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Welcome to Deep Dish, a weekly roundup of food and entertainment news. Last time we discussed caviar\u2019s long fall from grace.<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot to love about Chipotle\u2014well a lot less than there used to be, but still a lot to love. As intrepid reporter (and my Deep Dish collaborator) Li Goldstein wrote in 2023, Chipotle simply hits different now. The prices skyrocketed, and, after several food safety scares, the ingredients are prepared ahead of time in centralized locations. As Li wrote in her piece, \u201cChipotle may have gotten safer, but it almost certainly didn\u2019t get tastier.\u201d<\/p>\n But if Chipotle\u2019s burritos have become less of a hot commodity, its furniture, oddly, has done the opposite. Chair-heads are sourcing used Chipotle chairs for their homes\u2014the natural wood and iron look is pretty inoffensive, to be fair. Also this week: The Wall Street Journal has some more unhinged budget advice for us, We\u2019re saying goodbye to Dimes Square, and Test Kitchen editors discuss how to cook with your partner without hating them.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re like me, you don\u2019t walk into a Chipotle ready to observe your surroundings\u2014you\u2019re on autopilot trying to decide which protein you should order and how much eye contact you should make with the person making your burrito. You\u2019re probably not thinking critically about, say, the furniture.<\/p>\n But, reader, while we\u2019re debating the merits of barbacoa versus carnitas, we may have missed out on something of a decor marvel: the wood-and-iron chairs used in Chipotle locations that are gaining a rabid fandom on the resale market. One vintage seller is offering a set of five of these modern, angular chairs for a cool thousand dollars. Who knows? If Chipotle stops producing them, these chairs might appreciate to become a solid investment. \u2014 Sam Stone<\/em>, staff writer<\/em><\/p>\n Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to mourn the death\u2014not of a person, no\u2014but of a niche microneighborhood in New York\u2019s Lower East Side once populated by quote unquote intellectuals, artists, young conservatives, and, yes, some pretty great restaurants and bakeries. In warm weather the area was almost transportive\u2014the street closed to traffic, sharp-jawlined looksmaxxxers and baggy pants-ed hypebeasts would mingle, sipping cocktails from Le Dive or Clandestino.<\/p>\n But now it seems, due to some permitting misfortunes, the open streets dream of Dimes Square is dead. Or has it been dead for some time? It\u2019s hard to say\u2014critics have at times said Dimes Square is dead, it\u2019s coming back, it\u2019s dead again, and, as former BA staffer Serena Dai wrote, we really don\u2019t need to care this<\/em> much about it anyway. Is this really, finally, actually the end for Dimes Square? Girl, I have no idea. I\u2019m just hoping this means there will be less of a line at Elbow Bread. \u2014 SS<\/p>\n Many\u2014myself included\u2014have said that cooking is one of the purest love languages there is, particularly come Valentine\u2019s Day. But it\u2019s a fragile love language; if conducted without care, a couple\u2019s cooking sesh can spawn more resentment than adoration. In a candid Slack conversation moderated by food director Chris Morocco, Bon App\u00e9tit Test Kitchen editors chatted this week about the very topic\u2014how they delegate tasks between them and their partners to minimize bickering, how they\u2019ve practiced grace and patience, and how kids might add yet another layer of complexity to the dynamic. It\u2019s a hilarious read. A favorite quote of mine from Test Kitchen editor Rebecca Firkser: \u201cI immediately become such a jerk the moment I see him trying to chop an onion.\u201d \u2014Li Goldstein, associate newsletter editor<\/em><\/p>\n Who knew buying rotisserie chicken and juice was \u201csplurging?\u201d The Wall Street Journal, which decimated its Off Duty lifestyle team a few weeks ago, is now onto shaming Gen Zers, firing off this rebuke on X to those who dare eat chicken and drink juice: \u201cGen Zers are swimming in student debt and may never own homes but are splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nChipotle\u2019s Chairs Are So Hot Right Now<\/h2>\n
Dimes Square is Dead (Again) (No, For Real This Time) (Really)<\/h2>\n
AITA for Micromanaging My Partner’s Cooking?<\/h2>\n
No Chicken for You!<\/h2>\n