The heart of a city may beat loudest in its restaurants, the places where people gather to eat and drink, to gossip and celebrate. In New York City and Philadelphia, for some 80 years, the Horn & ...

Automat-style dining – the waiterless food service once ubiquitous in Philadelphia – is returning to the city for the first time in more than three decades. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, a Manhattan-based ...

Jewish comedy legends Mel Brooks and the late Carl Reiner, as well as other well-known personalities, reminisce about a slice of American history in the documentary “The Automat,” opening in South ...

In this wonderfully nostalgic trip, readers are taken to a place where nickels slipped in a slot yield food from a little window in the wall; where drinks pour from spigots in that same wall; where ...