At Shut Up 'n Eat, we are all about the visceral pleasures of eating. We love restaurants, and the chefs, cooks, bartenders, and designers who make delicious food and entrancing environments. We love our fellow diners — catching up with old friends over a meal, meeting new ones at a bar, encountering fascinating strangers in an hourlong pizza line. And we love taking everything we experience at restaurants to our own kitchens and dinner tables, where we recreate that joy and fun at home.
Well, we gave it a shot — at SushiCon, the third annual NYC gathering of raw-fish aficionados. (I was going to say a-fish-ionados, but I didn't. You're welcome!) And as we stuffed ourselves with slabs of tuna, salmon, steelhead trout, scallops, and mor...
5 Oct 2026
The Japan Episode
Matt's recent trip to Japan — his umpteenth in the past 19 years — was only ten days long, but he managed to fill it with such a diversity of food experiences that the only name that fit this episode was "The Japan Episode." Tune in for tales of punk-r...
21 Sept 2026
The Mexican Restaurant Redefining 'Progressive'
In Manhattan, right on the edge of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, there's a restaurant called Corima that will make you rethink Mexican cuisine. There are no tacos, no enchiladas, no combo special no. 3. The ingredients encompass edamame, mimolette...
7 Sept 2026
French Technique + Korean Flavors = NYC's Best Pastries
From brown rice to sweet corn to mangoes and beyond, the flavors of the pastries at Lysée evoke the sensory memories of chef Eunji Lee's Korean upbringing — while also demonstrating her mastery of French patisserie technique. In this episode, co-host C...
24 Aug 2026
Eating Taipei, Old and New
For nearly 30 years, Matt has been going to Taiwan to eat — but it's been seven years since his last visit. What's changed in the night markets? What new trends have arisen? What old favorites have stuck around? He and Cathy (author of 'The Food of Tai...
3 Aug 2026
What does 'fancy food' mean in 2026?
The Fancy Food Show is America's biggest convention for "consumer packaged goods," or CPG — spices, snacks, hot sauces, simmer sauces, condiments, frozen dumplings, frozen seafood, exotic hams, cheeses foreign and domestic, and just about everything el...
20 Jul 2026
From Kerala to NYC, by way of Dubai & Hong Kong
The new South Indian restaurant Kidilum brings the cuisine of Kerala — think fresh spices, tons of seafood, and hearty meats — to Manhattan. The look is chic, the atmosphere a party, and the origins are deeply international. In this episode, Cathy and ...
6 Jul 2026
America's Best New Restaurant Is This Chinatown Wine Bar
Lei is an exquisite little wine bar smack in the heart of Manhattan's classic Chinatown. The flavors are Chinese, with exceptional clarity and creativity — Lei's celtuce salad is already an icon — and the wine list ranges from the Loire Valley and Burg...
22 Jun 2026
This Is the No. 1 Restaurant in NYC
When we first went to Kabawa, we knew that chef Paul Carmichael's ode to the Caribbean was a wonderful laboratory of intense flavors and easy fun. (Well, Cathy knew, but Matt had no idea.) What we didn't know was that Kabawa was about to land at the ve...
8 Jun 2026
The Best Korean Restaurant in Brooklyn
In our very first episode, co-hosts Cathy Erway and Matt Gross head to the best Korean restaurant in Brooklyn — Insa ( https://insabrooklyn.com/ ), in Gowanus — to talk with chefs Sohui Kim and Yong Shin about kitchen wounds, one-item restaurants, Kore...
1 Jun 2026
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