How the pandemic turned New York’s stale restaurants into a cutting-edge street food scene
The new food trucks, carts and holes-in-the-wall to add to your hit list for your next Big Apple trip
15 March 2021 • 3:14pm
Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns at their paleta cart
Credit: Heami Lee
‘Boring”, “safe”, “meh”: all words used to describe New York’s restaurant scene in recent years – and by the city’s top food editors at that. Adam Platt, New York magazine’s longtime restaurant critic, even likened the latest openings to an Ed Sheeran ballad: “Focus-grouped [and] middlebrow.” Ouch.
Today, though, a revolution is brewing. Because, while the Covid-19 pandemic has devastated New York’s restaurant industry – forcing more than 1,000 establishments to permanently close in the first six months alone – there is another side to the story. One where the mass exodus of mega-wealthy diners and restaurant groups run by celebrity chefs has made space for a more
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Queens red sauce joint Il Triangolo is reopening
Beloved Queens Italian restaurant Il Triangolo is set to reopen after initially closing down permanently last October. The red sauce joint will reopen March 4 with a new owner at the helm but the same staff and menu, Eater has learned.
Edwin Nunez, who oversaw the design and marketing for the restaurant, purchased the establishment from its longtime owner Mario Gigliotti last month, a restaurant representative tells Eater. The restaurant reopened for deliveries on February 26, and will welcome diners back inside starting this Thursday. The restaurant does not have any outdoor seating.
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