These are the PIZZA BITES from Roberta’s Bakery in Bushwick. Imagine the soft interior of a zeppole spiked with cacio cavallo, parm, pepperoni, and fresh mozzarella. They are served SUPER HOT but are rendered EDIBLE by dipping into cool marinara. Cost: $5 for a handful. Rating: STRONG BUY! Click through for more about how to order takeout like a BOSS from Roberta’s Bakery (Photo: Daniel Krieger/Eater).| THE PRICE HIKE
Meet, Semilla, Eater’s newest four star restaurant, as declared by Ryan Sutton (that’s me). What’s significant about Pamela Yung and Jose Ramirez-Ruiz’s vegetable-heavy establishment is its price; $75 for about 10-courses, which is less than what you’ll pay for a strip steak ($61) and a salad ($15) at Minetta Tavern. Think about that. (Photo: Daniel Krieger/Eater).| THE PRICE HIKE
Thirty Acres in Jersey City used to serve an a la carte menu. Dinner for two would cost about $125 after tax and tip (but before wine). Then in February it went tasting menu only. Dinner now costs $190 for two. Add on wine pairings and you’re at $330. That’s a heck of a hike. But does it work? It sure does. I award THREE STARS in my review for Eater! And there’s also a cheaper a la carte bar menu for walk-ins, FYI. (Photo: Paul Crispin Quitoriano/Eater).| THE PRICE HIKE
eater: Mu Ramen serves some of NYC’s finest tonkotsu. Review by Ryan Sutton, photos by Nick Solares. Mu Ramen also serves some of New York’s most expensive ramen. Click through for Eater interactive graph comparing what you’ll spend on NYC’s best Japanese-style noodle soups.| THE PRICE HIKE
You’ll pay more for dinner at Le Bernardin because the restaurant is paying its workers more. You should be okay with that. Real the full story. (Photo: Paul Crispin Quitoriano/Eater).| THE PRICE HIKE
The tasting menu at Atera is normally $225. But on Valentine’s Day, dinner is $500. That makes the two-Michelin-starred establishment, if only for a single day, more expensive than Masa, America’s most expensive restaurant. Click through to see what some of NYC’s other most expensive restaurants are charging on this “Black Saturday.” (Photo: Eater New York).| THE PRICE HIKE
baddeal: Atelier Crenn, one of San Francisco’s most critically acclaimed restaurants, has joined the battle against the ridiculous American practice of tipping. Diners will now pay a 20 percent “guest experience” fee so Crenn can better compensate its employees, especially back-of-the-house staffers like cooks who’ll see their wages go up substantially! Atelier Crenn is most definitely a GOOD DEAL and a STRONG BUY. (Photo: Patricia Chang/Eater). NO MORE TIPPING!!!! Note that Crenn we...| THE PRICE HIKE
baddeal: “If Neapolitan pizza, in all its deliciously bastardized forms, is unquestionably one of New York’s trademark foodstuffs, the ultra-thin crust pies of Rome could be the next import to achieve citywide fame. This is all thanks to the fine work of Danny Meyer and chef Nick Anderer at Marta. Anderer’s best effort involves taking the flavors of Carbonara (pancetta, egg, and black pepper) and throwing them onto a pizza, with soft potatoes substituting in for the spaghetti. The chew...| THE PRICE HIKE
Momofuku Ko now charges $175 per person, a $50 hike from the old price of $125. And wine pairings are now $155, up from $95. So your fully-loaded dinner date, after tax and tip, will now run $851, nearly $300 more than the old cost. That’s a pretty big HIKE!!! Click through to Eater for all the pricey details!| THE PRICE HIKE
baddeal: Dirt Candy in New York joins the small but growing club of restaurants that will effectively eliminate the ridiculous practice known as tipping. Amanda Cohen will levy a 20% administrative fee on all checks, I report over at Eater. There will not be a separate line for gratuity on your bill. You simply pay the check and leave. BOOM. The Price Hike and The Bad Deal have long been proponents of ending tipping, a practice that’s bad for waiters, bad for cooks and bad for consumers.| THE PRICE HIKE
