NEW YORK — Last fall a friend told me a story about Ryuichi Sakamoto, the renowned musician and composer who lives in the West Village. Sakamoto, it seems, so likes a particular Japanese restaurant in ...

When he was a teen, Nicolas Bragg worked at a restaurant for two years where the same boring music playlist blared over every dinner service. “The environment was stale,” recalls Bragg, who is now the ...

Two professional music consultants shed some light. Jonathan Shecter of the Vegas-based background music provider Playback Prodigy helped us understand the brass tacks of what restaurants need from a ...

When Carlos Alzaola dips in and out of the various indoor and outdoor zones of the Cloverfield in Santa Monica and surveys the scene, a sixth sense tells the assistant general manager what sounds the ...

Think about the last time you walked into your favorite restaurant. What was the vibe? Chill? High-energy? Romantic? Now, what made it that way? The design, look and feel of the space? That has a lot ...

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The mood a restaurant sets with music is as key to creating an environment as its decor. A recent visit to chef Bruno Davaillon’s opulent Bullion was a prime example of this. The lush vibes of ’70s ...

Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. Max Boonthanakit’s desserts have been described as understated, yet intriguing.

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Is a hyper-curated playlist the new house-made charcuterie? Whether a restaurant’s playing Lady Gaga or Langhorne Slim says as much about the place as its Mason jar drinking glasses or farm-to-table ...

Back when I was a child, my parents would often take me and my sisters out for dinner at Sung Palace, a neat restaurant located at the corner of Aurangzeb Road in Mohammadpur. This was in the later ...