By Kate Krader and Will Farley From Bloomberg News The best restaurant in the world is Central, in Lima. The dynamic tasting menu restaurant from chef Virgilio Martinez features ingredients from Peru’s very diverse landscape, from potatoes sourced from of the heights of the Andes mountains to sea urchin from the ocean and notes the…

You don’t need me to tell you about skyrocketing food costs. Over the past couple of years, a trip to the grocery store to pick up eggs, milk, or butter has been breathtaking. The financial strain on consumers has become nearly unbearable. But now the price of some food items is starting to recede. The…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A man with an axe attacked random diners at three neighboring Chinese restaurants in New Zealand, wounding four people, police and witnesses said. Police said the man began the attack at about 9 p.m. Monday in the north Auckland suburb of Albany. Police arrested a 24-year-old suspect at the scene and charged him…

Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces. But even though nearly half of the states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issue is far from settled, with many diners and restaurants pushing back against the…

On a spiritual level, the journey of 50Kitchen is a lot longer than the 710 miles between Dorchester, Massachusetts and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Executive chef and owner Anthony Caldwell says divine providence got him from where he was to where he is today. And where he was, was prison. “I didn’t have the perfect…

The idea of Chinese food doesn’t often bring to mind an elaborate, 19-course meal of meticulously composed dishes served in custom-made vessels. “Chinese food has thousands of years of history and culture. It should be expensive,” said chef Guo Wenjun, whose eponymous restaurant in New York, at $518 per person for the tasting menu, is…

By Sharyn Jackson From Star Tribune Eagan—Between the greeting cards and the beef jerky, three long tables were set for dinner. Dark cloths were draped over the folding tables, where chef Cristian de Leon and his team set out large, blue-rimmed white plates, each artfully arranged with fish and seafood. Hugging the lower left edge…

At Enoteca Maria, grandmas rule the kitchen. Hailing from all over the globe—Argentina, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Taiwan—they come to cook at this tiny restaurant on Staten Island, New York—a stone’s throw away from the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. They’re known as the “nonnas of the world”—“nonna” is Italian for “grandmother”—a rotating cast of…

When you’ve cooked under Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz, nabbed $10,000 on Food Network’s “Chopped,” and own a restaurant that’s regularly ranked as one of North America’s best, the whole world is your oyster. But for New England native chef Evan Hennessey, there’s simply no place like home. “I grew up here in Dover, [New…

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to wind down over the last year, I noticed a sad trend in some upscale restaurants: wine list prices seemed to be rising. I don’t mean only at Michelin-starred places. I refer also to simple, quality cafes that once priced their wines at about three times wholesale, or twice retail….