Grub Street’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024
During a year of upheaval and change, food, as it so often does, offered a degree of comfort and familiarity. Grub Street’s most popular stories of 2024 prove it: Our audience — you — turned to pieces about xiao long bao and oeufs mayo, New York’s restaurant history, our most charming bodegas, and a surprising number of reports that were Chipotle-adjacent (two). Below, you’ll find our 20 most-read articles, defined by total minutes of audience engagement. It’s a small selection of the work that’s published by New York’s print magazine and on all its digital sites. If you missed any of these, we hope you’ll use this as a guide to catch up before the New Year arrives. And to stay current with us in 2025, be sure to sign up for our daily Grub Street newsletter and Eating New York. And read everything on New York’s excellent new app.
20. Oeufs Mayo Are All Over the Place
They’re a dead-simple bistro staple and chefs can’t resist them. Read the story …
19. Delaney Rowe Is Eating Like a Gym Bro
“Men will eat anything if you add ‘protein’ to the name.” Read the story …
18. Chloe Fineman Got Hooked on Pedialyte This Summer
“I’m worried I have hypertension due to salt, but whatever.” Read the story …
17. ‘If You Were a Chef in the City … You Had a Moment With Him’
What James Kent meant to New York’s restaurants. Read the story …
16. Meet the Super-Regular
Gar Guttman’s been eating schnitzel specials at EJ’s for 31 years. Read the story …
14. Do You Know Mr. Mango?
How Brooklyn’s beloved fruit bodegas came to be. Read the story …
13. A Diner Designed by Movie People
How a bunch of Brooklyn filmmakers took over their neighborhood luncheonette. Read the story …
12. Vinson Cunningham Is a Ritualistic Eater
“This is my self-elevating way of admitting that I am a ‘creature of habit.’” Read the story …
11. Molly Baz Is Mostly Mayo These Days
“I’m slightly horrified and also totally energized by this realization.” Read the story …
10. Matty Matheson Is Not an Accident
From burger tutorials to The Bear, the internet’s favorite chef has been all in this whole time. Read the story …
9. Din Tai Fung Is Ready to Go, at Last
After a wait that took forever, a grand opening arrived. Read the story …
8. The Restaurant That Made a Customer’s Birthday Cake Disappear
What happened after a midtown steakhouse was accused of dessert theft. Read the story …
7. 48 Scenes From a Century of New York Dining
Debbie Harry at Katz’s, David Byrne at the Locale, and Bastille Day at Florent. Read the story …
6. Joanna Goddard Loves a Smash and Grab
“It just means eating whatever’s in the fridge. Before there was girl dinner, there was the smash and grab.” Read the story …
5. Steve Ells Is Still Trying to Solve Lunch
He built Chipotle and its burrito bowls. Now he’s obsessed with vegan burgers cooked by robots. Read the story …
4. Who Ate Where
A social history of the city, told entirely through its restaurants. Read the story …
3. The $9.5 Million Hangover
Did a wine-world insider swindle his Bordeaux-swilling pals? Read the story …
2. The Case Against Deli Meat
They’re consistent, convenient, tasty — and at a time of recalls and outbreaks, one of the riskiest things you could eat. Read the story …
1. The Empathy Punishment
A woman hurled a burrito bowl at a Chipotle employee. Then a judge made her walk in the victim’s shoes. Read the story …
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