Famous NYC Ukrainian spot Veselka is in Nashville now
It's located in Lakeside Lounge.
u/capermedia — 1 day ago
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Roll-O Dairy Bar: Retro Food Trailer from Superiority Burger alum.
A huge burger, pepper shooters, broccoli rabe, and homemade spumoni ice cream at Roll-O Dairy Bar. It's a vintage 1958 mobile food trailer from a former Superiority Burger alum. Photos by Emma Orlow from Caper.
u/capermedia — 1 day ago
Roll-O Dairy Bar: Vintage Food Trailer from Superiority Burger alum.
A huge burger, pepper shooters, broccoli rabe, and homemade spumoni ice cream at Roll-O Dairy Bar. It's a vintage 1958 mobile food trailer from a former Superiority Burger alum. Photos by Emma Orlow from Caper.
u/capermedia — 1 day ago
▲ 26 r/CookbookLovers
Why is it so hard to sell a restaurant cookbook?
More than a decade after Prune and Momofuku, publishers are shying away from the restaurant-branded cookbook formula, betting on broader themes over brand loyalty. Read more from Emma Orlow at Caper: https://caper.media/p/restaurant-cookbook-sales-decline-market-change-bookscan
u/capermedia — 4 days ago
▲ 0 r/Brooklyn
A Mexico City bar concept comes to Bed-Stuy this September
The team behind Cicatriz, a Mexico City cafe, is opening Peral, a bar with tacos, at 105 Saratoga Avenue in Bed-Stuy this September, in collaboration with the owners of Olmo, next door.
u/capermedia — 15 days ago
Japanese restaurant Gen gets fine dining consultants
Prospect Heights Japanese staple Gen has been around for 23 years. Now, it’s brought on consulting chef John McCarthy (wd~50, The Crimson Sparrow, Oka) and sommelier Yasu Suzuki (15 East, the Sushi Seki group) to correct the course.
Learn more in the newsletter: https://caper.media/p/july-31-2026-newsletter
u/capermedia — 20 days ago
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Ambassadors Clubhouse head chef to leave
One week after receiving a New York Times review, Gaurav Bathla, the head chef of New York’s very-difficult-to-get-into Ambassadors Clubhouse, is leaving the restaurant to move to Passerine, where he’ll overhaul the menu.
u/capermedia — 24 days ago
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New Burmese Bites brick-and-mortar
Myo Lin Thway’s Burmese Bites now has a brick-and-mortar in Astoria. This week’s soft opening menu includes keema palata (the crispy flatbird stuffed with spiced ground chicken), baby goat curry, and shaved ice for dessert.
u/capermedia — 27 days ago
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Ambassadors Clubhouse Head Chef to Leave
One week after receiving a New York Times review, Gaurav Bathla, the head chef of New York’s very-difficult-to-get-into Ambassadors Clubhouse, is leaving the restaurant to move to Passerine, where he’ll overhaul the menu.
u/capermedia — 27 days ago
▲ 33 r/williamsburg
New cafe/restaurant from Blue Hill alum coming to 577 Lorimer
Emily Swaine (former Forsythia executive chef and Blue Hill alum) is opening Swaine’s at 577 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. Swaine’s will be a seasonal cafe by day, and a dinner spot by night that leans Italian.
u/capermedia — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/lowereastside
From Le Dive hospitality group - Le Wine at 135 Division St.
Jon Neidich’s Golden Age Hospitality is snapping up more leases: There was Le Dive West Village, and a new Golden Age concept coming soon to 490 LaGuardia Place (the old Morgenstern’s). Now, Le Wine is opening (135 Division St.), according to a liquor license application.
u/capermedia — 1 month ago
▲ 19 r/eastvillage
New Spot at 41 St. Mark's Place
Cafe Orlin, a staple of the East Village, closed in 2017. Following tenants never stuck. Now, a new team is at the helm of 41 St. Mark’s Place with the opening of Anderson, from Aidan O’Neal (Le Crocodile, Chez Ma Tante), Jeffrey Robbins (Wei’s), and George Riddle (Chez Ma Tante, Leon’s).
u/capermedia — 1 month ago
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A new restaurant from Chez Ma Tante CDC
Gabriel Borges, former CDC at Chez Ma Tante, is opening his own Greenpoint restaurant. 148 Noble Street is both the name and the address, where he’ll be joined by partner Eric Carney, an alum of Five Leaves.
u/capermedia — 1 month ago