Longform

If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?

David Chang’s manic quest for a flawless restaurant.

An essay on waiting tables.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.

Mysterious, man-made “natural flavor” explains why most fast food—indeed, most of the food Americans eat—tastes the way it does. An early excerpt from Fast Food Nation.

A minute-by-minute account of what it takes to run a restaurant.

America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.

The creator of the California-based food chain kills his mother, sister and, finally, himself.