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Horn & Hardart, around for nearly 140 years, brought the Automat to America. (All photos courtesy of Horn & Hardart.) I n my house, watching the premiere of Lisa Hurwitz’s 2021 documentary The Automat was bigger than any awards show.

From left, Julianne Moore, Thomas Kail, Michelle Williams, Jon Neidich, and Jeremy Strong at the 2023 Creative Time Gala. (Photo by Nina Westervelt/WWD via Getty Images.) It’s no secret that Golden Age Hospitality has become one of the most influential players in New York nightlife. And with that, its real estate footprint is only continuing to grow at a fast clip.

Plucking Essentially Basque off the shelf at the cookbook’s launch party, which Caper hosted at Ernesto’s on the Lower East Side. (Photo by Elijah Edwards.) I t’s been a few months since the first hardback copy of my cookbook, Essentially Basque, arrived. It was around 2:00 p.m. on a Monday. I was sitting in Bartolo’s back dining room, scrolling on my phone, when Anastasia, our general manager, said, “Hey, Ry, there’s a package here for you.” I looked at her, trying to hide my smile.

Corporate dining is on the menu for the booking platform Ande. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images.) What is a restaurateur with an empty private dining room to do? Maybe they have an events manager, but not the connections to (enough) companies looking to book these sorts of spaces on a regular basis. It’s an inventory problem that Ande, an “AI-native network” for corporate entertainment, wants to be the solution to.

An evening at Mr. Chow, 1985. (Photo by Ron Galella/Getty Images.) The art industry, which moves around the world according to a somewhat regular calendar of openings, fairs, and auctions, is loyal to its restaurants and watering holes. There is no real reason for dealers and collectors to return to the same hokey fondue spot in Basel every year, or the same mildewed dive bar on Miami Beach, but they do, driven perhaps by the promise of friendly faces and easy familiarity.

Piscator is one of the many thousands of pop-ups on Hotplate. (Photo courtesy of Piscator.) In 2020, when a wave of pop-ups burst on the scene—some out of necessity from COVID shutdowns, others from boredom—the fun of it all was its casual nature. An Instagram story about a takeover at a bar, with orders taken via DMs, felt more personal than interfacing with a delivery or reservation app.

The late, great restaurant critic A.A. Gill at the UK premiere of the documentary Food, Inc., in London, February 2010. (Photo by Fergus McDonald/Getty Images.) In October 1976, Michael Caine, the chef Richard Shepherd, and the Irishman Peter Langan opened Langan’s Brasserie in Mayfair. It was the start of something.

Ari Emanuel surveys the landscape at a 2023 UFC event in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images.) Though I have never worked in film, and never plan to, I empathize with the melancholy as Hollywood devolves into freefall. At its peak, was there ever a more aspirational industry?

Volkan Guzey at Carbone Miami. (Photo provided by Eliana Cabrera.) On September 4th, Volkan Guzey, a longtime front-of-house employee of Major Food Group, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. According to his wife Eliana Cabrera, they were at Miami International Airport to fly to her home state of Utah for their honeymoon.

Sebastien Silvestri CEO, Dinex Group (Daniel, La Tête d’Or, Brasserie Boulud, Le Pavillon) No. 03 Born Saint-Jean-du-Pin, France Home Base New York Prior Stops The Lanesborough Hotel in London; The Bellagio and The Venetian in Las Vegas Up Next Brasserie Boulud on the Upper West Side; Café Boulud at the Waldorf Astoria London; Blue Box Café in Costa Mesa, CA Paid subscribers get full access to paywalled, weekly content from top journalists.