Cooking

Lobster mac and cheese has been around for a long time, but in the aughts, perhaps due to a bump in the lobster supply, it graduated to a full-on restaurant trend. About as extra as Tom Cruise’s jump-on-Oprah’s-couch moment (which […]

It’s not a birthday without a party, and Eater is celebrating 20 years at the center of the food world by throwing our biggest event ever on Saturday, September 20. Tickets go on sale today for Eater Off Menu presented

Although I myself am not a vegetarian, I can acknowledge the value in reducing my meat consumption for a variety of reasons: personal health, animal welfare, and environmental impact are some I can name off the top of my head.

Kraig Torres pouring a draft at Hop City. | Ben Rollins A version of this post originally appeared on August 3, 2025, in Eater and Punch’s newsletter Pre Shift, a biweekly newsletter for the industry pro that sources first-person accounts from

King of the Hill, Mike Judge’s seminal animated series about the best darn suburban Texas family who ever lived, is back on the air, and nobody’s more excited about it than Pamela Adlon. The Emmy-winning voice actor who brought Bobby

In 2023, the Los Angeles izakaya Budonoki, then just a few weeks old, decided to “dress up” as a different kind of restaurant for Halloween. For one night, the Japanese restaurant transformed into an Italian trattoria with Negroni slushes, arancini,

Eddie Huang and Baohaus | Photoillustration by Lille Allen I think as a kid when your family is fucked up, you fantasize about things. You tell stories, you build forts, you do anything to transport yourself from the corner of

Keizo Shimamoto with his famed ramen burger. Keizo Shimamoto’s ramen burger made the news before he sold a single one. In 2013, Shimamoto had become fixated on burgers with fried pucks of ramen for buns, which he encountered while studying

Pulled jeera chicken tacos at Mexican Indian fusion restaurant Saucy Chick in Pasadena, California. | Saucy Chick In early 2009 in Los Angeles, there was no food experience more exciting than Roy Choi’s Kogi truck. You’d wait in a long

From the night markets of Bangkok to the hawker centres of Singapore, Asia’s culinary capitals are well-known for their street foods. While you can take a quick — okay, 10-plus-hour — flight over the Pacific to delve into those culinary