What Happens When Taylor Swift Visits Your NYC Restaurant?

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( champagne problems [‘She Eats, She Pays, She Gets the F– Out’]( Servers, bartenders, and owners explain what happens when Taylor Swift visits their NYC restaurants. Photo: MEGA/GC Images Taylor Swift does not “need” to “go out to dinner.” “Going out to dinner” is a bourgeois construct that has no obvious draw for her. Civilians with expendable cash go out to dinner to break up the monotony of being alive. Celebrities go out to dinner to be photographed so that these cash-flush civilians remember they exist. Taylor Swift is neither a civilian nor a run-of-the-mill celebrity. She has rarely known middle-class tedium and she has never risked exiting the collective imagination for even a brief moment. And yet Taylor Swift has, of late, gone out to dinner basically every other night during her recent stays in New York City, and to some of its sceniest spots, the sorts of places tourists go in hopes of spotting someone like Taylor Swift. Last month, over the course of roughly two weeks, Taylor visited the following Manhattan [restaurants and bars:]( Via Carota, Emilio’s Ballato, Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s New York, Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria, Zero Bond, Casino, and Temple Bar. In the few days it took me to report this story, she also went to at least one football game, SNL, Nobu, and the Waverly Inn. In photos, she smiled like she had a little pleasant secret; she did not look tired or like she was running out of things to talk about with her dining companions, a rotating cast of slightly less famous people, some of whom are her friends, one of whom is her alleged lover, and one of whom is Ryan Reynolds: Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Blake Lively and/or Ryan Reynolds, Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Kelce, and Sophie Turner. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: [Fly Like an Eaglewoman]( • Our Flag Means Death: [A Damn Fine Pirate]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Lady Gaga Crashes the Sphere To perform “Shallow” with U2.]( By Zoe Guy [In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are Alive The second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.]( [Why Is It So Hard to Make Digital Fire Look Good? Some of the most expensively made movies in history have trouble depicting a simple flame.]( By Lane Brown [The Persian Version and the Art of Doing Too Much Maryam Keshavarz’s musical romantic dramedy tells an affecting story about what womanhood demands — at least, it does whenever it settles down.]( By Roxana Hadadi [The Crown Coronates Its Final Season This Winter College Will and Kate are next in line on the cast list.]( By Rebecca Alter [Hasan Minhaj Tries to Fact-Check The New Yorker “The guy in this article is a proper fucking psycho, but I now hope you feel like the real me is not. I’m just a guy with IBS and low sperm motility.”]( By Jason P. Frank [The Beatles Got Back to Work on One Final Song, ‘Now and Then’ Out November 2, thanks to audio-machine-learning technology.]( By Justin Curto [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 32-Across, Three Letters: Rihanna song with the lyric “Someone help me.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Just in time for Halloween, here’s a [playlist of Criminal podcast’s best episodes]( about haunted houses, unexpected guests, communicating with the dead, and more. [Read more from Vulture]( A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved