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Field Notes

  1. field notes
    The Tin Building Has Everything (Except a Purpose)Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s lovely but lifeless $200 million food hall.
  2. feature
    This Tasting Menu Tastes Like PotA cross-country dive into high-flying, super-high dollar cannabis cuisine.
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    A Final Trip to Papaya King on the Eve of Its Likely DestructionThe iconic hot-dog counter’s days appear numbered.
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    Who Wants Caviar at a Time Like This?Fine dining confronts a perilous new threat: irrelevance.
  5. reopening
    Does Eleven Madison Park’s Vegan-Friendly Menu Live Up to the Hype?An amateur vegan and a professional food critic debate the merits of chef Daniel Humm’s intricate vegetable cooking.
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    The Great IndoorsA critic reacclimates to the now-unfamiliar terrain of the dining room.
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    What Will NYC Restaurants Look Like After the Pandemic? Miami Offers a Preview.Our restaurant critic takes in the scene on South Beach.
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    The Best Meals I Ate in 2020Our critic finds some comforts in a heartbreaking year.
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    Winter Comes for New York’s StreeteriesOur restaurant critic bundles up for the season ahead.
  10. first taste
    A New Chinese Café Finds Some Fans in the Platt FamilyMilu offers a different spin on the traditional carryout model.
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    The Odeon, Four Decades On“None of us was thinking of this as a career. It was just sort of a fun idea.”
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    A Restaurant Critic Considers the Soothing Luxury of the Ham SandwichThere is a necessary and soothing familiarity to ham and cheese on squishy white bread.
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    Our Cranky Restaurant Critic Finally Learns to Love S’moresAll it took was a game-changing technique from an ingenious backyard chef.
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    What I’ve MissedOur restaurant critic reemerges to a strange new world.
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    A Restaurant Critic’s Viral Bean HellAdam Platt joins the legume-hoarding masses.
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    What We Lose When a Favorite Restaurant Disappears ForeverGood-bye to Gotham Bar & Grill’s sense of civility, tradition, and style.
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    What Is a Restaurant Critic’s Job in the Time of Social Distancing?And why does it feel like a rave review may do more harm than good?
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    A Restaurant Critic Comes Around on LinesSome of them, anyway.
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    A Restaurant Critic Crashes the White House Turkey PardonThis increasingly tired, loony ritual is the perfect window into the madcap, farcical spirit of the Trump White House.
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    A Restaurant Critic Walks Into a Wegmans …Adam Platt finds high-end cocktails, lots of parking, and an unnervingly chipper staff.
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    Foie Gras May Be Cruel. It’s Definitely Irrelevant.A restaurant critic on the waning days of a luxury ingredient.
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    In Defense of Wasp CookingAdam Platt takes a stand for his ancestral cuisine.
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    Can a Restaurant Critic Learn to Love a Sad Desk Salad?Adam Platt gets in line to find out.
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    Dinner With the NomaheadsOur critic joins the mold-eating cult of the world’s leading culinary demigod.