe that tastes like the holiday season

Pumpkin may have a hold on fall festivities, but sweet potatoes deserve their rightful spot at the table too.

Eater NY critic Robert Sietsema’s 15 best dishes of 2021

From tacos to duck necks, our senior critic looks back at his favorite dishes this year.

£1,000 signing-on bonuses in U.K. restaurants are not a solution, but they could be a start

That it’s taken a shortage of workers to realise fairer compensation is a reminder that a more equitable and sustainable future for hospitality has not yet arrived.

The Hard Rock Hotel buys the Mirage Las Vegas for $1.075 billion with a giant purple guitar on the way

The resort plans to retain 3,500 staff while it decides what to do with the property on the Strip.

San Francisco has always loved an espresso martini

From the New York Times to Punch, the espresso martini trend has taken the country by storm. But San Francisco restaurants have been serving the classic cocktail since forever.

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WHERE TO CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE IN SAN DIEGO

Find classic prix-fixe menus, dazzling new cocktails, and at least one costume party.

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