You’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The other night at Café Carmellini, Andrew Carmellini’s swanky new ...

This new all-day Levantine restaurant near Union Square aims to accommodate every kind of customer, and still manages to innovate. By Priya Krishna Priya Krishna, an interim restaurant critic, visited ...

Cafe 2001 in the Arts District occupies a quirky space behind Japanese restaurant Yess. Chef Giles Clark prepares inventive cafe food — including watermelon cake — and unleashes his creativity on ...

Big, beautiful and booming Cafe Carmellini is the city’s most delightful, crowd-pleasing new restaurant in ages. It brings back the joyful New York before Covid-19, illegal pot shops and the migrant ...