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Eater Will Host the First-Ever El Pre Party During Billboard Latin Music Week

In its first-ever partnership with Billboard, Eater will host El Pre Party during Latin Music Week: an exclusive pregame to En Vivo featuring bites and drinks from Miami’s hottest restaurants, including a special dish in collaboration with Walmart, and live experiences to get the night started right. Eat your way through the city’s food scene, then head to the main stage to see Jay Wheeler and Zhamira for one of En Vivo’s can’t-miss performances. Connecting music, food, and culture, El Pre Party will feature a lineup of the hottest Miami dishes curated by Eater editors and showcasing Miami’s m…

September 15, 2026

This Restaurant Rocks (No, Literally)

At some NYC restaurants, large rocks have become statement design pieces | Rhythm Zero A version of this post originally appeared in Eater Today, which spotlights the freshest news and stories from across the food world every day. Subscribe now. “There’s a rock in the sink!” That was the takeaway last winter after the East Coast contingent of the team that writes this newsletter met for brunch at Flynn McGarry’s stylish, Scandi-inflected Gem Home in lower Manhattan. While the rest of us waited for our plates of Danish breakfast, Francky Knapp had shuffled off to the bathroom, then returned to…

September 15, 2026

D.C.’s Most Exciting New Restaurant Started as a Pop-Up

This excerpt was originally published in Pre Shift, our newsletter for the hospitality industry. Subscribe for more first-person accounts, advice, and interviews.Now Open is a yearlong series celebrating some of 2026’s most exciting new restaurants. Throughout the year, we’ll check in with teams in Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C., to hear what it’s really like behind the scenes of a buzzy opening. Then, we’ll host exclusive meals at these restaurants as part of Dinner Party, presented by Capital One. Read along for challenges, candid reflections, and advice from the proprietors be…

September 14, 2026

The 12 Essential Kitchen Tools for Beginners, According to Cooking Instructors

Every time I see a meat tenderizer, I think of my mother. Specifically of the way in which she, as someone wary of emotional vulnerability yet full of affection (classic Boomer combo), decided to make Austrian pork schnitzel her love language — and the meat tenderizer her translator. In hindsight, that steel hammer was one of the best, most essential cooking tools in our home; it was also a beginner-friendly tool for me, a Montessori kid used to playing with saws at recess and expressing my feelings via dried bean art. That tenderizer has become a staple of my kitchen ecosystem today. But one…

September 11, 2026

The 12 New Cookbooks We Can’t Wait to Cook From This Fall

The fall cookbook season is here | Collage: Masood Shah We have reached that time of year again. Every good tomato suddenly prompts the pondering: Will this be the last one for the season? The heat begins to give way to crisper breezes, and we start to crave the comfort of windows fogged up from bubbling pots of soup instead of thinking about how to minimize our time in front of a hot stove. Luckily, this season’s cookbooks offer many exciting ways to joyously warm ourselves in the kitchen, whether by baking border-traversing croissants and comforting counter cakes, or keeping the stove simmer…

September 10, 2026

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Home Cooks

When it comes to finding gifts for people who love to cook, I stand by a simple gift shopping mantra: Know what your giftee likes, and then expand upon (or improve) their area of interest. Meaning, if they’re always tracking down rare spices, gift them a pirate’s hoard of blends from one of our favorite places to buy spices online; if they love to bake, equip them with a charming set of nontoxic, miniature muffin baking pans. And so on and so forth; basically, pay attention to what needs an upgrade in their life (there’s a good chance it’s cooking utensils) and which knives aren’t cutting it i…

September 9, 2026

Steal My Food Itinerary: A Long Weekend in Upstate New York

I love New York City in the summer, especially this past one, but I grew up in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. I’m in my late 20s, I rock climb, and I live in Brooklyn, so of course I have an upstate New York itinerary for you. My partner’s mom’s partner (yes) has a cabin in Accord, New York, that we’ve been lucky to house sit, and I’ve fully fallen in love with the Catskills. Over the past few months, I’ve been so grateful to escape for a few long weekends among the trees and the birds and the slightly cooler weather of the Hudson Valley. When I tell people in the city about my trips upsta…

September 4, 2026

It’s Time to Take Ranch Dressing Seriously

You can tell a lot about someone by the way they talk about ranch dressing. Do they express Midwestern passion for the condiment, or coastal-elite distaste? Do they limit its usage to crisp iceberg lettuce salads, or do they become a jester of pairings, drizzling the sauce over steak, pasta, and even cereal? “I love ranch, but I’m also one of those nostalgic [kids] of the 1990s,” says chef McKenna Lelah of the Los Angeles Korean Italian restaurant Lapaba, where the yuzu kosho ranch that accompanies the fried chicken has been quickly gaining fervent fans. “I almost removed ranch from the menu a…

September 2, 2026

‘Still or Sparkling’ Must Be Stopped

Can we skip this awkward moment that inevitably hits at the beginning of so many meals? | Getty Images All this week, the Eater Today newsletter is dedicated to editor Hot Takes, a way to release the pressure valve of crankiness that comes with sweating your way through the end of summer. This story was previously published as part of that series. Subscribe to Eater Today to see more of our editors’ boldest opinions about dining culture writ large. Filtered tap. Please, just bring filtered tap. More and more often, my meal — even at ostensibly casual restaurants — begins not only with an attem…

August 28, 2026

Actually, Dining Side-by-Side in Restaurants Is Good

The side-by-side dining nooks at Cynthia. Credit: Kodi Najm | Kodi Najm All this week, the Eater Today newsletter is dedicated to editor Hot Takes, a way to release the pressure valve of crankiness that comes with sweating your way through the end of summer. This story was previously published as part of that series. Subscribe to Eater Today to see more of our editors’ boldest opinions about dining culture writ large. I love the unspoken rules around dining out; admittedly, even more so when they make me feel like I’m earning a gold star for good decorum. I like dressing up for the occasion; I…

August 27, 2026