Real link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/dining/food-trends-2026-predictions.html
Free link: https://archive.ph/5T6Ip
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This seemed all over the map to cover almost everything as a possibility - throwing everything at the wall in the hopes that something sticks in 2026?
But I do like the phrase “nonna-stalgia” - which linked to “Grandma restaurants”. I guess I’ve been cooking nonna-stalgia type meals my whole life.
https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/grandmas-restaurant
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Spot on–felt lazy, lacked any sense of conviction. But was kind of fun to read so I thought it worth a share.
I prefer “grandmacore” over “nonna-stalgia” because I happen to enjoy words unnecessarily suffixed with -core. 
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Grandmacore should also be the name of a fitness regimen. Hmmm, 2026 might need to be my year of grandmacore.
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I sense a Shake Weight in your future.
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Old school.
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Ahem. Quote fail.
That should say “old-fashioned.” 
Food forecasters see a year of quieter tastes: little bursts of pleasure, less-jangling restaurants and healthy foods worthy of the ideal Grandma.
Translation: the economy is effed up and has been crippled, and there’s other stuff to be concerned with. No fun to be had so go inside and do a jigsaw puzzle and eat some Graham crackers…because that’s what’s grandma has so STFU now.
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But I LIKE Graham crackers! So that’s not a hardship for me. 
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'twas a South Park reference, since you’d brought up the ShakeWeight.
Ah shucks, I’m off my game. Had you mentioned Creme Fraiche it would have been a totally different story.
One of their best episodes.
Secret smoking rooms? 
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I like Helen Rosner, but this is just silly — like most of these lists/predictions. At the very least they provide some entertainment.
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Haha I read that thinking BBQ smoking rooms, which I thought was a bit odd, but I think your interpretation is the correct one! 
Smoke-easys (sp?). They have existed since the smoking ban.
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Grandmacore is the genre my band plays.
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