One person has died in an apparent shooting at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Wuhan in what would be a rare case of gun violence in China. A police statement said Monday that two other people were injured on Sunday night in what it called a case of “deliberate injury” resulting from a…
A shooting rampage erupted on Sunday evening outside a crowded restaurant in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, leaving three people dead and five others injured, police said. The Glendale Police Department received multiple emergency calls around 7:45 p.m. reporting gunfire at El Camaron Gigante Mariscos & Steakhouse. Officer Moroni Mendez confirmed during a press conference…
Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that 22 people have been killed and three were injured in a fire at a restaurant in the northern city of Liaoyang. No word was given on the cause of the fire, which broke out shortly after noon, but images from the scene showed huge flames spurting from the windows…
A retro-futuristic diner is rising on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Curved, silvery and flanked by two outdoor film screens, it looks as if a flying saucer had sailed out of a 1950s drive-in movie and come to rest in the parking lot. An opening date has not been announced, but Tesla’s all-night diner,…
Chinese hotpot giant Haidilao has pledged compensation to over 4,000 customers after a viral video showed two men urinating into a broth at one of its Shanghai outlets. The incident, which sparked public outrage, has led to the detention of the two individuals and a civil lawsuit filed by the restaurant chain. The video, which…
As a young pastry cook at Eleven Madison Park, Genie Kwon grew accustomed to a kitchen tradition: Every time the chef shouted out an order, the other cooks responded in unison, “Oui, chef!” Or as you may have heard it on the FX show “The Bear”: “Yes, chef!” For a long time, Ms. Kwon, who…
A US real estate agent was fired from her job after she left a hateful note for a waiter at a Mexican restaurant in Columbus. Stephanie Lovins, who dined at Cazuelas Mexican Cantina in Ohio, wrote “I hope Trump deports you” in the receipt. In the tip section, she wrote “Zero, you s**k”. As the…
Patsy Grimaldi, a restaurateur whose coal-oven pizzeria in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge won new fans for New York City’s oldest pizza style with carefully made pies that helped start a national movement toward artisan pizza, died on Feb. 13 in Queens. He was 93. His nephew Frederick Grimaldi confirmed the death, at NewYork-Presbyterian…
This orange chicken has not been waiting for you on the steam table. It has not been bouncing and sweating in the darkness of a clamshell container while you wheel your luggage to the gate. At Panda Inn, the Pasadena restaurant that started Panda Express, the orange chicken is made to order, strewed with whole…
Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change America’s perception of Asian food by replacing menus of inexpensive noodle dishes and spring rolls with ones that married the best local ingredients with the food he grew up on, died on Monday in San…