Chris Shott

This New York City store is a goldmine for the company, but a stressful, overcrowded nightmare for shoppers.

Every spring in Rockaway Beach, food-and-drink vendors head to the boardwalk to claim their counter spaces and prepare for the upcoming summer season. This year, many of them were in for a nasty surprise. “The first thing that was very noticeable was…

, President Trump dismissed one of the Democratic Party's rising stars, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), as a "young bartender." The line drew laughs in a room of Republican donors. It also inspired a new slogan, "Make Ocasio-Cortez Bartend…

Even if you know about his most famous discovery, chances are you don’t know anything about Frank Meyer.

Whitney Aycock is the Rockaway’s beloved anti-hero

In praise of the Nuggetarian diet, where parents eat only on the leftover scraps of food on their kids' plate. It's the best way to roll.

The line outside the historic Carnegie Deli is 33 people deep on an overcast Sunday afternoon. Overhead, the 79-year-old deli’s iconic neon sign is acting its age. The "arne" in Carnegie is burned out, and the "ss" in delicatessen and "ra" in…

My wife and I agree that the new neighbors are a bunch of assholes. I know this because we talk about it. A lot. We don’t mean the nice couple next door or the friendly folks in the apartments above and below us. We mean the degenerates in the…

To some, paper towels are a symbol of waste. Ease over ecology. But for many, a roll in the kitchen is a requirement for smart home cooking.

West Virginia’s unofficial state food, a baked pepperoni-stuffed roll, was a favorite of coal miners and is a school-lunch treat to this day. When Italian immigrants came to work in the West Virginia coal mines during the early 1900s, their…

Emmy-nominated actress Pamela Adlon sips a lot of wine with her co-stars on the hit FX series “Better Things.” Very rarely do viewers get a look at which labels are being poured. But during the Season 2 finale, titled “Graduation,” the cameras zoomed…

Spaghetti alla Chili? Only in America! An investigation into the origins of a dish made from the unlikely combination of pasta and a richly spiced version of chili con carne. Chef Walker Stern had never heard of Cincinnati-style chili. Then the…

Jaguar design director Ian Callum always wanted to make a beautiful family car featuring a cab-forward look—a shorter front end, larger windshield, and roomier interior—without giving up the backseat. There was just one problem: where to put the…

On the menu, it’s called the “gringo,” and it has all the familiar markings: ground beef, shredded yellow cheese and, most tellingly, a crunchy hard tortilla. No self-respecting Mexican would go for some corny hard-shell taco like this, particularly…

Call it a crisis of conscience. In 2013, Shake Shack, the surging New York City–based burger chain, made the bold decision to replace its popular crinkle-cut fries. The crinkle-cuts were outliers on the original Shake Shack menu. Most everything else…

We were somewhere around course no. 15 — not even halfway through — when I began to have serious doubts about my intestinal fortitude moving forward. I remember someone at our table saying, “These portions are too big for three people.” And it felt…

It sounds like the set-up to a salsa commercial. Two guys from Texas walk into a New York restaurant. They’ve come to taste-test the best big-city approximation of their home state’s most cherished culinary specialty. No, not salsa. Something much…