Food news and articles for the region collected in a single thread – NYT, New Yorker, NY Post, Eater, Infatuation, and any other sources.
Taking a cue from the annual San Francisco / Bay Area threads.
Can Webcams Help Solve New York’s Restaurant Line Problem?
With carefully positioned cameras and user input, the website Damn Lines hopes to address the worst part of visiting popular restaurants.
The website’s slogan sums up a feeling many New Yorkers share about the plague of long lines: “No one likes waiting in a damn line.”
Once positioned, the camera sends a high-definition feed to the Damn Lines website, where users can also see when lines have been longest over the previous days, based on historical video data, and plan accordingly. They can also sign up to be notified when lines have died down.
Watching the Damn Lines feeds can be hypnotic: Customers chat and scroll on their phones, lines ebb and flow with mealtimes and work schedules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/dining/damn-lines-new-york.html
No paywall: https://archive.is/j4Oct
New York’s Finest Sandwich
The best Italian combo in the city contains no meat whatsoever.
That sandwich is the Vegitalian combo, from Court Street Grocers, the unbearably charming Carroll Gardens sandwich shop…
On its face, the Vegitalian is a provocation: a meatless Italian sub, a contradiction in terms, a thing that should not work and yet absolutely does.
