Slideshow: Six Cute Restaurants

WATCH: The Sussman Brothers Ride Horses And Crash Tea Parties On Truckers In The Wild

by Tina Nguyen

God forbid that Max and Eli Sussman, the pride of Brooklyn, ever betray their hipster roots by doing such WASPy things as equestrian activities and gossiping with ladies over tea.

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Justin Warner Live From GoogaMooga: Don't Just Instagram His Foie Gras Jelly Doughnut, EAT IT

by Mariella Mosthof

We managed to chat with Googa vet Justin Warner, whose Bed-Stuy eatery Do or Dine is back at the festival for its second year, serving up its infamous foie gras jelly doughnut. Check out our Q&A with him below to find out how this year's festival is measuring up to last year's notorious shitshow.

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This Is Cool: An Infographic Cookbook

by Laura Norkin

After a long day at the office stringing words together in varying degrees of coherence, the last thing we want to do is keep communicating in complete sentences. Replacing the grunts and gestures we rely on to get dinner on the table, is Picture Cook, a tome that turns the traditional cookbook on its head; it offers illustrated recipes rather than wordy instructions.

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WATCH: David Chang Tests Space Food With Astronaut Chris Hadfield And Mythbusters

by Tina Nguyen

Watch below, because honestly, this is the most exciting collection of people that we've ever seen. Nothing will top this moment. Nothing.

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ISH SO KYOOT: Six Twee Restaurants Going Solely By Their Names

by Tina Nguyen 1:00 pm, August 28th

Occasionally I put on my Asian Girl Hat and obsess over really cute things. Then I throw that hat away in disgust and go back to thinking about steaks and motorcycles and owning a sheep ranch in Carmel with Clint Eastwood.

This is a time when I keep that hat on, and compile a list of the most adorably-named celebrity chef restaurants that I’ve ever come across. The list has nothing to do with the quality of the food, the prestige of the chef, or even the ambience of the restaurant. The only criterion is: will the name make a five year old light up in unbridled joy? La Tour d’Argent sure doesn’t (unless you’re a French baby who loves Le Petit Prince.)

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1.JoJo

This is either a diminutive French nickname for someone named Jean, or a pop singer from the Aughts, or the name of a very determined fire truck who just wants to prove he’s as good as the other trucks.

2.ABC Kitchen

This could very easily be a mass-produced children’s book that teaches children the alphabet using food. Since it’s a Jean-Georges kitchen, though, it would probably be a bit more high-brow. “A is for abignades, with goose blood and tummy. B is for bordeaux, so bodied and yummy.” And so forth.

3.The Walrus and the Carpenter

It already takes its name from a children’s poem that’s an extended metaphor for religion or socialism or something, but the staff of The Walrus And The Carpenter in Seattle also look like they are walrus-carpenters.

4.minibar

It’s a tiny bar with tiny, critically renowned food on tiny plates. Enough said.

5.The Girl and the Goat

This restaurant sounds like a story! Gather ‘round, children.

Once upon a time, Stephanie Izard tied a bright green ribbon around her pet goat and together they skipped over hill and dale to the village to buy food for dinner. The kindly grocer laughed as he shooed Stephanie’s goat away from his flowerbeds, the milkman praised the goat for keeping her horns so dainty and clean, and the fishmonger exclaimed that the goat wore a beautiful ribbon.

And then Stephanie slaughtered the goat, hacked off its stomach, and made a delicious goat confit with bourbon butter, a lobster-and-crab hash, and fennel. The villagers loved it.

6.frog n snail

I have to admit that I was slightly disappointed by the photos of Dale Levitski’s second Chicago restaurant. Not that the minimal decor and casual atmosphere were off-putting, but from the name alone I expected one of those riotous, bucolic garden parties from a Victorian children’s novel, where you sit on tuffets made of grass and sip tea out of acorn caps while nibbling violet petit-fours off cloverleaf plates with the grasshopper from an e.e. cummings’ poem.