NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Sept. 29 - Oct. 6

Live roaches, live mice and missing toilets all led to these eateries getting shuttered by city inspectors this week.

NYC Restaurants: Cocktails, Wine + Pizza Edition

The rain didn't wash away exciting food news in the city this past week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Sept. 22 - 29

Missing toilets, adulterated food, mislabeled pesticides, rodents and mice were found in eateries across the city this week.

NYC Restaurants: Starbucks Fruit Suit + Food Stamp Bungles Edition

Oh, also the Bidens were dinin' in Manhattan.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Sept. 15-22

Roaches and mice in Brooklyn and Manhattan helped shutter eateries this week.

NYC Restaurants: Sweetgreen Racism Lawsuit + Regional Pizza Edition

A popular salad chain faced a lawsuit, New York pizza shared attention with other styles and more food news unfolded this past week.

Sweetgreen Managers Hurled N-Word At Workers Across NYC: Lawsuit

The salad chain's eateries in the city also routinely passed over hiring and promoting Black people, the lawsuit contends.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Sept. 8 - 15

This week is all about Brooklyn — and the rats, mice, roaches infesting at least five of its eateries.

NYC Pizza Isn't Only Great American Pizza Style, WaPo Ranking Claims

How seriously can New Yorkers take a ranking that treats Chicago deep dish as pizza?

NYC Restaurants: Summer Closures + Openings Edition

New York City's restaurant scene giveth and taketh away.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Sept. 1-8

Manhattan ended the summer with a dirty showing.

NYC Restaurants: Big Gay Ice Cream Lawsuit + Swedish Fish Edition

New Yorkers had a mix of sweet and sour food news this past week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Aug. 25 - 30

Three New York City eateries were shuttered by the Health department this week, city records show.

NYC Restaurants: Barbenheimer Alamo Union + Members-Only Edition

Food news this week include "Barbieheimer" inspiring a union drive at a popular drink-and-dine movie theater.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Aug. 19-25

Live roaches at the bakery. Evidence of mice at the dumpling shop. No hand soap at the pizzeria.

NYC Restaurants: Shedding Sheds & Deadly Shellfish Edition

New Yorkers soon could slurp their last hopefully-not-tainted oyster in a ramshackle dining shed after this past week in food news.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Aug. 11 - Aug. 18

One Bushwick eatery earned a whopping 94 violation points this week.

So Long, Sheds: NYC's Outdoor Dining Program Signed Into Law

Restaurants will have to build new outdoor setups under the permanent program dubbed "Dining Out NYC" starting in 2024.

NYC Outdoor Dining Sheds Celebrated During COVID Come With New Rules

Some New Yorkers call them "a bright spot" of the pandemic, others dub them "trash magnets."

NYC Restaurants: Rat Poop, Listeria & Bagels Edition

What do rat poop, a Listeria outbreak and bagels have in common? Not much other than they're major food news this week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Aug. 4-11

Roaches in a Manhattan ramen eatery, roaches in a Queens bakery. Meanwhile, Brooklyn sparkles, according to inspectors this week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 28 - Aug. 4

Roaches, mice and rats were found all over Manhattan this week.

Outdoor Dining Is Now Permanent In NYC

A long-awaited bill passed by the City Council Thursday allows year-round outdoor dining on sidewalks, but only eight months on streets.

NYC Restaurants: Rocks In Cookies & Pizza Union Edition

Read this if your Trader Joe's cookies seemed... crunchier than usual.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 21 - 18

One restaurant had nowhere to wash your hand after using the toilet, according to inspectors.

NYC Restaurants: FBI Wine Store Raid, Food Strikes, And Bests

A famous wine shop was raided by the FBI, a food strike was averted at a major stadium and local eateries gobbled up "best of" nods.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 14 - 21

Roaches, flies and dirty hands plagued two shuttered spots this week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 7 - 14

We're still trying to figure out what it means to have an "improper, inadequate or unapproved" sewage disposal system.

NYC Restaurants: Get Free Frozen Treats On National Ice Cream Day

National Ice Cream Day is Sunday, and there are plenty of sweet giveaways. Also, check out the latest food news from the city.

NYC Restaurants: A Week Of Hot Dogs, Summer Heat And Reservations

Joey Chestnut ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and some other food things happened.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed June 30 - July 7

There was only one eatery ordered closed this week. Can you guess which one?

NYC Restaurant Week 2023: Snag Your Summer Dining Reservations

Ready, set, reserve — here's everything hungry New Yorkers need to know about scoring tables for the month-long dining "week."

NYC Restaurants: Pizza, Rats & Caviar Edition Of Food News

New York City had its very own Pizza Gate this week.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed June 23 - 30

Brooklyn is the cleanest borough in town this week.

City Hall Pizza Gate: Coal-Oven Rule Outrages Pie-Throwing Protester

New video captures the moment a protester threw slices over the gates of City Hall while screaming, "Give us pizza or give us death!"

NYC Restaurants: A Sweet Summertime Roundup Of Food News

Ample Hills ice cream reopened, workers now call the shots at their bar and more from this past week in city food news.

NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed June 16-23

Inspectors only found one dirty restaurant this week.

NYC Restaurants: Graze Upon This Week's Summery Food News

A crisp selection of new salad spots, a minimum wage for delivery workers and more happened this past week in city food news.

NYC Chef, Family On Food Stamps After City Demolishes Dining Shed

"We’re just trying to live day by day," said a chef who contends he's in debt because the city wrongly destroyed his eatery's dining shed.

NYC Restaurants: Tired Of Wildfire Smoke? Then Eat Up This Food News

As New York City's skies filled with wildfire smoke, a local chef was named best in the state, famous fries returned and more last week.