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Ignacio Mattos of New York City’s Estela, Altro Paradiso, and Flora Bar certainly hasn’t. Anise hyssop flowers and nasturtiums are some of the first things he gravitates toward when he visits the ...

Owner Ignacio Mattos announced this week that his uptown restaurant will not reopen. Photo: Liz Clayman For the itinerant critic on an expense account, however, there was much to like about the place, ...

When Corner Bar opened, it was a return to form for Manhattan dining in a post-pandemic world. While the food isn’t particularly novel—classics like salad niçoise, shrimp cocktail, and steak au poivre ...

At one point during a recent dinner at the new restaurant Uncle Boons, in Nolita, Thomas Carter flagged down one of the managers and asked where she had bought the trays the waiters were serving the ...