Joshua David Stein

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Love, Longing, and Lunch on Restaurant Row

Barbetta, the oldest surviving establishment on Restaurant Row along West 46th Street in ManhattanDINA LITOVSKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES/ REDUXIf you fold up Manhattan like...

By Joshua David Stein - August 14, 2018
The Trencherman | Food | Restaurants

Last Call at the Coffee Shop

Saying so long to New York’s temple of herbed french fries and superficial beauty Everyone comes to New York to gape slack-jawed at beauty...

By Joshua David Stein - July 27, 2018
The Trencherman | Food | Restaurants

Preserving Palestinian Culture, One Seed at a Time

Last weekend, Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, was on a quick stopover in New York City, from her home in Beit...

By Joshua David Stein - July 13, 2018
Departures | Restaurants | Philadelphia

A Complete Guide to Philadelphia's Thriving Culinary Scene

"Native son Joshua David Stein on the city's renaissance as a food lover's paradise." Growing up in the northern...

By Joshua David Stein - June 15, 2018
The Trencherman | Food | Restaurants

When Dinner With Friends Shook the World

Revisiting the epochal meal that 35 years ago served as the Big Bang for American fine dining The Avengers of Gastronomy: Two years after the...

By Joshua David Stein - May 16, 2018
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