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At Blackbird, we believe every guest should be treated like a regular the moment they walk through a restaurant's front door. Think: access to last-minute tables, welcome drinks, off-menu items, exclusive memberships, full fireworks displays, you name it. That's why we're building a platform that allows restaurants to identify, connect with, and reward guests, in meaningful and ongoing ways. With Blackbird, the math is simple. The more you check in at your favorite restaurants, the more magic you unlock, from bespoke rewards to the ability to DM for reservations. Each check-in will also earn you $FLY, our universal rewards currency, which you can spend across our network of great restaurants. Ready to take the ride? Download our app to discover amazing restaurants, and start checking in to earn points and unlock perks. It's not magic, it's Blackbird.

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Where Colin Ate: Tacos 1986, Perry Street, Comal, Diner

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By Colin Camac
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Colin Camac (aka @resyguynyc) is officially Blackbird’s “Strategic Sales Lead,” and unofficially is our resident insider’s insider. He is out, on the town seven nights a week, sniffing out the city’s best joints, skateboard in one hand, martini in the other. When your week starts with meatballs at a classic New York red sauce spot, you know things are going to go well for the next seven days. And they did.
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Where Colin Ate: Weekend Edition

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By Colin Camac
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Colin Camac (aka @resyguynyc) is officially Blackbird’s “Strategic Sales Lead,” and unofficially is our resident insider’s insider. He is out, on the town seven nights a week, sniffing out the city’s best joints, skateboard in one hand, martini in the other. Happy Mother’s Day to all my mom readers, including my own. May your Sunday be filled with brunches, bottomless mimosas, and whatever else moms get up to when they let their hair down.
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The Truth About Every Restaurant Is Revealed in its Burger

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By Ben Leventhal
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Welcome to The Supersonic, Blackbird’s newsletter for the restaurant-obsessed. If this is your first time with us, please enjoy a subscription on the house. James Beard, the pioneering chef, invented the modern restaurant burger, or so argues Beard-winner John Birdsall, author of “The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Biography of James Beard.” According to Birdsall, Beard offered steakburgers in the early '50s, an era when only hamburger stands served the fast-food staple.
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My Life in Meals: Chris Black

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By James Jung Verified
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Chris Black is the co-host of the podcast How Long Gone, the founder of Done to Death Projects, and a style columnist at New York Mag's the Strategist. His writing has appeared in GQ, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, and other publications. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles. My mom and dad don't cook. That wasn't a big thing in our household. So the first meals that I think about were probably in high school when I had my own agency to go to places that I wanted to go with my friends.
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I'll Take a Hot Black Coffee, Please

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By John DeVore Verified
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I accept that life is complicated. Thank you, therapy. Although my relationships and career are knotty, I remain optimistic about the future. But there is one aspect of my day, one small ritual, that I keep blissfully simple: my coffee order. This morning, a person in line ahead of me briefly forgot the details of their coffee order halfway through reciting it. The barista patiently waited for them to remember. Finally, they said, " Venti caramel triple shot macchiato.” It was early.
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Dinner and Drinks With My Reply Guy

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All February, we'll be talking Romance in Restaurants. Today, Helen Holmes — a culture reporter at The Daily Beast and the lead singer of a punk band — reminisces over an awkward meal with a Reply Guy, and the domino effect it started. Fresh out of college, I was desperate to claw my way into professional journalism. I lived in a messy–no, dirty–bedroom, which I proclaimed was my god-given right as a creative citizen in an essay I wrote for the New York Times.
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Ranked: The 10 Coziest Soups

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By John DeVore Verified
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Throughout January, we’ll be posting reported features, essays, lists, and more around our monthly theme: Comfort. The New York Times recently predicted that 2024 would be The Year Of Soup, except that every year is the Year of Soup. Every season, every month, right now. Especially right now: it's the middle of winter. Nothing is cozier than tucking into a hot bowl of soup on a cold day; it's like wearing a pair of warm liquid slippers.
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