Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. The house-smoked Hunan bacon at Blue Willow, a new restaurant a brick’s ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. What's hotter than Sichuan cuisine? Hunan cuisine. While Sichuan cuisine relies on peppercorns that numb your ...

The word “Hunan” has appeared in the names of Chinese restaurants in the United States, and in the names of dishes on their menus, for decades, without many Americans knowing what it meant exactly.

I’ve often puzzled over how restaurants I visit — from Venezuelan to Turkish — are so often filled not with locals, but tourists from Venezuela and Turkey. When I travel, the last thing in the world I ...