EEEEEATSCON is The Infatuation’s signature food festival, created to bring the restaurant-discovery website’s recommendations to life. The name is intentionally playful, with all those E’s emphasizing the idea that this is a festival built around eating. Rather than focusing on tiny tasting portions, cooking demonstrations or traditional food-industry panels, EEEEEATSCON was designed more like a music festival, with restaurants serving…read more

Kitchen + Kocktails By Kevin Kelley made its New York City debut October 3, 2026, bringing its creative soul food concept to 7 Times Square (the entrance is on the NE corner of 41st Street and Seventh Avenue). The restaurant occupies a huge 10,000-square-foot, two-level space that was formerly home to Pink Taco, making it the brand’s largest location to…read more

The Taste of Times Square is one of New York City’s longest-running outdoor food festivals, produced by the Times Square Alliance. Last night’s event ran from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. and essentially turned Restaurant Row and the surrounding Times Square streets into a giant outdoor tasting festival. This year was particularly notable because the event moved from its traditional Monday…read more

I was lucky enough to be invited to the grand opening party of the new Ess-A-Bagel flagship store on the NW corner of 47th Street and Third Avenue—just a stone’s throw from their current and ultra popular store on 51st and Third Avenue (which will be closing when their lease is up the end of September). There were raffles, a…read more

I just adore the Fancy Food Show and have been going to the summer edition for about 40 years now! Under one roof, you get to munch on all your favorites and discover new food items that are downright space age! Of course, as time goes on, healthier items appear in the hundreds of booth on the Javits floor but…read more