Helen Rosner
Helen Rosner is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has been covering food for more than a decade as a writer and editor, and won a 2024 James Beard Award for her weekly restaurant-review column, The Food Scene. Rosner has worked at Saveur and New York magazine, launched the seminal food site Eat Me Daily, and served as a cookbook editor. Before joining The New Yorker, she was the executive editor of Eater, where she founded the publication’s James Beard- and National Magazine Award-winning features department.
The Best Diners Are Still Just Diners
Despite new ownership and upgraded cooking, Old John’s, a seventy-year-old institution on the Upper West Side, stays true to a nostalgic ideal.
What’s the Story with Sustainable Sushi?
Bar Miller, a sushi counter in the East Village, aims for the luxury of omakase without the carbon footprint.
Three Perfect Seafood Towers
When it’s time to go all out at a restaurant, to be big and loud and celebratory, the answer is a seafood tower.
The Unnerving Sensuality of Foul Witch
An East Village restaurant from the Roberta’s crew serves voluptuous food in a scrappy space.
The Quiet Luxury of a Backroom Korean Tasting Menu
We’re living in a golden age of ultra-high-end, wildly creative Korean restaurants. At Meju, the chef Hooni Kim artfully distills the cuisine to its essentials.
April Bloomfield’s Quietly Triumphant Return
Sailor, in Fort Greene, is a destination restaurant dressed up as a neighborhood spot—which is maybe the best kind of restaurant there is.
Buy Your Loved Ones a Sequinned Double Cheeseburger: A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide
Kitchen tools, culinary trinkets, tinned treats, dinner-party fixings, and many more curios for the person of appetites in your life.
Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz
If you can handle the night-club vibes at Lagos TSQ, you’ll be rewarded with a bold celebration of West African cuisine.
Bronx Sidewalk Clam Heaven
No trip to Arthur Avenue is complete without a visit to the neighborhood’s duelling streetside shellfish stands, at Cosenza’s Fish Market and Randazzo’s Seafood.
Killer Carbonara, Straight from the Source
The New York outpost of the legendary Roman culinary institution Roscioli offers a two-in-one destination for Italian wine and exceptional pastas.
José Andrés Puts On a Show
The Bazaar, the latest New York restaurant from the chef and humanitarian, tends to foreground spectacle over satiety.
Three Perfect Breakfast Sandwiches
A specimen is likely available at a bodega or a coffee cart near you, but if you want to level up here are three of the best.
Five O’Clock at Restaurants Is Baby Hour
Establishments like Gus’s Chop House, in Brooklyn, go out of their way to make high-chair-bound early birds—and their parents—feel welcome.
Instant Ramen Gets a Glow-Up
The Automat-like Instant Noodle Factory builds great meals on a convenience-food foundation.
Something Unusual Is Happening at Foxface Natural
A tiny East Village restaurant has the vision—and means—to transcend the predictable.
The Eternal Question of Food Versus Service
With Cecchi’s, a clubby Martini-and-fries joint in the former home of Café Loup, a career maître d’ makes his solo-restaurateur début.
Is Scarr’s the Best Pizza in New York?
In the golden age of the slice, Scarr Pimentel treats pizza like a form of art.
Three Perfect Chocolate Cakes
Three restaurants in New York offer decadent renditions that transcend time and trend and season.
A Jewel of New Jersey’s Palestinian Enclave
Al-Basha, a trio of storefronts, is worth the trek for the spreads and homemade pita alone.
We Should All Be Drinking Spanish Vermouth
A fortified wine with guts and spine and teeth and claws, vermut is an ideal antidote to summer’s ambient fatigue.
The Best Diners Are Still Just Diners
Despite new ownership and upgraded cooking, Old John’s, a seventy-year-old institution on the Upper West Side, stays true to a nostalgic ideal.
What’s the Story with Sustainable Sushi?
Bar Miller, a sushi counter in the East Village, aims for the luxury of omakase without the carbon footprint.
Three Perfect Seafood Towers
When it’s time to go all out at a restaurant, to be big and loud and celebratory, the answer is a seafood tower.
The Unnerving Sensuality of Foul Witch
An East Village restaurant from the Roberta’s crew serves voluptuous food in a scrappy space.
The Quiet Luxury of a Backroom Korean Tasting Menu
We’re living in a golden age of ultra-high-end, wildly creative Korean restaurants. At Meju, the chef Hooni Kim artfully distills the cuisine to its essentials.
April Bloomfield’s Quietly Triumphant Return
Sailor, in Fort Greene, is a destination restaurant dressed up as a neighborhood spot—which is maybe the best kind of restaurant there is.
Buy Your Loved Ones a Sequinned Double Cheeseburger: A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide
Kitchen tools, culinary trinkets, tinned treats, dinner-party fixings, and many more curios for the person of appetites in your life.
Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz
If you can handle the night-club vibes at Lagos TSQ, you’ll be rewarded with a bold celebration of West African cuisine.
Bronx Sidewalk Clam Heaven
No trip to Arthur Avenue is complete without a visit to the neighborhood’s duelling streetside shellfish stands, at Cosenza’s Fish Market and Randazzo’s Seafood.
Killer Carbonara, Straight from the Source
The New York outpost of the legendary Roman culinary institution Roscioli offers a two-in-one destination for Italian wine and exceptional pastas.
José Andrés Puts On a Show
The Bazaar, the latest New York restaurant from the chef and humanitarian, tends to foreground spectacle over satiety.
Three Perfect Breakfast Sandwiches
A specimen is likely available at a bodega or a coffee cart near you, but if you want to level up here are three of the best.
Five O’Clock at Restaurants Is Baby Hour
Establishments like Gus’s Chop House, in Brooklyn, go out of their way to make high-chair-bound early birds—and their parents—feel welcome.
Instant Ramen Gets a Glow-Up
The Automat-like Instant Noodle Factory builds great meals on a convenience-food foundation.
Something Unusual Is Happening at Foxface Natural
A tiny East Village restaurant has the vision—and means—to transcend the predictable.
The Eternal Question of Food Versus Service
With Cecchi’s, a clubby Martini-and-fries joint in the former home of Café Loup, a career maître d’ makes his solo-restaurateur début.
Is Scarr’s the Best Pizza in New York?
In the golden age of the slice, Scarr Pimentel treats pizza like a form of art.
Three Perfect Chocolate Cakes
Three restaurants in New York offer decadent renditions that transcend time and trend and season.
A Jewel of New Jersey’s Palestinian Enclave
Al-Basha, a trio of storefronts, is worth the trek for the spreads and homemade pita alone.
We Should All Be Drinking Spanish Vermouth
A fortified wine with guts and spine and teeth and claws, vermut is an ideal antidote to summer’s ambient fatigue.