Bettina Makalintal is a senior reporter at Eater.com, covering restaurant trends, home cooking advice, and all the food you can’t escape on your TikTok FYP. Previously, she worked for Bon Appétit and ...

The palazzo-style building in the heart of the Bronx known as Andrew Freedman Home was once a retirement refuge for rich New Yorkers who fell on hard times. Today it’s a sprawling event and gallery ...

In December 2022, Tokyo welcomed a food-fashion mash-up as New York-based culinary collective Ghetto Gastro – which promises to bring ‘Bronx to the world, and the world to the Bronx’ – united with ...

When Bronx-based culinary collective Ghetto Gastro teamed up with nonprofit Rethink Food NYC, they had one goal at first: to distribute food to seniors, people of color, low-income families, and ...

New York City is a food mecca unlike no other, as its five boroughs provide a smorgasbord of cuisines native to various corners of the globe. For every line across the subway system lies a world of ...

The tenets of Ghetto Gastro are as follows: Be the catalyst. Empower the community. And “vibes.” For Jon Gray, one-third of the Bronx food collective, it’s simple: “We’re storytellers. We use food and ...

From left: Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, Malcolm Livingston II and Lester Walker. Photograph courtesy of Jake Jones. Ghetto Gastro, the Bronx-based chef collective founded by Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, ...

Some of our favorite culinary artists, Ghetto Gastro, are launching a new range of appliances. Jon Gray, Lester Walker, and Pierre Serrao have officially launched their new line in collaboration with ...

ML: Japan is a big influence on my career because they do everything so insanely well there. We want to go back, maybe for a longer pop-up. LW: To go to these temples of knifemaking, hearing the ...

Ghetto Gastro is composed of several chefs, though it’s the guy who is not a chef who came up with the group’s name. “It came to me in a dream,” says Jon Gray, a.k.a. Fidel Gastro. He had just eaten ...