Karel Edlin and Irene Sibler are retirees and foodies. Karel is a former food critic, and her friend Irene also knows about food. At the Stricha restaurant at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. George in Manhattan, they order dumplings with potatoes and cheese,…

My interlocutor, a pretty young blonde named Maria, came to New York from Moscow several years ago, when she was only 22 years old. In the capital of Russia, she moved, one might say, in a bohemian environment - she worked in the theater as a prop artist, studied...

Restaurant Week is in full swing in New York - more precisely, three weeks from July 25 to August 19, during which hundreds of restaurants in the city offer lunch and dinner for a fixed price ($25 and $42, respectively). This price does not include…