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Food-Lover's Guide to Brooklyn
The best markets, artisans, and shops for cooks

City: Brooklyn, New York Population: 2.5 million Local specialties: Pizza; Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish foods; fresh, local and organic produce at farmers' markets, steak, beer Brooklyn rivals...

No More Cardboard! Fresh Direct To Ditch Their Boxes

New York City residents, take note. Fresh Direct is ditching their boxes. Fresh Direct's delivered-to-your-door grocery service has grown enormously in the last seven years of serving the New York met...

A Food-Lover's Guide to Manhattan
Eat This Town! Markets, farms, artisans, and best shops for cooks

City: New York City, Manhattan Population: 1.6 million Local specialties: Bagels, bread, smoked fish, cheese, and local produce Most people come to New York City to eat... in restaurants. And man, th...

Bar Tour: Pravda Infuses Russian Mystique
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Something’s brewing in NYC’s Nolita. Hidden away down a narrow flight of concrete steps off Lafayette St. is Pravda, an atmospheric Russian bar-bistro. Infused with the rich, warm tones of well-...

New Yorkers: What Are Your Favorite Public Picnic Spots?

For many of us who live in cities, eating outdoors doesn't just involve carrying a platter of potato salad to the back deck. It requires packing, hauling, and finding a spot not already occupied by on...

Good Question: Can I Use a Propane Grill in Manhattan?

Here's a question from reader Amy, who lives in Manhattan. Any city-dwellers able to help her out with this good question about grilling? My boyfriend and I have just bought a brand new propane grill ...

Kitchen Tour: Virginia and Mateo's Just-in-Time-for-Baby Brooklyn Renovation

See Gallery of Virginia and Mateo's Kitchen Virginia and Mateo aren't the first homeowners to use a baby on the way as an enforced window of time for finishing a kitchen renovation. Sara Kate did it ...

Where to Grill or Barbecue in New York City Parks

As we told you yesterday, July is Grilling Month here at the Kitchn. And we realize that we may have lost many of you with that sentence — all of you who lack any outdoor space, even for a tiny char...

Have You Seen This Tiny NYC Kitchen?

House Beautiful highlights a kitchen in every issue (we've written about the archives on their website before), but they are often big, aspirational spaces. Well, this month's issue was all about sm...

Supermarket Closings Make Fresh Food Less Accessible

We're often seen here hooting and hollering and get all excited every time a snazzy new grocery store opens. We've brought you new Whole Foods (ostrich eggs, anyone?), Trader Joe's, Fairway and Fresh ...

NYC Shopping: Have You Bought Spices at a Street Fair?

It's getting warm outside... And that means street fairs are in full swing here in New York. We think street fair shoppers mainly fall into two categories: Those who go for lunch (of grilled corn on t...

Urban Agriculture: Raising Chickens in New York City

We've missed the lectures that Owen Taylor, city farms training and livestock coordinator at Just Food, has been giving about raising chickens in NYC. Twice, actually. But we had to know more about th...