We can’t help it. Ever since a particularly well-fated study abroad dorm assignment, we’ve had a thing for a man speaking Portuguese-inflected English. While we could easily spend the rest of the ...

Matthew Kang is a correspondent for Eater. Previously, he was the lead editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. He has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los ...

At the annual New York City Wine & Food Festival, chefs Alex Atala of D.O.M. and David Chang of Momofuku discussed their careers, and the future of food and flavor.

I first met Alex Atala in London at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards in 2006. We were but insects among giants and stood sheepishly in a corner, trying to catch a glimpse of the “real” chefs we ...

It’s not every cookbook that includes a meditation on death, but Phaidon strikes again in its continuing effort to reimagine the genre. This time it calls upon Atala, a magic realist of a chef whose D ...