Eat Up! NYC Winter Restaurant Week Returns January 18 through February 5, 2016
Just when the winter mehs set in, up pops NYC Restaurant Week — three-course lunches and dinners for $25 and $38. This winter’s roster is pleasingly plump, with 372 restaurants including 41 at hotels. Read more

It was a dark, bitter winter weekend in New York. Prime time, in other words, for the New York Times Travel Show to roll into town with the promise of escape. I spent a day at the show, nibbling Vermont cheese, sampling New York maple syrup, listening to app pitches and seeing the world as packaged by the travel industry, ca 2016. Here’s what caught my eye.