Shops & Markets

The Spot: Yasha From Russia, Open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m…

Chocolate is healthy — potentially lowering blood pressure, reducing risk of heart disease, and staving off dementia, research shows — but only in small quantities. It’s recommended to eat less than 3 ounces of dark chocolate per day because it is so calorie-dense and high in saturated fat. However, a…

Cronuts™ have been dominating food news all summer, and New Yorkers are still lining up in the wee hours of the morning to get a taste when the bakery opens at 8 a.m., a trend that — with the promise of a fig-mascarpone variety in September — isn’t likely to…

By now you know that the world’s rarest and most expensive coffee is picked from the feces of palm civets, or toddy cats. Coffee berries are part of the Southeastern Asian animal’s diet, and after the beans are excreted, they’re collected, fermented, and roasted to make Kopi Luwak, which sells…

If you thought the bacon trend had peaked long ago, turns out you’re wrong. But it actually may have happened one week ago in Chicago with the opening of a restaurant that serves sandwiches that are topped with different types of bacon, including Chinese bacon, chicken liver-bacon banh mi spread,…

The hottest thing in NYC right now is the Ramen Burger. And yes, that does sound slightly reminiscent of something Saturday Night Live’s city’s correspondent Stefon would have said — except that this is not a joke. Out of Brooklyn and on the heels of the now-infamous Cronut™ comes an…

The Spot: Olivastro, Open Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m…

It looks like All-American brew might not be so great after all, though to be fair, they aren’t the only brands of beer with a habit of landing folks in the emergency room. A recently study done at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, found that several malt liquors (not…

The chocolate chip cookie is no fad. This beloved American treat is a go-to sweet treat, and cookies in the pastry case always sell. Chocolate chip cookies come in so many different shapes, sizes, thickness, sweetness levels, shades of browning, and textures. They are their own chemistry experiment, for as…

It’s been nearly a year since New York City fast food employees staged a walk-out in protest over their low wages. It ignited a slow but steadily growing movement within the fast food service industry that’s been making its way across the country, as several cities have seen one-day work…

Locally owned American coffee houses are going to some extreme measures to counteract what are being called “laptop squatters,” or people who camp out for long periods of time without spending more than a few dollars on coffee and food. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Luigi Di Ruocco, owner…

A Michigan mother says she found a live worm inside her son’s Capri-Sun juice pouch last week. And despite what you see in the video below, in which the worm can be seen wriggling inside a plastic bag, Kraft Foods says it can’t be sure the object in question isn’t…

Still haven’t had a Cronut — or even an imitation? Apparently, there still are people out there who either can’t seem to find them or are just so incredibly obsessed that they need to know the whereabouts of Cronuts™ around the world at all times. Those are the only two…

The Spot: Tempe Farmers Market, open Sunday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. until 12 a.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. until 1 a.m…

Show this to your boss or casually pass it around the office so it will work its way into his or her awareness. A new study shows that eating lunch at your desk is making you more stressed, less creative, and quite possibly less productive…

You may think a pastry chef’s obsession with butter falls into the same category as Paula Deen deep-frying golden sticks or that annoying Julie girl in the Julie & Julia movie who closes the flick with the cloyingly symbolic gesture of leaving a pound of butter under Julia Child’s picture…

Try not to freak out, but it’s true. There’s a third Doritos Loco taco coming soon to a Taco Bell near you…

There’s a whole market out there for exotic breeds of chickens. As in livestock that can cost you anywhere from $50 a bird to thousands of dollar for a pair. But the king of the expensive fowl would have to be the Indonesian chicken breed Ayam Cemani, which will run…

It’s pretty safe to say the croissant-doughnuts have jumped the shark even faster than Shark Week jumped the shark. Don’t believe us? Maple bacon “Cronut” burgers exist. We think that says enough. So we’re moving on to the next deep-fried doughnut thing and we (ok with some help from video…

Two decades ago, beer was king around these parts, with nearly half of Americans saying they preferred to drink beer over wine or liquor. But Gallup’s new survey of alcoholic preferences shows that number — and annual domestic production — was down 20 percent in 2012. If you look at…

The Spot: New India Bazaar and Cuisine, open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. until 8:30 p.m…

In most cases, when food and sex mix, we’re not really into it. But in this case, things have a taken a turn toward the educational, and we think we’ll make an exception. The definitely NSFW video below highlights alarming differences between porn sex and real-life sex in a creative…