One of America's Most Prominent Chefs Will Eliminate Tipping.: baddeal: Daniel Patterson, chef at the two-Michelin-starred Coi in San Francisco, will eliminate tipping at Aster, his soon-to-open restaurant in The Mission, in favor of a European-style “service-included” policy. This will mean that means the restaurant, not the customers, will be able to decide exactly how much waiters are compensated. And the service charge will also allow Aster to better compensate cooks, dishwashers, and...| THE PRICE HIKE
It’s not uncommon for an ambitious restaurant to price its entry level Champagne at anywhere from $80-$95, while keeping the rest of the French bubbly by the bottle at $120 or higher. But at Marta, Danny Meyer’s first pizzeria, there are a WHOPPING 15 selections at $99 or under. That’s a very cool thing indeed. Click through for my full review on Eater!| THE PRICE HIKE
SF's Most Expensive Restaurant Is Now One of The World's Best Restaurants, Says Michelin.: Congratulations to Saison, one of The Price Hike’s favorite restaurants to cover, on earning its third Michelin star. Joshua Skenes’ tasting menu venue is now one of just eleven American restaurant to hold such an honor. Dinner starts at $248, with an extended menu available at $398.| THE PRICE HIKE
Atera, the two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in Tribeca, has raised the price of dinner by $30 to $225, making it as expensive as the three Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park. Bold Move. Is it still a BUY at these prices? Let us know! (Photograph: Nick Solares/Eater).| THE PRICE HIKE
Kappo Masa Serves NYC's 2nd Most Expensive Tasting Menu!!!: The Japanese restaurant opens tonight in the basement of the Gagosian on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 20-course omakase is $350, making it New York’s second most expensive tasting menu after Masa, which still serves the city’s (and the country’s) most expensive tasting at $450.| THE PRICE HIKE
So This $55 Tasting Menu Sounds Like a Great Deal but It's Not.: Huertas is a very good restaurant, but there’s a serious opportunity cost involved with the no-choice tasting menu. Would you rather have FIVE courses per person at $55 each, with every patron sharing the same rustic dish? Or would you rather choose from the restaurant’s a larger, more affordable selection of 25 dishes plus passed plates and daily specials? The answer is obvious.| THE PRICE HIKE
Over at Eater we publish our first ever Shake Shack Index! How much you spend at Danny Meyer’s burger chain depends on what country you’re located in. Pay attention to the Dubai International Airport prices, as it’s the seventh-most trafficked airport in the world, which means even if you’re not planning on moving to the Middle East, you might end up spending a lot on Shack Shack in Dubai if that’s where you flight is routed through!| THE PRICE HIKE
This is halva creme brulee. It is topped with Persian cotton candy. It costs $11. It is most definitely a STRONG BUY. It’s available at Bar Bolonat an Israeli-inclined Middle Eastern that I award three stars in today’s Eater review.| THE PRICE HIKE
American diners aren’t accustomed to paying as much for food as their foreign counterparts. As a result, U.S. restaurants make more of their money from liquor markups. Sometimes, however, the prices get a little bit ridiculous. This chart shows what’s you’d pay for Johnnie Walker Blue (normally $200), if you purchased a bottle’s worth of shots in any of these fancypants restaurants. Crazy, right? Click through to Eater for the full interactive graph!| THE PRICE HIKE
Dinner for two at Next, a Chicago restaurant that overhauls its entire menu three times a year, will cost over $500 per person in its latest iteration, we report over at Eater. Yeah, that’s a lot of money. The menu, which revisits the time chef Grant Achtatz spent at Trio before he opened Alinea, starts at $245 during off-peak hours and reaches $255 on Friday and Saturday nights. Wine pairings are $138. Add on Chicago sales tax (10.5%) and the service charge (20%) and you’re at $1,015 for...| Tumblr