Asking for plastic cutlery, sitting too long, and taking too long in the bathroom have all been alleged reasons for arresting black people at restaurants in 2018; questioning the restaurant’s credit card policy is also grounds for throwing a person out of the building, it seems. The Kansas City Star reports that the…
In 2017, a man named Guillaume Rey was working in a Vancouver restaurant when he was fired for being aggressively rude. He has now filed a complaint with the British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal for discrimination—he’s not rude, he’s just French. Mon dieu.
In the past few months the restaurant world has reckoned with #MeToo as several high-profile chefs and restaurants have faced allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. The latest chef in the spotlight is Mike Isabella, a former contestant on season six of Bravo’s reality TV show Top Chef and owner of several…
Rapper Iggy Azalea went off on Daily Mail reporter Ryan Smith on Monday morning after he wrote (and later retracted) a story claiming she and ex-fiancé Nick Young went on a “dinner date” in Los Angeles Sunday night.
Snøhetta, a Norwegian architecture firm, has made a dream slash nightmare I never knew I had come to life: they’re building Europe’s first underwater restaurant that will also function as a research center. It’s called Under and I think I want to move there. I definitely want to eat there. Maybe.
Years ago, a New Yorker starving for a chicken sandwich from the recovering homophobic restaurant chain Chick-fil-A would have to be content just thinking and complaining about it. After years of there being no Chick-fil-A options in New York City other than the one at NYU, Chick-fil-A is building the largest…
The interior of a Cheesecake Factory looks a lot like the dishes and cakes they serve: enormous and over-the-top, filled with different, rich textures and colors. There might be what looks like a Rococo painting on the ceiling, but then the columns that flank our table seem straight from ancient Egypt. And the…
For people who live to eat, this is a golden age. Food documentaries, where every last oyster is lovingly and tenderly plated in slow motion, abound. There are hundreds of shows—competition-based, conversational, and educational—devoted to the topic. BuzzFeed’s Tasty exists.
Mark Simmons, an alum of Top Chef, now owns and serves as chef for the posh New York restaurant, Kiwiana. And in light of Donald Trump’s frightening Muslim travel ban, he has found a creative means of making a political statement that his patrons cannot ignore.
Ikea has recently unveiled plans for The Dining Club, a restaurant in Shoreditch, London where diners can, under the supervision of a chef, cook dinner for a large party of friends. What’s next? A warehouse style furniture store where you’re forced to spend the entire day walking around and fighting with your…
Leslie has worn many uniforms during her time in the restaurant industry. There have been “bikini top Mondays,” sexy Santa dress-ups with short velveteen skirts during the holidays, low-cut shirts, crop-tops that all-but-required sculpted and tanned abs, impossibly short shorts. Today, she goes back and forth between…
As any former British colonial subject will tell you, involuntarily sharing your homeland and being—sometimes violently—forced to submit to a culture that regards your own as barbaric inspires so many pleasant memories! This must be the reason that a British colonialism-themed restaurant has just opened in Portland,…
I cannot recall ever watching a single episode of 7th Heaven in its entirety, although the show ran for 11 seasons. What do I know about Jessica Biel?
A pair of Waffle House employees in Arkansas were fired for using the restaurant’s kitchen as a personal hair salon. Hmm, health violation?
Uh oh. It seems our our blessed Church of Chipotle has gone astray and lost itself in the mire of legal entanglements. On January 8 the company was issued a lawsuit for apparently concealing “flawed quality controls to investors.”
Japan’s sushi industry is notoriously male-dominated, but a group of intrepid female chefs have begun to combat the sexism preventing women from working in the field. In Tokyo’s Akihabara district you’ll now find a restaurant called Nadeshiko Sushi — and every single employee is female.
You’d think that a restaurant like Per Se, a place featured in rom-coms as being quintessentially fancy, would have the decency to pay its employees a fair wage and not steal its workers’ tips. But the economy’s bad right now and even the most prestigious restaurants have to make ends meet.
Welcome to Grim Yelp Reviews, a new regular feature where we share people’s worst experiences at the worst places. This week: My Dinner with Andre areola.
Chipotle has been having quite a year. The chain restaurant known for making burritos the size of a newborn child has already been the center of hype surrounding a presidential campaign, was the scene of an actress’ deception and just last week announced plans to stop using GMOs. Now, these rapscallions are trying to…
Last week, The Stranger published an argument about tipless restaurants that have begun popping up in Seattle. Writer Dan Savage was against the idea, saying tips are what make waiting tables a “good,” “lucrative” job.
