For eating places, 2021 has introduced a point of hope. As staff — and diners — get vaccinated, restaurant eating rooms are starting to extra carefully resemble pre-pandemic scenes. However the prices of 2020 linger. Many eating places are struggling to hire staff. Months price of deferred rent payments now …

Former Gramercy Tavern pastry cook dinner Lauren Tran by no means anticipated her assortments of ube and coconut mousse chiffon muffins, longan macarons, and bánh bò nướng — a pandan-flavored tapioca and rice flour pastry — to attraction past her social circle. However when the current pastry college graduate’s bánh …

After taking a break from bestowing its coveted (and sometimes resented) stars and suggestions final yr due to the pandemic, the French tire firm Michelin has determined it’s time to start out recommending and awarding eating places once more. Beginning subsequent week, Michelin introduced a “Still Serving” digital sequence to …

Over the previous 30 years, Ashok Bajaj’s D.C. eating places have been excessive on diners’ lists for celebrating special occasions. Knightsbridge Restaurant Group properties like Rasika and Annabelle cater to D.C. energy gamers with impeccable plating and repair knowledgeable by Bajaj’s encyclopedic information of high-profile regulars. So the latest announcement …

“I used to say I hate making muffins,” Hannah Ziskin says. Now, slices of her slab muffins promote out in minutes, and folks drive throughout Los Angeles for complete muffins in blood orange and carrot, topped with minimalist thrives of buttercream and delicate edible flower petals. She wasn’t imagined to …