These are the PIZZA BITES from Roberta’s Bakery in Bushwick. Imagine the soft interior of a zeppole spiked with cacio cavallo, parm, pepperoni, and fresh mozzarella. They are served SUPER HOT but are rendered EDIBLE by dipping into cool marinara. Cost: $5 for a handful. Rating: STRONG BUY!
Click through for more about how to order takeout like a BOSS from Roberta’s Bakery (Photo: Daniel Krieger/Eater).
Meet, Semilla, Eater’s newest four star restaurant, as declared by Ryan Sutton (that’s me). What’s significant about Pamela Yung and Jose Ramirez-Ruiz’s vegetable-heavy establishment is its price; $75 for about 10-courses, which is less than what you’ll pay for a strip steak ($61) and a salad ($15) at Minetta Tavern. Think about that. (Photo: Daniel Krieger/Eater).
Thirty Acres in Jersey City used to serve an a la carte menu. Dinner for two would cost about $125 after tax and tip (but before wine). Then in February it went tasting menu only. Dinner now costs $190 for two. Add on wine pairings and you’re at $330. That’s a heck of a hike. But does it work? It sure does. I award THREE STARS in my review for Eater! And there’s also a cheaper a la carte bar menu for walk-ins, FYI. (Photo: Paul Crispin Quitoriano/Eater).
Mu Ramen serves some of NYC’s finest tonkotsu.
Review by Ryan Sutton, photos by Nick Solares.
Mu Ramen also serves some of New York’s most expensive ramen. Click through for Eater interactive graph comparing what you’ll spend on NYC’s best Japanese-style noodle soups.
You’ll pay more for dinner at Le Bernardin because the restaurant is paying its workers more. You should be okay with that.
Real the full story. (Photo: Paul Crispin Quitoriano/Eater).
The tasting menu at Atera is normally $225. But on Valentine’s Day, dinner is $500. That makes the two-Michelin-starred establishment, if only for a single day, more expensive than Masa, America’s most expensive restaurant.
Click through to see what some of NYC’s other most expensive restaurants are charging on this “Black Saturday.” (Photo: Eater New York).
Atelier Crenn, one of San Francisco’s most critically acclaimed restaurants, has joined the battle against the ridiculous American practice of tipping. Diners will now pay a 20 percent “guest experience” fee so Crenn can better compensate its employees, especially back-of-the-house staffers like cooks who’ll see their wages go up substantially! Atelier Crenn is most definitely a GOOD DEAL and a STRONG BUY. (Photo: Patricia Chang/Eater).
NO MORE TIPPING!!!! Note that Crenn went with a service charge of sorts, instead of going service-included, which she says is for transparency reasons, but it also helps keep her prices on par with comparable restaurants. And that’s no small matter for competitive reasons; venues that take the service-included path see their prices go up about 20%. Either way, this is a COOL development.
“If Neapolitan pizza, in all its deliciously bastardized forms, is unquestionably one of New York’s trademark foodstuffs, the ultra-thin crust pies of Rome could be the next import to achieve citywide fame. This is all thanks to the fine work of Danny Meyer and chef Nick Anderer at Marta. Anderer’s best effort involves taking the flavors of Carbonara (pancetta, egg, and black pepper) and throwing them onto a pizza, with soft potatoes substituting in for the spaghetti. The chewy, crispy, fatty, and funky product that results is something you want to eat every single day.”There’s your dish of the year. Cost: $17. Eat it, now!
STRONG BUY!!!! The $17 carbonara pie, of course, is much "heavier” with toppings than a simple pizza of tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella, which runs $13 here at Marta, or $17 at Franny’s in Brooklyn.
Momofuku Ko now charges $175 per person, a $50 hike from the old price of $125. And wine pairings are now $155, up from $95. So your fully-loaded dinner date, after tax and tip, will now run $851, nearly $300 more than the old cost. That’s a pretty big HIKE!!! Click through to Eater for all the pricey details!
Dirt Candy in New York joins the small but growing club of restaurants that will effectively eliminate the ridiculous practice known as tipping. Amanda Cohen will levy a 20% administrative fee on all checks, I report over at Eater. There will not be a separate line for gratuity on your bill.
You simply pay the check and leave. BOOM.
The Price Hike and The Bad Deal have long been proponents of ending tipping, a practice that’s bad for waiters, bad for cooks and bad for consumers.
Daniel Patterson, chef at the two-Michelin-starred Coi in San Francisco, will eliminate tipping at Aster, his soon-to-open restaurant in The Mission, in favor of a European-style “service-included” policy.
This will mean that means the restaurant, not the customers, will be able to decide exactly how much waiters are compensated. And the service charge will also allow Aster to better compensate cooks, dishwashers, and other employees who often make less than the service staff due to regulations on how tips are distributed. This is all a very big win for everyone.
It’s not uncommon for an ambitious restaurant to price its entry level Champagne at anywhere from $80-$95, while keeping the rest of the French bubbly by the bottle at $120 or higher. But at Marta, Danny Meyer’s first pizzeria, there are a WHOPPING 15 selections at $99 or under. That’s a very cool thing indeed. Click through for my full review on Eater!
Congratulations to Saison, one of The Price Hike’s favorite restaurants to cover, on earning its third Michelin star. Joshua Skenes’ tasting menu venue is now one of just eleven American restaurant to hold such an honor. Dinner starts at $248, with an extended menu available at $398.
Atera, the two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in Tribeca, has raised the price of dinner by $30 to $225, making it as expensive as the three Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park. Bold Move. Is it still a BUY at these prices? Let us know! (Photograph: Nick Solares/Eater).
The Japanese restaurant opens tonight in the basement of the Gagosian on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 20-course omakase is $350, making it New York’s second most expensive tasting menu after Masa, which still serves the city’s (and the country’s) most expensive tasting at $450.
