Finding a great restaurant in New York is easy. Finding one that people return to for brunch, date night, happy hour, group dinners, and casual weekday meals is much harder. That is what makes Boqueria stand out. When people search for a Tapas Bar Flatiron diners genuinely love, they are usually looking for more than […]

The bartender is mid-sentence about a Barça match when the gambas al ajillo land on the bar in front of the regulars. Nobody stops talking. The pan still sizzles. Someone tears off a piece of bread without looking down. This is the part of the evening that doesn’t have a name — not quite dinner, […]

Every table at Boqueria eventually arrives at paella. It might happen after the croquetas, or after a second round of wine, or when someone looks up from their plate and says — without quite planning to — let’s get the paella. It happens the same way every night. The wide pan lands in the center […]

In Spain, vermouth isn’t a cocktail ingredient. It’s a time of day. La hora del vermut — the vermouth hour — unfolds somewhere between noon and 2 p.m., a pause before lunch where the agenda is exactly nothing: a cold glass over ice, an orange slice, an olive, maybe a plate of chips or anchovies, […]

The food on our menu has a history. Behind it are generations of people — mostly women — who grew it, preserved it, cooked it, and wrote it down. This Women’s History Month, we’re telling their stories. Basque Country Elena Arzak Named the world’s best female chef more times than anyone has bothered to count, […]