Amid yet another complicated year, there were, indeed, many high points too. The restaurant and bar scene across the United States felt legitimately exciting once again. It was a great year to enjoy a ...

The state of collective bargaining in the fast-food industry. Neither SEIU nor any other major union actually represents the nation’s fast-food workers. Workers’ rights advocates identify two primary ...

An Australian bartender set a new Guinness World Record for the most expensive cocktail this week with a drink that sold for 12,500 Australian dollars ($12,916). The Age reports that Club 23 bartender ...

The fried butter on a stick was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Iowa State Fair’s life size butter cow sculpture. Alas, “Butter Cow Lady” Norma Lyon, who sculpted the cow every year ...

Brenna Houck is a dining editorial manager for the Eater network overseeing the Cascadia and Midwest regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You can follow her at ...

This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. The ...

Here’s a hilarious clip from this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live with comedian Melissa McCarthy. McCarthy plays Barb Kelner, an enterprising woman who’s interested in getting a bank loan for an ...

At a red-carpet event tonight at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, the James Beard Awards honored restaurants and chefs in categories like best new restaurant, emerging chef, and regional best chef ...

Welcome to a Five Days of Meat-themed edition of Eater Elements, a series that explores the ideas and ingredients of noteworthy meat dishes. “Few foods rightfully deserve the designation as a meaty ...

They account for 90 percent of the mushroom production in the United States, making it an almost one-billion-dollar industry. As the mushrooms mature, they lose some of their water content, making ...

The latest news from Amy’s Baking Company? Last October the owners sued Gordon Ramsay for sexual harassment. The Bouzaglos told the AP that their restaurant drama from the past two years had nothing ...

A beer drinker is suing Anheuser-Busch because one of its beers isn’t actually made by Belgian monks. An optometrist named Henry Vazquez has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in Miami federal ...