Behold the beloved Brooklyn blackout cake—a dark chocolate layer cake bearing chocolate pudding inside and out, and crowned with chocolate cake crumbs.

Tucked into a nondescript Bainbridge Street storefront 30 some odd yards east of Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy, Doc’s Cake Shop is a sweet Southern breeze in dessert form. From the door, one is ...

Actually, it’s an abandoned eight-story factory near the Marcy Houses project in South Williamsburg, where drug giant Pfizer opened for business more than a century and a half ago, stamping out Advil, ...

While relying less on foods sourced from animals is a good overall strategy to tread more lightly, the truth about the sustainability of each product is complicated.

That’s why Red Hot Kitchen, while not an encyclopedia of chili sauces from the continent, introduces unfamiliar readers to a broad swath of sauces, from Indonesia and Malaysia’s sambals to Thailand’s ...

Allen Katz sits in a broad-backed wooden chair in the Shanty, the bar attached to the New York Distilling Company, the Williamsburg distillery that he co-founded in 2011 with Tom and Bill Potter. He ...

The legendary dark chocolate layer cake has become a hit the world over, with variations available far and wide. Here's where to try it.

Popeyes’ new fried chicken sandwich has caused quite a stir. Photo via Tyrgyzistan on Flickr. To understand what it means to serve a local fried-chicken sandwich at a restaurant that takes such issues ...

Originally called “Hots and Potatoes” at the restaurant that invented it—Nick Tahou Hots, reputedly in 1918—the dish is a rib-sticking pileup of starch, meat, onions, and sauce. Colloquially called ...

The Damascus Bakery has been headquartered at 56 Gold Street since 1979, but third-generation baker and co-owner Edward Mafoud is quick to note they have been making pita in Brooklyn since 1930. That ...

Ten years ago, when Williamsburg was well on its gentrification journey but was still without an Apple Store, the Four Horsemen opened on Grand Street and changed what wine could be. Originally a ...

Daniel Boulud’s Daniel—a bastion of fine dining—isn’t especially known for its weeds. But that’s exactly what was included recently, and quite proudly, alongside Maine sea scallops on its menu. In the ...