Papaya King is a fast food restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
David Chang is an American celebrity chef, restauranteur, author, podcaster, and television personality. He is the founder of the Momofuku restaurant group. In 2009, Momofuku Ko was awarded two Michelin stars, which the restaurant had retained each year until its closure in 2023. In 2011, he co-founded the influential food magazine Lucky Peach, which lasted for 25 quarterly volumes into 2017.
Veselka is a Ukrainian restaurant at 144 Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1954 by Wolodymyr Darmochwal and his wife, Olha Darmochwal, post–World War II Ukrainian refugees. Veselka is one of the last of many Slavic restaurants that once proliferated in the neighborhood. A cookbook, published in October 2009 by St. Martin's Press, highlights more than 120 of the restaurant's Eastern European recipes.
Mr Chow is a series of upscale Chinese restaurants founded by British-Chinese restaurateur Michael Chow. There are locations in London, New York, Beverly Hills, Miami, and Las Vegas.
Eataly is a chain of large format/footprint Italian marketplaces comprising a variety of restaurants, food and beverage counters, bakery, retail items, and a cooking school. Eataly was founded by Oscar Farinetti, an entrepreneur formerly involved in the consumer electronics business, and collaborates with Slow Food.
James Daniel Bowien is a chef and restaurateur. He is the founder and owner of Mission Chinese Food in New York City and Brooklyn and co-founder of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco, California. Bowien is a James Beard Award winner, and the main subject of season six of the food and travel show The Mind of a Chef.
Jing Fong is a Chinese dim sum restaurant that was originally located on the second floor of 20 Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. It had a large seating capacity accommodating over 800 seats with 20,000 square feet.
Dig is an American chain of locally farm sourced restaurants that was founded by Adam Eskin. In 2011, the first Dig restaurant was opened in New York City. As of June 2023, the chain has 32 restaurants in two New York City boroughs, followed Rye Brook in Westchester County, NY; Stamford, Connecticut; Bridgewater, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Boston, MA; and Washington, DC. The company opened its first Philadelphia location in 2019.
Angela Solita Dimayuga is an American chef and political activist. She was an executive chef at Mission Chinese Food New York, and helped to build the restaurant in its early years. Dimayuga was included in the Zagat's "30 Under 30" List in 2015 as an upcoming culinary star and was also part of 2015 class of Eater Young Guns. She was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2016 and named a 2017 Rising Star Chef for her work at Mission Chinese Food New York. As of 2018, she worked with The Standard hotel, which opened in London in 2019.
Mott 32 is a Cantonese restaurant owned by Maximal Concepts. As of 2024, Mott 32 has eight locations, including Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, Dubai and Cebu.
Blue Star Donuts is a small chain of gourmet donut shops. The business has operated in Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.
Mei Lin is a Chinese-born American chef and television personality, best known as the winner of the twelfth season of the Bravo television network's reality television series, Top Chef. After winning Top Chef in 2014, Lin worked as a personal chef for Oprah Winfrey before going on to open her first restaurant, Nightshade in Los Angeles in 2019. She became engaged to her fiancé Andrew Skala on January 14, 2023. On April 9, 2023, Lin won the fourth season of Food Network's Tournament of Champions.
O Ya is a Japanese omakase-style restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts. The restaurant is owned by Tim and Nancy Cushman.
Country Dough was a Chinese restaurant at Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Tanaka is a small chain of Japanese restaurants in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The original location has operated in downtown Portland since 2022. A second location opened in Bridgeport Village in 2023, and a third followed in Gresham in 2024.
Chengdu Taste is a chain of Chinese restaurants from Southern California. The business operates in Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle, among other locations.
Sushi Ginza Onodera is a restaurant chain specializing in sushi.
Tuome is a restaurant in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan within Alphabet City in New York City. The restaurant serves New American cuisine with Asian influences; primarily Chinese due to the chef's background. The restaurant received a 2 star rating from the New York Times and a 4 star rating from Eater The restaurant has received a Michelin star.
Café China is a Chinese restaurant in Midtown West, New York City serving Sichuan cuisine in a 1940s Shanghai style setting established in 2011. In 2021, the restaurant closed, moving from its original one floor location at 13 East 37th St to its current one up the block which is 3 floors. A new restaurant called Chili was opened by several former workers at Cafe China in their old location and drew ire from Cafe China accusing them of stealing their menu. The restaurant had received a Michelin star in 2013 becoming the first Chinese restaurant in NYC to receive one maintaining their star until 2020.
CheLi is a Chinese restaurant in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan on St Mark's Place in New York City with a second location in Flushing, Queens on 39th Avenue. The restaurant servers Shanghainese cuisine such as XLB and is owned by DaShan Restaurant Group, the same group as Szechuan Mountain House next door.
