Amy Mckeever

In How I Got My Job, folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Evan Sung. Evan Sung didn’t set out to be a food photographer. After graduating from New York University with a degree in psychology, Sung was planning to go for a doctorate in comparative literature when he was sidetracked by photography. His first job shooting a restaurant came as an accident, too. But it wasn’t mere chance that turned Sung…

It’s not even 7 p.m. on a Tuesday in the small town of La Mesa, New Mexico, just north of the Texas border, and there’s already a waitlist at Chope’s Town Bar & Cafe. In the foyer of the main ranch-style adobe building, Albert and Ella Avila wait on a bench for one of Chope’s red vinyl-lined tables to open up, having driven half an hour from Las Cruces to celebrate their son’s visit from New York. They raised their four kids on the restaurant’s enchiladas and chiles rellenos — even in the womb,…

We’re in the midst of a golden age for dining while traveling. Well-known chefs like Rick Bayless, Michael Voltaggio, and Mike Isabella have casual concepts in major airports across the country. Respected local restaurateurs have reinvigorated Denver’s Union Station. Shake Shack has invaded both airports and train stations. And yet road-trippers are still mostly stuck with McDonald’s. National chain restaurants are ubiquitous along American highways. Stop in at any service plaza — a combined gas…

This is Inside the Breakfast Bowl, a series in which Eater profiles breakfast soups and porridges from around the world. Next up: pho. Vietnam rewards an early riser. Slip out before 9 a.m. and you’ll get to explore the frenetic motorbike-choked streets of Vietnam’s biggest cities at their most peaceful. It’ll still be hours until the heat and humidity of the afternoon drenches the clothing on your back. And there will be pho. Easily the most famous dish of Vietnam, pho — which at its most basic…

In late February, the state of Alabama’s tourism department made a bold declaration: 2015, it said, will be the Year of Alabama Barbecue. The campaign pushing Alabama’s barbecue legacy might have sounded like a bit of a stretch: Even a barbecue neophyte might be able to point to Memphis or Texas Hill Country as iconic homes to smoked meat, but Alabama? Not so much. Barbecue is intensely personal and democratic. Change up the meat, the cooking style, or the sauce, and you’ve got your own style of…

There were only about three or four ramen shops on Oahu when Hidehito Uki founded Sun Noodle in 1981. Ramen in America was pretty much just a cup of noodles you cooked in the microwave. Uki — who came to Hawaii from Japan to make and sell fresh ramen noodles — wondered how he could ever be successful. Now, ramen shops have proliferated in cities from Los Angeles and New York to D.C., Chicago, and even Milwaukee. People stand in line for ramen. Chefs create mash-ups of ramen and hamburgers, and p…

Attention please, it is time to take a look at 22 of the most buzzed-about food trucks across the United States. After bursting onto the American culinary scene a few years back, it's kind of a...

Mikropolis, Copenhagen, Denmark [Photo: Official Site] Today, Eater returns to Copenhagen, Denmark to focus on 11 exciting restaurants and bars that have opened in the past 12 months and are...

Today, chefs and restaurants have just a ton of opportunities to win awards. Over the course of the last six weeks, the restaurant industry has celebrated Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs class, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, and the James Beard Awards. Beyond that, there’s the steady stream of Michelin announcements around the world. But how much do any of these awards matter? What kind of effects do they have on a restaurant? And how accurate can they be in an inherently subjective industry…

Last Summer, Michael Corvino took over the kitchen at The American Restaurant just months before the storied institution celebrated its 40th anniversary. Corvino had most recently served as executive sous chef at The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, and the move to Kansas City marked both his first executive chef gig as well as his transition back into independent restaurants after a career built in the world of luxury hotel restaurants. And The American is as good a place as any for that, hav…