Starting on January 1, Polo Dobkin will adopt a service-included policy at his a la carte restaurant, eliminating tipping and raising prices from 16 to 20 percent. Dobkin says the move will allow him ...

After stints in the early 2000s at Manhattan restaurants like Gramercy Tavern, Polo Dobkin crossed the East River into Brooklyn, where he ran the kitchens at Dumont, Dumont Burger, and then the ...

Find everything from chore coats to baguette bags — yes, to tote around your loaf of bread.

“I feel like a stranger in my own kitchen,” said Polo Dobkin last week from a table inside Meadowsweet, his new Williamsburg restaurant that opens today. For those concerned that the Michelin-starred ...

Meadowsweet, or Filipendula ulmaria, is a summer British wildflower that foams in ditches and water meadows. In 1897, a chemist called Felix Hoffman discovered salicylic acid could be produced from a ...

DURING the summer weeks of July, most of our adult birds have fallen silent. Tired and dishevelled from the busyness of chick rearing, they begin to moult, replacing old feathers with a new set to ...