Alan Sytsma
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- Sep 24, 2026
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The Ultimate Grub Street Diet (opens the original)
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For 20 years, “The Grub Street Diet” has tracked the daily eating habits of every kind of New Yorker. The famous actress whose equally famous husband is a Bean Guy. The author who starts each day with a salad. The would-be Mayor before he was a household name. The chef who subsists mostly on Checkers. Since the column began in September 2006, when the actress Stephanie March filed the first edition, it has always reflected the ways this city eats and lives: We all have a different coffee routine
Is the Polo Bar Really Moving? (opens the original)
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Spend enough time around chefs and restaurateurs and you will quickly find the main topic of any conversation tends not to be the state of Greenmarket kohlrabi or the best way to roast a chicken. It’s real estate. Operators are constantly wandering this city in search of a space that might be right for their next brilliant concept. As much as anyone likes to think a restaurant’s greatness is measured by the quality of its food and service, the right room to house the proceedings is perhaps the m
Chef Stefano Secchi Takes His Tea With Cheese (opens the original)
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In the last year, Stefano Secchi lived through every chef’s nightmare: His Flatiron restaurant, Massara, was starting to hit its stride (and had just become profitable) when a kitchen fire turned into a disaster that kept the business closed for a year. The night it happened, Secchi had been flying to Italy for a wedding. “I landed and had ten missed calls and 25 texts,” he recalls. “I’m asking my team, like, ‘Guys, can I come back?’ and they’re like ‘You can do nothing right now.” When the rest
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