On one hand, this place looks dope as hell. I finish five plates and I get a toy? Hell yes. Read… 10/22/13 12:00pm 10/22/13 12:00pm

Well, this is fucking disgusting. Or maybe it's genius? Or maybe it's just the first honest restaurant in America? Either way, I hate it and I can't wait to eat there. Read… 10/14/13 8:30pm 10/14/13 8:30pm

Someone (someone awesome/probably mean) thought it was a good idea to put famously angry tong and fork-wielding man Gordon Ramsey on a reality competition show featuring child contestants. Swearing (predictably) ensued. For the aid of joke-conveyance, I will be capitalizing and asterisking all cooking related puns in … Read… 10/02/13 11:30am 10/02/13 11:30am

Here's the most nouveau riche crap you've seen in awhile. This commercial for STK restaurants is just... it's the sort of thing someone who made a lot of money selling mc mansions would make. Just super fucking tacky, and attempting to "wink" at the viewer, but failing miserably. The takeaway here is: STK. It's AXE… Read… 2/01/13 12:40pm 2/01/13 12:40pm

A fancy French restaurant in Boston is serving a serious side of sass with their pumpkin pie. Well, maybe it's more ass than sass but I wanted to employ some alliteration. Read… 11/28/12 10:15pm 11/28/12 10:15pm

Hooters execs think they can convince women to accompany their husbands inside their breastaurants without altering the server's "iconic uniforms" or the restaurant's cheesy sexism. Read… 9/10/12 6:30pm 9/10/12 6:30pm

A 15-year-old visually-impaired girl from the far-flung New Orleans suburb of Mandeville recently noticed a really frustrating trend in the local restaurant industry — hardly anybody was offering braille menus, which means that visually-impaired diners either have to listen to a menu-long recitation from a patient… Read… 7/19/12 9:30am 7/19/12 9:30am

Hooters-like restaurants are are in the midst of a renaissance — the top three so-called "breastaurant" chains behind Hooters each grew by at least 30 percent last year, according to Technomic, which means that we can all look forward to such cleverly-named eateries as Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, and the more… Read… 6/24/12 5:45pm 6/24/12 5:45pm

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic has an interesting piece on a new gadget called "The Presto" that might replace waiters at restaurants across the country. It works well for customers, since it's a menu, a way to order food, and a method for paying the check all in one Kindle-like package, and it can save restaurants… Read… 3/03/12 2:29pm 3/03/12 2:29pm

Applebee's may be great place to wash down your cheese-infused dinner with an Oreo milkshake (they still have those, yes?), but, according to an undercover reporter who spent time on the prep line at one of the popular restaurant chains, its male-dominated kitchens simmer with sexual aggression. Read… 3/02/12 5:30pm 3/02/12 5:30pm

The mother of a sixth grader is irate after a Hooters waitress was invited to speak at her son's school career day, comparing the incident to a California school's decision to invite Sasha Grey to read to students. Read… 11/21/11 11:50am 11/21/11 11:50am

America is suffering from a current lack of screens on every possible fucking surface, says no one. So it's no surprise that McDonalds is getting in on the action by launching its own in-restaurant TV channel, so its patrons taking comfort in their sandwiches made of chemicals designed to approximate meat and… Read… 10/18/11 12:20pm 10/18/11 12:20pm

It's safe to assume that the sometimes-sticky, graffiti-ridden, often-dirty play areas in places like McDonalds, Burger King, even Chuck E Cheese's are not germ-free. But how dirty are they, really? Very dirty. And filled with feces. Read… 8/15/11 12:40pm 8/15/11 12:40pm

Having the POTUS dine at your restauarant must be a rush — but also a major hassle. How, exactly, does it work? Read… 3/17/11 12:30pm 3/17/11 12:30pm

Elaine Kaufman, whose legendary NYC restaurant Elaine's attracted the likes of Mick Jagger and Woody Allen, has died from complications of emphysema. Besides running her restaurant, Kaufman appeared in movies, became a "living landmark," and gave support to her patrons. Discuss… 12/04/10 3:20pm 12/04/10 3:20pm

We're more than aware that jerks exist in every corner of the Internet. Yet when they turn to Yelp, they're so darn entertaining. After the jump, our six favorite kinds of hostile (and occasionally friendly) Yelp reviewer. Read… 8/31/10 3:35pm 8/31/10 3:35pm

It's strange: walking down the streets of a city, mid-recession, one will often come across what looks like a Deprression-era breadline. But upon closer inspection, it's people waiting for a table at an expensive restaurant. Read… 8/05/10 5:54pm 8/05/10 5:54pm

If you bring your family to a Mexican restaurant in West Yorkshire, you might expect some horrible food. A receipt reading 'Thankyyou littell f*****'? Not so much. Read… 9/11/09 6:40pm 9/11/09 6:40pm

Today, Frank Bruni has a terrific piece about the dining idiosyncrasies he's encountered over the years as a professional critic. But he's never met me, or the Ordering Challenge. It will change your life, and not in a good way. Read… 8/19/09 1:00pm 8/19/09 1:00pm

Female restauranteurs are beating the recession, odds, eggs. (Sorry.) Read… 6/01/09 6:30pm 6/01/09 6:30pm

"Mad Men–style ass-pinching may have gone the way of aspic, but women, for all of their gains in the restaurant industry, are dealing with a more subtle form of sexism: visibility, or lack thereof." Read… 1/14/09 1:40pm 1/14/09 1:40pm

When it comes to today's "challenge" in the New York Times' "Dining" Section - Great Meals for Two, Under $100 (It’s Possible) - most of us could probably have given restaurant critic Frank Bruni a pointer or two. Bruni describes his task as finding "a dinner for two that was at least three courses in a restaurant… Discuss… 12/10/08 6:20pm 12/10/08 6:20pm