In his last essay as a restaurant critic, Pete Wells reflects on a dining world of touch screens and reservation apps, where it’s getting hard to find the human touch. Now restaurants hardly ever pay someone to pick up the phone, if they have one; few newer places...

Effusive comes easy when it comes to Eulalie, the new restaurant from chef Chip Smith and Tina Vaughn that opened last December in the old Bâtard space, so I won’t fight it. Our evening there was really one of the most delicious, fun, gracious dining experiences I...

Tina Vaughn of Eulalie, a 3-star NY Times Restaurant and Jewel Box of Hospitality Tina Vaughn and her Chef/Partner/Husband Chip Smith received a 3-star NY times review in January of 2024 for their restaurant Eulalie, a jewel-box of hospitality in Tribeca. In this...

This new place in TriBeCa, a successor to the Simone uptown, offers old-fashioned values and an old-fashioned way of taking reservations.

Eulalie upturns her violet eye on Tribeca “You’re due at X in 30 minutes.” For most restaurants these days, an automated text from a reservation app is the first point of communication with your hosts. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Eulalie, the restaurant on West Broadway just north of White in the former Bâtard space (which closed in May), has opened and is now taking reservations. Tina Vaughn, who owns the restaurant with her husband, chef Chip Smith, was nice enough to give me a call — I will...