Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. One final paella before everything changes. Last June news surfaced that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. The rollicking history of the Chelsea Hotel, which opened as co-op ...

Its paella lacks Spanish spice, but El Quijote still offers a delightful trip back in time that’s worth saving. Lorenzo Ciniglio/Freelance Free Range is worried about El Quijote, and you should be, ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Hilly Spanish landscapes dotted with fairy tale castles dance across a wall ...

El Quijote — the Chelsea Hotel eatery that’s been operating since 1930 — is closing March 30, and the staff has a bad taste in its mouth. “The staff is being disrespected,” says a tipster. “They are ...

IN THE 1930s, exiles from the Spanish Civil War, living in New York, leased the Hotel Chelsea Restaurant, an eatery inside the decades-old apartment-hotel and artists’ cooperative on 23rd Street. They ...

Over the past few years, we’ve all become familiar with the doleful death notices for the hundreds of dive bars and diners and “beloved” dining institutions that have closed their doors around town.

In Patti Smith’s dream-state memoir “Just Kids,” from 2010, she devotes a chapter to the Hotel Chelsea, where she lived from 1969 to 1972: “like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred ...

It’s not as cheap as it used to be, but after years of faded glory at the Hotel Chelsea, the mainstay Spanish restaurant has been revived. 7 Photos View Slide Show › By Pete Wells When you make a ...

New Yorkers love nostalgia. The first time your favorite place closes forever, it stings even after you start telling anyone who’ll listen about your favorite place that closed. Newer New Yorkers, ...